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  • Warners’ Hybrid/Animated ‘Acme’ film write-off draws wrath…

    There were raised eyebrows and lots of frustrations last year when Warner Bros. took a look at their financials and decided that they would take extreme measures to ensure their profit margins. In some cases this meant cancelling forthcoming projects that didn’t have a high-degree of certain success, reorganising...
  • Bad Luck and Trouble: ‘Reacher’ second season heads to Amazon…

    After two Jack Reacher films starring Tom Cruise in 2012 and 2016, which received mixed reviews (decent story and action but controversial casting for a 6ft+ man-mountain of a character), it’s generally conceded that last year’s Reacher tv series finally got all the ingredients of Lee Child’s novels and...
  • Strike Out! Two Amazon shows get their renewals reversed…

    It was somewhat inevitable that the WGA (Writers Guild of America) and SAG (Screen Actors’ Guild) strikes still underway across the industry would start to have some creative repercussions. Amid some of the shifting release-dates, there comes news that Amazon Prime has decided to back-out of the previous commitments...
  • Citadel: Amazon’s latest gets caught in the genre gloss-fire…

    Citadel – an international organisation without national affiliation, but designed to keep the world safe – has two of its best operatives on a high-end train running through the Italian mountains. They are there with a remit to stop the delivery of illicit security material. However it turns out...
  • Carnival Row: Tolkien meets Tolstoy as Amazon’s magical alt-history returns…

    Though many column-inches have been devoted to how much Amazon invested in the high-pedigree luxurious drama The Rings of Power, it’s perhaps another of their titles, Carnival Row, that deserves the major plaudits, yet often feels overlooked. Taking the fantastical elements of J R Tolkien or C S Lewis ...
  • Process This: Peripheral to get a second access port on Amazon…

    Perhaps defying the current trend for high-profile but expensive shows meeting an untimely end and not being renewed, it has been confirmed that Amazon Studios‘ The Peripheral will be back for a second run. The series takes its title and inspiration from the William Gibson novel of the same...
  • ‘Devil’ in the Details: Amazon killer chiller is a Schrodinger humdinger…

    Lucy Chambers does not have an easy life. Her senior role in social services and child protection provides all the expected daily stresses of the position and at home she has a troubled child of her own, Isaac, who seems to have little emotional reaction to anything. She has...
  • Amazon’s ‘The Peripheral’: Postmodern Postscripts from the Edge?

    The year is 2032. Flynne Fisher (Chloe Grace Moretz) spends her days working at a small 3D-printing shop in the Blue Ridge Mountains and her nights plugging herself into her brother’s VR-reality console where she’s become quite adept at raking in record-breaking high scores and wins. She has the...
  • Mordor, they wrote. ‘Rings’ goes nuclear for Mount Doom aftermath…

    The Southlands have been devastated by the volcanic eruption and as the survivors stagger through the ruins, it’s clear that the dark is rising once again throughout Middle-earth. But as the effects of the disaster reverberate through the various communities, near and far, and alliances tested… there are new...
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