Amazon to Produce and Acquire Movies for Theatrical, Online Release
Former Good Machine co-founder Ted Hope has been hired to head up production for Amazon Original Movies.
Former Good Machine co-founder Ted Hope has been hired to head up production for Amazon Original Movies.
SEATTLE (AP) — Amazon Studios is branching out from television series to movies, announcing plans to begin producing and acquiring original movies for theatrical release and, within weeks, video streaming.
It’s a universal truth that movies based on video games suck. Need for Speed, starring a post-Breaking Bad Aaron Paul and hitting theaters this weekend, will likely continue the tradition, as it sits with a 24 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. This isn’t surprising news. But it makes us wonder: are video game films the most maligned movie sub-genre?
“All I see out there is barbarity,” yells a gendarme at a French soldier. Â Â Â Â
Michael Winterbottom’s jaunty Paul Raymond biopic stars Steve Coogan as the billionaire property baron, strip-club impresario, and girly-mag publisher.
An awkward but interesting mix of epic sci-fi action movie and small-scale, slow-burning indie puzzler, Oblivion stars Tom Cruise as a maintenance man on a devastated and deserted future Earth.
Richard Linklater’s true tale of the murder of a mean old lady (Shirley MacLaine) is determinedly light. However, it’s in actual fact a very sad story indeed.
Ed, 32, is a disgruntled call-centre worker by day and an angry stand-up comic by night.
A souped-up car with demonic issues indiscriminately mows down the folk of a small Utah town in this daft horror from 1977. James Brolin and his gloomy set of coppers (including John Marley) are charged with taking the driverless vehicle down
“God, don’t kill them, let me do it,†intones John P Ryan’s sadistic prison warden in this wildly over-the-top and brilliantly constructed thriller from 1985. Jon Voight is frankly demented as lifer Oscar Manheim who escapes a maximum-security prison with Eric Roberts’s dim Buck.    Â