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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) was founded with the mission of advancing the art of film. Over the last 28 years, the association has donated more than $55 million to organizations related to the entertainment industry as well as to humanitarian causes, has offered more than 2,200 scholarships to film students, and has funded the restoration of 138 films.

As expected, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever made a smashing debut and raked in $330 million globally. In the domestic box office race, director Ryan Coogler’s sequel to his 2018 blockbuster bowed with $180 million, the second biggest opening this year and the third in the COVID-19 era, after Spider-Man: No Way Home and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

Sony reported last Wednesday that Where the Crawdads Sing has been approved for release in China on November 25. The film was released in the US in July and has made $50 million in international markets with a total gross of $140 million.

In his latest opus The Lost King, Stephen Frears tells the true story behind the discovery of the remains of King Richard III, which took place in Leicester in 2012. An incredible breakthrough, revolving around Philippa Langley (Sally Hawkins), an amateur historian who discovered the King's remains beneath a carpark in Leicester.

At the 1966 Golden Globes ceremony, held at the Ambassador Hotel on January 31, English filmmaker David Lean won the Best Director Golden Globe for his classic love story Doctor Zhivago. It was the third time in under ten years that the legendary director won this award in the same year his movie was feted as Best Picture – Drama, following previous double-wins in 1963 for Lawrence of Arabia and 1958 for The Bridge on the River Kwai.

Claire Danes, a four- time Golden Globe winner, played Juliet opposite Leonardo DiCaprio as Romeo in the movie version of the Shakespeare tragedy directed by Baz Luhrmann Romeo + Juliet (1996). The young actress talked about that experience with the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press during an exclusive 1996 interview when she was 17 years old.

Set in the 90s in Western Australia, Bassendream is a coming-of-age drama written and directed by Tim Barretto. In his debut feature, he takes the audience on a nostalgic journey through one particular day in Bassendean, a suburb of Perth, on the final day of the summer school holidays.

Julie Andrews had her sweet revenge and last laugh. Clutching her Golden Globe statuette in one hand, the British singer-actress stood on the stage of the fancy L.

The term “mama’s boy” used to be a pejorative, loaded with connotations. It could signify anything from a man’s relationship deemed unhealthily close with his mother, to a sensitivity out of step with conventional societal views on masculinity, to a general “failure to launch” into adulthood.

If you were a fan of 2008’s In Bruges, you may be pleased to learn that The Banshees of Inisherin provides the same amount of black humor, chaos, and general shenanigans between Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. Once again, under the writing and directing tutelage of Martin McDonagh – who grew his teeth as a playwright – the exchanges between Farrell, who plays the dimwitted yet loyal Pádraic, and Gleeson, playing the intent yet fickle Colm, are dramatic and brutal, biting and tender, and often terrifying.