Amazon Could Be Willing to Spend Big for Sitcoms, ‘In the Heat Of the Night’ Returns to TV, Stone’s Snowden Script Goes to Auction Tomorrow

The Battle Between Streaming Services Is Heating Up as Amazon Now Looks for a Big Budget Sitcom

Trying to rival Netflix for attention-grabbing properties, the company is looking to spend between $2 million and $4 million for its next round of pilots, and could be willing to go higher for a larger action-adventure comedy. (VAR)

There Is an ‘In the Heat of the Night’ TV Remake in the Works, and Showtime Has It

The cable channel is working with MGM TV to develop a new small screen version of the Oscar-winner, with Tate Taylor writing and directing, and Warren Littlefield and John Norris as EP’s. (THR)

Oliver Stone’s Edward Snowden Spec, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt Attached to Star, Goes Up for Auction Tomorrow

A select few studio heads will be reading the Oscar-winning writer-director’s script, which has financing from Canal Plus and will start shooting in in Munich in January. (DH)

Is It Possible That Andrew Garfield Is Done Playing Spider-Man?

Fluid plans for the character include a possible “soft reboot” with Drew Goddard’s Sinister Six, in which Sony could recast the part. (CB)

Forget Walter White, Bryan Cranston Is Now ‘The Infiltrator’

Fresh off his latest Emmy award, he re-teams with his Lincoln Lawyer director Brad Furman for undercover custom agent thriller. (EMP) 

Alphabet Is Treading Where The Eye Previously Failed, Will Try to Bring ‘Uncle Buck’ Back to the Small Screen

Undeterred by this week’s Say Anything … kerfuffle and CBS’ previous failure with the Buck property, ABC is moving forward to the pilot stage with a new adaptation of the John Candy comedy. (MF)

How Jeremy Renner’s Friends Helped Him to Get ‘Kill the Messenger’ in Front of Cameras

The Oscar-nominated star, who you might also know as Marvel’s Hawkeye, also produced the based-on-a-true story, in theaters tomorrow. (IW)

Could the Four Different Seasons of ‘American Horror Story’ Actually Be … Connected?

The morning after the highly anticipated premiere episode of Season Four, and with co-creator Ryan Murphy confirming that American Horror Story: Asylum's Pepper would return to also appear in Freak Show, some theories have developed. (VUL)

First Look: ‘Focus’

Will Smith and Margot Robbie star as a pair of con artists in this comedy-caper-love story, due in theaters February 27, 2015. (COL)

Screenwriters: ‘The Wild Bunch’

The 128-page final version, by Walton Green and Sam Peckinpah. (DS)