Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell then took the stage to introduce a new romcom, You Are Cordially Invited. Next, actors Octavia Spencer and Hannah Waddingham joined Salke to announce a yet unnamed “action drama comedy with the international scope of Jack Ryan and the hearts and humor of Thelma and Louise,” Spencer explained.
More TV content followed the movie stars.
Jenny Han, author of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and The Summer I Turned Pretty, stepped onstage alongside the cast of the latter young adult title, which star Lola Tung announced has recently wrapped filming of season three. That season will be “supersized” with 11 episodes, Han said, coming 2025.
Patton Oswalt, host of The 1% Club, also joined Salke to demonstrate a sample question for the new game show.
Delivering more sports
Jay Marine, vp and global head of sports for Prime Video, kicked off a sports-focused segment of the show featuring Charissa Thompson, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Tony Gonzales, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. and Roger Federer. Documentaries on Federer and Earnhardt Sr. will hit the streamer next year.
The second season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will hit the streamer on August 29, Prime Video announced with a teaser trailer. Meanwhile, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, which stars Donald Glover and Maya Erskine and dropped in February, will also get a second season. The Boys, which will debut its fourth season on June 13, has been renewed for a fifth. A new unscripted series, Buy It Now, will be hosted by Curb Your Enthusiasm’s JB Smooth.
Amazon also announced Glitch, a new brand integration tool on Twitch.
“With our clean room and other leading ad tech, we can help all advertisers connect awareness and brand objectives directly to sales outcomes and category growth, full-funnel advertising at scale for everyone,” Alan Moss, vp of global ad sales, Amazon, said to close out the nearly 90-minute presentation.
As Moss was giving advertisers his final benediction, one last stunt interrupted the show. Salke returned to the stage with Bruiser, the Chihuahua from Legally Blonde, followed by a pink-clad Witherspoon to announce a new prequel series, Elle.
“Before she became the most famous Gemini vegetarian to graduate from Harvard Law School, she was just a regular ’90s high school girl,” Witherspoon said.
Moss finally concluded with a nod to the 2001 film’s soundtrack: “Thank you all for making this a perfect day.”