G20, Viola Davis, 2025. ph: Ilze Kitshoff / © Amazon Prime Video / Courtesy
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EXCLUSIVE: The Viola Davis kickass spy
movie G20  has pulled in over 50 million
worldwide Prime Video viewers since its
April 10 launch, we can tell you first. We understand that makes the Patricia
Riggen directed movie one of Amazon MGM Studios
’ top-ten most-watched action
films of all time on the OTT service.

Backing up Amazon’s viewership is the fact that the movie also landed the #1
spot on Nielsen’s Movie chart debut week with 516 million minutes streamed.  

In addition to G20 over-indexed with women on Prime Video. Amazon MGM Studios
has had a strong of female-led movies including Maintenance Required, starring
Madelaine Petsch; The Map That Leads to You, starring Madelyn Cline and KJ
Apa; We Were Liars, starring Emily Alyn Lind, which premiered June 18; and the
third and final season of The Summer I Turned Pretty, which will premiere July
16. 

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In the movie, terrorists take over the G20 summit with Davis’ President Sutton.
She not only delivers her governing experience, but shows these bad guys they’re
dealing with the wrong head of state as she defends her family and the world.
G20 also stars Anthony Anderson, Marsai Martin, Ramón Rodríguez, Douglas Hodge,
Elizabeth Marvel, Sabrina Impacciatore, Christopher Farrar, and Antony Starr.

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Caitlin Parrish & Erica Weiss and Logan Miller & Noah Miller wrote the
screenplay, from a story by Logan Miller & Noah Miller. Producers are MRC, Mad
Chance Productions’ Andrew Lazar, and JuVee Productions’ Davis and Julius
Tennon, with David Fliegel, Rob Williams, Danny Sherman, Logan Miller, and Noah
Miller executive producing. 

Oscar winner Davis’ JuVee Productions has a deal at Amazon MGM Studios. Davis
and Tennon are currently working with the studio to develop Ally Clark. From
director Phillip Noyce, the thriller follows investigator Ally Clark (Davis) who
embarks on a perilous inquiry into an international conglomerate following the
suspicious death of a close friend. JuVee also produced Amazon MGM’s 2023
documentary, Silver Dollar Road. From Oscar Nominee Raoul Peck, the film follows
the story of the Reels family as told by the matriarch Mamie Reels Ellison and
her niece Kim Renee Duhon, two fierce women defending their rights and fighting
to protect their ancestor’s land and their brothers and uncles Melvin and
Licurtis, who were imprisoned for eight years – the longest sentence for civil
contempt in North Carolina history.

G20 also continues a winning streak for MRC and Amazon MGM Studios. The two
companies previously teamed up on films and series including the Academy
Award-winning film American Fiction, Saltburn starring Barry Keoghan and Jacob
Elordi, the hit series The Terminal List, and its upcoming prequel series The
Terminal List: Dark Wolf, which is set to premiere on Prime Video on August 27. 

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