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Since its inception in 2010, Amazon Studios has touted a technocratic approach to entertainment development — with an open submission process for scripts and projects promising to let anyone break into showbiz, and potentially have their idea turned into a movie or TV show if it was up-voted to the top of the pile.

Now, Amazon Studios’ crowdsourced-script program is dead, a tacit acknowledgement by the ecommerce giant’s entertainment division that it will only produce stuff greenlit the traditional, Hollywood way.

As of April 13, 2018, Amazon Studios is no longer accepting unsolicited submissions. It will continue to review and evaluate submissions it’s already received through June 30, according to a notice on its website.

Here’s how Amazon Studios explained the move: “As we have grown and evolved over the last several years, we are making changes to our website and closing our open call for script and concept submissions… Thank you all for your contributions.

The Writers Guild of America has just announced the nominations for their annual awards for Best Screenplays (by writers who are guild signatories). That’s right, before you get nervous thinking that your favorite may have been left off the list, you must remember that the WGA is the group that is not all-inclusive and leaves out several of the top contenders each year due to them not being part of the guild or not following their very specific rules. For this reason, you won’t see Inside Out, The Hateful Eight, and Ex Machina in the Original Screenplay category or Room, Brooklyn, or Anomalisa in the Adapted screenplay category.

Taking a look at what’s left over for the nominations, we find many that were expected to make a showing, including Spotlight and Bridge of Spies for Original Screenplay, though they apparently had to sink to really low depths...

The Writers Guild of America announced some of its nominees for its 2015 awards on Thursday, including television, new media, and radio, and among the TV nominees are series both new and old, and all beloved.

In the comedy series category, freshman Netflix show "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" scored a nomination for best series, as well as an overall best new series nod. "The Last Man on Earth" also landed in that latter category, and was singled out for its pilot episode writing, too.

On the drama side of the equation, lauded "Breaking Bad" spinoff "Better Call Saul" also got best series and best new series nominations, in addition to a an episode writing nod. Newly-minted Emmy winner "Game of Thrones" also scored a best drama citation, as well as an episodic writing nomination.

The full list of nominees released this week are below. Nominations in the theatrical and documentary categories will...

They’ve proven to be among the most popular kids series on Prime Instant Video, and all four of them were recently honored by the Parents’ Choice Foundation. Today Amazon announced that it has greenlit second seasons of its hit kids series: Creative Galaxy, Annedroids, Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street, and recent Annie Award winner Tumble Leaf.

“Tumble Leaf, Creative Galaxy, Annedroids and Gortimer have all experienced a tremendous response from our customers and we’re excited to bring them back for another season,” said Tara Sorensen, Head of Kids Programming for Amazon Studios. “Working with such remarkably talented and impactful creators in both the preschool and kids six to 11 space, it’s exciting to see where the storylines and characters will take us for another season.”

Annecy International Festival and Annie award-winning series Tumble Leaf was created by Drew Hodges (Saturday Night Live, Community) and executive produced...

As he prepared for the premiere of his first series, Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street, David Anaxagoras shared some insights into what it’s like to bring the characters in your head to life – finding the real-life people who will step into their shoes speak your words.

The First Stage: Holding Your Breath

So many miracles had to happen for us to pull off this show, because it really wasn’t something there was a template for. We knew that these characters, Gortimer and Mel and Ranger, were cut from a different cloth than a lot of the characters on kids TV right now. And it was scary because we couldn’t have a show without believable actors. But I had no idea if anybody was even out there who could pull it off. So I held my breath and we started the casting process.

The Leading Man...

Amazon has announced that it will launch its first original live-action kids series.

Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street will be added to Prime Instant Video in the UK on Friday, December 19.

The series has been created by pre-school teacher David Anaxagoras, and stars Sloane Morgan Siegel, Ashley Boettcher, Drew Justice and Robyn Lively. Luke Matheny is on board as executive producer.

Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street focuses on the friendships between Gortimer (Siegel), Ranger (Justice) and Mel (Boettcher). They live on Normal Street, a road that is not quite as ordinary as its name suggests.

Tara Sorenson, Head of Kids' Programming at Amazon Studios, said: "We're thrilled to bring to our customers something exceptional and truly distinctive in today's kids landscape.

"Luke and David have fully realised a nostalgic and cinematic adventure series that organically blurs the line between imagination and reality, which will resonate remarkably with kids and families.

Amazon announced the premiere for their new live-action kids series, Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street, and released an exclusive trailer. Amazon will premiere the original series on Nov. 21 on Prime Instant Video. The show, which came through Amazon's open-door submissions process, is created by preschool teacher and screenwriter David Anaxagoras and executive-produced by Oscar-winner Luke Matheny. The series stars Sloane Morgan Siegel, Ashley Boettcher, Drew Justice as a band of friends in this coming-of-age series; Siegel plays the titular Gortimer Gibbons, who, along with his two best friends Ranger (Justice) and Mel (Boettcher), embark on magical adventures in their...