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Comic-Con: Carnival Row Activation

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A massive onsite activation was on display for attendees of San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) for the new Amazon Prime Video show “Carnival Row.” The show is a Victorian fantasy where immigrant creatures and humans coexist, although not in a friendly way. The show will star Orlando Bloom as a human detective and Cara Delevingne as a faerie in a dangerous love affair. On the ground at SDCC, fans were able to enter a secret lounge for a special performance by the creatures. Check out our photos and video below. read more

American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property Petitions Netflix to Cancel Amazon Prime’s ‘Good Omens’

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They say that “the Devil is in the details”, but it appears that the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property was more concerned with the Devil, than the details in the case of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens adaptation.

The organization (also known as The Christian Return to Order) got a little too hot under the collar about the new Amazon Prime series, and forgot which streaming service was responsible for the “…mockery of God’s Order and religion…”.  The petition (since removed from their website) demanded that Netflix remove the series from the airwaves, and asked signers to send the message to “…Netflix that we will not stand silent as they destroy the barriers of horror we still have for evil.”  The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property was able to elicit over 20,000 signatures before they realized that they were petitioning the wrong streaming service. read more

Get Ready for the Apocalypse with the New Trailer for Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s ‘Good Omens’

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Preventing the Apocalypse is never an easy undertaking, especially when a demon and angel are forced to collaborate after that whole “battle for heaven” ordeal.  This is, of course, the subject of the late Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s 1990 novel entitled Good Omens, and soon you will be able to enjoy their tale in a completely new medium on Amazon Prime on May 31.

Good Omens stars David Tennant as the devilish Crowley and Michael Sheen as the angelic Aziraphale.  They are joined by Jon Hamm, Michael McKean, Miranda Richardson, Sam Taylor Buck (as the juvenile Antichrist, Adam Young), and Benedict Cumberbatch as Satan himself. read more

Amazon Posts Official Teaser Trailer for Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett Series ‘Good Omens’

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Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s novel, Good Omens, is one step closer to streaming its way onto our television screens! Amazon Prime Video uploaded a teaser trailer for the upcoming series which features all of the shows primary characters and several interesting new locations. You can watch the clip below:

The official synopsis attached to the YouTube clip elaborates on the extraordinary relationship between the series’ main characters, the the mythical stakes involved in their journey: read more

Neil Gaiman Signs Exclusive Deal with Amazon for Upcoming Television Series

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Good Omens won’t launch on Amazon Prime Video until 2019, but the streaming giant is already preparing for even more new television series from Neil Gaiman! The visionary writer behind such media crossover hits as The Sandman, Coraline, and American Gods, will now be working exclusively with Amazon for global distribution of upcoming series.

Variety reports that the announcement came at an Amazon “show-and-tell” event in London on Tuesday. The deal will see Gaiman, “move to Amazon from production and distribution giant Fremantle, with which he had signed a multi-year first-look deal just last year and which produces American Gods. It is unclear what happened to that partnership.” read more

Amazon Developing ‘Conan the Barbarian’ Television Series

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According to Deadline, Amazon is developing a new drama series based on the original Conan the Barbarian stories by Robert E. Howard.

The project is being produced by Colony co-creator Ryan Condal, Game of Thrones director Miguel Sapochnik, Fargo and The Handmaid’s Tale executive producer Warren Littlefield.

The series will be written by Condal and directed Sapochnik, and will “...retell(s) the classic character’s story via a return to his literary origins. Driven out of his tribal homelands, Conan wanders the mysterious and treacherous world of civilization where he searches for purpose in a place that rejects him as a mindless savage.” read more