Final Shots: Amazon Studios Wins Its First Emmy Awards for ‘Tumble Leaf’

Amazon’s foray into original programing has paid off yet again. Over the weekend, Amazon Studios received its first-ever Emmy awards for its original preschool series Tumble Leaf at the Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards. The stop-motion animated series garnered wins for Outstanding Pre-school Children’s Animated Program and Outstanding Individual Achievement wins in Animation for Lead Animation, Character Design, Storyboard Art and Production Design. Tumble Leaf is the second series to earn Amazon Studios some silverware, following Transparent, which took home Golden Globes for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy and Best Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy for star Jeffery Tambor.

In other news…

Jenny Slate and Obvious Child director Gillian Robespierre are reuniting for a currently untitled FX pilot about “the adult female friendship of two creative partners — Lou (Slate) and Viv (played by Ari Graynor) — as they embark on a cross-country road trip.” [Deadline]

French artist Julien Knez gives todays hit movies and TV shows a VHS makeover. [NYP]

Annoyed with Disney’s punitive rental fees, independent theaters in Germany are planning to boycott Avengers: Age of Ultron, and may extend the protest to cover all of the company’s films including Star Wars: The Force Awakens. [Variety]

Ryan Reynolds wasn’t kidding when he said his new Deadpool movie would be true to its violent and bloody source material. [Twitter]