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the store's slow adaption to shoppers' changing tastes spelled its doom
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And yet, French writer-director François Ozon’s new adaption, which premiered in competition at Venice, gets many, many things right.
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Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2025
Here, Thorne talks about the show and his upcoming projects, which include The Hack, about the very British News International phone-hacking scandal, an adaption of William Golding’s schoolboy survival story Lord of the Flies, and Sam Mendes’s Beatles project.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 17 Aug. 2025
The film is an adaption of Richard O'Brien's 1973 musical for the stage, The Rocky Horror Show.
—ArsTechnica, 16 Aug. 2025
The movie, in theaters now, is an adaption of Jordan Harper's award-winning novel, and follows 11-year old Polly (Ana Sophia Heger) and her father Nate (Egerton), who made enemies with a white supremacist gang in prison.
—Logan Holland, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
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Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2025
Here, Thorne talks about the show and his upcoming projects, which include The Hack, about the very British News International phone-hacking scandal, an adaption of William Golding’s schoolboy survival story Lord of the Flies, and Sam Mendes’s Beatles project.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 17 Aug. 2025
The film is an adaption of Richard O'Brien's 1973 musical for the stage, The Rocky Horror Show.
—ArsTechnica, 16 Aug. 2025
The movie, in theaters now, is an adaption of Jordan Harper's award-winning novel, and follows 11-year old Polly (Ana Sophia Heger) and her father Nate (Egerton), who made enemies with a white supremacist gang in prison.
—Logan Holland, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
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“Adaption.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adaption. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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