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- ↑ Quarantine Director on Next Project, The Coup
- ↑ Dowdle, John & Drew (Quarantine)
- ↑ The Dowdle Brothers 'Afraid' of Horrible Sci-fi Apocalypse
- ↑ Shyamalan, QUARANTINE filmmakers team for DEVIL [ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ Owen Wilson Returns To Action Mode In ‘The Coup’
- ↑ Pierce Brosnan Joins The Coup
- ↑ Dowdle Brothers to Direct an Adaptation of Jack Kilborn's Afraid
- ↑ "WEINSTEIN TELEVISION'S EPIC SCRIPTED EVENT SERIES "WACO," LANDS ON SPIKE TV". Spike . October 26, 2016. Archived from the original on September 9, 2017. Retrieved May 16, 2017.
- ↑ Variety trade paper report of Dowdle brothers' announcement of their project about Dorothy Kilgallen's career and death
- ↑ John Erick Dowdle – Awards
