LOS ANGELES — Amazon Studios announced ambitious plans Monday for producing original movies, aiming for a dozen "prestige" films per year that will screen in theaters, followed by a launch on Prime Instant Video 30-60 days later — a steeply shortened window that will present a challenge in finding exhibition partners beyond small, independent cinemas.
Amazon has been quietly trying to get original movies off the ground since late 2010, when it launched studios.amazon.com, a place where anyone could submit scripts for films and television. While some user-generated ideas were turned into TV pilots along the way, nothing on the film side was deemed worthy of its production dollars. Read more...
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