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EXCLUSIVE: Louis Herthum (Westworld), Chris Coy (The Deuce), Melinda Page Hamilton (Messiah), Katie Leung (Annika) and Austin Rising (Alt) are set as series regulars on The Peripheral, Amazon’s upcoming original series from Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy's Kilter Films. Chloë Grace Moretz and Jack Reynor star in the…

EXCLUSIVE: Craig Macneill and Clay Chapman, the duo behind SXSW horror film The Boy, have teamed up with Jonathan Nolan & Lisa Joy's Kilter Films to develop a horror series at Amazon. Unknown is a psychological horror anthology series that plunges into the corners of the American landscape, probing the intersection of…

The worldwide best-selling game franchise Fallout is headed to television via Prime Video. Following months of dealmaking, Amazon Studios has licensed the rights to the games for Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy to develop a TV adaptation, which has received a series commitment. This marks the first major project to come…

SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains details from last night’s Season 3 finale of HBO's Westworld, "Crisis Theory." There are too many pressing questions about what went on in Westworld‘s Season 3 finale, so we checked in with co-creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy and executive producer Denise Thé. DEADLINE: So, th…

The project that originally got Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy in business with Amazon Studios, The Peripheral, is now a go at the streamer. Amazon Studios has greenlit the one-hour sci-fi thriller drama based on the bestselling novel by William Gibson, from creator/executive producer/showrunner Scott B. Smith (A Simple P…

Amazon Studios has entered the arms race for top TV showrunner talent with a mega overall deal with Westworld creators/executive producers/showrunners Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, and their company Kilter Films. No one would comment but I hear the pact, which had been in the works for months, is for five years and is…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. has acquired worldwide distribution rights to Reminiscence, the Lisa Joy-directed action thriller that will star Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Ferguson. The film marks the directorial debut of Westworld executive producer Joy, who also wrote the script. This was the hot package at Berlin, and the…

EXCLUSIVE: As the Sundance deal avalanche abates, it is time to focus on the film packages to be unveiled next week in Berlin. In what instantly becomes a hot property there, Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Ferguson are finalizing deals to star this fall in Reminiscence, a film that Westworld executive producer Lisa Joy has…

The Visual Effects Society has selected writer-producer-director and Westworld co-creator Jonathan Nolan with its VES Visionary Award, to be bestowed at the 17th annual VES Awards on February 5 at the Beverly Hilton. Nolan joins his brother and oft-collaborator Christopher Nolan, who was honored with the same award in…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details about tonight's season 2 finale of Westworld on HBO From the moment Dr. Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins) died at the end of Westworld‘s season 1, a robot apocalypse has ensued throughout this past season, with hosts and humans as collateral damage. And while the Delos SWAT team…

Jonathan Nolan got an Original Screenplay Oscar nomination on his first time out for Memento, which had a script by big brother Christopher Nolan but a story by credit from Jonathan — or Jonah, as friends and family call him — as his short story the film was based on had not yet come out, thus making him eligible. He…

Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, who tackle artificial intelligence in their HBO series Westworld, are taking on technology in a new drama, The Peripheral, which has landed at Amazon. Based on William Gibson’s novel, the project, which has been put into script development with series option, hails from Nolan and Lisa…