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Amazon Studios is getting into business with YouTube personality MrBeast. The 25-year-old comedian, né Jimmy Donaldson, who has over 230M subscribers on the Google-owned platform, is nearing a deal with the streamer for an unscripted competition series. Details about the series are still under…

EXCLUSIVE: We understand that Amazon Studios MGM Senior Production & Development Executive Sandino Moya-Smith was unfortunately part of the cuts made by the streaming/theatrical studio this morning. Moya-Smith, who was involved in development and also feature physical production, was recently…

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…

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…

Amazon is teasing Prime Video’s offerings for 2024 and released the first looks of projects starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Camila Mendes and more. The sizzle reel for the films and television series that will be available on Amazon’s streaming service showcased a first look at Road House…

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…

Saltburn, the gothic romance thriller from Oscar winner Emerald Fennell, will be available to stream worldwide on Prime Video on Dec. 22. The news comes after the Jacob Elordi, Barry Keoghan, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, and Carey Mulligan movie had an amazing post-Thanksgiving hold at the box office…

Deadline's Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with first-timer Alex Convery's screenplay for the Ben Affleck-directed Air.  Did you know that Michael Jordan makes $400 million a year in passive income due to the percentage he gets from the sale of Ai…

EXCLUSIVE: Dan Berger, Amblin’s EVP of Marketing and Communications, is heading over to Amazon as their VP of Global Media and Entertainment Communications, Deadline has learned. Berger will start in the New Year. Berger will oversee communications for both Mike Hopkins’ Prime Video team and Steve…

EXCLUSIVE: CJ Yu, who was Head of Unscripted Development, Global Formats at Amazon Studios, has left the company. It’s not entirely clear why Yu, who was responsible for the international roll out of formats including All Or Nothing and LOL: Last One Laughing, left the company but one source close to…

Nearly two months after the end of the 148-day writers strike, the Writers Guild of America West is taking on Amazon over a number of stalled series. The guild has accused the streamer of violating its contract after it emerged that Amazon Studios has yet to reconvene writers rooms for several shows…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning writer-director Emerald Fennell says that "if you're prodding at something uncomfortable, that's what movies are for." The filmmaker spoke to this columnist at the BFI London Film Festival (LFF) opening night gala reception held at BFI Southbank following the international…