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As it grew into a tech behemoth over its first two decades, Amazon was regarded as a sleeping giant in the digital advertising business, largely ceding the market to the duopoly of Facebook and Google. It is now very much awake, and CEO Andy Jassy believes it has “barely scraped the surface” of the…

EXCLUSIVE: As Deadline reported earlier this week, Douglas Mackinnon, who served as executive producer, director and co-showrunner on the first two seasons of Good Omens, will not be returning for the expected third season of the Amazon/BBC series. It turns out Mackinnon also has exited another Neil…

Amazon reported third-quarter results well ahead of Wall Street forecasts, with total revenue at $143.1 billion and earnings per share of 94 cents. The revenue number, up 13% from the same period a year ago, soared past analysts’ consensus estimate of $133.4 billion. Analysts had expected EPS of 55…

EXCLUSIVE: After circling rights for weeks to the buzzy Vanity Fair article “True Crime, True Faith: The Serial Killer and the Texas Mom Who Stopped Him,” Amazon MGM Studios has locked them down, Deadline understands. Executive producer and production attachments on True Crime, True Faith are…

Neil Gaiman fantasy series Good Omens is looking good to land a Season 3 renewal by Amazon and the BBC, I hear. In anticipation of the order for what will likely be the show’s last chapter, the options on the series’ main cast, led by Michael Sheen and David Tennant, have been picked up, sources said…

James Bond's many fans will have a long wait for the next 007, it seems. Producer Barbara Broccoli has revealed that executives haven't even begun to map out the next chapter of the long-running franchise, which saw Daniel Craig bow out in No Time to Die two years ago. In an interview with The Gu…

EXCLUSIVE: Jaume Collet-Serra is back in business with Seven Bucks after Black Adam and Jungle Cruise, with the filmmaker set to direct Kate Warne for Amazon MGM and Dwayne Johnson’s Seven Bucks. Emily Blunt is also producing, but with an eye to star. There is currently no acting deal in place, Deadline…

Amazon has shut down live audio service Amp about 18 months after it launched in beta. After live audio gained traction as a digital category during Covid, led by Clubhouse and imitators launched by Meta, Spotify, Twitter and others, the pendulum soon swung in the other direction. Clubhouse said last…

EXCLUSIVE: There are layoffs happening today across Amazon communications divisions domestically and in several other countries, sources tell Deadline. We hear that more than 5% of the workforce is impacted in the communications divisions of Amazon Studios, Prime Video and Music. Across the entire…

Amazon is checking in to the Hazbin Hotel. The series, which has been long in the works with A24 and Fox's Bento Box Entertainment, has been ordered at Amazon's Prime Video. It has received a two season order. The eight-part series, which comes from Vivienne Medrano, will launch on the streamer…

The Federal Trade Commission and 17 states have filed an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, alleging that the tech retailer has used illegal tactics in pursuit of a retail monopoly. The commission cited what it called an “ongoing pattern of illegal conduct.” That behavior, it maintains, blocks…

UPDATED, 4:49 PM: In the wake of notching a shiny 82% fresh Rotten Tomatoes score with critics coming out of its Telluride Film Festival premiere, Saltburn from Oscar winning filmmaker Emerald Fennell is going a week earlier on Nov. 17, limited. MGM will then expand the film on Nov. 22 to take advantage…