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Oscars Last Call: ‘Room’ Scribe/Historian Emma Donoghue On Why Audacious Royals Romp ‘The Favourite’ Is Template For Future Palace Pics

The Favourite director Yorgos Lanthimos and writers Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara used sparing historical details to create an 18th century love triangle around England’s Queen Anne (Olivia Colman), her close friend Lady Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough (Rachel Weisz), and the scullery maid Abigail Masham (Emma Stone)…

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‘Room’ Screenwriter Emma Donoghue To Make ‘Frog Music’ With Monumental Pictures’ Alison Owen and Debra Hayward

EXCLUSIVE: Emma Donoghue, the writer of both the novel and screenplay of Lenny Abrahamson’s Oscar-nominated Room, is teaming up with Alison Owen’s and Debra Hayward’s Monumental Pictures to make a feature adaptation of her novel Frog Music. Donoghue, who adapted Room and received an Academy Award nomination yesterday…

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How ‘Room’ Mates Larson, Abrahamson & Tremblay Architected Book-To-Film Alchemy – Awardsline

"You can imagine the crass studio executive reaction to the pitch for Room: 'Forget it,' " says director Lenny Abrahamson of his film that has commanded so much Oscar buzz since its September unveiling at the Telluride Film Festival. Yes, Room is a hard sell when boiled down: A young woman is trapped in a garden shed…

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Cannes: A24 Acquires U.S. Rights To ‘Room’

A24 bought U.S. rights to Room, an adaptation of the Emma Donoghue novel that has Brie Larson set to star and Lenny Abrahamson directing with production to begin this fall. People have been buzzing about this one. It revolves around the love between a mother and her 5-year-old child, who live together in a single…