The series "Lord of Rings" from Amazon can be the most expensive in history - at least $ 350 million per season

The television series on the trilogy of John Ronald Rowel Tolkien "The Lord of the Rings", the launch of which was already announced by Amazon Studio, can be the most expensive in history.

In November 2017, Amazon announced that to create a prequel, she paid the Warner Bros studio. Television $ 250 million for the rights to the film adaptation of the Lord of the Rings. The production and marketing of two seasons of the series will cost another $ 500 million, the Reuters source reported in the film industry.

For comparison, the production and marketing of the second season of the series "Man in the High Castle" cost Amazon Studios "only $ 107 million - about 11 million per episode. The expenses for the movie trilogy of Peter Jackson were also significantly less than expected to spend on the series - $ 281 million. And the most expensive HBO series “Game of Thrones”, which was spent more than $ 50 million on, against this background looks completely “low -budget”.

As the American news edition of BGR notes, if the voiced figures of the estimated costs of the production of the series coincide with reality, then the Lord of the Rings will indeed become the most expensive series in history.

There is no data on the deadlines for the release of the series and the team of its creators yet.

Recently, large streaming services, such as Netflix, Amazon, Hotstar, IVI, Hulu, VIU and IFLIX, are struggling to fight for their viewer, attracting him as spectacular, and therefore expensive projects.

Judging by the latest reports of the Strategy Analytics research company, the number of subscribers for paid streaming services in the world overcame the line of 345 million. And in the United States, by the beginning of 2018, their number overcame the line of 250 million. By the end of this year, it is expected that the subscription will be at least 300 million, and in 2022 - more than 450 million.

The average monthly expenses of households on stream video services increased in 2017 by 5.0% and amounted to almost $ 10 a month. 60% of American households use at least one similar service. Among the leaders in paid subscriptions to stream video services are also Canada (51%), Norway (46%), Sweden (45%) and Finland (44%).

Investments in the creation of series have allowed Amazon to attract more than 5 million people to the Amazon Prime club from the end of 2014 until the beginning of 2017. The audience of Amazon only in the USA, including its own projects and films and TV shows of other studios, amounted to about 26 million people.

Interest in a large -scale Tolkien project fits into the Amazon concept, which intends to move away from niche series in order to attract a wider international audience.