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Amazon is betting big on faith-based entertainment in a new production deal that is expected to produce a pipeline of movies and series aimed at Christian audiences.

Amazon-owned MGM’s “Ring Nation” show hasn’t debuted yet and has already generated controversy from leftist activist groups who believe the series will glorify digital surveillance culture. Now come accusations that the light-hearted show — think America’s “Funniest Home Videos” but based around Amazon Ring security cameras — is racist, with claims that it will harm “black and brown people.”

Nov. 28 (UPI) — The animated family adventure, “Encanto,” is the No. 1 movie in North America, earning $27 million in receipts in its debut, BoxOfficeMojo.com announced Sunday.

“No Time to Die,” the latest in the James Bond franchise and the last of the Daniel Craig era, is looking at a $100 million loss.

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.

Amazon is reportedly closing in on a blockbuster deal to pay $9 billion for the storied Hollywood studio MGM. The acquisition would enlarge Amazon’s footprint in Hollywood and give it control over valuable movie titles including the James Bond and Rocky franchises, as well as numerous classics such as The Wizard of Oz.

A recent report claims that e-commerce giant Amazon is in talks to purchase the film and TV studio MGM for about $9 billion dollars.

NEW YORK (AP) — “No New ‘Movies’ Till Influenza Ends” blared a New York Times headline on Oct. 10, 1918, while the deadly second wave of the Spanish Flu was unfolding. A century later, during another pandemic, movies — quotes no longer necessary — are again facing a critical juncture. But it’s not because new films haven’t been coming out. By streaming service, video-on-demand, virtual theater or actual theater, a steady diet of films have been released under COVID-19 every week. The Times has reviewed more than 460 new movies since mid-March.

MGM Resorts International announced Sunday that it will temporarily close its properties in Las Vegas, Nevada, as a precaution against the Chinese coronavirus.

“No Time to Die,” the latest James Bond movie, has been postponed by seven months as fears over the coronavirus persist, making it the first major Hollywood movie to change its release date since the illness broke out in China and spread around the world.

Several 2020 Democratic hopefuls, including Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), held a string of fundraisers in Hollywood throughout March, 10 months before primary season begins.

MGA Entertainment, Inc., which made billions of dollars from the fashion forward “Bratz” dolls and Little Tykes toys, has bid $900 million for the failing Toys “R” Us brand and its 1,700 remaining stores.

Surveillance video from inside the MGM’s Mandalay Bay shows Las Vegas attacker Stephen Paddock moving bag after of bag of firearms and other supplies into his suite in the days before the October 1, 2017, attack.

A new $950 million casino construction project is now underway that will bring Springfield, Massachusetts 3,000 new jobs, a report says.

A Nottingham mother claims police refused to take action when her baby boy was circumcised without her consent, leaving him with significant and long-lasting complications.

MGM has released the first trailer for director Antoine Fuqua’s remake of the 1960 western The Magnificent Seven.

A number of top television networks and production studios have joined the growing list of companies who have vowed an economic boycott of the state of Georgia if Gov. Nathan Deal does not veto a religious freedom bill that passed the state Legislature last week.

Kirk Kerkorian, an eighth-grade dropout who later became the richest person in Los Angeles, died at age 98 of age-related causes on Monday at his home in Beverly Hills, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Hollywood power couple Roma Downey and Mark Burnett have turned out a spiritual classic in “A.D.: The Bible Continues,” through Downey’s aptly named production company “LightWorkers Media,” part of United Artists Media Group, an MGM Company, which Burnett helms.