Must-Watch Amazon Prime Movies Coming In 2021 And Beyond
Must-Watch Amazon Prime Movies Coming In 2021 And Beyond
By Ryan Ariano/April 12, 2021 8:45 pm EDT/Updated: April 12, 2021 8:45 pm EDT
Founded in 2010, Amazon Studios has long been at the forefront of the streaming revolution. Originally an added benefit for subscribers to Amazon Prime, the studio s projects have become synonymous with the subscription service.
By combining the development of original series and films as well as acquiring other projects, Amazon has built up a huge in-house roster of programming available to Prime subscribers. Amazon Studios even made history by being the first streaming service to win Academy Awards, for
Natalie Portman to Star in HBO Movie Based on Elena Ferrante Novel
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The Oscar winner will play a woman in crisis in The Days of Abandonment.
Natalie Portman is extending her reach into TV, signing on to star in and executive produce an HBO film.
The Oscar winner, who recently signed a first-look TV deal at Apple, will play the lead role in
The Days of Abandonment, based on a novel by
My Brilliant Friend author Elena Ferrante. Sundance award winner Maggie Betts (
Novitiate) will adapt the novel and direct the film, which is in pre-production.
Natalie Portman to star in The Days of Abandonment movie from HBO Films
HBO Films is currently in the process of developing a film adaptation of Italian author Elena Ferrante’s best-selling novel
The Days of Abandonment, with Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman attached for the lead role. On top of starring, Portman has also signed on to executive produce through her recently-formed MountainA Films banner. This project also marks Ferrante’s second collaboration with HBO after previously working on the TV adaptation of another one of her many acclaimed novels,
My Brilliant Friend.
First published in 2002,
The Days of Abandonment is described as a visceral, no-holds-barred journey into the mind of a woman in crisis that confronts the norms of motherhood and female identity as Tess traverses the darkest reaches of her own psyche. The film will follows the story of Tess, a woman who abandoned her own dreams for a stable home life. Her world gets suddenly thrown off its
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In the 1950’s, my classmates and I at Queen Elizabeth School exchanged sentimental rhymes, in our autograph books. No doubt, we thought these postcard-size books were our discovery, not realizing they had been popular for many generations. If memory serves me correctly, the school boys of my day showed scant interest in autograph books; only female students circulated them. Although my small book of rhymes has been lost to time, I have no recollection of a boy ever signing it.
Recently, while sorting a box of memorabilia passed on to me by a friend who was moving, I discovered a faded autograph book once owned by a young girl who had lived on Scoharie Road, where I currently reside. Coincidentally, she, too, was a ‘Margaret’ – Margaret Wager.