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MrBeast’s ‘Beast Games’ Reality Series Under Fire For Abusing Participants
A scathing New York Times investigation into a reality series produced by YouTube star MrBeast with Amazon MGM studios paints an extremely negative picture of what contestants experienced.
The show, called Beast Games, brought thousands of people to Las Vegas to participate in various stunts, all…
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Jill Schary Robinson Dies: Journalist And Author Who Was Mother Of UTA CEO Jeremy Zimmer, Daughter Of MGM Production Chief Was 88
Jill Schary Robinson, a memoirist, novelist and mother of UTA CEO Jeremy Zimmer, has died at 88.
Robinson died Saturday at her home in Beverly Hills, CA, according to a statement from her family. A cause of death was not specified.
Born in 1936 in Los Angeles, Robinson was the daughter of two…
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‘Challengers’ Review: Luca Guadagnino’s Zendaya-Led Dramedy About Love And Rivalry Across The Tennis Court
In Challengers, Luca Guadagnino serves up a film that is as much about the volleys of human emotion as it is about the physical rallies on the tennis court.
Starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist and penned by Justin Kuritzkes, the film…
Amazon & Lionsgate Strike UK Content Deal
Amazon and Lionsgate have struck a content deal in the UK.
The partnership will see a wealth of Lionsgate and Starz content featured on Amazon streamer MGM+ including Outlander, Power Book and The Serpent Queen. It is the third instalment in a series of content deals that MGM+ has closed recently…
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‘Gladiators’ Renewed For Season 2 By BBC
The Gladiators reboot, which has proved a huge hit for the BBC, has been handed a second season.
Ahead of this weekend’s final, the BBC said its first episode is now its biggest entertainment launch for nearly a decade and has almost reached 10M viewers after 28 days.
The first series hosted by…
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By Max Goldbart
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‘Road House’ Rumble: Amazon Denies AI Used To Create Actors’ Voices For Remake During Strike As Original Pic’s Scribe Sues To Shut Down New Movie
"I want you to be nice until it’s time to not be nice," Patrick Swayze's James Dalton says in the original Road House from 1989.
That line from the screenplay co-written by David Lee Henry may have taken on a new significance for Amazon Studios, MGM Studios and United Artists on Tuesday with a new…
ITV Strikes First-Of-Its-Kind James Bond Deal With MGM
ITV has struck what it says is a first-of-its-kind deal for James Bond movies with Amazon MGM Studios Distribution.
The deal will see 25 James Bond movies available to view on both linear and then for 30 days on streaming platform ITVX, and the pics will air multiple times a year.
ITV said the…
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Amazon Layoffs: MGM+, MGM Scripted TV & Unscripted Consolidated; Nancy Cotton, Arturo Interian, Chris Castallo & Uri Fleming Among Those Let Go
EXCLUSIVE: Earlier this morning, Amazon revealed that it was laying off several hundred employees across Prime Video and Amazon Studios as part of a review of its business.
Details have emerged about the cuts, which were described by one source close to the company as a "bloodbath". Senior execs let…
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Prime Video, Amazon Studios Layoffs To Affect “Several Hundred” Workers, SVP Mike Hopkins Tells Staff
Prime Video and Amazon Studios will see layoffs affecting several hundred workers, according to an internal memo this morning from SVP Mike Hopkins.
In Hopkins’ memo, provided to Deadline by Amazon (read it below), he alludes to a review of the company’s business operations across all of its…
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‘American Fiction’: Read The Screenplay For Cord Jefferson’s Satire That Throws The Book At The Publishing World And Beyond
Deadline's Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year's most talked-about scripts continues with writer-director Cord Jefferson’s feature film debut American Fiction.
Adapted from Percival Everett's 2021 novel Erasure, American Fiction emerges as a hard-hitting commentary on identity…
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Indie Film’s Breakout Year: Good Movies Gain Traction Amid Strikes & Superhero Fatigue
The indie box office busted out this year, hitting is stride post-Covid with an eclectic string of releases that made a splash artistically and financially.
Independents and mini-majors saw $1.47 billion in box office receipts as of Dec. 27, up from $811.7 million in 2022, according to…
Josh Kramer Dies: Producer & Former Amazon Studios Exec Was 67
Josh Kramer, who produced Roman Polanski's Death and the Maiden and Sidney Lumet's Night Falls on Manhattan and later led sales for Capitol Films before becoming Head of Motion Picture Business Operations at Amazon Studios, has died. He was 67.
Kramer died November 27 in Santa…
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