Reina Hardesty To Star Opposite Daniel Dae Kim In Prime Video Series ‘Butterfly’

Amazon has confirmed that "limited advertisements" will begin to appear within its Prime Video streaming service from February 5 in the UK.

Amazon Prime Video has confirmed the dates from which it will introduce advert breaks in its shows.The move was first announced back in September as a bid to increase the amount of money it invests in making original content.Users in the US will start seeing ads on the streamer from January 29, while they will appear on UK and German users’ version of the service from February 4.Amazon said the move would “allow us to continue investing in compelling content and keep increasing that investment over a long period of time”.An ad-free version of Amazon Prime Video will be available for an extra £2.99 per month, but live content such as sports will continue to feature adverts. The company affirmed in an email to customers that it aims to “have meaningfully fewer ads than linear TV and other streaming TV providers” and will still offer “compelling value”.Amazon plans on expanding adverts to other territories, including France, Italy, Spain, Mexico and Australia, later in 2024.Some of Amazon’s rival streamers, including Disney+ and Netflix, have also brought in adverts in recent months, particularly as they have struggled to hold onto customers amid growing inflation worldwide.In other streaming news, Warner Bros.

Jordan Moreau Lee Sun-kyun, a South Korean actor who starred in the Oscars’ 2020 best picture winner “Parasite,” died Wednesday morning, according to the Associated Press and the South Korean news agency Yonhap. He was 48. He was found dead in a car in a park in central Seoul, according to the AP.

EXCLUSIVE: Coming off five successful seasons on FX’s Mayans M.C., Clayton Cardenas has set up his next project.

“I just sometimes want to be alone. Where I’m not somebody’s wife, not somebody’s mother. Where I’m not defined by tragedy.” Those words from Nicole Kidman‘s Margaret open the first trailer for Expats, Prime Video’s six-part limited series directed by Lulu Wang, based on Janice Y.K. Lee’s bestselling novel The Expatriates.

Valerie Wu Intern Asian talent from this year’s biggest movies and television shows gathered at the Beverly Hilton for the Unforgettable Gala on Dec. 16. The Character Media event celebrated emerging and established Asian American talent in the entertainment industry.

I'm A Celebrity runner-up Tony Bellew has fuelled rumours of a cast feud after posting a cryptic video about "fake friends" to his Instagram Stories. Boxer Tony, 41, came second to best pal campmate Sam Thompson, but while the pair appear keen to continue their bromance back in the UK, some of their co-stars are not thought to be getting on so well. On Thursday, Tony shared a clip on his Instagram Stories of a US man on a sweary rant about navigating friendships and working out who really cares about you.

to top Nielsen’s streaming rankings. According to Amazon, “Reacher” is one of the streaming platform’s top five most-watched shows of all time.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief The first and second seasons of the hit thriller series “The Tourist,” starring Jamie Dornan and Danielle Macdonald, will shift to Netflix starting next February. The first season originally saw Warner Bros. Discovery’s Max as a co-producer and local streaming partner.

It looks like the movie business is finally back in full swing post-guild strikes. Deadline reports that Amazon/MGM won a high-priced bidding war for “Best Of Enemies,” a spy film starring Bradley Cooper and Christian Bale.

Goodbye Earth, starring Yoo Ah-in, is still “postponed”.Yesterday (December 11), South Korean media outlets reported that Goodbye Earth was under consideration to premiere sometime in April 2024, with Yoo Ah-in to be “edited out as much as possible” in the final product, according to translations by Soompi.Earlier this year, Yoo Ah-in tested positive for propofol and marijuana in a drug test amid allegations of drug use in February. The actor was later replaced as the lead in Netflix’s Hellbound, with his other projects with the streamer postponed.Shortly after the report surfaced, Netflix disputed the claims in a statemeny to Xports News. “The release schedule for Goodbye Earth has not been determined,” the streamer said, adding that it is still “temporarily postponed”.“We will provide further information on the specific release schedule as soon as it is confirmed.

Kitao Sakurai (Twisted Metal) is set to direct the pilot and an additional episode of Prime Video‘s Butterfly, a TV adaptation of the graphic novel of the same name by Arash Amel.

J. Kim Murphy Ellen Holly, a stage and screen actor who became the first Black star of a daytime television series with her role as Carla Gray in ABC’s soap opera “One Life to Live,” died Wednesday at Cavalry Hospital in the Bronx, N.Y. She was 92.

Your Christmas Or Mine 2 which heads to Prime Video from tomorrow, 8th December. Asa Butterfield, Cora Kirk, Alex Jennings, Daniel Mays, David Bradley, Angela Griffin, Natalie Gumede, and Jane Krakowski star in the film, a follow-up to the brilliant Your Christmas Or Mine which was released last year.Here’s some more info on the film.It’s the most wonderful time of the year … but will it be for James and Hayley? James’ father has invited the Taylors to spend Christmas in a luxury ski resort in the Austrian Alps, so they can meet his new American girlfriend (played by Jane Krakowski).

Mark Sheppard is opening up about a run-in with death.

Addie Morfoot Contributor Madeleine Gavin’s Sundance award-winning documentary “Beyond Utopia” will kick off the winter season of PBS documentary series “Independent Lens” on Jan. 9. Using hidden camera footage, the 115-minute doc follows the high-stakes journey that a handful of desperate families make in order to defect from North Korea — a country with the most brutal regime on earth, led by a dictator, Kim Jong-un.

EDAM Entertainment has confirmed that BTS member V will star in a new music video by singer-songwriter IU.Today (December 5), South Korean news outlet Star News reported that BTS member V would star as the male lead in an upcoming music video by singer-songwriter IU.IU’s agency, EDAM Entertainment, later responded to the report in a statement to The Kyunghyang Shinmun. The agency confirmed that “IU [has] completed filming her music video with BTS’ V”, as translated by Soompi.EDAM Entertainment also announced that the singer is currently working on her new album “with the aim to be released in the first half [of 2024]”.

Kim Kardashian has a new project in the works. And she’ll be calling on her fast-improving acting chops to do it!

who played cutthroat publicist Siobhan Corbyn in Ryan Murphy’s FX series “American Horror Story: Delicate” — starring Emma Roberts — is reteaming with Murphy for “a high-end, glossy and sexy adult procedural” that will premiere on Hulu, according to Deadline.In the series, Kardashian will play the most successful divorce lawyer in LA who owns an all-female law firm.The series will be written by Jon Robin Baitz (“Brothers & Sisters”) and Joe Baken. Baitz wrote Murphy’s upcoming series, “Feud: Capote vs.

Prime Video has announced a new Cruel Intentions spinoff series!