Amazon Studios
TribLIVE s Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox.
It’s not yet Memorial Day but cable networks and streamers are already setting up their summer scripted series premieres, in part to get them out the door before the Summer Olympics in late July, a noticeably lighter month for premieres.
On Friday Amazon’s Prime Video debuts “The Underground Railroad,” adapted from the 2016 Colson Whitehead novel. The premiere episode of the series depicts brutal torture – this is not an easy watch – as slave Cora (newcomer Thuso Mbedu) escapes from an antebellum Southern plantation via an actual subterranean train.
A lost George A. Romero film, shot in Pittsburgh's North Hills, now available to stream pghcitypaper.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pghcitypaper.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Streaming service Shudder will stream the “lost” George A. Romero film “The Amusement Park” this summer.
Restored by the Pittsburgh-based George A. Romero Foundation, the 1973 film was commissioned by the Pittsburgh-based Lutheran Society as a PSA about being helpful to the elderly, but it was never released publicly.
Romero’s widow, Suzanne Desrocher-Romero, oversaw the restoration of the film in 4K by IndieCollect in New York City. “The Amusement Park” was filmed at West View Park in the North Hills on the site of what is now a Giant Eagle. The park closed in 1977 and was demolished in 1980.
The film stars Lincoln Maazel as an elderly man who becomes disoriented and isolated as the humiliations of aging are manifested through roller coasters and chaotic crowds.
Lost George A. Romero film, shot in Pittsburgh's North Hills, acquired by Shudder pghcitypaper.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pghcitypaper.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.