Amazon Studios Moves ‘Coming 2 America’ To March 2021

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterAmber Rasberry has joined Amazon Studios as a senior film executive, Variety has learned exclusively.Rasberry’s oversight will include day-to-day production, development and acquisitions for Amazon’s original movies slate. She will report to film co-heads Julie Rapaport and Matt Newman.The executive joins the streaming giant from Paramount Players, where she served as vice president of development.

Kaleem Aftab Simone Bitton, a Paris-based, French-Moroccan director whose work has primarily concentrated on the history and cultures of North Africa and the Middle East, makes her debut in the Masters section at IDFA—arguably the most prestigious of the documentary festival’s strands—with the world premiere of “Ziyara.”Bitton herself has mixed feelings about the accolade, as she makes quite clear. “I don’t consider myself a master,” she says.

Kaleem Aftab With six films from Morocco in this year’s program, documentary festival IDFA put a spotlight on the North African country’s documentary film scene and its artists.

The psychological thriller will chart the story of three friends whose lives are shattered after one of them commits rape. The five episode drama, which is due to start production in March 2021, will air as a Quebecor Content and Canal+ Original in 2022. Studiocanal will handle international distribution rights.

HBO has greenlit their in-development TV adaptation of Naughty Dog’s popular game franchise, The Last Of Us.Read More: The Last Of Us Part II is a masterclass in character assassination – and that’s a good thingChernobyl’s Craig Mazin has been brought on as a writer, alongside The Last Of Us director Neil Druckmann, with Carolny Strauss (Game Of Thrones, Chernobyl) on producing duties.HBO, Sony Pictures TV, as well as PlayStation Productions, Word Games and Naughty Dog are the teams coming

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Coming 2 America will set sail on Amazon Prime Video on March 5, 2021, both in the U.S. and more than 240 countries worldwide.

Coming To America sequel has been given an official release date.Amazon Studios confirmed today (November 20) that it has acquired the worldwide rights to Coming 2 America from Paramount Pictures.Originally set to arrive on August 7, the long-awaited sequel to the 1988 comedy will now launch worldwide on Amazon Prime Video on March 5, 2021.A synopsis for the film reads: “Set in the lush and royal country of Zamunda, newly-crowned King Akeem (Murphy) and his trusted confidante Semmi (Arsenio

Naman Ramachandran Amazon Studios has confirmed that it has acquired worldwide rights to keenly anticipated sequel “Coming 2 America” from Paramount Pictures, and has set a March 5, 2021 date to launch on Amazon Prime Video.Variety reported that the deal was being hammered out last month.The film is a sequel to John Landis’ 1988 comedy “Coming to America,” which grossed more than $288 million worldwide.

Amazon Prime has finalized acquisition of worldwide rights to “Coming 2 America,” the long awaited sequel to the 1988 comedy classic starring Eddie Murphy, and will release it to subscribers globally on March 5, 2021, the company announced Friday.Originally slated for Dec.

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Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorAmazon will release their acquisition of Paramount Pictures’ Eddie Murphy sequel Coming 2 America on March 5, 2021. The movie was originally slated for a Dec.

ViacomCBS' ViacomCBS International Studios (VIS) unit has signed a first-look deal with Marc Anthony’s production company, Magnus Studios.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Simon Kinberg’s Genre Films and Amazon Studios have partnered to develop illustrated novella DNA (“Death Notification Agency”) following a competitive situation for the rights.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterReality TV is getting the behind-the-scenes treatment.E! has greenlit the limited event series “For Real: The Story of Reality TV,” hosted and executive produced by Andy Cohen, which will recall famous moments from “Keeping Up with the Kardashians,” “The Bachelor,” “The Real World,” “The Real Housewives,” “Survivor” and other well-known unscripted series.