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Variety Staff Follow Us on Twitter Variety will return to the Toronto Film Festival this year with its annual interview studio, in partnership with King’s Hawaiian. Running from Sept. 9 to Sept. 12, the Variety Studio presented by King’s Hawaiian will include interviews with cast members and directors from the top movies premiering at the Toronto Film Festival. Talent includes Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, Florian Zeller and Christopher Hampton (“The Son”); Mark Mylod, Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy (“The Menu”); Gina Prince-Bythewood, Viola Davis, John Boyega, Lashana Lynch, Thuso Mbedu, Sheila Atim and Cathy Schulman (“The Woman King”); Rian Johnson, Daniel Craig, Janelle Monáe, Kate Hudson, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr. and Madelyn Cline (“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”); Darren Aronofsky, Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Hong Chau, Ty Simpkins and Sam Hunter (“The Whale”); Peter Farrelly, Zac Efron and Ruby Serkis (“The Greatest Beer Run Ever”); Tyler Perry, Solea Pfeiffer and Joshua Boone (“A Jazzman’s Blues”); and Lila Neugebauer, Jennifer Lawrence and Justine Polsky (“Causeway”). Talent and creators from the following projects will also participate in the studio: “Inspection,” “The Fabelmans,” “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story,” “Bros,” “On the Come Up,” “The Good Nurse,” “The Eternal Daughter,” “Sanctuary,” “Empire of Light,” “Devotion” and “Catherine Called Birdy.”

Starz is preparing to launch its adaptation of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ classic 18th Century novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons).

Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz will portray legendary Old Hollywood director Billy Wilder in a biographical film from director Stephen Frears, the film’s producer Jeremy Thomas announced Monday. “Billy Wilder and Me” is part coming-of-age-story and part true-life portrait about a young woman who begins working with Wilder during the filming of “Fedora” on a Greek island in 1977. But as she continues with him to Germany to continue the shoot, she finds herself joining him on a journey into the memory of his family history.

Christoph Waltz is to lead Stephen Frears and Christopher Hampton’s adaptation of Billy Wilder & Me. 

David Benedict The gap between what you see and what you get has long proved fertile territory for playwrights. At his considerable best, not least his Oscar-winning adapted screenplay of his play “The Father,” French dramatist Florian Zeller (and translator Christopher Hampton) has shown that by cunningly changing what audiences are seeing, he can not only define but also dramatize emotional content.

Clayton Davis Penélope Cruz is luxuriously refined in “Parallel Mothers,” a performance that has picked up critical acclaim and notable accolades since debuting at Venice. The voting bloc of the international community is a key demographic that pushed last year’s “The Father” from Florian Zeller, another Sony Pictures Classics feature, to perform exceptionally well with the Academy despite significant misses from key guild groups leading to nominations.

Sony Pictures Classics has taken US, South East Asia, China, India, Eastern Europe and Turkey rights to Florian Zeller’s The Father follow-up, The Son starring Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, and Vanessa Kirby. Zeller is directing from the screenplay he co-adapted from his stage play with Christopher Hampton.

Vanessa Kirby has joined the cast of “The Son,” Florian Zeller’s follow up to his Oscar-winning feature debut “The Father,” Variety has learned.Kirby, who was Oscar-nominated for “Pieces of a Woman,” will star in the film opposite Laura Dern and Hugh Jackman. As with “The Father,” “The Son” was adapted by Zeller and Christopher Hampton (“Dangerous Liaisons”), from Zeller’s critically acclaimed stage play.

Gallery: And the award goes too… 10 predictions for the 2021 Academy Awards (BANG Showbiz)Best Adapted Screenplay: Christopher Hampton & Florian Zeller, ‘The Father’ Best Original Screenplay Emerald Fennell, ‘Promising Young Woman’ Best Costume Design: ‘Ma Rainey's Black Bottom’ Best Original Score: ‘Soul’ Best Animated Short Film: ‘If Anything Happens I Love You’ Best Live-Action Short Film: ‘Two Distant Strangers’ Best Documentary Feature: ‘My Octopus Teacher’ Best Documentary Short Subject:

Academy Awards:Original screenplay: “Promising Young Woman,” Emerald FennellAdapted screenplay: Florian Zeller and Christopher Hampton, “The Father”International film: “Another Round,” DenmarkBest supporting actor: Daniel Kaluuya, “Judas and the Black Messiah”Makeup and hairstyling: “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”Costume design: Ann Roth, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”———For complete coverage of this year’s Oscars, visit: https://apnews.com/hub/academy-awards

Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller became the first remote winners on tonight’s Oscar show, accepting their Best Adapted Screenplay trophies from London and Paris, respectively.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and Media“Promising Young Woman” writer and director Emerald Fennell won best original screenplay at the 93rd Academy Awards, while “The Father’s” Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller earned a best adapted screenplay prize. The annual salute to Hollywood kicked off Sunday as a global pandemic continued to upend cultural life — a change of circumstances that was reflected in the way that the 2021 edition of the Oscars unfolded.

Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern are teaming up for a new movie!

Florian Zeller, director of the Best Picture nominee “The Father,” has set his follow-up film based on another of his plays called “The Son,” and Laura Dern and Hugh Jackman are set to star.Zeller will adapt the screenplay for “The Son” along with his writing partner on “The Father,” Christopher Hampton (“Dangerous Liaisons,” “Atonement”).

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.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe Cairo Film Festival kicks off its 42nd edition Wednesday as a mostly physical event with the Middle East premiere of Florian Zeller’s adaptation of his hit stage play “The Father,” for which co-writer Christopher Hampton and actor Rufus Sewell are expected in attendance.“I think it’s one of the best films of the year,” fest president Mohamed Hefzy tells Variety.

Kaleem Aftab Screenwriter-playwright Christopher Hampton, who won an Oscar for “Dangerous Liaisons” and was Oscar nominated for “Atonement,” has penned a screen version of his one-woman play “A German Life,” about the life of Brunhilde Pomsel, the infamous secretary of Nazi Joseph Goebbels.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorSony Pictures Classics will release Florian Zeller’s The Father in theaters in New York and Los Angeles on Dec. 18 with a rollout in major markets on Christmas Day.

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The Singapore Grip will explore one of the "darkest" and least-known moments of the Second World War, according to its screenwriter.The new ITV drama focuses on a British family living in Singapore at the time of the Japanese invasion during the war and has been adapted from Booker Prize winner JG Farrell's novel by Atonement and Dangerous Liaisons screenwriter Sir Christopher Hampton.Hampton spoke exclusively to about the drama, explaining the importance of bringing such an "underexplored

The Singapore Grip, a period series based on the 1978 novel by J.G. Farrell, is drawing flak before its premiere in the UK.The drama series is screenwriter Christopher Hampton’s adaptation of the British novelist’s 1978 satire.

Naman Ramachandran “The Singapore Grip,” a new drama from ITV, is facing intense scrutiny over its depiction of colonialism, with British East and Southeast Asian media advocacy group BEATS calling the series “harmful (non)representation” and “deeply upsetting.”Adapted from Booker Prize-winning author J.G.