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EXCLUSIVE: Global VFX house DNEG has bolstered its offering in Los Angeles with the appointment of visual effects supervisor Bryan Godwin. The former founder and CEO of Shade VFX has worked on more than one hundred projects, including Joker, Sonic The Hedgehog, Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice, Wolverine, Iron Fist…

“It’s a reboot, really, because we’re in a whole different world,” says Emmy-nominated Westworld production designer Howard Cummings about season 3, which drops us right inside our world –the human one– outside Delos’ robotic theme park. And to create a near future Los Angeles, and a near-tomorrow for San Francisco…

The androids have escaped and they are coming for humanity in Season 3 of the futuristic HBO series Westworld. That plot development, which posed major new challenges for the production team and stars of the show, has resulted in 11 Emmy nominations. Joining me for a deep dive into the making of the season For our…

Warning: This interview contains spoilers from Season 3 of HBO's Westworld. Part of Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s m.o. with HBO’s Westworld is breaking archetypes, especially when it comes to redefining the roles of females in westerns, i.e. the pioneer girl or the call girl. With each season, Thandie Newton has…

Today we speak with Westworld EP and writer Denise Thé who takes us inside the writers’ room of one of TV’s most genre-bending shows, and how the socially conscious sci-fi action series clicks in all its nuances. Thé wrote two key episodes this past season, episode 3 “The Absence of Field” in which we step inside…

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…

Warning: This recap contains spoilers from tonight’s Season 3 finale episode of HBO’s Westworld, “Crisis Theory.” Tonight’s episode was written by Denise Thé & Jonathan Nolan; directed by Jennifer Getzinger. We wondered all season long if there were two Men in Blacks, one human and one robotic. It was a burning…

EXCLUSIVE: Jeffrey Wright, star of HBO’s Westworld, has lent his voice to a new promo video by WarnerMedia saluting essential workers during the coronavirus crisis. (Watch the video above.) “Every day, heroes go out so that we can stay in,” the gravel-voiced New York native says. Footage shows fire trucks and medical…

Warning: This recap of HBO’s Westworld, Season 3, Episode 7 “Passed Pawn” contains spoilers. Wow, this episode of Westworld was a doozy, chock full of sublime, Byzantine intel that when it came to telling the story of a solider’s PTSD and dissociative memories, “Passed Pawn”, written by Gina Atwater and directed by…

HBO is heading back to Westworld after the WarnerMedia-backed broadcaster on Wednesday renewed the sci-fi Western for a fourth season. This comes after the third season launched its eight-episode run March 15. The first episode, directed by Jonathan Nolan, surpassed 9 million viewers across all platforms. The series…

SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains details about tonight's season 3, episode 6 “Decoherence” of Westworld on HBO written by Suzanne Wrubel and Lisa Joy; directed by Jennifer Getzinger. Ever since The Man in Black (accidentally) killed his daughter Emily, and was clinically quizzed by some form of her at the end of…

SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains details about tonight's Westworld season 3, episode 5 "Genre" on HBO. Tonight we got to know a little bit more about Engerraund Serac, the current Incite boss, and co-creator of supercomputer Rehoboam, which he designed with his brother. Sure, Serac has some redeeming qualities…