EXCLUSIVE: Ildy Modrovich (Lucifer) will serve as showrunner, writer, and executive producer of the Freida McFadden novel “Dear Debbie” TV adaptation currently in development at Amazon MGM Studios. Modrovich exec produces alongside the previously announced Gina Girolamo (Strega Stories), who is under…

EXCLUSIVE: Dom Bird, Amazon MGM Studios' UK unscripted chief, is exiting after seven years to launch a production company. Bird, one of the masterminds behind the smash hit Gladiators revival for the BBC, is launching EarlyBird while remaining in the Amazon stable by striking a first-look studio…

Was it packed houses or empty auditoriums juiced by group sales? That’s the obsession over the opening of Amazon MGM Studios’ $75M First Lady Melania documentary from director Brett Ratner, which debuted to $7M, the biggest opening for a non-fiction feature in the last decade, outstripping…

I just paid to go see Melania so you don’t have to. You’re welcome. Amazon MGM Studios withheld this so-called documentary/infomercial from the prying eyes of critics with not even a Thursday preview. It is a move that doesn’t give one comfort that…

Melania, Amazon MGM Studios’ documentary about Melania Trump, is billed as a behind-the-scenes look at the once-and-future first lady in the 20 days leading up to the inauguration last year. While much has been written about what Melania is, in watching the movie a viewer will very quickly…

What’s the conservative equivalent of “Go woke, go broke”? ‘Go Trump, go turkey’? That seems to be the message coming out of international when it comes to the Melania documentary that Amazon MGM Studios reportedly spent an eye-watering and record $40 million to license and $35M to…

The first notices are rolling in for Amazon MGM Studios’ controversial, big-budget First Lady documentary Melania. Described as “an intimate chronicle that offers a rare glimpse into the life of Melania Trump, exploring her role as First Lady and her relationship with the President,” the film…

Although Penn Badgley is getting back to his romantic-comedy roots with You Deserve Each Other, he’s going for a more superhero physique on screen. The actor, who stars in Amazon MGM Studios’ upcoming adaptation of Sarah Hogle’s book, recently opened up about the “very fast” body transformation…

EXCLUSIVE: Cameron Diaz and Stephen Merchant are starring in an upcoming Amazon MGM Studios romantic comedy movie that Merchant will direct off a screenplay he co-wrote with John Butler.   The as-yet-untitled film follows a workaholic Brit (Merchant) employed at an upscale New York hotel who…

Amazon MGM Studios’ Brett Ratner documentary, Melania, has been nixed from South African theaters, which sources inform us were political reasons. That said, the pic’s South African distributor, Filmfinity's head of sales and marketing, Thobashan Govindarajulu didn't provide reasons for the…

EXCLUSIVE: Mads Reuther and Saku Taittonen are the latest additions to the cast of Bloodaxe, Prime Video’s Viking drama series starring Xavier Molyneux and Jessica Madsen. Reuther plays Jarl Sigurd, the Jarl of Hladir, a scheming Norwegian jarl and ally of Haakon (Levi Miller), the younger…

Totally Spies! is making a FAST move. Several seasons of the hit animated series are rolling out on Rakuten TV's FAST and on-demand services. The launch comes with a Will Ferrell-produced live-action Totally Spies! series in the works at Amazon MGM Studios. A new Season of the 2D animated…