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EXCLUSIVE: With his FX limited series Devs behind him, Alex Garland has his sights on his next feature film. Garland’s has set his next project, Men, with A24 and has tapped Jessie Buckley and Rory Kinnear to star. Sources add Buckley’s deal is not closed but is headed in right direction. Besides directing, Garland…

From her unforgettable strut down the water-filled aisle as Araminta Lee in Crazy Rich Asians, to her turn as a chain-smoking scientist in Cary Joji Fukunaga's Netflix series Maniac, Sonoya Mizuno has in the past few years proven that she can disappear into characters, even without a costume as extreme as the faceless…

On sci-fi thriller Devs, VFX supervisor Andrew Whitehurst reteamed with director Alex Garland for an exploration of the multiverse, digging into scientific literature to depict a world of the near future, and the technology that accompanied it. Starring Sonoya Mizuno, the series centers on Lily, a software engineer…

On Alex Garland's science-fiction thriller Devs, cinematographer Rob Hardy helped craft a singularly eerie portrait of the Bay Area, cultivating a world full of compelling visual motifs. Starring Sonoya Mizuno, the FX series centers on Lily Chan, a software engineer who works for a mysterious quantum computing company…

As part of his overall deal with FX Productions, Ex Machina and Annihilation filmmaker Alex Garland is looking to continue his work with the network on another TV series following his upcoming spring series Devs.  “The next thing I’m going to try to do is another television show with FX. I’m in the process of writing…

The FX limited series Devs is the first foray into television by Alex Garland and on Saturday the writer-director of Ex Machina introduced the sci-fi saga to the New York Comic Con audience at the Hammerstein Ballroom. In a new teaser (above) and some first-look images (below) fans get a glimpse of series lead Sonoya…

FX has given a pilot order to Devs, a drama from Alex Garland, the award-winning writer-director of sci-fi thriller Ex Machina. Garland wrote and will direct the pilot, which he will executive produce with Ex Machina and Annihilation collaborators DNA TV and Scott Rudin Productions. In Devs, which will be produced by…

After making a big splash in the sci-fi space with the intelligent but chilling Ex Machina from indie upstart A24 a couple of years ago, writer-director Alex Garland has stepped up to the majors with Paramount’s equally chilling Annihilation. But thankfully, all the smart sensibility he brought before is still there…

Just as Paramount/Skydance’s sci-fi adventure Annihilation was heating up in its word of mouth before its February 23 release, two advocacy groups this week — MANAA (Media Action Network for Asian Americans) and American Indians in Film and Television — took aim at the film for whitewashing its two leading characters…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix and Paramount/Skydance are negotiating a deal on the Alex Garland-directed Annihilation that will give the streaming service international rights to the sci-fi thriller, and an opportunity to release the film on its overseas streaming service 17 days after the film premieres in the the U.S. on…

“Can you describe its form?” “No.” Uh-oh. The questions don’t get much easier from there in the first teaser trailer for Annihilation, writer-director Alex Garland’s follow-up to Ex Machina that stars Natalie Portman. Check it out above. Something has done something to the husband (Oscar Isaac) of the Biologist…

Paramount has set a February 23 wide release for Annihilation, Alex Garland’s follow-up film to his 2014 debut Ex Machina that landed him an Oscar nom for original screenplay. Ex Machina‘s Oscar Isaac reunites with Garland to star alongside Natalie Portman, who plays a grieving biologist who signs on for a secret…