VIDEO : New Amazon Boss Signs A-List Actors To Pacts

Amazon Studios plans to build an "alternative to Netflix's volume." The Hollywood Reporter says new Amazon Studios chief Jennifer Salke has access to $4.5 billion in order to create hits for the streamer to compete with Netflix. Carlton Cuse, producer of 'Jack Ryan' for Amazon, said, ?Jen came in and set a tone and tenor of being really supportive of writers and artists realizing their visions. She?s made it a priority to make Amazon a place that showrunners want to go.? Salke already has signed Gillian Flynn and Jordan Peele to first-look pacts. She hopes Amazon?s $250 million TV adaptation of 'Lord of the Rings' will be ready to stream by 2021.