TV Shows & Movies Coming To Amazon Prime Video In December…
Premiering exclusively on Prime Video on December 4, 2020, new Amazon Original film, Sound of Metal, follows the story of itinerant punk-metal drummer Ruben (Riz Ahmed), who begins to experience intermittent hearing loss during a series of adrenaline-fueled one-night gigs. When a specialist tells him his condition will rapidly worsen, he thinks his music career — and with it his life — is over. His bandmate and girlfriend Lou (Olivia Cooke) checks the recovering heroin addict into a secluded sober house for the deaf in hopes it will prevent a relapse and help him learn to adapt to his new situation. But after being welcomed into a community that accepts him just as he is, Ruben has to choose between his equilibrium and the drive to reclaim the life he once knew. Utilising startling, innovative sound design techniques, director Darius Marder takes audiences inside Ruben’s experience to vividly recreate his journey into a rarely examined world.
I’m Your Woman – December 11
Starring and produced by Rachel Brosnahan,I’m Your Woman, an empowering, subversive 70s thriller launches worldwide on Prime Video December 11, 2020. The film is Directed by Julia Hart and Produced by Academy Award nominee Jordan Horowitz (La La Land).
I’m Your Woman is a dramatic thriller about motherhood, family, female empowerment, and personal transformation. We follow Jean (Brosnahan) on her journey with her newborn baby as she evades her husband’s criminal past, where we witness her transformation from sheltered housewife to badass mom-on-the-run. With the support of unlikely alliances in Cal and Teri (Blake and Kene), her relatable struggle to take control of her life and realize her own power and potential, empowers audiences to rally behind her, and recognize her formidable strength.
The Wilds – December 11
The ten-episode Amazon Original Young Adult series will launch exclusively on Prime Video on Friday December 11, 2020 in more than 240 territories around the world. Additionally, the first episode will be available to everyone, for a limited time, on Prime Video’s YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook handles starting at 8:00am GMT on December 11. The first episode will also be available to stream on Prime Video with no Prime account necessary between 11th to 25thDecember 2020.
Part survival drama, part dystopic slumber party, The Wilds follows a group of teen girls from different backgrounds who must fight for survival after a plane crash strands them on a deserted island. The castaways both clash and bond as they learn more about each other, the secrets they keep, and the traumas they’ve all endured. There’s just one twist to this thrilling drama… these girls did not end up on this island by accident.
The series stars industry veteran Rachel Griffiths, as well as a mix of familiar and fresh faces that include Sophia Ali, Shannon Berry, Jenna Clause, Reign Edwards, Mia Healey, HelenaHoward,
Erana James, Sarah Pidgeon, David Sullivan, and Troy Winbush.
The Expanse S5 – December 16
Season five of The Expanse will premiere Wednesday, December 16, 2020 on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories around the world.The first three episodes of season five will premiere December 16, with new episodes available each Wednesday following, culminating in an epic season finale on February 3, 2021.
Season five of the series picks up as multitudes of humans leave the solar system in search of new homes and vast fortunes on the earth-like worlds beyond the alien Ring, and a heavy price for centuries of exploitation of the Belt finally comes due and a reckoning is at hand. For the crew of the Rocinante and the leaders of the Inner Planets and the Belt, the past and present converge, bringing forth personal challenges that have wide-reaching repercussions throughout the Solar System.
The Grand Tour Presents: A Massive Hunt – December 18
The newest series instalment from the epic trioThe Grand Tour presents: A Massive Hunt will launch globally on Prime Video Friday December 18, 2020.
Following their perilous watery escapades in the Mekong, the intrepid trio find themselves back on four wheels for their latest adventure on the exotic islands of Reunion and Madagascar. Armed with three sports cars, Richard, James and Jeremy believe they are in for a cushy road trip and fun escapades as they arrive in Reunion and race on the world’s most expensive piece of tarmac, a jaw dropping ring road built out in the sea. But a bizarre challenge from Mr Wilman propels them across the ocean to Madagascar, where they must tackle the toughest road in the world, in some of the most extremely modded cars they have ever built, in order to complete one of their toughest quests to date. The whole gruelling adventure ends in an explosive climax.
After We Collided – December 22
The highly anticipated young-adult love story and Amazon Exclusive movie,After We Collided, starring Josephine Langford, Hero Fiennes Tiffin and Dylan Sprouse, will launch exclusively on Prime Video in Ireland December 22, 2020.
After We Collided is the film adaptation of the best-selling novel After We Collided, which is the sequel to the best-selling novel and publishing sensation After. The movie follows Hardin Scott (Hero Fiennes Tiffin) and Tessa Young (Josephine Langford) who are going through the aftermath of their break-up. While Hardin falls into some bad habits, Tessa, armed with a new confidence, lands the internship of her dreams at Vance publishing company. At Vance, she also grabs the attention of her handsome new co-worker Trevor (Dylan Sprouse), who is exactly the kind of guy she should be with.
He is smart, funny, handsome and responsible; however, Tessa cannot get Hardin out of her head. He is after all, the love of her life. Even with all their misunderstandings and hardships, Tessa can’t deny the pull she feels towards Hardin. She wishes she could walk away…it’s just not that easy. Through all their ups and downs, the wrongs and rights, Hardin and Tessa will fight to be together… even if the universe wants them to be apart.
Sylvie’s Love – December 25
Amazon Original film Sylvie’s Love will premiere on Amazon Prime Video on Christmas Day, 2020.
Written and directed by Eugene Ashe, Sylvie’s Love is set in the hot New York summer of 1957, where the jazz is smooth and the air is sultry. Robert (Nnamdi Asomugha), a saxophonist, spends late nights playing behind a less-talented but well-known bandleader, as member of a jazz quartet. Sylvie (Tessa Thompson), who dreams of a career in television, spends her summer days helping around her father’s record store, as she waits for her fiancé to return from war.
When Robert takes a part-time job at the record store, the two begin a friendship that sparks a deep passion in each of them unlike anything they have felt before. As the summer winds down, life takes them in different directions, bringing their relationship to an end. Years pass, Sylvie’s career as a TV producer blossoms, while Robert has to come to terms with what the age of Motown is doing to the popularity of Jazz. In a chance meeting, Sylvie and Robert cross paths again, only to find that while their lives have changed, their feelings for each other remain the same.
Yearly Departed – December 30
An all-star lineup joins the new Amazon Original Yearly Departed, a comedy special to memorialize a year that somehow still isn’t over yet. Hosted by comedian Phoebe Robinson (2 Dope Queens), Yearly Departed will premiere December 30,,2020 exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.
The female-led lineup includes Rachel Brosnahan (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Ziwe (Book of Ziwe), Tiffany Haddish (Girls Trip), Patti Harrison (Shrill), Natasha Leggero (Another Period), Natasha Rothwell (Insecure) and Sarah Silverman (I Love You, America) to deliver 2020’s final eulogies.
Yearly Departed is a series of eulogies for the year 2020, where a lineup of all-women comedians will deliver everything from casual sex to beige Band-Aids and everything in between that we’ve “lost” in 2020. After a year of societal upheaval, plague, murder hornets and banana bread, Yearly Departed will give 2020 the huge send-off it deserves, from some of the world’s funniest women.
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Amazon Studios Picks Up Fan Favorite Sci-Fi Series The Expanse For Sixth And Final Season
Amazon Studios has announced it has ordered a sixth and final season of the fan-favorite Amazon Original series The Expanse, based on James S.A. Corey’s best-selling books. Renewal of The Expanse for a final season comes in advance of the anticipated fifth season, which will premiere December 16th on Amazon Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.
Amazon Studios Acquires Coming 2 America From Paramount Pictures
Amazon Studios has acquired worldwide rights to Coming 2 America from Paramount Pictures. This long-awaited sequel to the iconic comedy Coming to America will launch worldwide in over 240 countries and territories on Prime Video on March 5, 2021.
