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Amazon reportedly spent $80 million to lure Woody Allen into making a TV series

Amazon reportedly spent $80 million dollars to lure filmmaker Woody Allen into creating "Crisis in Six Scenes," his first TV series, for their TV studio.

Amazon spent $80 million to lure filmmaker Woody Allen into creating his first TV series for their TV studio, sources told The Hollywood Reporter.

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Sources told the outlet that Amazon Studios head Roy Price and

Set in 1960s suburbia, the comedy series starred Miley Cyrus and Allen, and was critically panned. It received an 18% "Rotten" rating from Rotten Tomatoes.

At the Cannes Film Festival in 2015, as he was still producing the show, Allen called the series "

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