Lisa Joy Talks ‘Reminiscence,’ The Future Of ‘Westworld,’ ‘Blade Runner’ & More [The Fourth Wall Podcast]

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIt’s almost become a model in recent years: If a song’s a hit, the copyright-infringement lawsuits follow, and Dua Lipa was clobbered with two of them in four days last week. Her global hit “Levitating,” which has spent 68 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, has drawn two lawsuits from songwriters claiming the song infringes on their compositions, according to multiple media reports.The first was filed March 1 by a Florida reggae group called Artikal Sound System, claiming that Lipa’s song lifts from their relatively obscure 2017 track, “Live Your Life.” That complaint includes little specific detail beyond claiming that the two tracks are so similar that it was “highly unlikely that ‘Levitating’ was created independently.” In the second, more-detailed legal complaint, filed on March 4 in New York, songwriters L.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter“The Walking Dead” continues to live on at AMC, with the network greenlighting a spinoff centered on Maggie and Negan.Both Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan will return for the spinoff, which is currently titled “Isle of the Dead.” The six-episode series will see the two characters traveling into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.

Naman Ramachandran The newly reestablished Hammer Studios has acquired U.K. rights for B Good Picture Company’s “Doctor Jekyll.” In Nov. 2021, the U.K.’s Network Distributing sealed a deal with iconic British horror label Hammer Films to form Hammer Studios Ltd.

It was a tough weekend for Ireland Baldwin.

Tony Dokoupil left viewers in tears on Monday's CBS Mornings as he shared harrowing details of the current refugee crisis in Poland.DONATE NOW: What can you do to help Ukraine?Half of the one million Ukrainian refugees in Poland are children, and the TV journalist reported live from the Poland-Ukraine border.Talking to his co-stars Gayle King and Nate Burleson, Tony said: "What you are seeing in the shot behind me are the latest arrivals here in the early afternoon, in freezing temperatures, locally.VIDEO: Tony Dokoupil shared harrowing footage from the Poland-Ukraine border"Some come wrapped in blankets, some come with children in their arms, the kids carrying only one favorite stuffed toy or animal, and this relief camp that you're looking at here in Medyka, Poland, it did not exist like this a week ago.MORE: Tony Dokoupil opens up about working with CBS Mornings co-starsMORE: Gayle King looks incredible in iconic yellow dress as she marks anniversary on CBS Mornings"This is new. It now helps thousands of people a day, many from outside of Kyiv, where a family of four died over the weekend, suitcases in hand, possibly headed right here.A post shared by Tony Dokoupil (@tonydokoupil)The CBS Mornings star also shared heartbreaking photos from the relief camp"You can see devastation in these pictures outside the capital of Kyiv, as Russian gunfire and shells send people running for their lives.

Katy Perry has had some pretty memorable moments during her time as a judge on American Idol, but a recent one allowed her to finally clear some things up regarding one of her biggest hits.MORE: Katy Perry taken aback by very surprising audition during American Idol premiereThe singer had a conversation with fellow judges Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan as they talked about artists often adding too many unnecessary flairs to their singing.WATCH: Katy Perry's Chocotopia adventureLuke then started singing to Katy's hit Firework by performing the lines in the chorus as "up, up, up," and then "ah, ah, ah," to her annoyance."It's not 'up, up, up' and it's not 'ah, ah, ah'," she said, to which Luke retorted: "Well what is it then, because I've been dying to know all these years?"MORE: Katy Perry looks unreal in all-leather outfit"It's 'awe, awe, awe' everybody, get it right!" she said. Luke even questioned: "Is that a word in the dictionary?" to which Katy responded: "It is!"She even added on to the career-long debate about her song, saying: "It's not Fireworks, it's Firework."A post shared by KATY PERRY (@katyperry)Katy cleared up what the lyrics for Firework really were for LukeKaty posted the clip on her Instagram with the caption: "FOR THE OFFICIAL RECORD • it is AWE not UP • it is FIREWORK not FIREWORKSSS.

Daniel Radcliffe will tackle Stephen Sondheim next season in a new revival of the 1981 musical Merrily We Roll Along at the Off Broadway New York Theatre Workshop.

EXCLUSIVE: Phoebe Zimmer has been named Head of Television for Temple Hill, the production company behind the Twilight franchise, which was co-founded in 2006 by Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey.

EXCLUSIVE: Grant Gustin, the actor best known for his starring role as Barry Allen (aka The Flash) on The CW’s The Flash, has signed with ICM for theatrical representation.

Rebecca Ferguson famously played a singer in the hit movie musical The Greatest Showman and now she’s playing a singer again in Reminiscence, yet another film co-starring Hugh Jackman!

conservatorship struggle exposed their potential for (alleged) abuse. Raye recently split from her major label, Polydor, after she reached breaking point and shared her frustrations about not being allowed to release her debut album despite signing in 2014 and helming numerous massive hit singles.

Westworld has revealed that “new worlds” are going to be explored in the upcoming season of the HBO hit sci-fi.Lisa Joy, who has worked on the show since it premiered in 2016, shared some insight on the fourth season on Deadline‘s Hero Nation podcast.“You’re going to see some new worlds that I think are really fun,” she said.Joy also confirmed that a cast member from her new film Reminiscence will also show up in the new season “in a funny way”.Minus the film’s stars Thandie Newton and Angela Sarafyan, who are already Westworld cast members, this means that Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson, Cliff Curtis or Daniel Wu will appear in the show at some stage.Production on the fourth season of Westworld was paused last month due to a case

HBO Max — is a burdensome slog.Running time: 114 minutes. Rated PG-13 (strong violence, drug material throughout, sexual content and some strong language).

While Lisa Joy’s new feature directorial debut Reminiscence isn’t a crossover to her co-created HBO series Westworld, one could easily argue that they’re distant cousins.

EXCLUSIVE: Season 4 of Westworld, as we first told you, has returned to filming at the Melody Ranch in Santa Clarita, CA; and in a recent conversation with the co-creator of the HBO series, Lisa Joy, on Deadline’s Hero Nation podcast, we learned some more details on what’s bound to unfold. Joy joined us on Hero Nation to discuss her feature directorial debut Reminiscence which hits theaters and HBO Max on Friday.

Thandiwe Newton and Nico Parker were the cutest mother-daughter duo as they posed together at the Reminiscence premiere in Los Angeles.Both wearing glittery Versace ensembles, Thandiwe, 48, and Nico 16, looked glamorous as they cosied up on the red carpet.Thandiwe sparkled in a gold and silver mini dress with a flowing sash, and Nico, who is following in her mother’s filmstar footsteps, wore a blue tunic with matching tights.Reminiscence stars Thandiwe as Watts, alongside lead Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Ferguson.The sci-fi romance is set in a future where the oceans have risen and much of the population of Miami has switched to a nocturnal schedule.Thandiwe shares daughter Nico with writer, director and producer Ol Parker, who she married in

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticIn “Reminiscence,” a sci-fi noir love story set in a climate-change dystopia that’s just short of the apocalypse enough to make Miami look like Venice with hotter nightclubs, Hugh Jackman plays Nick Bannister, a former soldier who runs a business in which people pay to float, unconscious, in a sensory-deprivation tank. Immersed in its calming water, with a virtual-reality headset on, they’re able to travel back into their fondest memories.

Nostalgia is a lie, but it’s true that they don’t make studio movies quite like they used to. It’s a common lament that non-IP influenced, original screenplays, and movies with smart-thinking, sexy lead adults aren’t as supported by the major studios as they once were.

She's a co-creator and executive producer of HBO's Westworld.And on Tuesday night, Lisa Joy attended the Hollywood premiere of her directorial feature debut Reminiscence.Joy was joined at the screening by Westworld stars Thandiwe Newton and Angela Safrayan who have roles in the movie, and fellow castmembers Aaron Paul, Jeffrey Wright and Luke Hemsworth also showed up to support her.

Thandiwe Newton gets a big hug from her daughter Nico Parker as they arrive at the premiere of Reminiscence held at TCL Chinese Theatre on Tuesday night (August 17) in Hollywood.

The cast and crew of Reminiscence kept their distance while attending the film’s UK premiere!