adaptation
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Kani’s best-known performance in “‘Master Harold’” is as the younger employee, Willie, in the 1984 film adaptation co-starring Matthew Broderick and Zakes Mokae.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
In January 2025 Campbell's work creating and starring in his adaptation of The Tragedy of Richard III was recognised at a prestigious ceremony.
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026
Other top releases this year include Amazon’s child-friendly, science-fiction adaptation “Project Hail Mary,” Disney’s animated “Hoppers,” and Sony Pictures’s animated “GOAT.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
The movie, the latest adaptation of a novel by Colleen Hoover, stars Maika Monroe and Tyriq Withers.
From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026
This was, in other words, an adaptation of his atmospheric steam engine, or rather a reversion to his earlier plan for a wind-gun powered by atmospheric pressure.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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