As First Black Friday Game Nears Kickoff, Prime Video And NFL Eye New Postprandial Pigskin Tradition
Prime Video executives aren’t prepared to guarantee a ratings bonanza with the first NFL game on Black Friday. They mainly hope it succeeds in seeding a new annual pop culture event on the day after Thanksgiving.
“We’ll see how it goes, but our expectation and the NFL’s expectation is that this becomes an annual tradition,” said Jay Marine, VP of Prime Video and Global Head of Sports, during a media conference call.
The on-field matchup between the New York Jets and Miami Dolphins looked much better on paper when it was scheduled last spring. Since new star quarterback Aaron Rodgers suffered an injury on the season’s opening night in September, the Jets have hit turbulence and the Dolphins come in as the heavy favorite.
Related: NFL Schedule 2023: Thanksgiving Tripleheader, Prime Video Black Friday Freebie, Primetime Games & More
Regardless of how competitive Friday’s game winds up,...
“We’ll see how it goes, but our expectation and the NFL’s expectation is that this becomes an annual tradition,” said Jay Marine, VP of Prime Video and Global Head of Sports, during a media conference call.
The on-field matchup between the New York Jets and Miami Dolphins looked much better on paper when it was scheduled last spring. Since new star quarterback Aaron Rodgers suffered an injury on the season’s opening night in September, the Jets have hit turbulence and the Dolphins come in as the heavy favorite.
Related: NFL Schedule 2023: Thanksgiving Tripleheader, Prime Video Black Friday Freebie, Primetime Games & More
Regardless of how competitive Friday’s game winds up,...
- 11/22/2023
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
In an interview, Amazon’s sports chief Jay Marine called playoff rights an ‘important’ part of the company’s potential NBA bid.
Is a deal between the NBA and Amazon already a slam dunk? Nothing is set in stone yet, particularly as the league’s exclusive negotiating window with Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery for its next broadcast deal doesn’t even start until March. But once that window concludes other suitors will be able to join the fray, and Disney and Wbd have both made it known they’re going to pursue smaller packages of NBA games when their current broadcast deal expires after the 2024-25 season.
A new report indicates Amazon wants playoff rights in any package of games it gets from the NBA. Currently, all NBA playoff games are shown on ESPN or TNT. Another report states Netflix is interested in making a documentary about the NBA,...
Is a deal between the NBA and Amazon already a slam dunk? Nothing is set in stone yet, particularly as the league’s exclusive negotiating window with Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery for its next broadcast deal doesn’t even start until March. But once that window concludes other suitors will be able to join the fray, and Disney and Wbd have both made it known they’re going to pursue smaller packages of NBA games when their current broadcast deal expires after the 2024-25 season.
A new report indicates Amazon wants playoff rights in any package of games it gets from the NBA. Currently, all NBA playoff games are shown on ESPN or TNT. Another report states Netflix is interested in making a documentary about the NBA,...
- 11/21/2023
- by David Satin
- The Streamable
Last week, we heard that the 2021 live-action feature Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City may be getting a follow-up of sorts, as a project called Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles is in the works, coming from the same company that was behind Welcome to Raccoon City (Raccoon Hg Film Productions) and set to film in the same area: Greater Sudbury, a city in Ontario, Canada. Now the Resident Evil Wiki team has given us further information that indicates the new film will be based on the 2002 video game Resident Evil Zero!
A Production Weekly listing offers the following Spoiler-filled synopsis for Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles: Stars operative Rebecca Chambers and former Marine Billy Coen venture through a train that eventually takes them into a derelict training facility. Once within the facility, they discover they are being stalked by James Marcus, a co-founder of the Umbrella Corporation and creator of the T-Virus,...
A Production Weekly listing offers the following Spoiler-filled synopsis for Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles: Stars operative Rebecca Chambers and former Marine Billy Coen venture through a train that eventually takes them into a derelict training facility. Once within the facility, they discover they are being stalked by James Marcus, a co-founder of the Umbrella Corporation and creator of the T-Virus,...
- 6/6/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
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