Polish your sword and pack your own second breakfast, because the adventure finally begins in the teaser trailer for Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Prime Video’s highly-anticipated prequel series has been a long time coming. Amazon first announced it in 2017, and they’ve reportedly spent $465 million on the first season alone. Throw in the cost of the rights and the fact that they’ve already committed to a second season, and Rings of Power may be the first billion-dollar series. The Rings of Power is drawn from J.R.R. Tolkein’s The Silmarillion and set in Middle-earth’s Second Age, thousands of years before Bilbo or Frodo ever met that meddlesome wizard Gandalf. As anyone who’s read Tolkein or seen Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit t...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Prime Video / Courtesy of Amazon Studios Kid Cudi has carved out a masterful, influential career. The Cleveland rapper and vibe conductor’s life is getting the documentary treatment via A Man Name Scott on Prime Video. Source: Prime Video / Courtesy of Amazon Studios The doc trails Cudi’s come up from the release of his 2009 debut album Man on the Moon: The End of Day through his career’s ups and downs. Man on the Moon received critical praise not only for the music itself but for his candid tackling of topics related to mental health. Related Stories Cudder can be heard saying, “Everything I help has to help people in some way,” in the trailer while reflecting on his tendency to wear his feelings on his musical sleeve at all times. “How can I give p...
Streaming service Quibi said on Wednesday it intends to wind down its operations and start a process to sell its assets, just six months after its launch. The announcement highlights the dominance that Netflix, Amazon’s Prime Video, Disney+ and Apple TV+ hold over smaller streaming service providers, which struggle to keep up against their large content budgets and vast libraries of shows. “The world has changed dramatically since Quibi launched and our standalone business model is no longer viable,” founder Jeffrey Katzenberg said in a statement. Los Angeles-based Quibi offers entertainment and news in episodes of 10 minutes or less on mobile phones, initially promoted for on-the-go viewing. The service was priced at $5 a month with advertisements, or $8 a month without them. “Our failure...
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