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"When you get scared, just ring that and I'll be right there." Dark Sky Films has debuted an official trailer for a "psychological shocker" horror titled Reunion, from filmmaker Jake Mahaffy. This first premiered at the Nightstream Film Festival this fall, and it arrives on VOD in February. A pregnant woman returns to her recently-deceased grandparents' family home to spend time with her estranged mother. What begins as a reunion slowly turns terrifying. The film features Julia Ormond and Emma Draper, with John Bach, Nancy Brunning, and Cohen Holloway. It is built around a "tour-de-force performance of threateningly quiet intensity and features a twisty narrative that will burrow itself into the darkest corners of your mind." Scary. This is a super trippy trailer, with some intensely frightening camera angles and super creepy shots. Here's the official trailer (+ posters) for Jake Mahaffy's Reunion, direct from Dark Sky's YouTube: A pregnant...

Due out in theaters and on VOD / digital platforms on February 5th is Reunion, starring Julia Ormond! Here's a look at the brand-new trailer:

"A pregnant woman returns to her recently deceased grandparents’ old family home to spend time with her estranged mother. What begins as a tenuous reunion slowly turns terrifying.

A psychological thriller that preys upon perception, Reunion sees veteran actress Julia Ormond deliver a tour-de-force performance of threateningly quiet intensity and features a twisty narrative that will burrow itself into the darkest corners of your mind."

Written and Directed by: Jake Mahaffy (Free in Deed) Produced by: Nadia Maxwell, Ainsley Gardiner, Georgina Conder, Mike S. Ryan Cast: Julia Ormond (TV's The Walking Dead: World Beyond, My Week With Marilyn), Emma Draper (Wellington Paranormal), Cohen Holloway (Thor: Ragnarok, What We Do In The Shadows), Ava Keane (Daffodils), Gina Laverty (Wellington Paranormal), John Bach (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers...

What’s scarier than a high school reunion? How about a shape-shifting monster? Those two elements will combine in Reunion, the latest from Radio Silence, the filmmaking collective responsible for Ready or Not, and the upcoming Scream sequel/revival. The film finds old friends coming together for a high school reunion only to have to then deal with a creature […]

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Exclusive: The Ready Or Not gang of filmmakers Radio Silence and scribes Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy, are coming back together to work on the MGM horror high school movie Reunion.

Radio Silence, composed of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett and Chad Villella, will direct and produce off a screenplay and story by Busick, who co-wrote the story with Murphy.

Busick and Radio Silence recently were in production on Spyglass Media Group and Paramount’s reboot of Scream, due out 2022.

In Reunion, the horrific experience of high school reunions is taken to a new extreme when a group of uninspired old friends become the only hope for survival against an unwelcome shape-shifting creature.

Project X Entertainment’s William Sherak, James Vanderbilt, and Paul Neinstein (also 2022’s Scream) and Vinson Films’ Tripp Vinson are also producing the film. Tara Farney will executive produce for Vinson Films.

You know how when you are in the same place as your parents for a period of time, you will revert back to the dynamic that you had when you were a teenager? They will gradually step into the protective and/or controlling role and you will respond to it by becoming increasingly frustrated, pushing back and rebelling at every turn?

That is exactly where Ellie (Emma Draper) finds herself when she returns to her grandparents’ house after their deaths. Preparing for the birth of her own child, Ellie finds herself in close quarters with her doting mother, Ivy (Julia Ormond), as Ivy works to pack up the house, while also caring for her ailing husband.

From the moment Ellie arrives, we can sense the tension in this mother-daughter relationship. Ivy views her role as caretaker for Ellie, helping her along until the baby comes. Ellie puts up shields almost immediately,...

NewFest is hosting a reading of Ang Lee’s groundbreaking Brokeback Mountain at its New York LGBTQ Film Festival on October 18, employing an all-trans cast for the event that commemorates the film’s 15th anniversary.

The cast features Leo Sheng (The L Word) as Ennis, Brian Michael Smith (911: Lone Star) as Jack, Jen Richards (Tales of the City) as Alma, Alexandra Grey (Empire) as Lurleen and Disclosure director Sam Feder as the narrator.

The original film starred Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as Ennis and Jack, respectively, cowboys who meet in the summer of 1963 and forge an unexpected lifelong connection full of joy, complication and tragedy. It scored eight Oscar nominations and won three, including for Lee’s directing and Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana’s script.

Proceeds from the fundraiser will go to The NewFest Future Fund, to benefit the organization and its programs for LGBTQ+ youth, filmmaker resources,...

Video streaming giants, Amazon Prime Video and Netflix have stepped up their efforts to penetrate the Tamil-language market by announcing release of anthology films in the language by leading filmmakers.

Tamil is one of the dominant film, TV and streaming markets in India and content in the language is also consumed in Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, U.K., U.S., Canada, the Middle East, Western Europe and Australia, where there are significant segments of Tamil speakers.

Amazon’s “Putham Pudhu Kaalai” is an anthology of five Tamil short films featuring stories of love, new beginnings, second chances, and hope, set and filmed in the times of the Covid-19 lockdown. The films include “Reunion” directed by Rajiv Menon (“Madras Beats”) starring Andrea Jeremiah “(Vada Chennai”), Leela Samson (“Ok Kanmani”) and Carnatic music vocalist Sikkil Gurucharan; “Coffee, Anyone?” directed by and starring Suhasini Mani Ratnam (Tribeca-winner “Tryst With Destiny”), Anu Hasan...

Father of the Bride, the 1991 remake of the classic 1950 film of the same name, managed to further cement comedy icon Steve Martin’s mid-career onscreen status as America’s (non-Clark-Griswold) well-meaning, but neurotically insecure movie dad. Indeed, its success spawned 1995’s Father of the Bride Part II, a remake of 1951 original sequel Father’s Little Dividend, before the franchise called it a day. However, a third chapter to reunite the saga of the Banks family, Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish), is now headed for Netflix—albeit with a major catch with regard to its format.

Netflix unveiled a surprise announcement for a “special event” dubbed Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish) on the eve of its premiere, which will stream simultaneously on Netflix and Facebook on Friday, September 25. While Netflix is playing things coy with its descriptive language, the rather abrupt nature of this rollout negates any notion of Part...

Run, the Hulu original thriller starring Sarah Paulson, is set to open the virtual Nightstream genre film festival, organizers said Thursday.

Director Aneesh Chaganty’s horror pic portrays a wheelchair-bound teenager whose fragile, isolated existence with her doting mother is threatened when she begins to notice strange occurrences around her house. And the North American premiere of Quentin Dupieux’s Mandibles will close the first-time virtual festival.

The four-day Nightstream event, to launch Oct. 8, also has world premieres for Ryuhei Kitamura’s The Doorman, starring Ruby Rose; Devereux Milburn rural-horror Honeydew; Jesse Blanchard’s Frank & Zed; Nicholas Payne Santos’ It Cuts Deep; Jake Mahaffy’s Reunion; and Terence Krey’s ...

Run, the Hulu original thriller starring Sarah Paulson, is set to open the virtual Nightstream genre film festival, organizers said Thursday.

Director Aneesh Chaganty’s horror pic portrays a wheelchair-bound teenager whose fragile, isolated existence with her doting mother is threatened when she begins to notice strange occurrences around her house. And the North American premiere of Quentin Dupieux’s Mandibles will close the first-time virtual festival.

The four-day Nightstream event, to launch Oct. 8, also has world premieres for Ryuhei Kitamura’s The Doorman, starring Ruby Rose; Devereux Milburn rural-horror Honeydew; Jesse Blanchard’s Frank & Zed; Nicholas Payne Santos’ It Cuts Deep; Jake Mahaffy’s Reunion; and Terence Krey’s ...

Exclusive: Annabel Oakes is set to write the pilot episode and executive produce Grease: Rydell High, HBO Max’s musical series inspired by the iconic 1978 film, from Paramount TV Studios.

Set in and around the world of Rydell High, the Grease offshoot reimagines the global smash hit movie with familiar as well as new characters. Still the 1950s, Ridell High will feature big musical numbers from the period combined with new original songs and will tackle the peer pressures of high school, the horrors of puberty, and the rollercoaster of life in middle

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That is an age and themes Oakes has extensive experience bringing to television.

So… did those violent delights have violent ends?

If you remember anything from the second season of HBO’s Westworld you know the answer to that question is a resounding Yes. But, for those of us who have trouble keeping track of all those timelines and introspective philosophic monologues, especially after all this time, the rest of the show may not be so fresh in our minds. What did Delos want with the hosts? Did Maeve find her daughter? Did Hector Finally get to give his freakin’ speech?

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Blackberry Smoke will round up a few of their finest Southern-rocking contemporaries for “Spirit of the South Tour: A Celebration of Southern Rock and Roll,” set to get underway in July. Joining Blackberry Smoke for the trek will be the Allman Betts Band, the Wild Feathers, and founding Allman Brothers Band member Jaimoe.

Launching July 17th, the Spirit of the South Tour will run through late August, visiting the Stone Pony Summer Stage in Asbury park, New Jersey, along with Nashville’s Ascend Amphitheater and New York’s Rooftop at...

In the latest TV ratings, CBS’ Seal Team resumed Season 3 —- following an 11-week hiatus — with 4.4 million total viewers and a 0.6 demo rating, down 25 percent and a tenth from its fall finale to mark its smallest audience of the season and match its series low in the demo.

The night’s second episode then dipped further, to 4 mil and a 0.5.

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This is… a touch confusing?

NBC’s Council of Dads — starring Sarah Wayne Callies (Prison Break), Clive Standen (Taken), Tom Everett Scott (SouthLAnd) and J. August Richards (Agents of Shield) — has kept its primo post-This is Us premiere spot, but lost its Tuesday home.

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Following a father of five who in the wake of...

Dave Annable is making his way to NBC's This Is Us.

The actor is set to appear in an upcoming episode of the series, which will reunite him with a former co-star.

Annable previously starred on Fox's one-and-done Red Band Society, playing the on-screen love interest of Mandy Moore.

The news broke when Moore and Pearson were spotted filming in New York City on February 11.

TV Line has revealed that Annable is set to appear as Kirby, Kevin's acting teacher, and will have scenes with Moore's Rebecca Pearson.

This Is Us likes to play with time, so we don't have a definite answer on which timeline he will appear in, but based on the set photo from Just Jared, it seems like it will be the past.

Annable is a TV veteran, with TV credits that include Reunion, Heartbeat, The Mick, 666 Park Avenue, What/If, and Yellowstone.

Given...

This Is Us is about to put two Red Band Society docs on the same shift.

Dave Annable will appear in an upcoming Season 4 episode of the NBC tearjerker, TVLine has confirmed. Annable was a series regular on Fox’s one-season hospital drama; This Is Us star Mandy Moore recurred on Red Band Society as Annable’s character’s former fiancée, Dr. Erin Grace.

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Exclusive: NBC has put in development Bad Taste, a single-camera workplace comedy from writer Justin Shanes (Superstore), Forever creator Matt Hubbard and Universal TV, where Hubbard is under a deal.

Written by Shanes, Bad Taste is set in the intimate pressure cooker of a restaurant kitchen whose star chef is forced to make an uncomfortable alliance with the newbie female line cook in order to keep pursuing his passion.

Shanes and Hubbard executive produce. Universal TV is the studio.

The project reunites Shanes and Hubbard, who worked together for a time on another NBC workplace comedy, Superstore. Shanes joined Superstore in the second season and rose through the ranks to his current role as producer. Hubbard worked on the first three seasons as consulting producer. Shanes previously was a writer on The Late Late Show with James Corden and Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. He’s repped by attorney Jeff Hynick at Jackoway Austen Tyerman.

“Days of Our Lives” is launching a new digital series, entitled “Last Blast Reunion,” on the Dool App Nov. 29.

This streaming series will bring nine beloved characters from the 2000 season of the NBC daytime drama back together for a special Salem High class reunion. Brandon Beemer, Martha Madison, Nadia Bjorlin, Heather Lindell, Aaron Van Wagner and Lindsay Hollister are all reprising roles, while Teressa Liane and Chadwick Hopson have been added in recasting.

Beemer will portray Shawn Douglas Brady, who he has played in the linear series since 2006; Madison is Belle Black, who she has played since 2005; and Bjorlin is Chloe Lane, a role she originated in 1999. Lindell reprises her 2004-05 role of Jan Spears, while Van Wagner returns as Jason Welles, a part he played from 2000-07; and Hollister revisits her 2001 role of Susan Adamson. Liane has taken over the role of Mimi Lockhart, previously portrayed by Farah Fath,...

France’s TF1 Studio has become the latest international studio to partner with Globalgate Entertainment, the Lionsgate-aligned local-language film and television production and financing venture.

It becomes the 14th international partner for the company, which has previously struck deals with Televisa (Mexico), Nordisk (Scandinavia), Tobis (Germany), Rai (Italy), Lotte (Korea), Kadokawa (Japan), Tme (Turkey), Paris Filmes (Brazil), CineColombia/Dynamo (Colombia), Belga (Benelux), and Viva (Philippines).

Globalgate had previously struck an arrangement with TF1 Studio’s French rival Gaumont and worked up remakes of its comedy Rolling to You in China and India. It said it was “grateful” of the relationship and the two companies would “continue to collaborate on existing projects and complementary opportunities”.

Globalgate’s pipeline of over 40 films and series includes remakes of Pantelion/Televisa’s Instructions Not Included in India and Korea and Ya Veremos in Italy, Lotte’s Terror Live in Japan and India, Midnight Runners in China,...

Lionsgate’s local-language film consortium, Globalgate Entertainment, has added TF1 Studio, the movie label of France’s TF1 Group, to its global collective of 13 production and distribution partners.

Other Globalgate partners include Televisa, Nordisk, Tobis, Rai, Kadokawa, Lotte, Tme, Paris Filmes, CineColombia/Dynamo, Viva and Belga. Lionsgate launched Globalgate three years ago to produce and distribute local-language films in markets around the world to capitalize on the fact that the market share of local-language films is expanding. Globalgate is co-founded and headed by Paul Presburger, William Pfeiffer and Clifford Werber.

TF1’s new high-profile projects include “The Lion,” “Way Down,” “Of Loves and Lies,” “Roxane,” “Who’s That Granny or The Morning After.” Digital brands include MYTF1VOD as well as the TFou Max youth-oriented Svod service. TF1 Studio has recently released the animated feature “The Queen’s Corgi” and inked a distribution deal with Universal Pictures Video.

“We’re...

Remakes in works with international partners include Midnight Runners in China, No Kids in Germany.

Globalgate, the local-language venture aligned with Lionsgate, has added French TF1 Group’s film label TF1 Studio to its consortium of 13 production and distribution partners.

Existing partners include Televisa (Mexico), Nordisk (Scandinavia), Tobis (Germany), Rai (Italy), Lotte (Korea), Kadokawa (Japan), Tme (Turkey), Paris Filmes (Brazil), CineColombia/Dynamo (Colombia), Belga (Benelux), and Viva (Philippines).

The pipeline of more than 40 films and series includes remakes of Pantelion / Televisa’s Instructions Not Included in India and South Korea, and Ya Veremos in Italy; Gaumont’s Rolling To You...

Vincent Dedienne and Catherine Deneuve lead the cast of Hugo Benamozig and David Caviglioli’s first feature film, a 22h22 and Wy production sold by Indie Sales. Following seven weeks of work on the island of Reunion, Hugo Benamozig and David Caviglioli have wrapped filming on their first full-length film: Terrible Jungle. Leading the cast of this adventure comedy are Vincent Dedienne (the well-known humourist who hit French cinemas at the beginning of the year in Our Happy Holiday and whom we’ll soon be seeing in L’Étreinte) and global icon Catherine Deneuve (nominated Best Actress at the Oscars in 1993 and winner of a Special Award in Cannes 2008, a Silver Bear in Berlin in 2002 and a Volpi Cup in Venice in 1998; she was well received in Berlin this year in Farewell to the Night, she’s due to tour French cinemas from 4 September in Cédric Kahn’s Happy Birthday.

Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations – which chronicles the epic career of the legendary Motown vocal group – opens up on Broadway this week. It’s a musical based on the 1988 memoir of Temptations founder Otis Williams, the sole living member of the classic lineup. But unlike many Broadway musicals, it makes no attempt to sanitize the more salacious parts of their story.

“Otis can see things in hindsight,” Dominique Morisseau, who adapted the story for the stage, told Rolling Stone. “He can be a little...

Howards End and Legends of the Fall actress Julia Ormond is leading the cast of Jake Mahaffy’s upcoming thriller Reunion, reports ScreenDaily. The film tells the story of a mother and daughter packing up the old family home for sale, when tensions become supernatural the daughter must confront the trauma of her lineage. Ormond will star with Emma Draper, […]...

Project comes from The Breaker Upperers producers Ainsley Gardiner and Georgina Conder.

Howards End and Legends Of The Fall actress Julia Ormond is leading the cast of Jake Mahaffy’s upcoming thriller Reunion.

The project has begun principal photography in New Zealand’s capital Wellington. Ormond will star with Emma Draper, Cohen Holloway and John Bach.

The film tells the story of a mother and daughter packing up the old family home for sale, when tensions become supernatural the daughter must confront the trauma of her lineage.

Producers are Ainsley Gardiner and Georgina Conder, whose credits include The Breaker Upperers,...

Reclusive “Ode to Billie Joe” and “Fancy” songwriter Bobbie Gentry continues to inspire a new generation of artists including indie rockers Mercury Rev, who have debuted their uniquely psychedelic jazz rendition of the Mississippi legend’s swampy “Okolona River Bottom Band,” with vocal assistance from Norah Jones.

“Okolona” is the opening track on Mercury Rev’s forthcoming LP, The Delta Sweete Revisited, the Buffalo, New York band’s track-by-track recreation of Gentry’s sophomore LP, released 50 years ago next month. Coming on the heels of the singer-songwriter’s groundbreaking debut,...

Evan Rachel Wood earned her second consecutive Emmy nomination for Best Drama Actress this year thanks to her dynamic role of Dolores Abernathy on “Westworld.” The role has also earned her a Golden Globe nomination and a Critics’ Choice Award. She has previously competed at the Emmys for the miniseries “Mildred Pierce,” making this “Westworld” bid her third career Emmy nomination. She has submitted the episode “Reunion” for consideration.

“Reunion” ventures out of the park and into the real world, when Arnold (Jeffrey Wright) takes Dolores to see his home during a flashback. Dolores is struck by the beauty of the world and Arnold suggests that humans don’t deserve it. Later in this timeline, she attends the retirement party of James Delos (Peter Mullan), and is disappointed when she sees William (Jimmi Simpson) kissing his wife. When they return to the park, William brings Dolores online and mockingly calls her “just a thing,...

“We were filming season 2 of ‘Westworld’ when #metoo broke,” reflects Evan Rachel Wood in an exclusive chat with Gold Derby (watch our video interview above). Wood has been a powerful voice in the #metoo movement, taking to the floor of Congress in February to powerfully share her own experiences of domestic abuse and advocate for a bill of rights for sexual assault. Speaking of “Westworld,” she says, “You couldn’t help but draw parallels between the robot uprising and the revolution we are seeing, especially with women. It also speaks volumes to any group that has been oppressed or anybody who has had to fight for rights and fight for freedom. The game is changing. We are having to have new conversations about old topics. And it has been amazing to watch that unfold while being part of a show that is very much a metaphor for that.”

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Gold Derby can exclusively reveal that Evan Rachel Wood is entering the “Westworld” episode “Reunion” as her Emmy submission for Best Drama Actress. This installment aired April 29 and was the second episode of the second season for the HBO show.

In this flashback-heavy segment, Dolores (Wood) is seen in three different timelines. She and Arnold (Jeffrey Wright) are in the outside world during the time Westworld was being developed and sold. She and the younger William (Jimmi Simpson) have differences before the corporate takeover. She and other hosts continue to build their new army for a rebellion.

SEE2018 Emmy nominations complete list: All the nominees for the 70th Emmy Awards

Wood was nominated last year in this category and had another in 2011 for “Mildred Pierce.” For the 2018 ceremony, she faces off against last year’s champ Elisabeth Moss (“The Handmaid’s Tale”), the previous year’s winner Tatiana Maslany (“Orphan Black...

Now that the 2018 Emmy nominations have been unveiled, TV academy members have one month to watch episodes submitted by all of the nominees before final voting takes place August 13-27. Since guest performers must declare their episodes on the initial nominations ballot, we already know the submissions for Best Drama Guest Actor nominees F. Murray Abraham (“Homeland”), Cameron Britton (“Mindhunter”), Matthew Goode (“The Crown”), Ron Cephas Jones (“This Is Us”), Gerald McRaney (“This Is Us”) and Jimmi Simpson (“Westworld”).

Which of these nominees has the strongest episode? You be the judge! Below, we list the Emmy ballot descriptions and provide links for where you can watch all of the Drama Guest Actor episode submissions online.

SEE2018 Emmy nominations complete list: All the nominees for the 70th Emmy Awards

F. Murray Abraham (“Homeland”) as Dar Adal

Episode title: “All In”

Emmy ballot description: Saul’s team arrives in Russia under diplomatic cover.

[This story contains spoilers for season two, episode eight of HBO's Westworld, "Kiksuya."]

"You only live as long as the last person who remembers you."

These are the wise words of Akecheta, "the first of us," as he's described by a fellow member of the Ghost Nation tribe all the way back in "The Riddle of the Sphinx." The fourth episode of season two features Akecheta's second full appearance in Westworld, having debuted two episodes earlier in "Reunion," albeit under very different circumstances: clad in business attire, face to ...

[Editor’s Note: The following article contains spoilers for “Westworld” Season 2, Episode 4, “The Riddle of the Sphinx.”]

During the second season of “Westworld,” Ed Harris’ character, The Man in Black (a.k.a. William), has treated the robotic hosts with much more humanity — well, most of them.

“It depends on who the hosts are,” Harris said in an interview with IndieWire. “He’s buddied up with Lawrence (Clifton Collins Jr.)… so he’s definitely defending him and, as a result, his family. [But] Craddock is a host and so are his henchmen.”

Look what happens to them. In an (ahem) explosive Episode 4, The Man in Black is captured by Jonathan Tucker’s Major Craddock and his goons, only to escape in dramatic fashion and provide his robotic partner-in-crime a chance for revenge. Though the beaten and bloodied Man in Black certainly has reason to blow Craddock to smithereens, he lets Lawrence do it instead — as a gift for what his...

For the first time in its existence, <a href="http://thr.com/westworld"><i>Westworld</i></a><i> </i>launched right into the action at the start of "Reunion," with a cold open set in the distant past.

It was a jarring way to start the second episode of the series, as the opening credits sequence didn't even begin until nearly 10 minutes into the hour. And it was far from the only surprise of the episode. Indeed, for a show so steeped in an ever-twisting narrative, "Reunion" was notable for just how much it revealed and implied.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>

With that in mind, there was more than enough ...

At last year’s Emmys, “Westworld” became the first series in four years (since “Downton Abbey” and “Homeland”) to be nominated for Best Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress. The science fiction western did not receive any guest nominations; it had not submitted for consideration. For its in-progress second season, HBO is campaigning Ben Barnes, Zahn McClarnon, Peter Mullan and Jimmi Simpson for Best Drama Guest Actor. This quartet debuted this season in flashbacks in this past weekend’s episode titled “Reunion,” which featured a surprise cameo by Emmy-nominated “Breaking Bad” actor Giancarlo Esposito, whom HBO is not campaigning.

Jimmi Simpson was one of the seven main cast members that HBO campaigned last year, having appeared in eight out of the ten episodes in a linear arc, usually opposite Ben Barnes. Both Barnes and Simpson are billed as guest stars this season and appear in asides that take place...

"You need to let go at some point."

Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins) speaks these words in the latest episode of <a href="http://thr.com/westworld"><i>Westworld</i></a>, speaking to his colleague Arnold (Jeffrey Wright), but also to another set of ears as well — several sets, in fact.

The park's co-founder was assassinated at the end of the show's first season, seemingly putting an end to Hopkins' time on the show. As it turns out? Not quite, considering the return of Robert Ford in "Reunion," if only in flashback. Except it's <i>not </i>only in flashback: Ford's words fuel the ...

Decoding Westworld is a weekly podcast recapping the HBO original series Westworld. In this episode, Joanna and David discuss the second episode of the second season, “Reunion.” Be sure to check out Chris Evangelista’s recap and Joanna Robinson’s recap of this episode. Thanks for listening to this season of Decoding Westworld. Have your own crackpot theory? […]

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The Cannes Festival’s Frontières Platform is heading into its second year, following a successful inauguration in 2017.

Organized by the Fantasia Intl. Film Festival, in partnership with the Cannes Film Market, the Frontières Platform is an international co-production market and networking platform for genre projects, aimed to foster relationships in co-production and financing between Europe and North America.

This year will see 16 projects participate in the event which runs May 12-13. Among the activities to be hosted are a Proof of Concept Presentation for projects in advanced financing stages, and a Buyers Showcase for films that are already in post-production or which have recently been completed.

This year’s participants represent a wide range of countries and cultures from across Europe and North America, and for the first time a South American project in Chile’s “The Monster Within.”

Those participating in the Proof of Concept Presentations have previously workshopped...

Welcome to our weekly recaps of HBO’s Westworld. This Westworld review takes a look at the second episode of season 2, “Reunion.” Be warned: spoilers follow. Oh, wow! Welcome to Westworld, Giancarlo Esposito! Oh, wait, never mind, he’s dead. The sudden appearance – and quick departure of – Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul actor Giancarlo Esposito is […]

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(Major spoiler alert: Please do not read ahead unless you’ve seen “Reunion,” Sunday’s episode of “Westworld” Season 2.)

Yes, Evan Rachel Wood, that was Giancarlo Esposito hanging out on the set of “Westworld.” We’re sorry you had to find out this way. But hopefully the performance the “Breaking Bad’ star gave as El Lazo on Sunday’s episode is more than enough to help make up for that white lie he told you last year.

“Being on the set was the most difficult [part],” Esposito told TheWrap in an interview about his cameo Wednesday. “Just to stay in my trailer and not really show my face — be cool about my presence there while I was shooting — was one of the things I had to be conscious of because there were a lot of extras, a lot of actors who clearly I know, and I respect, who just wanted everyone to know, ‘He’s with us out here.’ But after shooting and knowing that the scene had gone so very well, I was really actually even more excited about no one knowing.”

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In the episode, titled “Reunion,” Esposito plays El Lazo — the head of a gang of outlaws in the hedonistic Westworld town of Pariah — who the Man in Black (Ed Harris) comes to for assistance while looking for “The Door” that the deceased Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins) is teasing him with in a new game. The Mib brought along host Lawrence (Clifton Collins Jr) as his new sidekick, which made Esposito’s scene all the more entertaining to watch, as Lawrence played the character El Lazo in the park in another life.

And, of course, an impressive scene makes it even more impressive that it remained a secret.

As of Wednesday, Esposito said, with a laugh, that he still didn’t “know what anyone knows!” And he confessed he had to be pretty shady around the “Westworld” cast to keep his cameo on the Dl — including Dolores Abernathy herself.

Also Read: 'Westworld' Season 2: Yes, There's a New Set of Timelines - Here's How to Keep Them Straight

“So then I got really excited,” Esposito said. “I was at a party for the Emmys and some of the other actors from the show were there who I had not seen on the days that I was shooting. They said, ‘Oh, you were on our show!’ And I went, ‘Nooo, not me.’ And Evan Rachel [sic] [laughs]. And I said, ‘But it’s nice to meet you.’ ‘No, you were on our show! No, we were doing a scene at the other location and we were waiting for Sir Anthony Hopkins to come out of your trailer, because he’s such a big fan and he wanted to see you.'”

“And I said, ‘Nooo, I don’t think so. I think you must be mistaken’ — and they bought it!” Esposito said, laughing. “Actors who are on the show, who were there on another hill the day I was there! And I was just very excited about even trying to fool them. It gets to be a bit of a game and it’s fun when you think about it.”

Pausing here for a minute because, yes, you read that right: Hopkins — whose character died at the end of Season 1 — was on set when Esposito was there filming for the current installment.

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Earlier this week, HBO confirmed Hopkins had done voiceover work as Ford for last Sunday’s premiere, providing this statement from co-creator Jonathan Nolan to Uproxx about the actor’s involvement in Season 2:

“When available Anthony Hopkins graciously lent his vocal performance for our flashbacks.”

The premium cabler had no additional comment about Hopkins’ presence on set when reached by TheWrap.

Ok, back to Esposito, who said landing this gig was “kind of an inside deal.”

“Well you know, I’ve been doing this show called ‘Better Call Saul’ [laughs],” Esposito said of his work on the “Breaking Bad” prequel series. “I was doing that show, and my guess is that most of it is, this is another top of the heap, an A-listed show.” Esposito said the AMC drama’s producers were approached by “Westworld” showrunners Nolan and Lisa Joy about a cameo, and that was that.

“All of a sudden I was on the phone with Jonathan and with Lisa and they were describing everything,” Esposito added. “And I was just like, ‘Oh, this world is a world I want to be a part of.’ It came kind of through the backdoor. Because I was told they were writing this character and they could think of no one to play it but me. But they weren’t sure it would happen. But everyone was so amenable and I loved the idea, so I said yes.”

Sadly, Esposito’s version of El Lazo was not long for this world, as his cameo lasted about 5 minutes before he and his crew all shot themselves in the head to force Harris’ character to play Ford’s game alone. But because he’s a host and could come back, we of course had to ask if he would come back.

“You know, I would love to, because I think for me it’s really about being able to have the tools,” Esposito said. “And I’m that kind of actor who when I think about the scene now in a different way, yes a very short period of time on screen, a lot of information to unpack — as you put it — and speak to. But I think this is what I love about the work I do. It’s really about the subject matter. It’s about how we grow from the story and are entertained by it and titillated by it.”

“So if I had the opportunity to come back, and particularly this scene and El Lazo,” he continued. “He’s a guy who has been someone else, and then he’s channeling Ford and a bigger piece of this whole story than I think anyone would ever imagine. So I would love to come back and sort of unpack that and see what that looks like. And wow, I think there are some surprises there to be had that would be really, really, exciting for the audience as well.”

“Westworld” airs Sundays at 9/8 c on HBO.

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Do not read on unless you’ve seen “Reunion,” the second episode of the second season of HBO’s “Westworld.”

Since “Westworld” began, it has presumed loudly that, when certain that no one is watching, all human beings turn into the bad guy from “Seven.” For the show to work, you have to buy into that idea. If you’re the kind of person who would take your family to the park to watch Dolores paint landscapes, there are other shows for you, none of them on HBO.

But what if someone was watching?

Though none were on the Bernard’s-a-robot-copy-of-Arnold level, the numerous revelations in “Reunion” were all smart and smoothly delivered, none more so than the one about the park’s business model. Delos, it turns out, is running the same graft as Facebook — promising privacy, then taking your secrets to a back room to be product-ized.

Once again,...

[Editor’s Note: This review contains spoilers for “Westworld” Season 2, Episode 2, “Reunion.”]

Programming Note

As mentioned last week, while critics were provided with the first five episodes of the season by HBO, this writer is keeping pace with viewers at home, meaning that we haven’t seen beyond Episode 2 as of writing, and any speculation contained below is not informed by episodes to come.

Diagnostic Report

“Reunion” digs far more into the past than we’ve ever gone before, opening over 30 years in the past, as Arnold (not Bernard) gives Dolores a tour of his home under construction in Hong Kong (we think). That’s not all, though — much of the episode is devoted to the ascent of William, Aka the Man in Black, as he not only marries into the Delos family but proves himself to be the brains behind the ultimate scheme in the works. Left by the wayside: Logan, Jim Delos’ “fuck-up of a son,...

Need to catch up? Check out the previous Westworld recap here.

If you’ve got any leftover Delos Dollars* from your last Westworld vacation, better spend those puppies in the online store or something — based on this week’s episode, it’s not long before the entire place is in ashes.

During the hour, two characters — who seem to be working with opposing agendas — both promise to lay waste to the animatronic park(s). Could it be that they’ll join forces by the end of the season?

Read on for the highlights of “Reunion.”

*No, these don’t actually exist,...

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"Episode #12: “Reunion”

Debut date: Sunday, April 29 (9:00–10:00 p.m.)

Why don’t we start at the beginning?

Written by Carly Wray & Jonathan Nolan; directed by Vincenzo Natali."

"Created for television by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, who are executive producers with J.J. Abrams, Athena Wickham, Roberto Patino, Richard Lewis and Ben Stephenson. Production companies, Kilter Films and Bad Robot Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television; based...

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Directed by Vincenzo Natali and titled "Reunion", the second episode of Westworld's second season premieres on Sunday, April 29th on HBO. Stay tuned to Daily Dead for more updates on season 2, and check here for our previous coverage of season 2, including interviews with the cast.

"Created for television by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, who are executive producers with J.J. Abrams, Athena Wickham, Roberto Patino, Richard Lewis and Ben Stephenson. Production companies, Kilter Films and Bad Robot Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television; based on the film written by Michael Crichton.

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Early success is the most dangerous kind. Great success for something you did quickly can be even worse. When the two are combined…well, it’s hard for your career to be other than disappointing afterward.

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Girard has an introduction in this expanded 2016 edition of Nicolas about how it came to be and how it affected him. And his other memoirs — I’ve seen Reunion and Petty Theft ; there may be others still lurking in Quebecois French I don’t know of — show other sides of Girard, of the man who lived through this as a boy. I don...

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