‘The Lord Of The Rings’: Amazon Studios’ Prequel Series To Feature Familiar Villain

At a virtual ceremony, Natalie Qasabian was awarded the 2021 Sundance Institute / Amazon Studios Producers Award for Fiction Filmmaking  for her film, Run. The awards honor bold vision and a commitment to continuing work as a creative producer in the independent space.

EXCLUSIVE: Sonya Balmores (Marvel’s Inhumans) is set for a recurring role on Amazon’s YA horror series I Know What You Did Last Summer, a modern take on the hit 1997 slasher film. The project hails from Sony Pictures Television and studio-based Original Film.

Amazon Studios has acquired the rights to Norwegian film Hope for series adaptation, with Nicole Kidman attached to star and be executive produced under her Blossom Films banner. Kidman most recently received rave reviews for her performance in the hit HBO limited series The Undoing.Per Saari is also exec producing.

straight to your inbox every day for freeEthan Laird admitted he is loving life on loan at MK Dons from Manchester United. The United youngster sealed a move to the League One side until the end of the season, getting his first taste of league football after coming through the ranks at Old Trafford.

While filming of the second season of The Witcher is getting back underway, its prequel is assembling its cast.

For the past several years, networks and streaming services have been desperate to find their own “Game of Thrones”-esque series. Over at Amazon, you have the forthcoming “Lord of the Rings” TV series, for example.

Jordan Moreau Jodie Turner-Smith is joining the “Witcher” universe.The “Queen & Slim” star has been cast in a lead role in Netflix’s prequel series “The Witcher: Blood Origin.”The six-episode limited series will take place 1,200 years before the events of “The Witcher,” starring Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia, and show the backstory of the elven civilization before its fall.

Queen & Slim‘s Jodie Turner-Smith is set to star in The Witcher‘s prequel series for Netflix, titled The Witcher: Blood Origin!

Jodie Turner-Smith (Queen & Slim, Nightflyers) has been tapped as a lead in Netflix’s six-part, live-action limited series The Witcher: Blood Origin, a prequel to the streamer’s hit series TheWitcher.

reports. The show would follow the adventures of Ser Duncan the Tall (Dunk) and a young Aegon V Targaryen (Egg) 90 years before the events of .Martin's three novellas were released in 1998 (), 2003 () and 2010 (). If moves forward, it would be the second prequel at HBO. received a series order in October 2019, just after the networkpassed on its other prequel, which had shot a pilot starring Naomi Watts. Based on George R.R.

There may be even more “Game of Thrones” on the way.

HBO has put in development a series adaptation of Tales of Dunk & Egg, a prequel to Game of Thrones, based on George R.R. Martin’s series of fantasy novellas.

Tales of Dunk and Egg is in the works at HBO, which is great news for Game of Thrones fans as it is a prequel series to the events that happen in the smash hit series!

EXCLUSIVE: WGA Award-nominated writer Jaquén Castellanos (The Affair) has signed an overall deal with Amazon Studios. Under the pact, Castellanos will develop and create content to premiere on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.

Another week, another major film being pushed from theaters to streaming. 2021 is still feeling like 2020 Part II, isn’t’ it? This time, we have Netflix continuing to bolster its lineup with a major animated pickup courtesy of Sony and producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterSony Pictures has sold “The Mitchells vs. The Machines,” an original animated family film from producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, to Netflix.At one point, Sony changed the name from “The Mitchells vs.

Ethan Hawke is joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe!

EXCLUSIVE: Jane Austen’s novels have been adapted by Hollywood plenty. Amazon Studios and Di Novi Pictures have acquired for feature the Rachel Givney breakout novel, Jane in Love, that will make her a screen heroine. Denise Di Novi and Margaret French Isaac are producing. Elissa Down (Feel the Beat and The Black Balloon) is attached to direct.

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