Amazon rebrands Twitch Prime to Prime Gaming

Chris Willman Music WriterHow long has it been since the day this year’s Record Store Day exclusive releases were announced, up to the point a good number of them will finally reach stores Saturday, in the first of three substitute “drops” dates?It’s been this long: When the John Prine boxed set that’s coming out now was originally announced, Prine was still very much alive and well.Let’s have a moment of silence to commemorate that loss, and all the others that have justifiably put a crimp in

Naman Ramachandran Amazon Prime Video has commissioned a brace of U.K.

James Diags Bennewith has finally moved on from his ex Fran Parman as he's gone Instagram official with new girlfriend Sophie Ernoult. Sophie took to her Instagram feed to share a sweet clip of herself posing for a mirror selfie with 29 year old Diags, which she captioned: "We have a good time," followed by a white heart emoji.

MGM’s Orion Pictures is relaunching its brand as a studio label for underrepresented voices and has named veteran industry executive and producer Alana Mayo as the new Orion Pictures president, Michael De Luca, MGM’s film group chairman and Pam Abdy, MGM’s film group president.In an internal memo from De Luca and Abdy shared with TheWrap, John Hegeman will be stepping down from his role at Orion in early October after three years with the label, as will his team, following the opening of the

Jake Kanter, Tom Grater HBO’s ‘Patria’ Heads To France France’s Canal+ has acquired HBO Europe’s first Spanish original drama, Patria. Set in Spanish Basque Country and taking place over 30 years during, Patria tells a story through the eyes of two families divided by the violent conflict.

Fran Parman has passionately hit back at trolls after she was cruelly labelled “bloated” and “unhealthy”.The 29 year old reality star was recently snapped filming for the series in a short, white dress in Essex. However, Fran's return to the hit reality show after three years away was marred by trolls, who cruelly targeted her over her appearance.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorFive years after Apple Music launched its global radio station Beats 1, the company has renamed it Apple Music 1 and launched new Country and Hit stations, under the overall name of Apple Music Radio.“For the past five years, if ever there was a meaningful moment in music culture,” said Oliver Schusser, vice president of Apple Music, Beats, and International Content.

Fran Parman has made an eye-popping return to The Only Way Is Essex, after leaving the show following her shock split from Diags.The 29 year old reality star left the show three years ago, following her split from James ‘Diags’ Bennewith in 2017. Fran has now made her return to the show, sporting a different look as she took part in filming for the new series in Essex, which will see a number of old cast mates return to the show to celebrate 10 years of TOWIE.

Naman Ramachandran Amazon Prime Video Germany has ordered comedy series “Binge Reloaded” from Redseven Entertainment, a Red Arrow Studios company.The show will continue in the vein of popular comedy show “Switch Reloaded,” which played several years on German channel ProSieben, owned by Red Arrow’s parent company ProSiebenSat.1.

Electronic Arts (EA) will be rebranding Access and Origin Access Basic to the newly formed EA Play.In an update from EA, the switch up will also change Origin Access Premier, the premium version of the service, to EA Play Pro.

Mark Schilling Japan CorrespondentTetsuya Watari, the Japanese actor who worked with international cult favorites Seijun Suzuki and Kinji Fukasaku on some of their best-known films, died on Aug.10 of pneumonia at age 78.

Naman Ramachandran Amazon Prime Video has set up a $6 million fund to support the recovery of the European TV, film and theater production community from effects of the coronavirus pandemic.The first disbursements are £1 million ($1.3 million) to the U.K.’s Film and TV Charity, enabling a new grants scheme to help the industry recover; and and a £500,000 ($651,500) donation to the Theatre Community Fund, launched by Olivia Colman, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Francesca Moody to provide hardship

Amazon has launched Prime Gaming, offering free exclusive content and games to subscribers every month and building upon the benefits of Twitch Prime. Prime members will receive access to free PC games in addition to in-game content for popular titles such as Grand Theft Auto Online, Red Dead Online, Apex Legends, League of Legends.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVDisney Television Studios has launched a major rebrand of its three studios, 20th Century Fox Television, Fox 21 TV Studios and ABC Studios/ABC Signature.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterDisney Television Studios is rebranding its trio of studios.Shedding the Fox name entirely from 20th Century Fox Television in the wake of the Disney-Fox merger, that studio will now be known as 20th Television.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorAmazon is sunsetting the Twitch Prime name — relaunching it as Prime Gaming, which will continue to be available for no extra cost to all of the company’s more than 150 million Prime members worldwide.On Monday, Aug. 10, the Amazon Prime Gaming service went live, replacing the four-year-old Twitch Prime.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorMusic streaming on Twitch is booming — and now a group of artists is challenging owner Amazon to pay its fair share.In a letter Monday addressed to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the nonprofit Artist Rights Alliance cited Bezos’ testimony during a House Antitrust Subcommittee hearing on July 29. The chief exec, who is the wealthiest person in the world, was asked by Rep.

coronavirus lockdown began, prompting artists and their labels to tackle Amazon over their music licensing policies.As the FT reports, the legal battle began in June when rights holders issued “takedown notices” against Twitch, with over 2500 claims being filed for the use of unlicensed music in the background of gaming streams and recording live streams.Since then, the Artists Rights Alliance has placed direct pressure on Bezos and will now send an open letter urging him to go beyond “the