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Prime Video Orders Culinary Travel Series "The Pasta Queen" with Social Media Sensation Nadia Caterina Munno From Hello Sunshine Premiering on October 24

CULVER CITY, California - August 27, 2024 - Today, Prime Video announced that it has ordered The Pasta Queen to series. The culinary travel series from Hello Sunshine, a part of Candle Media, features social media sensation and chef Nadia Caterina Munno. The Pasta Queen will exclusively stream on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide on October 24.

The series features Nadia Caterina Munno, descendant of an Italian pasta dynasty, who has racked up millions of followers on TikTok and Instagram. Each episode, audiences will travel through Italy with Nadia, then spend time in her chef's kitchen as she shares essential ingredients from the Italian regions she visited, and makes authentic Italian dishes with love.

"Nadia has built an engaged and loyal social media presence through her unique and stylized celebration of her Italian culture and the meals around which her family is built," said Lauren Anderson, head of Brand and Content Innovation, Amazon MGM Studios. "Now with Hello Sunshine and thanks to the efforts of the Prime Video unscripted team, The Pasta Queen will expand her presence by giving global audiences a front row seat to her culinary and sartorial creativity."

"I'm so excited to share with the world the debut of my series The Pasta Queen," said Nadia Caterina Munno. "I'm proud to have worked with such amazing partners, Hello Sunshine and Prime Video, to bring this to life. Come on a journey with me into my home kitchen and across my beloved Italy to experience first-hand my just gorgeous world of authentic Italian food, family, and culture."

"The series is a charming, comedic, and insightful journey and there is no one better to take us on this extraordinary adventure through beautiful Italy than Nadia," said Sara Rea, Hello Sunshine's Head of Unscripted Television. "She is such a vibrant star who lights up the screen. We're so excited to team up with this true Pasta Queen and the team at Prime Video to bring viewers along to share in the joys of cooking and tradition."

Nadia Caterina Munno is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author celebrated for her contagious energy, love for people, classic recipes, and spreading the beauty of Italy worldwide. Born and raised in Rome, she comes from a long family line of pasta makers dating back to the 1800s. Nadia has appeared on shows like TODAY, The Drew Barrymore Show, Sherri, Good Morning America, and Entrepreneur Magazine dubbed her "a force to be reckoned with in the digital space."

The series is produced by Hello Sunshine and Amazon MGM Studios, with Reese Witherspoon, Sara Rea, Sue Kinkead, and Liz Sandorff serving as executive producers. Cat Sullivan serves as showrunner and executive producer, with Nadia Caterina Munno also serving as an executive producer.

About Hello Sunshine:

Founded by Reese Witherspoon, Hello Sunshine puts women at the center of every story it creates, celebrates, and discovers. Hello Sunshine tells stories across all platforms - from scripted and unscripted television, feature films, podcasts, audio storytelling, and digital series - all shining a light on where women are now and helping them chart a new path forward. Hello Sunshine is also home to Reese's Book Club. Fast growing in reach and influence, this community is propelled by meaningful connections with stories, authors, and fellow members.

Hello Sunshine is part of Candle Media, an independent, creator-friendly home for cutting-edge, high-quality, category-defining brands, and franchises. By bringing together elite talent operating at the intersection of content, community, and commerce, it helps to position leading entertainment businesses for accelerated, sustainable growth in the current market and beyond. Candle is run by its Co-Chairmen and Co-CEOs, leading entertainment executives Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs, and backed by investment capital from funds managed by Blackstone's flagship private equity business.

Hello Sunshine's recent productions include scripted series adaptations of the Reese's Book Club picks The Last Thing He Told Me (Apple TV+) and From Scratch (Netflix), plus Tiny Beautiful Things (Hulu) and Daisy Jones and the Six (Prime Video) which received a combined total of 11 Emmy nominations. Hello Sunshine also produced Apple TV+'s three seasons of the Emmy award-winning series The Morning Show (currently in production on season 4), three seasons of the NAACP award-winning series Truth Be Told (Apple TV+), the psychological thriller series Surface for Apple TV+ (currently in production on season 2), the five-time Emmy nominated limited series Little Fires Everywhere (Hulu), as well as HBO's Emmy Award-winning series Big Little Lies.

On the film side, Hello Sunshine produced the adaptation of one of Reese's Book Club's most beloved selections, the chart-topping New York Times bestselling novel Where The Crawdads Sing (3000 Pictures/Sony), which stars Daisy Edgar Jones and surpassed $100 million at the worldwide box office. Other Hello Sunshine productions include Aline Brosh McKenna's feature directorial debut Your Place or Mine (Netflix) and Something From Tiffany's (Prime Video) starring Zoey Deutch, both of which earned the top spot on their respective platforms. Hello Sunshine also produced the wedding comedy You're Cordially Invited, starring Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell, for Prime Video, which will be released January 30, 2025.

Unscripted projects from Hello Sunshine include My Kind of Country (Apple TV+), Meet Me in Paris (Roku) and its second season Meet Me in Rome, Side Hustlers (Roku), Love in Fairhope (Hulu), Surf Girls (Prime Video), and Making the Cut (Prime Video) as well as the feature documentary Between Hell & Hallelujah (Paramount+), and upcoming sports documentary series F1 Academy (Netflix).

About Prime Video

Prime Video is a one-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one application available across thousands of devices. On Prime Video, customers can find their favorite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports - including Amazon MGM Studios-produced series and movies Road House, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Fallout, Reacher, The Boys, and The Idea of You; licensed fan favorites American Fiction and The Boys in the Boat; Prime member exclusive access to coverage of live sports including Thursday Night Football, WNBA, and NWSL, and acclaimed sports documentaries including Bye Bye Barry and Federer; and programming from partners such as Max, Crunchyroll and MGM+ via Prime Video Channels add-on subscriptions, as well as more than 500 free ad-supported (FAST) Channels. Prime members in the U.S. can share a variety of benefits, including Prime Video, by using Amazon Household. Prime Video is one benefit among many that provides savings, convenience, and entertainment as part of the Prime membership. All customers, regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can rent or buy titles, including blockbusters such as Challengers and The Fall Guy, via the Prime Video Store, and can enjoy content such as Jury Duty and Bosch: Legacy free with ads on Freevee. Customers can also go behind the scenes of their favorite movies and series with exclusive X-Ray access. For more info visit www.amazon.com/primevideo.

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