Amazon has announced it will relaunch MGM+, MGM’s streaming service, across Europe as MGM+ International – and has signed a content deal with Lionsgate to boost the platform’s library. MGM+ International will go live in Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands on April 8th. Titles in the Lionsgate deal include the likes of Nashville, […]
Channel 5 has commissioned MGM Alternative UK to make a new two-part series exploring what happens when kids are unleashed into the world without parental supervision, it announced today. The series, Who Let the Kids Out? (w/t), looks at what various groups of children – between 9 and 10 years of age – get up to when encountering a plethora of […]
Amazon Studios has closed an exclusive multiyear first-look film deal with Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment. Under the pact, Amazon Studios will have a first look on narrative features and documentaries Imagine Entertainment intends to produce. The news of the deal comes ahead of Prime Video’s April 21st release of Amazon Studios and […]
Starz has teamed with Amazon to bundle MGM+ on Prime Video in the US. This subscription bundle, which launches in the coming weeks, will provide streamers with more entertainment options will cost $11.99 per month — a 20 per cent discount on the combined price of both standalone subscriptions. “We are excited to join forces with […]
Prime Video has debuted the first-look teaser for the new Christoph Waltz-led series, The Consultant. Prime Video has announced that the series will premiere all eight episodes exclusively on February 24th in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. Based on Bentley Little’s 2015 novel of the same name, the characters and story in this […]
Mark Burnett is leaving MGM where he has been chairman of its worldwide TV group since 2018. The move comes following Amazon’s $8.5 billion purchase of MGM earlier this year. In a joint statement to staff, Mike Hopkins, SVP of Prime Video and Amazon Studios, and Burnett revealed that Burnett was departing the company “to […]
MGM+ and Prime Video have ordered a suite of live-action television series based on the Sony Pictures universe of Marvel characters. The first series to be produced under the multi-series agreement is Silk: Spider Society, from Sony Pictures Television. Based on characters created by Dan Slott and Humberto Ramos, Silk: Spider Society is inspired by […]
Prime Video will co-premiere the fifth season of The Handmaid’s Tale to Prime members in the UK and Ireland later this year. The first four seasons of the critically acclaimed series are available to stream now on Prime Video. The Handmaid’s Tale tells the story of the dystopian Gilead, a totalitarian society in what was […]
Premium linear and streaming service EPIX is to rebrand as MGM+ in January 2023, which EPIX says exemplifies the network’s brand promise to provide premium cinematic television and a curated leading theatrical library, delivered by one of the world’s most enduring entertainment brands. The news comes as fellow streaming service Starzplay announced a rebrand to […]
The entire catalogue of James Bond movies – including 2021’s No Time To Die – will become available to stream via Prime Video on April 15th. This marks the first time all the films have been included on a single streaming platform. However, Amazon warns that the collection will only be available to subscribers “for […]