Ukonwa Ojo, who arrived at Amazon Studios and Prime Video close to two years ago as Chief Marketing Officer, is exiting.
10.06.2022 - 18:21 / variety.com
Amazon Prime Video renewed its Emmy-nominated, adult superhero series “The Boys” for a fourth season Friday, just one week after the third season debuted its first trio of episodes and saw a 17% increase in viewership from Season 2.Getting to work on another installment of the “The Boys,” created by “Supernatural” mastermind Eric Kripke and based on the comics by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, is the latest decision made by Amazon Studios to support what has stealthily become its first-ever franchise. It’s also symbolic of the streamer’s overall programming strategy heading into the fall debut of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.”“We’re just really excited.
I’ve been thrilled to be witness to all of the magic that Eric and the team have created,” Vernon Sanders, head of global television at Amazon Studios, told Variety Thursday. “And I’m really excited about more of the genre content that we have coming.
We are the new place for genre.” Nicknamed the “VCU” by those at Amazon, a nod to both Marvel’s MCU and “The Boys” fictional superhero company Vought, “The Boys” universe currently consists of three shows: the mothership series, the animated anthology “The Boys Presents: Diabolical” and the upcoming untitled superhero college spinoff.The commitment Amazon has put into a franchise that has already garnered them six Emmy nominations, including drama series for Season 2 of “The Boys,” is just one example of how dedicated the streamer is to embracing and elevating genre content.There’s, of course, “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” Amazon’s most high-profile project ever and reportedly the most expensive TV series in history. But Amazon also has “The Wheel of Time” and “Carnival Row;” the upcoming
.Ukonwa Ojo, who arrived at Amazon Studios and Prime Video close to two years ago as Chief Marketing Officer, is exiting.
Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaUkonwa Ojo has stepped down as chief marketing officer of Amazon’s Prime Video and Amazon Studios, the company announced to staff on Tuesday. During her time at the streamer, Ojo led the marketing campaigns for movies like “Coming 2 America” and “Being the Ricardos,” as well as the series “The Boys,” “Wheel of Time,” and “The Underground Railroad.” “For nearly two years, Ukonwa has supported the Prime Video brand and its broad and growing content slate with focus, passion, and commitment,” Mike Hopkins, SVP Prime Video & Amazon Studios, wrote in a note to staff.
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After 15 years in PR and publicity work at studios such as Millennium Entertainment and Newmarket Films, where she worked on the publicity campaign for “The Passion of the Christ” in 2004, Eguia joined Amazon Studios in 2015 and played a key role in its efforts to expand into theatrical distribution. In 2017, Eguia oversaw the awards campaign for Kenneth Lonergan’s “Manchester By The Sea,” a film which became the first from a streaming studio to get nominated for the Best Picture Oscar.
Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaVicky Eguia, a public relations executive at Amazon who helped create Oscar-winning campaigns for “Manchester By the Sea” and “The Salesman,” died Saturday at the age of 48. The cause was cancer, her family said on social media.Eguia most recently served as director of PR, diversity, equity and inclusion and community relations at Amazon.
Veteran PR executive Vicky Eguia, who worked on several award winning movie campaigns such as Pan’s Labyrinth, La Vie en Rose and Amazon Studios’ historic Oscar winning Manchester by the Sea and The Salesman, has died after a long battle with cancer. She was 48.
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Mark Wright and Michelle Keegan have shared a look at the front of their brand new £3.5million mansion.The former TOWIE star and actress, both 35, who have been doing long-distance lately as Michelle has been abroad, took to their Wrightyhome Instagram account to post a short clip of the driveway.The video started with the camera showing the building site with dirt and rubble on the floor, before someone snapped their fingers to reveal how it looks now that the light grey paving has been laid out in front of the house.The white mansion is surrounded by a thin area of grass, going all the way around, with the light grey driveway stretching out in all directions. Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter It was captioned: "Driveway complete….
Café Minamdang starring Seo In-guk, Oh Yeon-seo and more.Based on the web novel Minamdang: Case Note, the upcoming K-drama follows a series of mysterious events experienced by former criminal profiler Nam Han-jun (Seo In-guk), who uses his expertise to become a swindler disguised as a shaman. He later crosses paths with homicide detective Han Jae-hee (Oh Yeon-seo), who has a righteous, sincere personality.In the new trailer, Han-jun announces his grand plans to open a mysterious new business called “Café Minamdang” as a shaman.
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