Amazon Greenlights Le Mans: Racing Is Everything Exclusively for Prime Video
March 06 2017 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
The Amazon Original Series Will Offer Prime
Members Unprecedented Access to the Legendary 24 Hour Race
(NASDAQ: AMZN)—Amazon today announced it has greenlit the Amazon
Original Series Le Mans: Racing is Everything from London based
production company New Black Films. The limited series will explore
what is known as “the Mount Everest of motorsports,” the grueling,
non-stop 24-hour car race that has taken place annually in Le Mans,
France since 1923. Prime members will be able to stream the series
exclusively via the Amazon Prime Video app for TVs, connected
devices including Fire TV, mobile devices and online. Members can
also download the series to mobile devices for offline viewing at
no additional cost to their membership. Le Mans: Racing Is
Everything will be a global release and available exclusively on
Amazon Prime Video for members to watch via the Prime Video app for
popular smart TVs, Fire TV, Fire Tablets and Android and iOS phones
and tablets. The show will also be available on PrimeVideo.com for
Prime Video members in more than 200 countries and territories.
Le Mans: Racing is Everything will offer unprecedented access to
the entire 24 hours of the race, while exploring the storied legacy
of Le Mans and the generations of drivers who have braved the
course. Le Mans: Racing is Everything embeds with teams Porsche,
Audi, Nissan, Toyota, Aston Martin and Rebellion as they race to
build their cars and compete in what is one of the highest attended
single-day sporting events in the world. Featured drivers include
Australian Formula 1 legend Mark Webber; German three-time Le Mans
champion André Lotterer; Nico Prost, son of legendary Formula 1
driver Alain Prost; and English teenage gamer Jann Mardenborough,
who at the age of 19 was given a slot on Team Nissan after winning
an e-Sports racing competition.
“Fans are consistently thrilled by the excitement and danger
that is the annual Le Mans race. Le Mans: Racing is Everything will
take that excitement to the next level, giving Prime members
behind-the-scenes access to what it takes to win this singular
event,” said Conrad Riggs, Head of Unscripted, Amazon
Originals.
“We’ll raise the veil on the pressure that racing cars to the
limit puts on the teams and drivers, in a unique human-interest
driven series that will take a 360 look at what it takes to
participate, organize and ultimately try and win what is
unquestionably the toughest race in motorsport,” said James Erskine
of New Black Films. “It’s a great privilege to bring this to screen
with such strong collaborators as Amazon Prime Video. This is
racing as you’ve never seen it before.”
“The Automobile Club de l'Ouest was very pleased to grant New
Black Films unprecedented access to the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and we
are excited for Amazon Prime members to see the result,” said
Pierre Fillon, President of the ACO.
Le Mans: Racing is Everything is slated to be directed by Emmy
Award-nominated James Erskine (American Masters) and produced by
Victoria Gregory (Man on Wire, Senna), and their production
company, New Black Films (The White Room, One Night in Turin).
Customers who are not already Prime members can sign up for a
free trial at www.amazon.com/prime. For a list of all Amazon Video
compatible devices, visit www.amazon.com/howtostream.
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About New Black Films
Innovative and groundbreaking, New Black Films is one of the
world’s premium producers of sporting stories, from high end
documentary to feature film. Based in London, England, the company
was founded by filmmakers James Erskine and Victoria Gregory in
2009, and joined in 2015 by Alex Holmes. Our films combine
state-of-the-art filmmaking techniques with a passion for
story-telling and the emotional journeys at their core. Our films
have been released theatrically in the US, UK, Italy, Australia,
New Zealand and throughout Europe and the Middle East; and with
broadcast partners such as BBC, ITV, HBO, Discovery, Canal+ and
many others.
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