Amazon to push into movie theaters with 12 original titles per year

Amazon has today announced that it will start work on making one dozen original movies for cinemas and Prime Instant Video subscribers each year. The resulting movies will still be shown first in cinemas, but will be available via its streaming service around 30 to 60 days after the theatrical premiere. The dozen movies per year goal is an ambitious one and work will start on the first of these later in 2015. The creative development process will be led by Ted Hope, Amazon said. The announcement follows news from last week that Amazon has signed Woody Allen to write…



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