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…

FX Productions has signed Oscar-nominated Ex Machina filmmaker Alex Garland to an exclusive overall  deal to develop, write and produce television projects. Garland scored a 2016 Academy Award nom for his original screenplay for  Ex Machina, which he also directed and produced. He also won the DGA Award for a…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is moving to acquire the rights to sci-fi great Paolo Bacigalupi’s short story Mika Model for Shawn Levy’s Laps 21 Entertainment to produce. The SVOD giant is in talks with David Weil to adapt. The deal would see Netflix and 21 Laps collaborating again following their experience on the Winona…

Alicia Vikander is dominating movie theaters, billboards and award nominations lately, with a stratospheric rise to fame she calls "completely surreal." It's been a fast ride indeed. Since she entered public consciousness with 2012's A Royal Affair, Vikander has now become one of the most talked-about actresses in…

The Producers Guild of America’s nominations for Theatrical Motion Pictures are eagerly anticipated because that is the one guild that has shown a capacity for turning the Oscar race on a dime in recent years with the likes of past PGA winners The Hurt Locker, The King’s Speech, 12 Years A Slave and last…

The PGA’s vetting process for producers usually raises eyebrows for omissions because those submissions usually go onto Oscar hopefuls. Among the notable producers left off this year’s nominations list include Arnon Milchan on The Big Short, Paul Feig of The Peanuts Movie, a nominee in the Animation category. In the…

Back in the ’90s, Alex Garland was in his mid-20s and collecting unemployment when he penned his massive bestseller The Beach, which then became an even bigger Leonardo DiCaprio film. Shocked by his success – as he says, "suddenly you're pretending to be a novelist" – Garland then went on to write other books (most…

UPDATE: A strong year for indie British cinema was celebrated tonight at London’s Old Billingstate where actor/writer/director Richard Ayoade hosted the Moët British Independent Film Awards. Going in, Yorgos Lanthimos' Cannes pic The Lobster led the nominations with seven, but took only one, for Olivia Colman in…

Yorgos Lanthimos’ Cannes pic The Lobster clawed its way to the top of the nominations for this year’s Moët British Independent Film Awards. The drama picked up seven nods including for Best British Independent Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Producer of the Year. Colin Farrell is nominated as Best Actor and…

The female android isn’t dead. In fact, she’s still running around, on the rental charts that is. After amassing $25.3M at the domestic B.O., A24’s Ex Machina hit the No. 1 spot on iTunes hours after becoming available for rental, as well as becoming the best-seller in Movies & TV on Amazon on its first day of home…

Final update, Monday, 2:50 PM: In its second weekend, Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron hauled in another $77.7M, which ended up being a 59% drop in its second frame. That is actually a strong hold considering that 15% of its first weekend gross came from the action hero cluster flick’s $27.5M Thursday preview…

EXCLUSIVE: In this age of heavy hype and tracking, it’s hard to deliver a sleeper crossover hit. A24 is slowly building Alex Garland’s directing debut Ex Machina into exactly that, and will broaden the film to 2000 screens Friday as the film heads into its sixth weekend. The film’s growth has been deliberately slow…