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Leonardo DiCaprio has pledged $5 million to the emergency Amazon Forest Fund created by Earth Alliance, an organization he formed with Laurene Powell Jobs and Brian Sheth last month. That financial commitment will be used towards providing “critical resources for indigenous communities and other local partners working to protect the life-sustaining biodiversity of the Amazon […]
People around the world are using the hashtag #PrayforAmazonia as fires continue to ravage Brazil’s rainforest. EuroNews reports that these blazes—which have been burning the states of Rondônia, Amazonas, Pará, and Mato Grosso for weeks—became so severe that the state of Amazonas was forced to declare a state of emergency earlier this month. Smoke produced by the fires […]
Reasonable Doubt, previously a TIDAL exclusive in the streaming era, has now expanded its reach to include additional streaming services. JAY-Z‘s debut studio album will now be available on YouTube Music Premium, SoundCloud, Google Play Music, Amazon Music, iTunes, iHeartRadio, Napster, Pandora, Tesla, Slacker, and—as before—TIDAL. Apple Music and Spotify, however, are still without. “Reasonable Doubt is […]
Taylor Swift is the musical representation of our corporate overlords. She’s an unstoppable pop leviathan that does everything in her power to appear regular, the Top 40 equivalent of the smile on an Amazon box. So, it’s fitting that Swift is in so close with Jeff Bezos‘ all-consuming online marketplace. Shortly after she performed at […]
It’s no secret that Jeff Bezos is obscenely rich. With an estimated net worth of $131 billion, the 55-year-old Amazon founder holds the current title of wealthiest person in the world. And he’s obviously not shy about flaunting it. Bezos has used his coin to buy everything from a $65 million jet to a $80 million NYC penthouse […]
Orlando Bloom has outgrown his popular Lord of the Rings character, as the actor claims that the chances of him reprising the role are slim. During a panel at Television Critics Association summer press tour, Bloom told the audience the role of Legolas in Amazon’s upcoming take on the Lord of the Rings series is better suited […]
Amazon is making some changes to their original series line-up. During the Television Critics Association press tour, Amazon’s studio head Jennifer Salke announced that they will not bring back The Romanoffs for another season. The Romanoffs was an anthology series that followed eight different families who believed they were related to Russian royalty. The show was Matthew Weiner’s first […]
Lena Waithe has signed a deal with Amazon Studios to produce programs for Prime Video for the next two years. The showrunner of The Chi and Boomerang already planned to release her horror anthology series, Them, on the platform, but the new deal adds the possibility of even more shows to her already full slate. […]
Superheroes are mighty but even they have weaknesses. In Amazon Prime Video’s new original series The Boys, that comes by way of real inflated egos. In a world where the men and women in tights have more hubris than humility, there’s a huge price to pay as a group of blue-collar vigilantes look to do […]
David Benioff and D.B. Weiss brought television’s biggest hit (and biggest disappointment) this decade to life for HBO. The showrunners are using that Game of Thrones clout to search for greener pastures, according to a report from The Hollywood Reporter. THR writes that the pair are “inching closer to a new overall deal elsewhere as they continue to take […]
