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Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the U.S. rights to “The Son,” the next film from “The Father” director Florian Zeller that stars Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern and Vanessa Kirby.

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.

Oscar winner Yuh-Jung Youn, who took Supporting Actress in April for Minari, along with a number of her recent fellow acting nominees including Maria Bakalova, Andra Day, Vanessa Kirby, Leslie Odom Jr., Paul Raci, and Steven Yeun, are among the new class of 395 artists and executives who have been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.

Though she’s hardly a new face in films, Vanessa Kirby’s rise to A-list status seems to have happened fairly quickly. Thanks to breakout performances in films such as “Mission: Impossible—Fallout,” “Hobbs & Shaw,” “Pieces of a Woman,” and the recent “The World to Come,” Kirby has established herself as one of the biggest stars and most acclaimed actors in the world.

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.

Rebecca Davis editorThe Anthony Hopkins-starring Oscar winner “The Father” debuted in China to a $1.21 million opening weekend, coming in eleventh despite a slow box office weekend, according to data from the Maoyan platform.The first feature from helmer Florian Zeller received six Academy Award nominations and two wins — one for Hopkins as best actor and one for best adapted screenplay.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

Chadwick Boseman has shared their thoughts on the actor’s Oscars loss for Best Actor.The late actor, nominated for his performance in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, was considered the favourite for the award, but lost to Anthony Hopkins for his role in Florian Zeller’s The Father.Derrick Boseman, Chadwick’s brother, spoke to TMZ saying that Chadwick would have been the first to congratulate Hopkins for winning.

Antonio Ferme editorAn NFT of Chadwick Boseman commissioned by the Oscars is being redesigned in the wake of his best actor loss.After Boseman took home the best actor prize at the Golden Globes, Critics Choice Awards and Screen Actors Guild Awards, many people assumed the Academy Awards would follow suit.

The 2021 Oscars didn’t look like a typical awards show. It surely didn’t flow like a typical awards show.

The Welsh actor was one of the big winners at the 2021 OscarsAnthony Hopkins became the oldest winner of an acting award at the Academy Awards on Sunday night. Speaking from his home country the veteran Welsh actor, 83, paid tribute to fellow nominee Chadwick Boseman who had been posthumously nominated for the award.

Anthony Hopkins paid tribute to the late Chadwick Boseman in his first reaction to his triumph at the Academy Awards last night, his second Oscar win and first since his performance in 1992 pic The Silence Of The Lambs.

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:

Anthony Hopkins has won the best actor Oscar at the 93rd Academy Awards in Los Angeles. Hopkins, 83, won for his performance as an elderly man with dementia in The Father, directed by French novelist and playwright Florian Zeller, who also wrote the acclaimed stage play on which the film is based.

Oscars are now underway. The 93rd Academy Awards are taking place tonight (25 April) at Union Station, the main railway station in Los Angeles, famous for its blend of Art Deco and Mission Revival architectural styles.

Oscars are now underway. The 93rd Academy Awards are taking place tonight (25 April) at Union Station, the main railway station in Los Angeles, famous for its blend of Art Deco and Mission Revival architectural styles.

The Silence of the Lambs,” is 83 years and 115 days old on the day of the Oscars; the previous oldest acting winner was Christopher Plummer at 82 years and 75 days for his role in “Beginners.”Hopkins was nominated in the category alongside Riz Ahmed (“Sound of Metal“), Gary Oldman (“Mank“), Chadwick Boseman (“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom“) and Steven Yeun (“Minari“).“The Father” was directed by Florian Zeller and follows a man (Hopkins) who refuses assistance from his daughter as he ages, but soon

Oscars are now underway. The 93rd Academy Awards are taking place tonight (25 April) at Union Station, the main railway station in Los Angeles, famous for its blend of Art Deco and Mission Revival architectural styles.

Oscars are now underway. The 93rd Academy Awards are taking place tonight (25 April) at Union Station, the main railway station in Los Angeles, famous for its blend of Art Deco and Mission Revival architectural styles.

Oscars are now underway. The 93rd Academy Awards are taking place tonight (25 April) at Union Station, the main railway station in Los Angeles, famous for its blend of Art Deco and Mission Revival architectural styles.

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.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorLondon-based film sales and financing house Embankment Films has closed a major international deal for “Joyride,” starring Olivia Colman, who is Oscar nominated for Florian Zeller’s “The Father,” another of Embankment’s titles.

Each of this year’s Best Picture nominees has survived a journey to cross the finish line, before earning the Academy’s consideration. Here’s how they came together.

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

The Father may still be in the awards race —a two-time BAFTA winner last weekend and currently up for six Oscars, including best film, best actor for Anthony Hopkins and best supporting actress for Olivia Colman — but writer/director Florian Zeller has wasted no time on capitalizing on his directorial debut's momentum to get moving on the follow-up. And he's lined up another pair of top-level names to star.

While a lot of people seem to be talking about Emerald Fennell shocking everyone with her directorial debut, “Promising Young Woman,” earning a ton of awards season love. But right behind her is none other than Florian Zeller, the French playwright that has struck gold with his directorial debut, “The Father,” which has earned six Oscar nominations this year.

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”).

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorHugh Jackman and Laura Dern will star in “The Son,” writer-director Florian Zeller’s follow-up to the BAFTA winning and Academy Award nominated “The Father.” The film is adapted from Zeller’s acclaimed stage play by Zeller and Christopher Hampton, who is Oscar nominated for adapting “The Father” with Zeller, and who won an Oscar with “Dangerous Liaisons,” and was Oscar nominated with “Atonement.”Iain Canning and Emile Sherman, who were Oscar

Oscar-nominee Hugh Jackman and Oscar-winner Laura Dern have been set to star in blue-chip feature drama The Son, writer-director Florian Zeller’s follow-up to his Oscar-nominated movie The Father.

*WINNER.FEATURE FILM Lee Isaac Chung, “Minari” Emerald Fennell, “Promising Young Woman” David Fincher, “Mank” Aaron Sorkin, “The Trial of the Chicago 7” Chloé Zhao, “Nomadland”FIRST-TIME FEATURE FILM DIRECTOR Radha Blank, “The Forty-Year-Old Version” Fernando Frías de la Parra, “I’m No Longer Here” Regina King, “One Night in Miami” Darius Marder, “Sound of Metal” Florian Zeller, “The Father”DOCUMENTARY Michael Dweck & Gregory Kershaw, “The Truffle Hunters” Pippa Erhlich & James Reed, “My Octopus

Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.MOVIES— Most of last week's Oscar nominees are already streaming or available on-demand. Florian Zeller's “The Father,” though, is among the most recent arrivals; it becomes available on premium on-demand Friday.

On Monday morning, French playwright Florian Zeller’s first feature film, The Father, collected six Oscar nominations. And it seems there will be more where that came from. Speaking via Zoom after nominations were announced, Zeller revealed to Deadline that he’s currently finishing up an adaptation of the newest of his plays: The Son—and he knows exactly who he wants to cast, too.

Also Read: Oscars 2021: We Predict the Nominations in All 23 Categories (Photos)“The Father” was directed by Florian Zeller and follows a man (Hopkins) who refuses assistance from his daughter as he ages, but soon begins to doubt his loved ones and even his own reality.

Also Read: Writers Guild Nominates 'Trial of the Chicago 7,' 'One Night in Miami' - and 'Borat' TooAmong the notable films missing from the PGA list are Universal’s Paul Greengrass Western “News of the World”; Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet,” which Warner Bros.