Amazon shares surged in after-hours trading Thursday after the tech giant posted its first $200 billion quarter and beat Wall Street expectations with its financial results. Growth in advertising and AWS keyed the performance, which boosted shares 9%. Revenue at AWS surged 37%, the biggest…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon is developing a new half-hour comedy from stand-up Atsuko Okatsuka and Josh Rabinowitz, sources tell Deadline. Reps for Amazon declined comment. Plot details and the show’s title are being kept under wraps, though we’re told it’s a starring vehicle for Okatsuka about modern…

Warner Bros Discovery is waging legal war against Amazon, accusing the tech giant of “hurriedly seeking to pirate away a number of contracted employees” from multiple divisions. The impetus for the complaint, filed July 21 in California Superior Court, is the hire by Amazon MGM Studios of Pia…

Amazon said Thursday it is making its Luna video game offering available at no extra charge to Prime members on Fire TV in the U.S. and UK. Last year, Luna game streams re-launched as part of a “rethink” of Amazon’s approach to gaming. “Some of the most magical moments in gaming are when you're…

Off the back of her high-profile return to music and very public stinging attack of David Harbour, Prime Video is making a doc about Lily Allen. The streamer said the retrospective untitled doc will “offer an intimate portrait of the life and career of a global icon and voice of a generation.&#8221…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios is developing a TV series about the underground rave scene in London, one of the first to come from its pact with Will Graham, Tonia Davis and Max Linsky’s Invitation Media. Industry director Ed Lilly is writing and directing Code, which is being produced by A Leagu…

EXCLUSIVE: Luca Guadagnino’s much-talked about Artificial is expected to forgo a traditional fall festival rollout, we understand. The movie starring Andrew Garfield as Sam Altman has been the subject of intense media scrutiny following Amazon’s decision to ditch the film last month. Neon boldly…

As Artificial remains in distribution limbo, Luca Guadagnino appears hopeful for the film’s release, but not so much for the state of the world living with AI. Prefacing that he “can’t say much because we are right in the middle of this situation,” the Oscar nominee teased another potential…

Ray Winstone is a former SAS operative haunted by a botched mission in Prime Video's Danger Money. The action-comedy series produced by Harry and Jack Williams features The Gentlemen star in his first Amazon role. David Crow and Oliver Maltman (Semi-Detached) are writers and Carl Tibbetts (Black…

Another group of budding young thespians have joined Prime Video’s YA adaptation of Chloe Walsh’s BookTok sensation Boys of Tommen. After a widespread search, Prime Video has revealed Amelia May as Claire Biggs, John Hewson as Gerard Gibson, Indy Lewis as Lizzie Young, Alex Dunne as Hugh Biggs,&nbsp…

Prime Video and Netflix are doing battle today at the Annecy animation fest with competing sessions in which they are talking up slates. At the Amazon event, its first, a new trailer for Batman: Caped Crusader Season 2 was unveiled, with the Bad Robot show set to premiere July 31. Watch it…