‘The Underground Railroad’ Trailer: Barry Jenkins’ Amazon Series Finally Debuts In May

Arguably the most memorable moment to take place at the Academy Awards during the past decade was the Best Picture mixup that caused the 2017 Oscars to end in chaos.

Four years ago, Barry Jenkins experienced one of the best and strangest nights of his life. The filmmaker behind the Oscar-winning film, “Moonlight,” was awarded Best Picture but the situation involved a huge mess-up on the part of the presenters of the award falsely claiming that “La La Land” won instead.

Andrei Tarkovsky was the name on Barry Jenkins‘ lips as the main influence for his television adaptation of “The Underground Railroad.” Not the first name to think of when considering the enormity of Colson Whitehead’s 2016 novel. The story: a combination of the distressing tribulations of an escapee slave girl with a hefty volume of magical realism, doesn’t immediately describe the Russian auteur.

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticEvery single frame of “The Underground Railroad” is haunted.Ghosts of horrors past, present and future linger at the story’s edges, flicker in and out with eerie ease. People alive, dead and somewhere in between stare into the camera with quiet, solemn clarity.

After months of bare TV release schedules, May shows a return to form with plenty of new and returning series. While streaming services still monopolize many of the more popular releases, series such as “Pose,” returning for its final season, and “The Girlfriend Experience” offer a return to form for network television.

Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk helmer Barry Jenkins will bring audiences back to the antebellum South for Amazon’s The Underground Railroad. Amid accounts of police brutality against members of the Black community and Hollywood’s attempts to correct hurtful and racist imagery, the showrunner spoke about the care he, his cast and crew took to address America’s dark history on-screen.

EXCLUSIVE: Veep alum Reid Scott and Gideon Glick (Marriage Story) are set for recurring roles on the upcoming fourth season of Amazon’s Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

Newcomer Lola Tung is set as the lead in The Summer I Turned Pretty, Amazon’s TV adaptation of Jenny Han’s YA novel series. Rachel Blanchard (You Me Her), Jackie Chung (Coming Home Again) and Christopher Briney (Dali Land) also are set as series regulars in the eight-episode Prime Video series, a co-production of Amazon Studios and wiip.

EXCLUSIVE: Though her highly-anticipated series The Underground Railroad doesn’t bow for another couple of weeks, Thuso Mbedu is lining up her next feature film as she has come on to TriStar Pictures’ The Woman King starring Academy Award-winning actress Viola Davis. The pic will be directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, who most recently directed the critically acclaimed blockbuster, The Old Guard.

EXCLUSIVE: Sofia Rosinsky (Fast Layne), Camryn Jones (Cherish the Day), Riley Lai Nelet (Altered Carbon) and Fina Strazza (A Christmas Melody) are set as the four leads in Amazon’s Paper Girls series, based on Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang’s graphic novel, from Amazon Studios, Legendary TV and Plan B. Paper Girls is set to film in Chicago this year.

Lily James is an actress that truly seems like she’s on the precipice of being a massive star. She’s had a number of prominent roles in big films, such as her most well-known performance in “Baby Driver” and her recent starring role in Ben Wheatley’s “Rebecca.” But she has yet to fully break out in a massive way.

The director of “Moonlight” is ready to debut his groundbreaking new limited series.

“Love Death + Robots” is an interesting series. In fact, if you think about it, the sci-fi-themed animated anthology series might be one of the most strange projects that exist on the Netflix streaming service.

The first season of Amazon Studios’ sprawling The Lord Of the Rings series will cost $465 million to produce. The figure was revealed Friday when New Zealand, where the series is shooting, announced that the rebate for the series from the country’s Screen Production Grant is being increased from 20% to 25% ($116 million).

The Lord of the Rings is going to be huge.

Colson Whitehead’s acclaimed novel is coming to the screen.

 is coming to life onscreen thanks to. The Oscar-winning director is turning the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel into a 10-part limited Amazon Prime series starring newcomers and as well as, and.

Chris Pratt is sporting a different look on the set of his upcoming Amazon series, The Terminal List.