Amazon.com will help aspiring screenwriters and filmmakers through its new online venture Amazon Studios.
The business is inviting talent to submit their scripts or full-length 'test movies' to win funding to get their film made. Amazon Studios will be offering a total of $2.7 million to the top submissions received by December 31, 2011 and will develop them as feature-length productions.
Warner Bros has a first-look agreement with Amazon on the project. Clips from test movies Original Soldiers and Zoe have already been released to demonstrate the type of submissions Amazon Studios are looking for.
Amazon's director of digital product development Roy Price said: "We are excited to introduce writers, filmmakers and movie lovers to Amazon Studios. Full-length test movies will show stories up on their feet and attract helpful feedback at an early stage. We hope that Amazon Studios will help filmmakers experiment and collaborate and we look forward to developing hit movies."
Writers with successful submissions will receive $200,000 and a $400,000 bonus if the produced movie makes more than $60 million at the US box office.
The Amazon Studios industry panel includes writers Jack Epps Jr. (Top Gun, Dick Tracy), Mike Werb (Face/Off) and producers Mark Gill and Michael Taylor.
"Amazon Studios is a great idea. Getting feedback is essential for creative artists to improve their work," said Epps. "By letting anyone submit a movie or screenplay to be considered for a major motion picture, Amazon Studios is really opening the doors to Hollywood."
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