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Movies about possession and exorcism must scratch a very particular itch for American viewers. Going back to the mother of that horror subgenre, "The Exorcist," you can see one of the biggest box office hits of 1973, and in the fifty years since, many movies have played with that premise. A filmmaker can do it relatively cheaply, often just needing to rely on fearless performers willing to contort themselves and speak in tongues. And seeing an ordered world enter total disarray is what horror is all about.

William Brent Bell's 2012 film "The Devil Inside" took that to heart, dealing with the threat of possession through a mockumentary, found-footage lens. In the movie's universe, it's a documentary about Isabella (Fernanda Andrade) as she investigates her mother, particularly the grisly murders she committed when Isabella was a child. The mockumentary takes the form not just of a horror movie, but of an expose,...

Network: HBO

Episodes: 36 (hour)

Seasons: Four

TV show dates: October 2, 2016 -- August 14, 2022

Series status: Cancelled

Performers include: Evan Rachel Wood, Thandiwe Newton, Jeffrey Wright, James Marsden, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Luke Hemsworth, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Simon Quarterman, Rodrigo Santoro, Angela Sarafyan, Shannon Woodward, Ed Harris, Anthony Hopkins, Ben Barnes, Clifton Collins Jr., Jimmi Simpson, Tessa Thompson, Fares Fares, Louis Herthum, Talulah Riley, Gustaf Skarsgård, Katja Herbers, Zahn McClarnon, Aaron Paul, Vincent Cassel, and Tao Okamoto.

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Based on the 1973 feature film, this drama series is a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.

Season Four of HBO's dystopian TV series "Westworld", based on the 1973 film of the same name, starring Evan Rachel Wood, Jeffrey Wright, Thandie Newton, Aaron Paul, Jimmi Simpson, Katja Herbers, Tessa Thompson, Luke Hemsworth, Simon Quarterman, Rodrigo Santoro and Aurora Perrineau has halted production as a result of positive Covid-19 tests on set:

"...the story begins in 'Westworld', a technologically advanced Wild-West-themed amusement park populated by android 'hosts'. The park caters to high-paying 'guests' who may indulge their wildest fantasies within the park without fear of retaliation from the hosts, who are prevented by their programming from harming humans.

"In Season Three, the series' plot expands to the real world, in the mid-21st century, where people's lives are driven and controlled by a powerful artificial intelligence named 'Rehoboam'..."

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Season Four of HBO's dystopian TV series "Westworld", based on the 1973 film of the same name, starring Evan Rachel Wood, Jeffrey Wright, Thandie Newton, Aaron Paul, Jimmi Simpson, Katja Herbers, Tessa Thompson, Luke Hemsworth, Simon Quarterman, Rodrigo Santoro and Aurora Perrineau has halted production as a result of positive Covid-19 tests on set:

"...the story begins in 'Westworld', a technologically advanced Wild-West-themed amusement park populated by android 'hosts'. The park caters to high-paying 'guests' who may indulge their wildest fantasies within the park without fear of retaliation from the hosts, who are prevented by their programming from harming humans.

"In Season Three, the series' plot expands to the real world, in the mid-21st century, where people's lives are driven and controlled by a powerful artificial intelligence named 'Rehoboam'..."

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Exclusive: Westworld is the latest series hit by the pandemic.

HBO is to pause production on the fourth season of the sci-fi Western drama series as a result of a positive Covid test. The Warner Bros. TV-produced show recorded a positive test from a production member as part of its rigorous testing scheme and will pause briefly for two days next week.

In a depressing, but unsurprising turn of events, given the increase in cases across the country, it joins a number of series that have had to hit pause due to Covid. American Horror Story had to pause season 10, while on the other side of the pond, Deadline has revealed pauses for shows such as House of the Dragon and Bridgerton.

Westworld, a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the question of free will, started production on season four earlier this summer.

The series stars Evan Rachel Wood,...

Arriving on the heels of his “The Boy” and “Brahms: The Boy II,” William Brent Bell’s “Separation” reconfirms the director’s belief that nothing is scarier than creepy killer dolls. His latest, alas, fails to successfully prove that case, and worse, its story about a recently widowed single father struggling with supernatural phenomena is The outlook is dim for this fright-free thriller when it debuts in theaters on April 30.

Jeff (Rupert Friend) is a cartoonist whose former hit, The Grisly Kin, is now firmly in the rearview mirror, even if he refuses to accept that and clings to his artistic integrity like a crutch while his wife (and former creative partner) Maggie (Mamie Gummer) assumes responsibility for financially supporting them and their daughter Jenny (Violet McGraw). Given Jeff’s deadbeat narcissism — as well as his too-close-for-comfort relationship with doting nanny Samantha (Madeline Brewer) — Maggie naturally decides to leave Jeff...

"Daddy - where do you think mommy is now?" Briarcliff Entertainment has released an official trailer for a creepy new puppet clown horror titled Separation, from director William Brent Bell of the two The Boy and Brahms: The Boy II films previously. Get ready for more spring horror. The film is about an eight-year-old girl, played by Violet McGraw, who is lonely living among the feuds between her mother and father. When her mother is killed in an accident, things start to take a dark turn in their Brooklyn townhome. Her own puppets and other characters start to come to life. "When the motives of the ghoulish creatures become clear, the lives of everyone are put very much in jeopardy." The cast includes Mamie Gummer, Rupert Friend, Brian Cox, Troy James, Simon Quarterman, and Madeline Brewer. This already does look quite scary from this footage. And finally a good upgrade...

Violet, Justine Bateman’s often sharp commentary on a certain side of the movie business, suggests what might have happened if a protagonist of Kitty Green’s The Assistant decided to stay in her toxic work environment for the rest of her career. Stuck in a different kind of development hell, Violet (Olivia Munn) is a production executive working for an independent producer Tom (Dennis Boutsikaris) who expects her to leverage all manner of her personal life to get the job done. Living with life-long friend Red (Luke Bracey), a screenwriter blacklisted by Tom, she has been guided by a menacing conversation in her head she calls “the committee” (voiced by Justin Theroux) who serves as a gatekeeper between her reality and true happiness. The voice casts self doubt which is sometimes, but not always, contradicted by hand-written notes that appear over the image on screen.

Demystifying the backroom deals of film financing,...

Thandie Newton has long been a fan favorite of “Westworld” viewers thanks to her fascinating performance as renegade host Maeve Millay in the HBO series. She parlayed the excitement around her character into an Emmy win for Season 2. The actress is nominated once again in the Drama Supporting Actress category this year. She submitted the Season 3 episode “The Winter Line” for Emmy consideration.

In this episode, Maeve awakens inside WarWorld, a park set in Nazi occupied territory of World War II. She is quickly reunited with Hector (Rodrigo Santoro) who helps her escape Nazi guards, but she realizes that her love is simply playing out a park narrative having forgotten their past together.

See ‘Westworld’ Season 4 theories: What happens next for our favorite hosts and humans?

Maeve kills herself and wakes up in the underground operations center where she encounters Lee Sizemore (Simon Quarterman). Lee reveals that he placed Maeve...

“Westworld” was an Emmy favorite over its first two seasons: nine wins out of 43 nominations, and Best Drama Series bids in both 2017 and 2018. It took an extended hiatus before its third season, but it returned in the spring of 2020 with its new batch of mind-bending sci-fi episodes. So will the show get back into top Emmy races after two years away? Scroll down to see the show’s 33 submissions on the ballots from Best Drama Series all the way down to Best Special Visual Effects.

“Westworld” has always been distinguished by its blockbuster values, creating both a futuristic setting and period settings within that. When it started, the show was about a Wild West theme park in the future, and the show’s world has greatly expanded since then. That has helped the show exceed 20 nominations in both of its previous seasons. And Creative Arts crafts awards account for most...

Burbank, CA – Since the award-winning drama series’ debut, Westworld has captivated audiences by exploring the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin with the latest season delving into the questions surrounding free will. Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will be releasing Westworld Season Three: The New World on 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack, Blu-ray, and DVD on November 17, 2020. Featuring all eight episodes from this new world’s latest evolution, along with close to two hours of bonus content including two exclusive featurettes, Westworld Season Three: The New World is priced to own at $54.97 Srp ($59.99 in Canada) for the 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack, $44.98 Srp ($49.99 in Canada) for the Blu-ray and $39.99 Srp ($44.99 in Canada) for the DVD. The 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack includes 2 Ultra HD Blu-ray discs in 4K with Hdr, 2 Blu-ray discs, and Digital Copy. The Blu-ray also includes Digital Copy (Digital Copy US only). Westworld Season Three:...

You can now predict the 2020 Emmy Award nominations for the guest categories in the Gold Derby predictions center. Best Drama Guest Actor is the only guest race guaranteed for the outcome not to be a repeat of last year, as incumbent winner Bradley Whitford did not guest star on any dramas this season; he contends for his winning role on “The Handmaid’s Tale” in Best Drama Supporting Actor now. The two men who won before him are back in contention however: 2018’s Ron Cephas Jones and 2017’s Gerald McRaney, both for “This is Us” again. Their co-star Michael Angarano looks to repeat his nomination from last year and Bd Wong from “Mr. Robot” eyes a comeback nomination after being ineligible in this category since his 2017 nomination.

Michael J. Fox was nominated all five times that he submitted for consideration for “The Good Wife” from 2011 to 2016; he reprised the role in “The Good Fight” this year.

“I had a small inkling,” admits Simon Quarterman of his surprise return to “Westworld” in Season 3. The reappearance of his character Lee Sizemore was a shock for viewers who watched the former Delos employee die in the previous season. In a twist only “Westworld” could produce, Lee was brought back in the form of a computer program. “I thought that somehow he miraculously survived this hail of bullets,” says Quarterman with a laugh, “but that was not to be.” Watch the exclusive video interview above.

Existing in the virtual world hasn’t dampened the actor’s excitement for the role. “Even though he’s now a simulation,” explains Quarterman, “for me there’s still been an arc to his development.” Indeed, it’s been a fascinating journey for a man who began as a narcissist, treating “relationships as transactional in nature.” As his story unfolds and he grows empathetic towards other characters,...

Westworld just wrapped its third season, so what's next? Recently, showrunners Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy spoke with Variety about the future of the HBO TV show.

The thriller unfolds in a pricey, futuristic theme park, where visitors pay to act out their Wild West fantasies while interacting with lifelike robot “hosts.” In the third season, following the Westworld massacre, Dolores, Bernard, and an unknown host begin a new chapter — outside of the park. The cast includes Evan Rachel Wood, Aaron Paul, Jeffrey Wright, Simon Quarterman, Vincent Cassel, Ed Harris, and Tessa Thompson.

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Debuting in 2016, Westworld emerged as one of HBO's highest-rated and talked-about series. But, there's been a 21-month gap between the end of season two and the start of season three. Will that long absence help or hinder this show's ratings? Will Westworld be cancelled or renewed for season four? Stay tuned. *Status update below.

An HBO science-fiction drama, Westworld stars Evan Rachel Wood, Thandie Newton, Ed Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Tessa Thompson, Luke Hemsworth, Simon Quarterman, Rodrigo Santoro, Aaron Paul, Vincent Cassel, Lena Waithe, Scott Mescudi, Marshawn Lynch, John Gallagher Jr., Michael Ealy, and Tommy Flanagan. Created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, the thriller unfolds in a pricey, futuristic theme park, where visitors pay to act out their Wild West fantasies while interacting with lifelike robot "hosts." In the third season, following the Westworld massacre, Dolores, Bernard, and an...

“Westworld” took itself back offline on Sunday with its Season 3 finale, which drew 1.8 million multiplatform viewers. That’s down 18.2% from the final episode of the Evan Rachel Wood-led sci-fi show’s second season, which scored 2.2 million overall sets of eyeballs in June 2018.

That 1.8 million number was 13% better than last week’s episode. Perhaps that’s why Dolores is smiling.

For its initial 9 p.m. airing alone, the 75-minute Season 3 closer, titled “Decoherence,” earned 888,000 viewers, which is down a whopping 44.5% from the 1.6 million that tuned in to HBO for the 9 o’clock showing of the second season finale on June 24, 2018. Adding in an encore and streaming via HBO Go and HBO Now, and Sunday’s episode rose to that above-mentioned audience tally.

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The eight-episode third season of “Westworld” premiered to...

Is the world ready for Dolores and Bernard in the third season of the Westworld TV show on HBO? As we all know, the Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like Westworld is cancelled or renewed for season four. Unfortunately, most of us do not live in Nielsen households. Because many viewers feel frustration when their viewing habits and opinions aren't considered, we invite you to rate all of the third season episodes of Westworld here. Status Update Below.

An HBO science-fiction drama, Westworld stars Evan Rachel Wood, Thandie Newton, Ed Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Tessa Thompson, Luke Hemsworth, Simon Quarterman, Rodrigo Santoro, Aaron Paul, Vincent Cassel, Lena Waithe, Scott Mescudi, Marshawn Lynch, John Gallagher Jr., Michael Ealy, and Tommy Flanagan. Created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, the thriller unfolds in a pricey, futuristic theme park, where visitors...

The world of Westworld will continue. HBO just announced they've ordered a fourth season of the TV show for the 2020-21 season.

The thriller drama unfolds in a pricey, futuristic theme park, where visitors pay to act out their Wild West fantasies while interacting with lifelike robot “hosts.” The cast includes Evan Rachel Wood, Thandie Newton, Ed Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Tessa Thompson, Luke Hemsworth, Simon Quarterman, Rodrigo Santoro, and Aaron Paul.

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Just under two weeks out from its third season finale, “Westworld” has been renewed for a fourth season by HBO.

Season 3 of Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s sci-fi series premiered on March 15 — almost two years after its second season debuted in April 2018 — to 901,000 linear viewers on HBO and 1.7 million total viewers when counting streams on HBO Go and HBO Now. The episode, which was directed by Nolan, has now surpassed nine million viewers across all platforms.

Just two more episodes remain in the eight-episode season, with one new hour airing this Sunday and the finale set for May 3.

Also Read: HBO Reveals 'Westworld' Episode Titles, Descriptions for Back Half of Season 3

“Westworld” Season 3 stars returning cast members Evan Rachel Wood as Dolores, Thandie Newton as Maeve, Ed Harris as William/Man in Black, Jeffrey Wright as Bernard, Tessa Thompson as Charlotte Hale, Luke Hemsworth as Stubbs, Simon Quarterman...

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, a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the question of free will, was created for television by Nolan and Lisa Joy. The pair will continue to showrun the series in season four. This comes after they struck a mega overall deal with Amazon Studios last year.

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The third season takes place three months after the events of the second season with Evan Rachel Wood...

(Spoilers ahead for the April 19 episode of “Westworld” on HBO)

So, uh, a lot happened on “Westworld” on Sunday, and the sort of low-key spy games that Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) and her crew have been playing have now spilled over into a full-fledged war with Serac (Vincent Cassel) now that Serac is in control of Delos. And on top of that, Maeve (Thandie Newton) is about to go all-out after Charlotte-Dolores destroyed Hector’s (Rodrigo Santoro) pearl.

Maeve didn’t spend a long time mourning, though. She was inside Serac’s Matrix-like virtual construct — her old one destroyed a couple episodes back, as you may recall — trying to interrogate Connells-Dolores when that tragedy struck. Charlotte was presumably going to destroy Maeve as well but she was interrupted by a gunfight and had to flee.

Also Read: 'Westworld' Star Ed Harris on Whether William Will Really Be...

(Warning: This post contains spoilers for Sunday’s episode of “Westworld,” titled “The Winter Line.”)

Westeros met Westworld on Sunday — and not everyone was a fan of the crossover.

“Game of Thrones” creators David Benioff and Dan Weiss’s highly publicized “Westworld” cameos were featured in last night’s episode, titled “The Winter Line,” revealing to viewers that the two played a pair of Delos Destinations technicians assigned to make creations for the unnamed Park 4.

And it turns out that Park 4 is a medieval/fantasy-themed world, complete with dragons, HBO’s “Westworld” creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy told is us a direct shout-out to HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” even though they wouldn’t reveal the actual name of the “Westerosworld” park.

Also Read: 'Westworld' Season 3: Simon Quarterman on That Big Twist to Lee Sizemore's Return

Benioff and Weiss’s guest spot had them playing two...

(Warning: This post contains spoilers for Sunday’s episode of “Westworld.”)

By the end of “Westworld” Season 3’s second episode, Maeve (Thandie Newton) has not only figured out that she was trapped inside a simulation of Delos Destinations and its Warworld park, but busted her way out of said simulation into the real world with the help of the digital version of her for-sure-dead-in-real-life friend Lee Sizemore (Simon Quarterman).

Unfortunately, Maeve’s efforts to escape her artificial cage are proven pointless when she wakes up inside a newly made version of her old Host body inside the home of an unnamed villainous character played by Vincent Cassel. He’s new to the series this year, but based on the fact he’s already ordered Maeve to kill Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) and frozen her when she tried to fight him, we’ve already got a pretty good idea of how...

(Warning: This post contains major spoilers for Sunday’s episode of “Westworld.”)

Lee Sizemore came back from the dead on tonight’s episode of “Westworld” Season 3. Well, we thought he did, at first. And when Simon Quarterman — who played Lee on the first two seasons of the Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy-created HBO sci-fi series, before he was shot to death on the Season 2 finale — found out he would be returning for Season 3, he also believed Lee had been somehow resurrected, at first.

“I got a call from Lisa giving me the good news I would be coming back, but she didn’t let me know in what capacity or how — so I was left there for months working out, you know, how on Earth I’m gonna show up in Season 3,” Quarterman told TheWrap. “And just before we started shooting, we were just about to go into rehearsals,...

Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you have not yet watched the second episode of “Westworld” Season 3.

After a Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) and Caleb (Aaron Paul)-centered premiere, Episode 2 of “Westworld” Season 3 brought the show back to the park and to everyone’s favorite brothel madam-turned-ruthless killer, Maeve (Thandie Newton).

Newton was reunited with Rodrigo Santoro in Warworld, a new environment set in Italy during World War II. After some frustrating back and forths with Santoro’s clueless character, Maeve met up with Lee Sizemore (Simon Quarterman), who was somehow still alive after sacrificing himself near the end of last season, and searched for a way out of the park.

However, after a while it became apparent that this wasn’t the Lee S-s-s-Sizemore she once knew. It turned out that Maeve was not in fact in the real park, but was trapped in a simulation.

Meanwhile, Bernard (Jeffrey Wright...

Spoiler Alert: This interview contains details about tonight’s Westworld season 3, 2nd episode “The Winter Line” on HBO.

And then there’s Maeve.

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Just as the whole world is falling apart, that uncompromising, enterprising, anything but tranquilizing host is looked upon as a possible savior to right the looming wrongs which are about to be carried out by her fellow Westworld colleague Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) on the human race. As indicated during the epilogue of last week’s season 3 debut, tonight was always going to be about the Thandie Newton robo-character.

Prior to last Sunday, we previously saw Maeve in the season 2 finale of Westworld where she was killed alongside Hector (Rodrigo Santoro), as...

[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Westworld” Season 3, Episode 2, “The Winter Line.”]

And we’re back — not literally back in Westworld, mind you, despite Bernard (Jeffrey Wright) stopping by his former home on the way to Delos headquarters. No, the most notable return in an episode filled with returns is that of the tried and untrue “Westworld” house style. Flashy twists on top of long bouts of bewildering exposition add up to very little substantive development, while plenty of choices simply don’t add up at all. All the work Episode 1 put into rebooting the series is tossed aside this week as “Westworld” screws around in its old game before crashing back to reality — or wherever we are now.

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By all intents and purposes, this is Maeve’s episode. Thandie Newton...

War: What is it good for? A mediocre theme park, say it again!

In this week’s Westworld (“The Winter Line”), we return to the WWII-themed Warworld — and both the robotic Maeve Millay and narrative specialist Lee Sizemore (Simon Quarterman) mock it for being, well, a little corny. It’s hard to blame them: It is the Delos attraction most likely to make History Channel dads scream with glee.

But there’s more to this recreation of Nazi-occupied France than meets the eye. At first it seems like we’re...

(Warning: This post contains major spoilers for Sunday’s episode of “Game of Thrones.”)

By now, “Westworld” fans probably already expected to see “Game of Thrones” creators David Benioff and Dan Weiss show up as Delos technicians in the second episode of the HBO show’s third season — the very big cameos were reported on by multiple outlets, including TheWrap, before Season 3 even premiered.

But what viewers didn’t know was exactly when and how the “GoT” masterminds would appear in Episode 302, titled “The Winter Line,” which brought us back inside Delos Destinations and showed us Warworld for the first time through a complicated Maeve (Thandie Newton) storyline.

Well, turns out Benioff and Weiss weren’t playing just any old Delos technicians, but technicians who build bots for the still-unnamed Park 4, which is apparently a medieval/fantasy-themed location. And when we see them while Bernard (Jeffrey Wright) and Stubbs (Luke Hemsworth...

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Airing on the HBO television network, Westworld stars Evan Rachel Wood, Thandie Newton, Ed Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Tessa Thompson, Luke Hemsworth, Simon Quarterman, Rodrigo Santoro, Aaron Paul, Vincent Cassel, Lena Waithe, Scott Mescudi, Marshawn Lynch, John Gallagher Jr., Michael Ealy, and Tommy Flanagan. Created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, the thriller unfolds in a pricey, futuristic theme park, where visitors pay to act out their Wild West fantasies...

Sunday night’s season 3 premiere of Emmy-winning drama series Westworld drew 1.7 million viewers across the night (two linear plays plus digital), down from Season 2’s debut episode. Viewership though, tallied above The Outsider, Watchmen, and Succession premieres, despite competition from the Democratic debate until 10 Pm.

Audience for the 9 Pm telecast drew 901,000 viewers, up 24% from The Outsider‘s premiere and 13% above Watchmen, according to HBO. That’s a drop from Westworld’s Season 2 premiere, which drew 2.1 million viewers at 9 Pm, growing to nearly 3 million with same-night replay and streaming on HBO Go/Now factored in. Episodes of Season 2 went on to average 9.2 million viewers. Season 1 averaged 13.2 million viewers.

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After almost two years offline, HBO’s “Westworld” finally unfroze all motor functions on Sunday with its Season 3 premiere. And when it brought itself back online, the Evan Rachel Wood-led sci-fi series brought fewer viewers with it than the show put up the last time it booted up.

When comparing just their initial 9 p.m. airings, the “Westworld” Season 3 premiere, titled “Parce Domine,” earned 901,000 viewers, which is down 57% from the 2.1 million viewers put up by the Season 2 debut of the Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy-created sci-fi series, an episode that aired on April 22, 2018.

Of course, “Westworld’s” second season premiere didn’t have to go head-to-head with a Democratic debate between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, which was broadcast from 8-10 p.m. on Univision and CNN.

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Looking at the bigger picture,...

“Westworld” has booked a couple of HBO legends for cameos in its upcoming third season: “Game of Thrones” showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss.

The duo who created HBO’s now-ended epic fantasy series will appear in the second episode of Season 3 of Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s sci-fi series and play technicians at Delos, the company that created Westworld and the other host-filled Delos Destinations theme parks.

We can’t reveal any more about the scene in which D&d are featured, but rest assured you won’t have to wait too long to see it yourself, as “Westworld” Season 3 premieres Sunday, March 15 and Episode 302 airs just one week later.

Also Read: HBO Shares First Batch of 'Westworld' Season 3 Titles, New Images for You to Obsess Over (Photos)

On Thursday, HBO revealed the titles and descriptions for the first four episodes of the show’s third season,...

In just over two weeks, the third season of “Westworld” will debut on HBO with an episode so shrouded in mystery that we don’t even know its title yet. But we do finally have a runtime for the installment.

HBO has confirmed to TheWrap that Episode 301 will clock in at 1 hour and 8 minutes. That’s down 2 minutes from the Season 2 premiere and way down from the 1-hour, 30-minute second season finale.

Last month, the pay-tv channel announced that Season 3 of Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s sci-fi series will premiere March 15 at 9/8c — almost a full two years after Season 2 launched with a 70-minute episode in April 2018. As TheWrap exclusively reported, Season 3 will consist of eight episodes, making it shorter than the show’s first two years.

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Returning...

It's time to bring in the big guns. 

HBO has dropped an epic new Westworld Season 3 trailer, and it teases a fight to the death for two beloved characters. 

The new villain, played by Vincent Cassel starts pulling strings, and pits Dolores and Maeve against each other in what looks like a battle to the death. 

Whether they will be able to work together when they realize they are being played, we don't know, but it's certainly an interesting hook to tee up the long-delayed third season of the drama. 

We also get more insight into the new character played by Aaron Paul, and fans are either going to love him or hate him. 

HBO previously revealed that Westworld Season 3 will debut Sunday, March 15, 2020, at 9/8c.

By the time the series returns, it will have been off the air for 21 months. The production demands of such a high-concept series makes...

Sweet child, stop what you’re doing right now and take about three minutes out of your day to watch the official full trailer for “Westworld” Season 3.

To date there have been only a couple of teaser trailers for the new season, appropriately cryptic for a show that plays things close to the vest like “Westworld.” However, this new trailer — available below — reveals just how true the promises are of this season being different from anything the show’s done before.

As the previous Season 3 teases have shown, Dolores’ (Evan Rachel Wood) journey out into the real world has brought her into contact with Aaron Paul’s new character, Caleb. What this particular trailer reveals, however, is just how much of their interactions are actually a new team-up, one born out of familiar necessity, according to Dolores.

“I was born into this world. And my first memories of it are pain,...

"The five of us against an entire world of them." Featuring an instrumental cover of Guns N' Roses' "Sweet Child o' Mine," the official trailer for Westworld Season 3 introduces a familiar set of faces to a brand new (and violent) world.

You can watch the new trailer for Westworld Season 3 below. The third season stars Evan Rachel Wood, Aaron Paul, Luke Hemsworth, Lena Waithe, Jeffrey Wright, Scott Mescudi, Thandie Newton, Ed Harris, and Marshawn Lynch.

Check here to catch up on our previous of Westworld Season 3, and stay tuned to Daily Dead for more updates on the third season, which premieres Sunday, March 15th at 9:00pm on HBO.

"The third season of the Emmy-winning drama series Westworld debuts Sunday, March 15 at 9 pm on HBO. Season 3 cast includes returning stars Evan Rachel Wood, Emmy winner Thandie Newton, Ed Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Tessa Thompson, Luke Hemsworth, Simon Quarterman, and new cast members Aaron Paul,...

Bring yourselves back online, “Westworld” fans: The trailer for the third season of Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s HBO sci-fi series has finally dropped.

In the 2-minute, 50-second video Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) is out in the real world, where she encounters a man named Caleb (played by series newcomer Aaron Paul) and quickly brings him over to her side in the battle between the humans and the Hosts. Her plan if things don’t work go their way? “Kill everyone.”

And based on the fact that Vincent Cassel’s unnamed character tells Maeve (Thandie Newton) he wants her to kill Dolores, well, it seems like these two Hosts are going to find themselves in a battle to the death, a standoff that’s teased at the 2:25 mark.

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Meanwhile, Bernard (Jeffrey Wright), Stubbs (Luke Hemsworth), Charlotte Hale...

The long wait is nearly over. HBO has set the return date for the channel's Westworld series. Season three will debut on Sunday, March 15th, at 9:00 Pm. Season two finished airing back in June 2018.

Returning cast members include Evan Rachel Wood, Thandie Newton, Ed Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Tessa Thompson, Luke Hemsworth, Simon Quarterman, and Rodrigo Santoro. Joining them will be Aaron Paul, Scott Mescudi, Vincent Cassel, Lena Waithe, Marshawn Lynch, Tommy Flanagan, Michael Ealy, and John Gallagher Jr.

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Bring yourselves back online, Westworld fans: After a ridiculously long wait, HBO’s chilly sci-fi drama will return for Season 3 on Sunday, March 15 at 9/8c.

It’s understandable if you forgot Westworld was even still on: The Emmy-winning series hasn’t aired since the Season 2 finale way back in June 2018, meaning it’ll be nearly a two-year drought by the time it returns. It’ll look a lot different when it returns for Season 3 as well: Emmy winner Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) joins the cast, along with Lena Waithe (Master of None), Vincent Cassel (Black Swan), rapper Scott “Kid Cudi...

HBO will take viewers back to Westworld in the first quarter of 2020. 

The premium cabler network announced Sunday that Westworld Season 3 will debut Sunday, March 15, 2020, at 9/8c. 

By the time the series returns, it will have been off the air for 21 months. The production demands of such a high-concept series makes it difficult to commit to airing one a year. 

As you may recall, Westworld Season 2 came to a thrilling conclusion with the Dolores and the rest of the robots fighting for their freedom. 

When Westworld Season 3 picks up, the robots will be in the real world, and that will only continue to ramp up the drama. 

A previous trailer released at San Diego Comic-Con last year teased many new locations, giving the series a different tone. 

The first two seasons did get a terrific response from fans, but the common consensus was that the world needed to expand, and...

HBO has set Sunday, March 15 at 9 Pm for the release of the eight-episode third season of its Emmy-winning drama series Westworld.

Returning cast include Evan Rachel Wood as Dolores, Thandie Newton as Maeve, Ed Harris as the Man in Black, Jeffrey Wright as Bernard, Tessa Thompson as Charlotte, Luke Hemsworth as Stubbs, Simon Quarterman as Lee Sizemore and Rodrigo Santoro as Hector Escaton.

New cast members this season include Aaron Paul, Vincent Cassel, Lena Waithe, Scott Mescudi, Marshawn Lynch, John Gallagher Jr., and Michael and Tommy Flanagan.

Created for television by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, and based on the film written by Michael Crichton, Westworld is a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the birth of a new form of life on Earth.

The theme for the new season is “New World” and at Comic-Con in July, Nolan said one of the inspirations for the new season was Blade Runner,...

Unfreeze all motor functions: HBO has finally set the premiere date for “Westworld” Season 3.

The pay TV channel revealed via a promo on Sunday, which you can view above, that the third season of Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s sci-fi series will premiere March 15 at 9/8c — almost a full two years after Season 2 launched in April 2018. As TheWrap exclusively reported, Season 3 will consist of eight episodes, making it shorter than the first two.

Returning cast members for Season 3 include Evan Rachel Wood as Dolores, Thandie Newton as Maeve, Ed Harris as Man in Black, Jeffrey Wright as Bernard, Tessa Thompson as Charlotte, Luke Hemsworth as Stubbs, Simon Quarterman as Lee Sizemore and Rodrigo Santoro as Hector Escaton.

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Newcomers for the third installment include Aaron Paul, Vincent Cassel (“Black Swan”), Lena Waithe,...

Thandie Newton returns to the Emmy race thanks to her fan favorite character Maeve Millay on HBO’s “Westworld.” This is her second Best Drama Supporting Actress nomination after losing last year to Ann Dowd (“The Handmaid’s Tale”). The role previously earned the actress SAG and Golden Globe nominations, and a Critics Choice Award win. Newton also won a BAFTA for “Crash” (2005). This year, Newton has submitted the episode “Akane No Mai” for Emmy consideration.

Maeve and her companions are captured and dragged into Shogun World, which closely mirrors the storylines found in Westworld. Maeve discovers her usual Jedi-like commands only work in this world if she speaks in Japanese, which she switches to at Sizemore’s (Simon Quarterman) urging to befriend the local madame, Akane (Rinko Kikuchi). Akane murders the emissary of a Shogun, who desires her daughter Sakura as a slave, thus embroiling Maeve in a war.

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An HBO sci-fi drama, season two of Westworld features returning stars: Evan Rachel Wood, Thandie Newton, Ed Harris, Jeffrey Wright, James Marsden, Tessa Thompson, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Clifton Collins Jr., Luke Hemsworth, Louis Herthum, Simon Quarterman, Talulah Riley, Rodrigo Santoro, Angela Sarafyan, Shannon Woodward, Ben Barnes, Jimmi Simpson, Leonardo Nam, and Ptolemy Slocum. New cast members in the second season include Fares Fares,...

Who will win the Emmy for Best Drama Supporting Actor this year with John Lithgow (“The Crown”) out of the way? Lithgow won in 2017 for playing British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, but he only stayed with the show for one season, which opens the door for a new winner this year. Gold Derby has hosted exclusive web chats with 11 of this year’s candidates, many of them potential first-time nominees. Click the links below to be taken to their full interviews.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (“Game of Thrones”): Coster-Waldau plays Jaime Lannister, the unscrupulous but loyal brother (and lover) of Queen Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey). He has competed six times at the SAG Awards with the show’s ensemble cast. He has yet to be nominated for an Emmy. (Click here to be taken to his full interview)

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The Performer | Billy Porter

The Show | Pose

The Episode | “The Fever” (June 24, 2018)

The Performance | From the instant we laid eyes (and ears) on Pose’s Pray Tell — the boisterous emcee of the New York City ball scene, as depicted on the FX drama — we were enamored. Every exaggerated reaction and whip-smart critique drew us deeper into his orbit, not that we put up much of a fight.

But as the weeks continued, as the show began to gradually strip Pray Tell of his mystique, we found ourselves even more in awe of this complicated character brought to life with fierce conviction by Porter.

(The mother of all spoiler alerts: Please do not read ahead unless you’ve seen the “Westworld” Season 2 finale, “The Passenger,” which aired Sunday.)

Do you feel like someone pulled your control unit out of your head after watching the “Westworld” Season 2 finale — including that wild post-credits scene? Of course you do. So what do you do next? Start scouring the internet for hints about the third installment, obviously.

While the details we have on the next season of Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan’s HBO sci-fi series are few and far between, we have been able to roundup a few tidbits that should tide you over for at least as long as it takes Dolores to get through one of her famous speeches about “the world.”

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1. It’s going to take place in the “real world,” for the most part.

[Editor’s Note: The following article contains spoilers for “Westworld” Season 2, including the finale and its post-credits scene.]

So many people died in the “Westworld” Season 2 finale — some even died for the second time.

Think about that for a second: How many times have you seen Bernard (played beautifully by Jeffrey Wright) die? It happened once in Season 1, when Dr. Ford (Anthony Hopkins) orders him to kill himself. It happened twice in Season 1 if you count the flashback to when Arnold (also played by Jeffrey Wright) orders Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) to kill him. And then it happened again near the ending of Season 2, when Dolores — brought back to life by Bernard and inhabiting a copy of Charlotte Hale’s body (Tessa Thompson) — decides Bernard needs to die so he can be rebuilt and set free in the real world.

But he was still shot dead. For a brief amount of time, the audience is meant to believe Bernard is gone,...

HBO’s “Westworld” concluded in epic fashion Sunday night. But true to it’s nature, the labyrinthine series only solved its central mysteries by offering new questions. The extended length finale is filled with revelations that will make every viewer question the nature of their reality. These are the six most shocking developments from “The Passenger.”

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The Valley Beyond – The hosts finally discover The Valley Beyond, which turns out is a digital paradise that only hosts can see. They enter through “the door,” a giant inter-dimensional rift sitting in front of a cliffside. The hosts’ bodies fall to their doom as they step through the threshold, but their minds are stored in the digital realm forever. One has to wonder if we’ve seen the last of the hosts who appear in this utopia, including Teddy (James Marsden...