adaptation
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Forman’s adaptation won eight Academy Awards, including best picture and best director.
From Salon • May 16, 2026
Britain's Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, are developing a film adaptation of a best-selling memoir about a British military mission in Afghanistan, Netflix said Thursday.
From Barron's • May 14, 2026
Co-written and directed by France’s Olivier Assayas in an adaptation of the novel by Giuliano da Empoli, the movie has the blundering, obvious feel of a made-for-cable TV item from the 1990s.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
But the show is unlike any comic book adaptation out there.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
Perhaps those cycles of colonization, adaptation, and population explosion were what selected for the Great Leap Forward, which then diffused back westward to Eurasia and Africa.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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