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Amazon and American Girl Explore Civil Rights in An American Girl Story — Melody 1963: Love Has to Win

October 21, 2016 Kellie Freeze

Amazon presents its first collaboration with the American Girl franchise with an original tale based on the character Melody Ellison, whose adventures revolve around her deep love of Motown and her dreams of music stardom. This special is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video and is a brave departure from AG’s typically frothy tales, and focuses on Melody’s experience as part of the Civil Rights movement as a child of color. Melody 1963 centers around a 10-year-old girl Melody whose innocent eyes are opened to the racial inequality surrounding her, including bullying by peers, her mother’s mistreatment at work, and […]

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Amazon Studios talks Mad Dogs, Bosch, Catastrophe, The New Yorker Presents at Television Critics Association Press Tour

January 11, 2016 Lori Acken

Amazon Studios presented its upcoming slate of original series premieres and returns today at the Television Critics Association Press Tour. Amazon chief Roy Price started the session by touting the previous night’s Golden Globe successes for Mozart in the Jungle and its star Gael Garcia Bernal plus Transparent’s Globe nominations and Amazon’s 60 other award nominations and 20 wins. Noting that Hand of God, Red Oaks, Mozart in the Jungle, The Man in the High Castle (the service’s most successful launch yet) and Transparent all received new seasons, Price said the streaming service constantly seeks “visionary creators with voices that will stand out […]

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What’s new on Amazon December 2015

December 1, 2015 Jeff Pfeiffer

Among the highlights that are new on Amazon December 2015 will the blockbusters Ant-Man (pictured) and Mission: Impossible: Rogue Nation, which are available for purchase on Amazon Instant Video. Those and other highlights below. NEW ON AMAZON DECEMBER 2015 PIV: New In December 2015 — Available for Streaming on Prime Instant Video Available December 1 Bedazzled The Details Hoffa Monkey Business River of No Return Something’s Gotta Give (exclusive streaming home) Available December 9 Meet Me in Montenegro (exclusive streaming home) Available December 11 Transparent Season 2 Available December 12 Interstellar Tumble Leaf Season 2 Available December 15 Cutie and the Boxer Available […]

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Now Streaming On Amazon: “The Man In the High Castle”

November 20, 2015 Kellie Freeze

In an alternate history, the Allied Forces lost World War II and the United States has been divided into Nazi and Imperial Japanese territories, with an area dividing the two — the Rocky Mountain range — as a lawless no-man’s land of a neutral zone. In 1962, a young woman comes into possession of a mysterious film that also depicts an alternate history, one where the Allies are victorious, Japan surrenders and the Nazi regime is obliterated. Intrigued and hopeful, the woman, our story’s heroine, is pulled into the shadowy world of an underground resistance where she searches for “The […]

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What’s new on Amazon November 2015

November 12, 2015 Jeff Pfeiffer

New on Amazon November 2015 will be the fascinating original series The Man in the High Castle on Prime Video (pictured), while Mission: Impossible: Rogue Nation is a blockbuster available for purchase on Amazon Instant Video. PIV: New In November 2015 — Available for Streaming on Prime Instant Video Available November 1 Desk Set The Enemy Below The Craft Adam Sandler’s Eight Crazy Nights The Newton Boys Available November 5 Tell Awakenings The Adventures of Milo and Otis The Mask of Zorro Seven Years in Tibet The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Available November 7 The Yes Men Are Revolting Available November 10 Prince Wolf Hall Available […]