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While Dominique Dawson didn’t plan to be a costume designer at first, she found it allowed her to connect more with the story and characters. “I actually went to NYU for directing,” says Dawson, “and while I was directing I just became so drawn to the story that the clothing was telling.” Based on the comics of the…

"We're telling a story about New York, which if you take a 10% cross section of New York, you are going to get all people from all walks of life, from all faiths, and we needed to do that justice," DMZ showrunner Roberto Patino says of the decision to look at the periphery of the acclaimed comic for its March 17…

Rosario Dawson knows a little something about living in desolation. While discussing her dystopian drama DMZ at Deadline’s Contenders TV event Sunday, the actress recounted her Coney Island roots and how her surroundings looked very similar to the world that HBO Max built for the limited series. “I grew up on the…

Executive producer of DMZ joined stars Freddy Miyares, Benjamin Bratt, and Hoon Lee at Deadline’s Studio at SXSW to discuss their HBO Max miniseries. “This show assumes a second American civil war,” says Patino, “and it takes place in a demilitarized zone. Our demilitarized zone is Manhattan, which is an abandoned…

They say the devil is in the details, and that is certainly true for the dystopia dazzle that is Ava DuVernay and Roberto Patino's DMZ. Having just had its world premiere at SXSW today and set to debut on HBO Max on March 17, the Rosario Dawson, Hoon Lee and Benjamin Bratt-led adaptation of Brian Wood and Riccardo…

HBO Max has unveiled the first look limited series DMZ, starring Rosario Dawson and based on the DC graphic novel of the same name. Here’s the series logline: “DMZ leaps off the pages of the DC acclaimed graphic novel into the visual landscape of a dangerous and distorted Manhattan as one woman navigates a…

EPs Ava DuVernay and Robert Patino provided a first look at their DC Rosario Dawson and Benjamin Bratt apocalyptic series DMZ today at DC FanDome. The four-part limited series which will debut on HBO Max takes place in the future where America is caught up in a Civil War. “It’s a story about a fractured people that…

The ever-burgeoning slate of Ava DuVernay's media collective has a new boss, and it's a familiar face. Paul Garnes, Queen Sugar executive producer and Array’s Head of Physical Production, is now the President of Array Filmworks, the Oscar-nominated DuVernay revealed Thursday. With previous Filmworks chief Sarah…

EXCLUSIVE: Rutina Wesley (Queen Sugar), Mamie Gummer (True Detective), Nora Dunn (The Big Leap) and Henry G. Sanders (Queen Sugar) are among nine cast in HBO Max’s DMZ, a DC drama based on the comic series created by Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchilelli, from Ava DuVernay and Roberto Patino, and Warner Bros…

Ava DuVernay and Roberto Patino's DMZ has been handed a series order by HBO Max. The streamer has ordered four episodes of the limited series, a futuristic drama set amid a second American civil war and is based on the DC Comics series. Production on the series is scheduled to begin in 2021. DMZ stars Briarpatch's…

Ava DuVernay has crossed many genres in her career, but now the Oscar nominee looks set to become the Queen of Dragons – at least in an animated sense. The Queen Sugar creator is teaming with Warner Bros Animation to develop Tui T. Sutherland's best-selling dragon filled Wings of Fire books into a high end small…

EXCLUSIVE: When They See Us star Freddy Miyares is reteaming with Ava DuVernay for her upcoming HBO Max pilot DMZ. He joins previously announced cast members Rosario Dawson and Benjamin Bratt for the adaptation of the DC comic book series. DMZ is set the near future where America is embroiled in a bitter civil war…