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Christoph Waltz is to lead Stephen Frears and Christopher Hampton’s adaptation of Billy Wilder & Me.  The No Time to Die and Inglorious Basterds star will play Wilder in the part coming-of-age story, part true-to-life portrait of the Hollywood icon, which is adapted from a book by Jonathan Coe. In the summer of 1977…

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. The pair triumphed for their screen version of Zeller’s play, The Father, which was first performed in French in 2012. Anthony Hopkins…

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. Starring Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman…

The Man in the High Castle‘s Sebastian Roché will make his West End stage debut alongside Peaky Blinders‘ Paul Anderson in playwright Christopher Hampton’s adaptation of Moliere's Tartuffe. Performances are set to begin May 25 at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, with Roché playing Orgon to Anderson’s Tartuffe. Gerald…

UPDATE 11:25 A.M.: Frank Langella comments, exclusively, below. It’s Frank Langella and it’s The Father but it’s not Strindberg’s modern classic that will bring the three-time Tony winner and Oscar nominee back to Broadway next spring. Langella will star in the American premiere of a new play by Florian Zeller…