‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Creator Duo Gets 2-Season Order for Ballet Drama at Prime Video

Amy Sherman-Palladino loves working with the same stars for her shows!

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel composers Thomas Mizer and Curtis Moore are used to being kept on their toes. So, when creator Amy Sherman-Palladino approached them about writing a few musical numbers for a variety act, which would culminate in a tune about the neighborhood trash man for Season 5, the composers knew they’d “figure it out.”

Amazon Studios is launching the Amazon MGM Studios Distribution division, which will oversee licensing of Amazon Original titles and MGM new release and library movies and series such as film franchises “James Bond,” “Rocky “and “Creed,” and series “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Vikings,” “Fargo” and the upcoming “Hotel Cocaine” from MGM+.  Titles at launch will include television series like “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Goliath” and “Hunters” and films like “Coming 2 America, “”Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” “7500,” “All the Old Knives,” “Bliss,” “I Want You Back,” “The Tender Bar,” “The Tomorrow War,” “The Voyeurs,” and “Without Remorse.” MGM’s storied library houses more than 4,000 film titles, 17,000 TV episodes, including 180 Academy Awards winners and 100 Emmy Awards winners.The division will be helmed by Chris Ottinger, who has led the distribution team at MGM for more than a decade.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Original Amazon series like “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” will be sold off-platform to third parties for the first time, the company announced Monday as it launched the new Amazon MGM Studios Distribution. A revamp of MGM’s pre-existing distribution team, the division will now handle Amazon Studios/Prime Video originals in addition to current and library titles. Chris Ottinger, who led the MGM distribution team for more than a decade, will oversee the new division. Ottinger will report to Brad Beale, the VP of worldwide licensing and distribution at Amazon and MGM Studios; Beale, in turn, reports to Amazon/MGM Studios head Jennifer Salke.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Prime Video has set May 18 for the global release of its upcoming Indian anthology series “Modern Love Chennai.” This is the third Indian adaptation of “Modern Love,” the internationally acclaimed original anthology directed by John Carney, following “Modern Love Mumbai” and “Modern Love Hyderabad.” Produced under the banner of Tyler Durden and Kino Fist, with Thiagarajan Kumararaja as the creator, the six-episode anthology presents a bouquet of love stories set in the city of Chennai that explore relationships, push boundaries, and open minds.  “Love stories and rom-coms have never been my cup of tea. Thus, ‘Modern Love Chennai’ was an interesting challenge,” said Kumararaja, creator of the series and writer-director of one of the episodes. “With these stories, we have explored and celebrated the old-world charm of the city, which remains rooted in a distinct blend of tradition and modernity.” 

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Patrick (The Night Agent, Peacemaker) is playing a major role opposite lead Alan Ritchson in the upcoming second season of Prime Video’s Reacher. He took over the series regular role of Shane Langston from Rory Cochrane, who was originally cast in September before exiting at the end of last year due to scheduling conflict as the production schedule changed, Deadline has learned. He had not filmed any scenes, so the recasting did not require reshoots, I hear. Production on Season 2 of Reacher wrapped in late February.

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It’s been several months since “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” wrapped production — long enough that series star Rachel Brosnahan totally forgot that, in this week’s episode, she became a pirate. But, looking back on it, the actress says that filming the moments that led to her piracy was true “movie magic.”In episode five of “The Marvelous Mrs.

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Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino are setting their sights on the world of competitive ballet.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino have scored a two-season order for a series set in the world of ballet at Amazon, Variety has learned. Titled “Étoile,” the series will take place in both New York and Paris. Each season will consist of eight episodes. The official logline states that the show “follows the dancers and artistic staff of two world-renowned ballet companies, as they embark on an ambitious gambit to save their storied institutions by swapping their most talented stars.” The cast for the series includes Luke Kirby (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “The Deuce”), Camille Cottin (“Call My Agent!,” “House of Gucci”), Simon Callow (“Outlander,” “Four Weddings and a Funeral”), Lou de Laâge (“The Innocents”), Gideon Glick (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Marriage Story”), and David Alvarez (“West Side Story”).

As The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is wrapping its five-season run, Emmy-winning creators Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino are prepping their next series. Prime Video has given a two-season order to Sherman-Palladino and Palladino’s Étoile, starring Mrs. Maisel duo of Luke Kirby, who won an Emmy for his work on the show, and Gideon Glick as well as Call My Agent! standout Camille Cottin, Simon Callow (Outlander), Lou de Laâge (The Innocents) and David Alvarez (West Side Story).

Angelique Jackson After “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” wrapped its final scenes, two-time Emmy winner Alex Borstein took center stage at the Wolford Theatre, home base of the comedy’s fictional burlesque club for a music-infused stand-up show. The special, titled “Corsets & Clown Suits,” is now streaming on Prime Video alongside the first four episodes of “Maisel’s” fifth and final season. In conversation with Variety ahead of Maisel’s final episodes, Borstein describes the 81-minute special, produced by Amazon Studios, “as a filthy TED talk with music.” She explains: “You’re gonna learn some things that you may wish you could forget,” she jokes, elaborating on that it’s a “deeply personal and wildly fictitious journey I go on to figure out what perception is and how I am perceived.”

Rachel Brosnahan says working with her husband on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel was really fun!

New York City has officially declared April 14th as “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Day.”

Michael Zegen meets up with Rachel Brosnahan and her real life husband, Jason Ralph, for the Marvelous Mile takeover and installment in New York City on Friday (April 14).

flipped the script for its fifth and final season, introducing flash-forwards as it wraps up its five-season run. The decision to sprinkle breadcrumbs offering glimpses of the future throughout the season, revealing what happened to Midge and her family — including her kids, Ethan and Esther, all grown up — beyond the 1960s was a story element producers had in their back pocket for years.«We had the idea to do it early on,» executive producer Dan Palladino told ET's Deidre Behar, sharing that they even «experimented» with introducing the device earlier in the series but ultimately decided «it was too soon.»«We were trying it in season 2 and we felt like if we're going to do this, which is kind of ambitious because it takes makeup, we have to be organized on where these people are in time,» he noted. «We decided the last season was going to be the perfect place to do it.»Once the creative decision was made, the writers «dove right into it,» Palladino shared, adding that «it was fun because we got to do time-travel, but we're not science fiction.» «We got to see the touchstones in their lives all throughout their lives. We loved it.

Luke Kirby's Emmy-winning portrayal of Lenny Bruce on has introduced a whole new generation of viewers to the legendary comedian.As a friend, champion and, as of season 4's finale, paramour of Rachel Brosnahan's titular character — a housewife who divorces her husband and pursues a career in standup comedy in the late 1950s -- Kirby's Bruce has served as a historical barometer of sorts for the show, offering context to the political and comedic landscape of the time.However,  has been careful about keeping Lenny to the sidelines of Midge's story, so much so that Kirby's 2019 Emmy win was for Outstanding Guest Actor on a Comedy Series, not for a supporting role.«I think the thing with the character of Lenny that [series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino] and them had to be really careful when they presented him from season to season, it's certainly an exercise in less being more and leave people wanting more,» Kirby shared with ET of his portrayal. «I'd be happy to, you know, bludgeon people over the head with it — but this is a good lesson in nuance and keeping it classy.»So, what exactly of  Lenny is fact and what's fiction? Read on to learn about the real-life truths that inspired the compelling performance.While Lenny and Midge’s mutual admiration finally crossed the line into a romantic night together in season 4 finale, there is obviously no real-life Midge Maisel that Bruce knew or had any kind of relationship with.In real life, the comedian married stripper and showgirl Honey Harlow in 1951.