SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--(NASDAQ: AMZN) — Amazon’s Academy Award winning film, Manchester by the Sea, arrives on Prime for members to stream on Friday, May 5. To celebrate the film Amazon will give every home in the town of Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA one year of Amazon Prime and a 3-pack of Wickedly Prime Popcorn.
“Oscar winning Manchester by the Sea is coming to Prime Video on May 5, and we wanted customers in the town to enjoy popcorn and a movie on us,” said Greg Hart, Vice President of Amazon Video, worldwide. “Manchester by the Sea is a masterpiece representing the best of cinematic storytelling. In other words, it is wicked awesome.”
Start Watching Manchester by the Sea on May 5
Manchester
by the Sea will be available for Prime members to stream starting
May 5. Customers can view the film using the Amazon Prime Video app for
TVs, connected devices including Amazon Fire TV, mobile devices or
online at Amazon.com/originals at no additional cost to their
membership. Prime members will also be able to download the film to
mobile devices for offline viewing. Manchester by the Sea joins
Amazon Prime Video’s line-up of award-winning and critically acclaimed
Original Series and Movies.
Prime for all Homes in Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA
Amazon is
sending a gift box to every home in Manchester-by-the Sea this week.
Customers will receive a code to claim their one-year Prime membership
and 3-pack of Wickedly Prime Popcorn. On Friday, May 5, they can start
streaming their namesake movie Manchester by the Sea.
Academy Award Winning Movies
Earlier this year, Amazon
Studios, the original film and TV production arm of Amazon Prime Video,
received seven Oscar nominations and took home three Oscars, making
Amazon Prime Video the first streaming service to win Academy Awards for
Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay and Best Foreign Language Film. Manchester
by the Sea took home two Oscars – Casey
Affleck won his first Oscar for Best Actor, and Kenneth
Lonergan won his first Oscar for
Best Original Screenplay. The Salesman, written and directed by Asghar
Farhadi, won Best Foreign Language Film. In addition to these Amazon
Original Movies, Moonlight, the Academy Award winning film for
Best Picture starring Mahershala
Ali and directed by Barry
Jenkins, will be added to the Prime Video line-up on May 21.
More to Prime
Tens of millions of Prime members around the
world enjoy the many benefits of Prime. In the U.S. that includes
unlimited access to award-winning movies and TV episodes with Prime
Video; unlimited access to Prime Music, Audible Channels for Prime,
Prime Reading, Prime Photos, Twitch Prime; early access to select
Lightning Deals, one free pre-released book a month with Kindle First,
and more. Prime was built on the foundation of unlimited fast, free
shipping and today, members receive unlimited Free Two-Day Shipping on
more than 50 million items, Prime FREE One-Day Shipping and Prime FREE
Same-Day Delivery in more than 5,000 cities and towns,
and two-hour delivery with Prime Now in more than 30 major cities. Start
a free trial of Amazon Prime at amazon.com/prime.
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