Pretty soon you’ll not only be able to order movies off Amazon.com, but they will also be making them as well. In a official press release (via Coming Soon), Amazon has launched Amazon Studios. Their goal is to create movies from the best scripts, and Warner Bros. will have first access to those projects.
The official press release: “Amazon.com, Inc. today launched Amazon Studios, a new online business that invites filmmakers and screenwriters around the world to submit full-length movies and scripts to make money, get discovered and get their movie made. Through the monthly and annual Amazon Studios Awards, Amazon Studios will offer a total of $2.7 million to the top submissions received by Dec. 31, 2011, and will seek to develop the top Amazon Studio projects as commercial feature films under its first-look deal with Warner Bros. Pictures.”Getting Started page.”
“Writers are invited to add scripts to Amazon Studios.
The official press release: “Amazon.com, Inc. today launched Amazon Studios, a new online business that invites filmmakers and screenwriters around the world to submit full-length movies and scripts to make money, get discovered and get their movie made. Through the monthly and annual Amazon Studios Awards, Amazon Studios will offer a total of $2.7 million to the top submissions received by Dec. 31, 2011, and will seek to develop the top Amazon Studio projects as commercial feature films under its first-look deal with Warner Bros. Pictures.”Getting Started page.”
“Writers are invited to add scripts to Amazon Studios.
- 11/19/2010
- by Matt Keith
- Killer Films
One of the largest web retailers on the planet, Amazon.com, has launched a film studio aimed at attracting aspiring filmmakers and screenwriters.
Through the aptly named Amazon Studios, Amazon is offering filmmakers and screenwriters a total of $2.7 million in compensation for the upcoming year if their projects are selected. The company has made an agreement with Warner Bros. Pictures to develop and distribute the top submissions and release them as mainstream pictures.
Amazon.com, Inc. today launched Amazon Studios, a new online business that invites filmmakers and screenwriters around the world to submit full-length movies and scripts to make money, get discovered and get their movie made. Through the monthly and annual Amazon Studios Awards, Amazon Studios will offer a total of $2.7 million to the top submissions received by Dec. 31, 2011, and will seek to develop the top Amazon Studio projects as commercial feature films under its first-look deal with Warner Bros. Pictures.
Through the aptly named Amazon Studios, Amazon is offering filmmakers and screenwriters a total of $2.7 million in compensation for the upcoming year if their projects are selected. The company has made an agreement with Warner Bros. Pictures to develop and distribute the top submissions and release them as mainstream pictures.
Amazon.com, Inc. today launched Amazon Studios, a new online business that invites filmmakers and screenwriters around the world to submit full-length movies and scripts to make money, get discovered and get their movie made. Through the monthly and annual Amazon Studios Awards, Amazon Studios will offer a total of $2.7 million to the top submissions received by Dec. 31, 2011, and will seek to develop the top Amazon Studio projects as commercial feature films under its first-look deal with Warner Bros. Pictures.
- 11/19/2010
- by Allan Ford
- Filmofilia
Filed under: Cinematical
Mega online retailer Amazon wants a piece of the producer pie. They've created Amazon Studios, which allows hopefuls to post their scripts, movies, storyboards, and other film schtuff on their site. After that, Regular Joes can swoop in and dig into the projects -- offering their feedback, rating it, and even revising it as they see fit (potential disaster ... ). The highest rated material gets eyeballed by a panel of judges -- including folks like 'Top Gun' screenwriter Jack Epps, Jr. and 'Bottle Rocket' producer Michael Taylor. These top picks may be passed along to Warner Bros. who has the first look option, but other studios may take a peek if the studio passes.
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Mega online retailer Amazon wants a piece of the producer pie. They've created Amazon Studios, which allows hopefuls to post their scripts, movies, storyboards, and other film schtuff on their site. After that, Regular Joes can swoop in and dig into the projects -- offering their feedback, rating it, and even revising it as they see fit (potential disaster ... ). The highest rated material gets eyeballed by a panel of judges -- including folks like 'Top Gun' screenwriter Jack Epps, Jr. and 'Bottle Rocket' producer Michael Taylor. These top picks may be passed along to Warner Bros. who has the first look option, but other studios may take a peek if the studio passes.
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- 11/17/2010
- by Alison Nastasi
- Moviefone
Filed under: Cinematical
Mega online retailer Amazon wants a piece of the producer pie. They've created Amazon Studios, which allows hopefuls to post their scripts, movies, storyboards, and other film schtuff on their site. After that, Regular Joes can swoop in and dig into the projects -- offering their feedback, rating it, and even revising it as they see fit (potential disaster ... ). The highest rated material gets eyeballed by a panel of judges -- including folks like 'Top Gun' screenwriter Jack Epps, Jr. and 'Bottle Rocket' producer Michael Taylor. These top picks may be passed along to Warner Bros. who has the first look option, but other studios may take a peek if the studio passes.
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Mega online retailer Amazon wants a piece of the producer pie. They've created Amazon Studios, which allows hopefuls to post their scripts, movies, storyboards, and other film schtuff on their site. After that, Regular Joes can swoop in and dig into the projects -- offering their feedback, rating it, and even revising it as they see fit (potential disaster ... ). The highest rated material gets eyeballed by a panel of judges -- including folks like 'Top Gun' screenwriter Jack Epps, Jr. and 'Bottle Rocket' producer Michael Taylor. These top picks may be passed along to Warner Bros. who has the first look option, but other studios may take a peek if the studio passes.
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- 11/17/2010
- by Alison Nastasi
- Cinematical
Hollywood is just so 20th Century Fox, reckons Amazon, as it goes into the Movie Business
With $2.7 million up for the taking, Amazon Studios should start a stampede by wannabe scriptwriters and directors. The Internet giant launched the venture yesterday, in an attempt to make movie-making more "open and collaborative." Hollywood, as Amazon's promo video implies, is far too old-school and untrustworthy a concept for the 21st Century.
The idea of Amazon Studios is to open up the movie-making process so that, rather than just liking a script and green-lighting it, you see a script, direct a bit of it, have experts and movie insiders opine on the work so far. Writers and directors can upload their scripts, storyboards and films (which must be at least 70 minutes long) right away--the latter of these can even shoot a part of someone else's script they've seen on the website right away--while wannabe...
With $2.7 million up for the taking, Amazon Studios should start a stampede by wannabe scriptwriters and directors. The Internet giant launched the venture yesterday, in an attempt to make movie-making more "open and collaborative." Hollywood, as Amazon's promo video implies, is far too old-school and untrustworthy a concept for the 21st Century.
The idea of Amazon Studios is to open up the movie-making process so that, rather than just liking a script and green-lighting it, you see a script, direct a bit of it, have experts and movie insiders opine on the work so far. Writers and directors can upload their scripts, storyboards and films (which must be at least 70 minutes long) right away--the latter of these can even shoot a part of someone else's script they've seen on the website right away--while wannabe...
- 11/17/2010
- by Addy Dugdale
- Fast Company
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