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Hollywood writer-director Aaron Sorkin is once again defending his casting choice of Spain’s Javier Bardem to play the Cuban-born Desi Arnaz in the Amazon Studios movie Being the Ricardos, saying casting based on race is the “mother of all empty gestures.”

Documentaries about Dr. Anthony Fauci and U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg (D) are building early Hollywood awards momentum, collectively garnering five nominations for the Critics Choice Documentary Awards — a bellwether of potentially bigger honors to come.

Mayor Pete — Amazon Studios’ documentary about U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and his failed Democrat primary presidential campaign — is being slammed by reviewers while the supply chain crisis in the United States worsens. Buttigieg has been on paid paternity leave since mid-August, “to spend time with his husband” and their two newborn babies.

Amazon Studio’s series Expats is facing a barrage of negative media coverage, including accusations of “white privilege,” after star Nicole Kidman received a quarantine exemption to shoot in Hong Kong.

Amazon’s new “Borat” special has slapped an “untrue” label on the theory that the coronavirus was developed in a lab in Wuhan, China.

Amazon is officially acquiring the legendary Hollywood studio MGM in a blockbuster billion deal that will boost the Silicon Valley giant’s already sizable presence in Hollywood and give a competitive edge to its Prime Video streaming service.

White people are evil and want to destroy an innocent black family in Amazon Prime’s Them, a new horror series that looks and sounds like a Jordan Peele production but in fact comes from executive producer Lena Waithe.

Stacey Abrams (D) has shifted her Academy Awards campaign into attack mode, accusing Republicans and former president Donald Trump of voter suppression as she seeks an Oscar nomination for her Amazon Studios documentary All In: The Fight for Democracy.

Coming 2 America, Amazon’s sequel to Eddie Murphy’s 1988 smash, is unfunny, poorly acted, and a woke lecture about how wrong we were to enjoy the sexist and insensitive original. 

“In terms of my work and my career, race has never been an issue. I’ve been making movies for 40 years and never once could I not get a movie made because I was black.”

As she hits the Oscar campaign trail in earnest to promote her Amazon documentary about voter suppression for awards consideration, failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D) diagnosed America as suffering from a battery of diseases that include racism, bigotry, homophobia, sexism, and xenophobia.

Sacha Baron Cohen said that he wanted to release his Borat sequel before the presidential election to highlight then-President Donald Trump’s “misogyny, corruption and dangerous slide into authoritarianism.” He said he also had political motive to star in The Trial of the Chicago 7, to show the “importance of standing up to racism, immorality, and police brutality.”

A typical film school graduate can pound the pavement for years in Hollywood hoping to land a coveted job on a major TV series. Not so for Malia Obama, the older daughter of Barack and Michelle Obama, whose first Hollywood writing gig has come early by any standard.

Amazon Studios is teaming up with a playwright who has publicly promoted the defunding of police departments and supported the Minnesota Freedom Fund, a bail-out organization with ties to the violent Antifa.

Amazon Studios has released the first trailer and mock promotions for the upcoming Borat sequel, in which British actor Sacha Baron Cohen reprises his role as the America-obsessed journalist from Kazakhstan. Given Cohen’s past statements about the Trump administration, it should come as no surprise that the sequel puts the president and his supporters at the center of its satirical focus.

The 1992 baseball movie “A League of Their Own” is getting a social justice reboot courtesy of Amazon, which said the new TV series will take a “deeper look at race and sexuality.”

Good luck trying to find “Tenet” or “Mulan” in a movie theater any time soon. Hollywood studios have delayed all of their releases citing concerns about the coronavirus. Not so with Stacey Abrams’s documentary about voter suppression, which is getting fast tracked to a theatrical release ahead of election day.

Amazon Studios has purchased the rights to an untitled documentary on voting rights which prominently features failed Georgia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. 

Netflix has thrown its support behind Black Lives Matter as violent riots backed by the activist movement escalated late Saturday, resulting in destruction in major cities around the country.

France is already starting to see movie and TV production return even though the country continues to experience a higher COVID-19 mortality rate than the United States.

The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum has slammed the new Amazon Studios drama series “Hunters” for a fictionalized scene set at the concentration camp depicting a game of human chess in which the human pieces are eliminated and then killed.

The Golden Globes are famously unpredictable, but a few sure things seem to be in store for Sunday’s awards: Streaming services will play a starring role; five-time host Ricky Gervais will snicker at his own jokes; and Brad Pitt is all but assured of taking home an award.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had hit out against the creative team behind the Amazon Studios movie The Report, saying the movie unfairly portrays CIA analysts as villains in its recounting of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s investigation into the use of torture following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Amazon has acquired the rights to a feature film produced by Nicole Kidman about a woman groped at a frat party who later becomes a female right’s activist, Variety first reported.

An advertisement for the popular Amazon Studios series The Man in the High Castle aired during the 70th Emmy Awards Sunday. The advert depicts the drama’s lead character states “we are the resistance” paralleling a common phrase used by anti-Trump

Amazon Studio’s Heather Schuster is leaving following an internal investigation into alleged misconduct by the entertainment executive. 

Hillary Clinton and Steven Spielberg are joining forces to bring Elaine Weiss’ The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote to television.

Amazon has reportedly launched an investigation into actor Jeffrey Tambor, star of its hit television series Transparent, after a former assistant to the actor accused him of sexual harassment this week.

Following the firing of programming chief Roy Price, Amazon Studios has faced the departure of their fourth executive in four months as Conrad Riggs, the former head of unscripted entertainment, departs the company shortly after Joe Lewis, the former head of comedy and drama.

Just last week, after a year of standing beside those accusing Bill Cosby, Bill O’Reilly, and President Trump of sexual misconduct (all three deny any wrongdoing), 56-year-old Lisa Bloom seemed on the verge of stepping into her mother Gloria Allred’s shoes as America’s premier left-wing, feminist attorney.

As more and more women step forward to give public testimony about their alleged abuse at the hands of Hollywood power — Harvey Weinstein, Ben Affleck, Amazon Studios chief Roy Price — more and more women are coming out about their alleged abuse at the hands of Hollywood power.

Just hours after actress Rose McGowan launched a broadside against Amazon CEO (and Washington Post owner) Jeff Bezos with the accusation that the richest man in the world was “funding rapists, alleged pedos, and sexual harassers,” one of Bezos’s top executives, Roy Price, was publicly accused of harassing television producer Isa Hackett.

Amazon released the first trailer for its upcoming Woody Allen-Miley Cyrus-starring television series Crisis in Six Scenes on Wednesday.

Amazon has released the first footage from its upcoming Woody Allen series Crisis in Six Scenes, a project that Allen himself warned last year could be a “cosmic embarrassment” for the premium streaming service.

Production crew members working on Amazon’s original transgender series Transparent are uncomfortable after management made all bathrooms on the set gender neutral — particularly women.

Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt is teaming up with Amazon Studios to create and star in a period drama about the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the Reconstruction-era South.