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LYON, France — Todd Haynes, Zhang Ziyi, Daniel Brühl, Tsui Hark and Andrey Zvyagintsev attended the opening gala of France's Lumière Festival Saturday night where Haynes teased his anticipated 'De Noche,' starring Pedro Pascal. It also saw Lumière Fest chief Thierry Frémaux, also head of the Cannes Festival, take a well-received swing at U. S. President Donald Trump. "Donald Trump has protested that he wasn't given the Nobel Peace Prize. The Lumière Award is the only prize we think he won't ask for," Frémaux told the crowd of the fest's top honor. "In any case, we won't give it to him," Frémaux added, referring to the fest's top honor at Lyon's cavernous Halle Tony Garnier, a 5,000-seat concert hall, at a gala where he acted as ever as host. More from VarietyJoel and Ethan Coen will accept this year's Lumière Award later in the festival. The opening night, however, belonged very much to Haynes, in Lyon for a masterclass and a retrospective featuring "Poison," "Safe," "Far from Heaven" and "I'm Not There.

Esther McGregor & Emilio Sakraya have reportedly joined the highly anticipated TV adaptation of Fourth Wing as Violet Sorrengail and Xaden Riorson The five-book Empyrean series is being turned into a TV Show with Amazon MGM Studios and Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society.

One of BookTok’s romantasy favorites “Fourth Wing” has found its Violet and Xaden in Esther McGregor and Emilio Sakraya. McGregor, who gained popularity in “We Were Liars,” will star as Violet Sorrengail. Sakraya (“Those About To Die,” “Warrior Nun”) will star opposite her as Xaden Riorson. The TV adaptation of Rebecca Yarros’ romantasy book series landed a series order at Prime Video from executive producer Michael B. Jordan. Meredith Averill (“The Haunting of Hill House”) is set to showrun and executive produce. Additionally, “Westworld” showrunner Lisa Joy will direct the first episode of the series.