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Andrea Riseborough: “Playing Emma was liberating”

Based on Italian writer Roberto Saviano’s brutally candid novel ZeroZeroZero, the eponymous streaming series explores the inner workings of the cocaine trade and distribution worldwide. In a multilayered story that touches several continents, Andrea Riseborough plays the daughter of a New Orleans shipping mogul, who is involved in the dangerous world of drug trading – a rough and emotionally distant character directly opposite to her recent role as the kind and compassionate Alice in The Kindness of Strangers.
  • Industry

Amazon Studios Breaks New Ground at CinemaCon

It may seem strange that giant online retailer Amazon would make a presentation at CinemaCon, the annual convention of the Theater Owners Association (NATO), where the major Hollywood studios screen trailers and footage of their upcoming releases for exhibitors.   However, as executives Roy Price and Bob Berney explained at yesterday’s luncheon, Amazon Studios is now involved in movie productions and acquisitions and committed to showing their products in movie theaters.