Comedian Eddie Murphy and Tracee Ellis Ross star in holiday comedy Candy Cane Lane. In addition to Murphy and Ross, the film also stars Jillian Bell, Ken Marino, Nick Offerman, Robin Thede, Chris Redd, D.C. Young Fly, and Anjelah Johnson-Reyes.
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Amazon Prime Video has greenlit a UK comedy-thriller from It’s A Sin EP Nicola Shindler’s Quay Street and Stay Close scribe Charlotte Coben.
Dead Hot will star recent breakouts Bilal Hasna (Extraordinary) and Vivan Oparah (Rye Lane) as protagonists Elliot and Jess, while Penelope Wilton and Peter Serafinowicz have also boarded. It will launch next year on Prime Video in the UK and Ireland and be sold internationally by ITV Studios.
Show is set in present-day Liverpool, where twentysomethings Elliot and Jess are best friends united by a bond of grief at losing Peter—the first and only love of Elliot and Jess’ twin brother. When Elliot meets Will, he starts to think he can put the past behind him, but when Elliot learns Will has his own dark secrets, just as Jess is contacted by somebody claiming to be her brother, it sets into motion a determination for the pair to find out if Elliot’s romantically cursed—or being targeted.
Shindler’s ITV Studios-backed Quay Street has been hoovering up commissions since it was launched by the celebrated British producer in 2021. The Nolly indie is also making Playdate for Disney+, Harlan Coben adaptation Fool Me Once for Netflix, BBC feature Men Up and ITV/BritBox’s After the Flood.
Dead Hot writer Charlotte Coben is Harlan Coben’s daughter and has written on his Netflix adaptations Stay Close and The Stranger. Shindler called her a “natural talent,” adding: “I can’t wait for the world to see the wonderful, wacky world we’ve created, and to go on a journey full of adventure and heartfelt friendship in equal measure.”
Shindler and Coben are exec producing. Laurie Kirkham (It’s A Sin) is producer, with Sam Arbor (Heartstopper) as director on Block One and David Sant (Significant Other)
Comedian Eddie Murphy and Tracee Ellis Ross star in holiday comedy Candy Cane Lane. In addition to Murphy and Ross, the film also stars Jillian Bell, Ken Marino, Nick Offerman, Robin Thede, Chris Redd, D.C. Young Fly, and Anjelah Johnson-Reyes.
Jaden Thompson Prime Video has announced that Christmas movie “Candy Cane Lane,” starring Eddie Murphy and Tracee Ellis Ross, will be released exclusively on the streaming platform on Dec. 1. Directed by Reginald Hudlin, “Candy Cane Lane” follows Murphy as Chris, a man who is determined to win his neighborhood’s annual Christmas home decoration contest.
Emerging Spanish actor Gabriel Guevara, star of the Prime Video series My Fault (Culpa Mia), has been arrested on the fringes of the Venice Film Festival.
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Almost exactly a year after Amazon’s Prime Video officially set foot in Thailand, the company is this week launching its first locally-made ‘original.’ Produced for the streamer by Liminal Entertainment in conjunction with Malin Films Production, and executive produced by Jef Lim, Marilyn Tan and Malin Pongsapipatt, the show follows six well-known actors to an almost utopian island, where the only thing missing is laughter. The celebrities are tasked with performing improvised skits to lift the locals’ gross happiness index. The series launches on Thursday, delivering the first three of its six episodes.
Amazon’s TV adaptation of The Wheel Of Time returns for its second season this month.Based on the best-selling fantasy novels by Robert Jordan, the series follows Moiraine Damodred (Rosamund Pike) and her companion al’Lan Mandragoran (Daniel Henney) as they search for the reincarnation of The Dragon – an extremely powerful human who is prophesied to take on the evil Dark One.The second season picks up as the five young hopefuls plucked from the Two Rivers region are scattered throughout the world. A synopsis for season two reads: “The Wheel Of Time turns, and the Last Battle approaches.
Amazon Prime customers only have a few more weeks to enjoy free same-day delivery without any concern.
Naman Ramachandran Prime Video India has set a global premiere date for crime thriller series “Bambai Meri Jaan,” produced by Excel Media and Entertainment’s Ritesh Sidhwani, Kassim Jagmagia and Farhan Akhtar. Created by Rensil D’Silva (“Dial 100”) and Shujaat Saudagar (“The Underbug”) and directed by Saudagar, the Amazon original 10-episode series is based on a story by S. Hussain Zaidi (“Lahore Confidential”).
Prime Video UK is yet to decide on the future of doc series Clarkson’s Farm following the furor over Jeremy Clarkson’s incendiary column about Meghan Markle earlier this year.
Taylor Swift fans have been treated to a preview of a re-recorded song from the star's Reputation album. Amazon Prime Video announced on Wednesday (August 24) that Look What You Made Me Do (Taylor's Version) would be included in the soundtrack for UK Original drama Wilderness, starring Jenna Coleman.
The newest poster for The Boys spinoff, Gen V was just released!
Swifties were in for a treat as the trailer for Amazon’s Prime Video series Wilderness dropped. As a key component of the teaser, Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do (Taylor’s Version)” played in the background.
Swifties are getting a taste of Taylor Swift’s first re-released track off her 2017 album, Reputation.
Taylor Swift has not yet announced Reputation (Taylor’s Version), but she has already started re-recording the upcoming album as we already have our first teaser!
Infidelity is typically the end of a relationship. Sure, there are instances where partners can move forward together through forgiveness, but for the most part, that’s the end of the road.
Disney+ has set cast for UK psychological drama Playdate, adapted from Alex Dahl’s best-selling novel of the same name.
Ellise Shafer Taylor Swift has revealed the first snippet from her re-recorded version of “Reputation” track “Look What You Made Me Do” in the teaser for Prime Video U.K.’s “Wilderness.” Premiering globally on Sept. 15, the thriller series stars Jenna Coleman, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Ashley Benson and Eric Balfour.
Prime Video has announced an October 20 premiere date for Season 3 of its sci-fi comedy series Upload, starring Robbie Amell and Andy Allo. The streamer also unveiled some first-look images of the upcoming eight-episode season (see above and below). Two episodes will debut weekly on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories around the world.
A League Of Their Own has hit out at Amazon Prime Video for what she calls a “bullshit” reasoning for cancelling the show.The comedy drama is a reimagining of the Madonna-starring 1992 film of the same name, which follows the women who formed a baseball league during the second World War.A second season of the show had been ordered at Prime Video, but it was announced this week that it would not be moving forwards, with the streaming service linking the cancellation to the ongoing Hollywood strikes.Now, creator and star Abbi Jacobson has hit out at Prime on Instagram for their explanation of the decision.She wrote: “What luck I have had to get to tell these stories and play this character I love so much. What a rare thing in life.
Sharareh Drury From a widowed therapist getting patients off the couch in “Shrinking” to a chef going all-in on his work after a family death in “The Bear,” to unlikely friendships helping people heal in “Dead to Me” and “Only Murders in the Building,” grief and loss loom over most of this season’s Emmycomedy contenders. Grieving’s painful process takes center stage in Apple TV+ series “Shrinking.” Jason Segel, known for comedic roles in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and “How I Met Your Mother,” takes on a darker, yet still humorous role as Jimmy Laird, a psychiatrist mourning the death of his wife.
“Red, White & Royal Blue” is making a royal entrance on Prime Video.