Amazon Studios
Amazon Studios is Amazon.com's division that develops television shows, movies and comics from online submissions and crowd-sourced feedback.[1] It was started in late 2010.[1] Content is distributed through Amazon Video, Amazon’s digital video streaming service, and is a competitor to services like Netflix and Hulu.[2]
Contents
- 1 Film and television
- 2 Comics
- 3 Television pilots
- 4 Filmography
- 5 References
- 6 External links
Film and television
Scripts for television and film are submitted through the web.[3] They are reviewed and rated by other readers in a crowd-source fashion, and/or by Amazon staff.[3] Scripts may be submitted with the option to allow other people to modify them.[4] In addition there is a separate submission method for professional writers (Writers Guild of America members) with separate rules.[4]
Amazon has 45 days to choose a submitted script. If a project is chosen for development, the writer receives $10,000.[3] If a developed script is selected for distribution as a full-budget movie, the creator gets $200,000; if it is selected for distribution as a full-budget series, the creator gets $55,000 as well as "up to 5 percent of Amazon’s net receipts from toy and t-shirt licensing, and other royalties and bonuses." [5]
In 2008, Amazon expanded into film production, producing the film The Stolen Child with 20th Century Fox.[6] In July 2015, Amazon announced it had acquired Spike Lee's new film, Chi-Raq, as its first Amazon Original Movie.[7]
Amazon Studios had received more than 10,000 feature screenplay submissions as of September 2012,[1] and 2,700 television pilots as of March 2013.[8] 23 films and 26 television series were in active development as of March 2013.[1][3]
Comics
Amazon Studio's first and only comic book series was Blackburn Burrow released in 2012 as a free download.[1] It contained a survey allowing Amazon to collect feedback to determine if it was worthwhile to make the comic into a film.[1] The survey was incentivized with an Amazon gift certificate.[1]
Television pilots
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1st pilot season (April 19, 2013)
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Greenlit
Not picked up
- Browsers
- Dark Minions
- Onion News Empire
- Positively Ozitively
- Sara Solves It
- Supanatural
- Teeny Tiny Dogs
- Those Who Can't
- Zombieland
2nd pilot season (February 6, 2014)
Greenlit
Not picked up
3rd pilot season (August 28, 2014)
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Greenlit
Not picked up
More scripts ordered
4th pilot season (January 15, 2015)
A pilot episode of a series based on the Philip K. Dick novel, The Man in the High Castle, was released by Amazon Studios on January 15, 2015,[10] and was the franchise's "most watched pilot ever" according to the studio's vice president, Roy Price.[11] Adi Robertson,[12] reporting on a press release from Amazon,[13] writes that the pilot had been greenlit by Amazon to run as a series, describing it as being "set in an America that's been colonized by Japan and Germany after Axis powers won World War II," and as a "deeply flawed, but… decent-looking and moderately faithful adaptation of… [the] 1962 novel."[12]
Greenlit
- Just Add Magic
- Mad Dogs
- Niko and the Sword of Light
- The Man in the High Castle
- The New Yorker Presents
- The Stinky & Dirty Show
Not picked up
More scripts ordered
5th pilot season (June 26, 2015)
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Greenlit
Not picked up
Pilot mini-season (August 7, 2015)
- Sneaky Pete[15] [Greenlit]
- Casanova[15] [More scripts ordered]
6th pilot season (November 5, 2015)
Greenlit
- Danger & Eggs[16]
- Everstar
- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie[16]
- Good Girls Revolt
- Highston[16]
- One Mississippi[16]
- Patriot[16]
Not picked up
Filmography
- Chi-Raq (2015)
- Elvis & Nixon (2016)
- Nuts! (2016)
- Café Society (2016)
- Manchester by the Sea (2016)
- The Neon Demon (2016)
- The Handmaiden (2016)
- Paterson (2016)
- Love & Friendship (2016)
- Wiener-Dog (2016)
- The Salesman (2016)
References
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- ↑ Hilary Lewis, 2015, "Amazon Orders 5 New Series Including 'Man in the High Castle'," The Hollywood Reporter (online), February 18, 2015, see [1], accessed February 27, 2015.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Adi Robertson, 2015, "Amazon green-lights The Man in the High Castle TV series," The Verge (online), February 18, 2015, see [2], accessed February 27, 2015.
- ↑ Amazon.com, 2015, "Amazon Greenlights Full Seasons of Mad Dogs, The Man in the High Castle, The New Yorker Presents, Children’s Shows, Just Add Magic, and The Stinky & Dirty Show," Seattle (Business Wire), February 18, 2015, see [3], accessed February 27, 2015.
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External links
- Amazon Studios, official website.
