Amazon . com . com Art galleries signs production trio

Fledgling Amazon . com . com Art galleries mentioned Thursday it's signed producers Denise Di Novi, Bill Gerber and Edward Saxon to develop three original projects. It's been just at least a year since the retail giant and streaming video player became a member of the film development biz though original online script and movie contests.Individually, Amazon . com . com.com revealed upbeat sales due to its new Amazon . com Amazon Kindle Fire, calling it most likely the very best product their ever launched as well as the bestseller across all Amazon . com . com for 11 straight weeksDiNovi ("Crazy, Stupid, Love," "The Nightmare Before Christmas") is installed on produce "Touching Blue," put together by Scott Mullen that won the most effective Sci-Fi Script Award from Amazon . com . com Art galleries in June 2011.Gerber ("Gran Torino," "The Dukes of Hazzard") will produce "Original Soldiers" after he chooses a author in the contest Amazon . com . com backed it mentioned received 1,000 pitches from around the world.And Saxon ("Adaptation," "Silence in the Lamb") will produce "Kids of Others," put together by Barrington Cruz-Seetachit, which won the most effective Script Award from Amazon . com . com in August 2011."Our goal is always to are really excellent movies," mentioned Roy Cost, Director of Amazon . com . com Art galleries, which launched in November of a year ago with contests full of prize money. He mentioned that authors and filmmakers have posted greater than 7,000 scripts as well as over 700 test movies for the site within the this past year.For that Amazon . com Amazon Kindle Fire, which streams video and plays music and games additionally to storing magazines and books, sales are actually accelerating week to week, Amazon . com . com mentioned. It didn't use the fire place but mentioned it's offered greater than a million Kindles for your third week back to back which is building millions more to fulfill our prime demand.The debut wasn't without its kinks. Amazon . com . com expects to problem a credit card applicatoin upgrade for your Fire after clients reported slow touch screen as well as the models freezing. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com