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Since our last story about Hollywood’s passion for art, there have been a lot of relevant updates. For instance, Sharon Stone recently had her very first solo gallery exhibition in Culver City, Los Angeles.

The documentary feature, Freedom is Beautiful, focuses on two remarkable Kurdish Iranian asylum seekers who are musicians, artists, poets and close friends. Farhad Bandesh and Mostafa ‘Moz’ Azimitibar were also freed within a month of each other, in 2020, after each having spent eight years locked up in brutal refugee camps on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island and a Melbourne detention center run by the Australian Government.

“How do you respond when the great Howard Gordon (Homeland, 24) says, ‘We’ve a role for you,’ then describes the character as, ‘A mess who makes terrible decisions with men and is not a funny comedian…?’” So asks comedian Whitney Cummings of the packed theater in West Hollywood at the THR Live event, pausing with perfect timing so the audience’s laughter won’t drown out her next words. The circumstances faced by her character on Fox’s Accused moved the women’s activist deeply.

When director Josephine Landertinger Forero first met Cris, he was one of the "honorary members of the poverty club" abandoned in a remote corner of the Caribbean Sea. But the experienced eye of the documentary filmmaker knew that the island where the young man lived, Tierra Bomba, was too small for him.

Partnership Creates the Golden Globe Foundation, a California Nonprofit Public-Benefit CorporationDick Clark Productions (DCP) and Eldridge have acquired all the Golden Globes’ assets, rights, and properties from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). The transaction will result in the winddown of the HFPA and its membership.

Who won the battle between Spider-People and the Maximals? It was a close fight but Transformers: Rise of the Beasts ultimately won over Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. On their debut, the Cybertronians rose to the top with a three-day weekend haul of $60.

The 30th edition of the Shanghai International Film Festival had its opening ceremony last Friday, June 9, when the star of the US-China co-production Meg 2: The Trench, Jason Statham, and director Ben Wheatley walked the red carpet accompanied by his Chinese co-stars. The film opens in China on August 4.

Almost thirty years after Clueless, Mona May is still one of the most revered and impactful Costume Designers in Hollywood. The name Mona May doesn’t go unnoticed in the Costume Design world.

Screened in the official competition at the last Cannes Film Festival in May, Wim Wenders’s Perfect Days is set in Tokyo and follows the quiet and uncomplicated life of Hirayama, a toilet cleaner, played by Koji Yakusho, (this year winner of the Best Actor award). His daily existence consists of driving in his van from job to job, listening to cassettes of classic rock music, as he fastidiously carries out his tasks which he takes much pride in.

When Lisa France stumbled across the romance film Meet Joe Black (1998) shooting a few blocks from where she lived in her New York neighborhood, right there the former professional basketball player and scholar made up her mind that she was going to pursue filmmaking. She was 29 years old.