Tag: Amazon Prime

Thursday night football moving to Amazon Prime a year early

Thursday night football moving to Amazon exclusively in 2022

The NFL had previously announced that Amazon prime had scored the rights to their Thursday night football package and per a Monday release from the league, that start time has been moved up a year to 2022.

Amazon will distribute Primetime’s second most-watched show across hundreds of compatible digital devices. The NFL’s original agreement with Amazon announced as part of a larger series of media distribution deals this past March, had Amazon Prime Video distributing Thursday Night Football starting with the 2023 season.

That means the 2021 season will be the last for Thursday Night Football on FOX, but the network will continue to produce the National Football Conference (NFC) package of Sunday afternoon games with a focus on America’s Game of the Week.

The NFL will see a bigger bump in revenue next year as part of the move and per Pro Football Talk, fans in the market of the teams playing will still have local television broadcast for their viewing pleasure.

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Amazon is spending an absurd $465M on the first season of its ‘Lord of the Rings’ TV series

Amazon’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ will be ‘the largest television series ever made.’

Amazon Studios is getting into the fantasy game with its adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, which had previously been adapted for the big screen back in the early 2000s. And they’re investing a heck of a lot of money into this television series.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Amazon will spend roughly $465 million in U.S. dollars — or $650 million in New Zealand dollars — for just the first season of the show. Which is just an absolutely absurd amount of money.

Previous reported estimates for the series had it costing around a record-breaking $500 million for multiple seasons.

By comparison, HBO’s “Game of Thrones” cost around $100 million per season, where it was around $6 million for season one and eventually rose to around $15 million per episode in season eight.

“What I can tell you is Amazon is going to spend about $650 million in season one alone,” New Zealand’s Minister for Economic Development and Tourism Stuart Nash told Morning Report on Friday. “This is fantastic, it really is … this will be the largest television series ever made.”

Right now, the plan is for Amazon to shoot potentially five seasons and a spinoff series. Not to mention, the Lord of the Rings series have already been green-lit for a second season. That’s almost $1 billion for two seasons of television.

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The 50 best movies streaming free for Amazon Prime members (April 2021)

We’ve sorted the best movies on Amazon Prime for the month of April 2021.

A new month means more movies to devour from Amazon Prime’s extensive catalog, ranging from some old favorites to some new editions. We’ve sorted the best movies on the streaming service for the month of April. All of these movies are on Amazon Prime, unless they are noted with an arrival date.

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You can also check out some of our other lists:

Let’s get to Amazon’s best movies!

The 53 best movies streaming free for Amazon Prime members (March 2021)

Need something to watch? We’ve got you covered.

March brings a handful of new movies to the streaming selection at Amazon Prime, with seven films getting added to this list upon arrival. That said, the streaming service also lost six of our favorite flicks from their offerings on the final day of February. So if you’re ready to kick back and enjoy an awesome movie, we have all the best ones organized right here for you.

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You can also check out some of our other lists:

Alright, let’s get to Amazon’s best:

The 52 best movies streaming free for Amazon Prime members (February 2021)

Need something to watch?

You’ve got nothing else to do. It’s time to stream a movie. But for fear of scrolling from now until forever on Amazon (or another streaming service), you’d like to select your movie before you turn on the television. Well, we’re here to help. We’ve compiled the best movies available to Amazon Prime members. We’ve compiled all sorts of films, from comedy to drama to romantic comedy to documentary.‏

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You can also check out some of our other lists:

Alright, let’s get to Amazon’s best:

‘Top Class’ docu-series on Sierra Canyon coming to Amazon February 26

LeBron James is listed as an Executive Producer on the project which is sure to feature his son, Bronny James.

There has been an unprecedented amount of media following Bronny James and the Sierra Canyon Trailblazers over the past couple of years, with massive crowds following them everywhere prior to the start of the coronavirus pandemic shutting down sanctioned high school sports in most of the country. But while there has been tons of coverage there was one caveat: no interviews with the players, especially Bronny. Now those who want to know what it was like on last year’s Sierra Canyon squad, the most famous high school team in the country, thanks to a documentary series executive produced by LeBron James and Maverick Carter.

“Top Class: The Life and Times of the Sierra Canyon Trailblazers” will hit Amazon Prime Video’s free streaming service IMBdTV on February 26, according to a press release. IMDbTV also released a trailer to show viewers what they might see in the docu-series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMF5xEQl9CU&feature=youtu.be

The pressures, the attention, the classwork, and all the other drama that comes from trying to win a third straight state championship while having more attention than most NBA teams shines through in the trailer. We’ll see what LeBron and Maverick Carter learned from their own experience producing a documentary about LeBron’s final high school season, ‘More Than A Game’ (2009).

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How to watch 49ers-Cardinals game on Saturday

The Cardinals’ home game with the 49ers is on Amazon Prime Video on Saturday

The NFL season brings us another unique game on Saturday. The broadcast, that is. The San Francisco 49ers visit the Arizona Cardinals and the game will be shown on Amazon Prime Video.

Here is what you need to know if you want to watch the NFC West battle:

The game will be televised in each team’s local markets. It will be on KSAZ in Phoenix and on KNTV in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The game will be available to more than 150 million of Prime’s subscribers in more than 240 countries around the world.

“The Prime subscriber base is pretty big,” Kevin LaForce, the NFL’s senior vice president for media strategy and business development, told ESPN. “And, so, the reach situation or the reach consideration for us is still one that’s really important. Broadcast television has served us well and continues to do so, but Amazon is starting to achieve these numbers globally, that hopefully can help us do what we want to do, which is reach fans with our games and develop new fans who grow up loving football.”

Cardswire with some more pertinent info:

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This is a nationally televised game but it is streaming only. It will stream on Amazon Prime Video and also on Twitch. It will also be available on network television in the Cardinals’ and 49ers’ home markets. In the Phoenix area,. it will air on FOX 10 and on KNTV in the 49ers’ home market.

There are multiple broadcast feeds. The main feed which will be on FOX10 and KNTV is with Andrew Catalon and James Lofton in the booth with Sheree Burruss on the sideline. An alternate broadcast feed has Andrea Kremer and Hannah Storm. The scouting feed has Daniel Jeremiah, Bucky Brooks and Joy Davis. The Spanish language feed has Jose Antonio Melian calling the game.

Radio info

The Cardinals’ radio broadcast will air on Arizona Sports 98.7 FM. Dave Pasch and Ron Wolfley are out this week because of exposure to COVID-19, so Paul Calvisi and Bertrand Berry will call the game.

The Spanish broadcast can be heard on KHOV 105.1 FM. Luis Hernandez and Rolando Cantu will call the game.

The Cardinals radio broadcast can also be heard on Sirius channel 88 and XM channel 88, as well as the SiriusXM Radio app.

The 49er’ radio broadcast will be on the US Bank 49ers Radio Network on KNBR 680 AM/104.5 FM and The Bone 107.7 FM. Greg Papa and Tim Ryan will be in the booth, It can also be heard on Sirius channel 82 and XM channel 227, as well as the SiriusXM Radio app.

The 55 best movies streaming free for Amazon Prime members (December 2020)

Our picks for the best movies which are streaming free for Amazon Prime members in December 2020.

Amazon lets you stream just about any movie you can imagine via their platform, but only some of those movies are free for Prime members. It’s not the most intuitive user experience, so we know it can be kind of tough to find movies free for Prime users that are worth your time.

We’ve got you covered though. Below are 55 of our favorite movies on the platform that are available free for Amazon Prime members during December of 2020.

You can also check out some of our other lists:

Let’s get to the best movies free on Amazon Prime in December.

‘The Boys’ is finally back with season 2 on Amazon Prime and fans are excited about it

Man, this looks good.

Amazon Prime’s series “The Boys” took the internet by storm last year after they dropped season one at the end of last summer.

It’s just an absolutely brilliant show, just as its comic book counterpart is. It takes the traditional tales of super heroes that we’re used to and flips it completely on its head in a world where their “heroism” is driven by greed and power. And, on top of that, it’s up to a squad of regular people to stop them.

It’s just phenomenal. It’s easily one of the best shows to have released on Amazon Prime so far and now it’s back.

Early reviews from fans and critics are in, and it sounds like things are picking up where they left off. People are already ready for the next episode to release in a week.

People are particularly hate-watching the series’ new villain, Stormfront, after the first three episodes.

I cannot wait to finally sit down and watch this. It’s going to be gooood.

Eagles to be featured on “All or Nothing” premiering Feb. 7 on Amazon Prime Video.

Philadelphia Eagles to be featured on ‘All or Nothing’ on Amazon Prime

The Philadelphia Eagles had an up and down 2019 season and thanks to Amazon Prime Video, fans and critics will get an all-access look at the adversity that the NFC East champions suffered through this season.

The Birds won four straight games to secure the division title while overcoming injuries, and criticism of quarterback Carson Wentz.

Now, the 2019 Eagles are the focus of the latest season of Amazon’s All or Nothing, the in-season documentary of an NFL team produced by NFL Films.

A lighter version of HBO’s Hard Knocks, The eight-episode series, narrated by Jon Hamm, follows the path of an NFL team using an inside look at the workings of the organization through 16 regular-season games and the playoffs.

Fans will be treated to 16 intense regular-season contests and the culmination of reaching Wild Card Weekend, and the painful loss to the Seattle Seahawks.

“All or Nothing,” the behind the scenes look at the 2019 Philadelphia Eagles, premieres Feb. 7 on Amazon Prime Video.