(ANSA) - ROME, SEPTEMBER 04 - The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power won over 25 million viewers worldwide on its first day, beating all previous records and becoming the biggest debut in Prime Video history.
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The series launched exclusively on PrimeVideo in over 240 countries and territories around the world.
"It is somehow fitting that Tolkien's stories - the most popular of all time and which many consider the true origin of the fantasy genre - have led us to this moment of pride," comments Jennifer Salke, head of AmazonStudios.
"I am very grateful to the Tolkien Estate - and our runners JD Payne and Patrick McKay, executive producer Lindsey Weber, cast and crew - for their tireless collective commitment and boundless creative energy. And they are the tens of millions of fans who have seen. the series - clearly as passionate as we in Middle-earth - the real measure of our success. "
Episodes of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will be available every week until the season finale on October 14 on Prime Video.
The series first brings to screens the heroic legends of the Second Age of Middle-earth history: an epic drama that takes place thousands of years before the events narrated in JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, when great powers, kingdoms were forged. they ascended to glory and fell to ruin, unlikely heroes were tested, hope hanging on the thinnest of threads, and one of the greatest villains to come out of Tolkien's pen threatened to plunge the whole world into darkness.
The series is led by showrunners and executive producers J.D.
Payne and Patrick McKay.
They are joined by executiveproducers Lindsey Weber, Callum Greene, JA Bayona,
BelénAtienza, Justin Doble, Jason Cahill, Gennifer Hutchison, BruceRichmond and Sharon Tal Yguado, and producers Ron Ames and Christopher Newman.
Wayne Che Yip is co-executive producer and director with JA Bayona and Charlotte Brändström.
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