News Summary

• Amazon-backed firm Showrunner, led by Edward Saatchi, is using the film as a test case for how Hollywood can overhaul production.
• The results won't be commercialized — the tech giant hasn't obtained rights from Warner Bros. or Concord.
• The Magnificent Ambersons was filmed in 1941 at RKO’s Gower Street Studios, now Sunset Gower Studios, in Los Angeles.
• The original cut was 131 minutes long, but Welles had conceded the right to the final cut.