The deal for "Elvis & Nixon" has seen its price-tag rise over
$3 million and has been in the works for over a month, the paper
said, citing a source. (http://bit.ly/1QOPJn9)
Several buyers had expressed interest in the project, including
Lionsgate and Bleecker Street, the paper said.
The film, starring Michael Shannon and Kevin Spacey, is about
the infamous meeting between Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon in
1970, the paper said.
Amazon could not be immediately reached for comment.
Amazon Studios spent an estimated $2 billion on content in 2014
with about $200 million of that used to develop original shows,
according to Wedbush Securities analysts.
(Reporting by Abinaya Vijayaraghavan in Bengaluru; Editing by
Bernard Orr)
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