How ‘The Father’ Writer/Director Florian Zeller Took The “Humble” & “Amazingly Generous” Anthony Hopkins On A Journey Into The Unknown

The 11th annual Athena Film Festival has unveiled its 2021 honorees as well as set two more screenings and additional panels for its month-long virtual edition. The female-focused event this year has also added another grant to its annual awards, launching the Chinonye Chukwu Emerging Writer Award, named for the Clemency writer-director whose script for the acclaimed Alfre Woodard-starring death-row drama was on the festival's Black List-inspired Athena List.

Don't attempt to solve the puzzle of The Father. Actually, do — this is exactly how writer-director Florian Zeller styled his debut film.

Emilio Mayorga Vicente Canales’ Film Factory has acquired world sales rights to “Mantícora” (Manticore), the fourth feature from Carlos Vermut, whose second outing “Magical Girl” won best film and director at the 2015 San Sebastian Festival, reinforcing his status as a Spanish talent on the rise.“Mantícora” is produced by Aquí y Allí Films (Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Prix winner “Aqui y Allá,”), Bteam Prods (San Sebastian Golden Shell winner “Between Two Waters”) and Pablo Agüero’s French

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The Sunday Times, Port Talbot 's most famous son said he still tours the streets of his birthplace on Google Maps from his California home and described his past alcoholism as a "driving force" in his career. The 83-year-old is in the running for a Golden Globe at tonight's awards, and is tipped for an Oscar in April, for his latest film The Father, a raw and powerful telling of an elderly man's descent into dementia.

Jordyn Woods, 23, was speechless after boyfriend Karl-Anthony Towns‘ epic surprise. The Minnesota Timberwolves star pulled put all the stops on what would have been her late father John Woods‘ 61st birthday four years after his tragic passing.

Sony Pictures Classics is set to release awards contender The Father in select New York and Los Angeles theaters today before expanding nationwide March 12 before landing on PVOD on March 26. That’s quite a theater-to-digital journey for the Florian Zeller-directed drama starring Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman.

Watch Video: 'The Father' Trailer: Anthony Hopkins Suffers From Dementia in Florian Zeller DramaOr is she still married, to Paul (Rufus Sewell)? And is this Anthony’s flat, or is it Anne’s? And why are Anne and Paul sometimes played by Olivia Williams and Mark Gattis, whom Anthony doesn’t recognize? And did Anne tell Anthony’s doctor that she’s not moving to Paris after all?Zeller offers a textbook example of translating a stage work to the screen in ways that keep the power of the play alive

“The good thing is so many more people know about the hospice now and can help if something happens again. ”The $2,000 donation is separate to the Go Fund Me page that Zara set up, which so far has raised more than £1,400.

UTA has signed writer-director Dylan Meyer. Meyer has become an increasingly in-demand screenwriter.

Coming-of-age drama Rocks has claimed the top prize at the delayed 2020 British Independent Film Awards. Sarah Gavron's acclaimed feature about a group of teenage girls in London was named best British independent film at an online awards ceremony on Thursday, one of five awards the film won on the night, including best supporting actress and best newcomer for Kosar Ali.

Clayton Davis As voting opens for the Directors Guild of America Awards, two top contenders include first-timers Darius Marder (Amazon Studios’ “Sound of Metal”) and Florian Zeller (Sony Pictures Classics’ “The Father”).

Regina King is having a pretty great year and a half, isn’t she? Over her already-great career, she starred in numerous films and was already a household name, as an Oscar winner, when she landed the lead in “Watchmen.” However, the popularity of that show (and the awards recognition she received) opened her career up even more. And then you have her directorial debut, “One Night in Miami…” which is poised to make King an Oscar darling, only adding to her success.

The Haunting of Alma Fielding, Kate Summerscale’s Baillie Gifford Prize-shortlisted novel, is to be adapted for television by New Pictures with writer Charlotte Stoudt (Fosse/Verdon) and director Minkie Spiro (The Plot Against America, Fosse/Verdon). Stoudt and Spiro are currently working together on an eight-part psychological thriller, Pieces of Her: an adaptation of the New York Times bestseller for Netflix, starring Toni Collette.

EXCLUSIVE: Catherine The Great and Des producer New Pictures has signed up two of the creative talents behind FX’s Emmy-winning limited drama Fosse/Verdon to adapt Kate Summerscale’s novel The Haunting of Alma Fielding into a TV series.

EXCLUSIVE: In 2014, French playwright Florian Zeller won the Molière Award for Le Pere, a play about an aging man’s bout with dementia. Seven years, a TV series and a French film adaptation later, Zeller brings his words to the big screen and to the Oscar-season awards race.

Tim Gray Senior Vice President“Minari,” from Plan B and A24, is writer-director Lee Isaac Chung’s semi-autobiographical tale of a Korean-American family starting a new life in 1980s Arkansas. The characters, played by Steven Yeun, Yeri Han and Yuh-jung Youn, among others, live in a small mobile home on isolated patch of land; one of the challenges was to convey both the sense of home and the vast, green area.