Suggesting that Jeff Bezos made a significant investment in Rings of Power is putting it mildly. According to The Ankler, Amazon paid $250 million for the global rights to Tolkien’s works, with the first season alone reportedly costing around $465 million to produce. Now approaching its third season—of a planned five—the series is widely described by industry insiders as the most expensive show ever made. It is also, notably, one of the most divisive.
On Wednesday morning, Tomb Raider fans got their first look at Sophie Turner as Lara Croft. Amazon MGM Studios shared the picture on social media to announce the start of production for the new series. With her amber sunglasses, teal top, short shorts, and dual pistols, the inspiration for the costume design is clearly from the original ’90s games.
BioWare Executive producer Mike Gamble has revealed that the Mass Effect series on Amazon will follow a new, original story, rather than retelling the original trilogy with Commander Shepard. The news broke in an official BioWare blog post authored by Gamble, who posts an update every year in celebration of N7 Day (November 7th).
For a company that spent nearly $8.5 billion acquiring MGM — and with it, the entire James Bond catalog — you’d think Amazon might understand what makes 007… well, 007. But over the weekend, Amazon Prime Video managed to shoot itself squarely in the foot by quietly scrubbing guns from James Bond promotional artwork images, only to restore them after a massive public outcry.
Tolkien fans have called on Amazon to cancel Rings of Power since its inception due to high costs and a rapidly diminishing audience. But it turns out that’s a lot easier said than done.
Sophie Turner has officially been cast as Lara Croft in Amazon’s Tomb Raider live action series by Phoebe Waller Bridge.
For months it seemed Amazon’s big bet on a live-action Tomb Raider series was over before it began. Reports earlier this year suggested Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s expensive adaptation was dead in the water. Yet today, the streamer surprised the industry with the announcement that Sophie Turner has officially been cast as Lara Croft, breathing life back into a project many had written off.
Hollywood can’t seem to resist taking beloved classics and “reimagining” them for what executives like to call “modern audiences.” The latest target? The Wizard of Oz. According to Deadline, Amazon Prime Video has greenlit a youth-focused, music-infused Wizard of Oz retelling called Dorothy, with pop star Gwen Stefani and country singer Blake Shelton serving as executive producers.
Just days after the release of Wednesday Season 2: Part 1, creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar have confirmed they’re taking on a brand-new animated Addams Family movie for Amazon MGM Studios.
Amazon’s “War of the Worlds” (2025) is an officially certified flop. Currently sitting at #88 on Rotten Tomatoes’ “100 Worst Movies of All Time,” this adaptation earned a shockingly rare—but well-deserved—0% Tomatometer score based on over 20 critical reviews. While that alone should be cause for alarm, the film’s staggering failures in script, direction, and respect for its source material make it clear this placement vastly underrepresents just how deep the cinematic crater it has dug truly is.
War of the Worlds (2025), the latest and perhaps most baffling adaptation of H.G. Wells’ enduring sci-fi novel, is neither a revival nor an evolution. It’s a clinical, creatively bankrupt exercise in screen-life storytelling that somehow manages to insult not just its source material, but the intelligence of its audience as well. To call it a “mockery” would imply the film has enough self-awareness to be in on the joke. It doesn’t.
Amazon is at it again—just days after canceling the much maligned Wheel of Time, the company is trying to convince the world that The Rings of Power is still worth its weight in mithril. After burning through more than $1 billion and facing a mountain of critical and audience indifference, the company has now decided the best way to salvage their beleaguered Tolkien spin-off… is to bring The Rings of Power to syndication.
After three seasons of slipping viewership and a growing disconnect from its core audience, Amazon’s The Wheel of Time has officially been canceled—and the spin from access media outlets like Deadline is more fantastical than anything in the show itself.
Amazon Prime Video is bringing noir grit and a pulp-era Spider-Man to the screen, and Nicolas Cage is along for the ride. The first teaser for Spider-Noir leaked on May 12, 2025, offering a glimpse at the live-action series set to premiere in 2026.