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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ruled the box office again on a quiet weekend but Santa Claus – the R-rated kind – spread holiday cheer and earned more than the analysts’ projections. Violent Night, starring David Harbour as Santa Claus who is doing his annual duty to children around the world when he gets caught up in a home invasion, collected $13.

Ana Maria Bahiana and Ruben V. Nepales won second and third prizes, respectively, for their articles which appeared on the Golden Globes website (goldenglobes.

Citizen Kane has been dethroned. Vertigo has been put in its place.

The 44th Golden Globes were held on January 31, 1987, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. That Saturday night the ballroom was filled with a beautiful crowd of Hollywood and international stars who gathered to celebrate the best in film and television in 1986.

The extraordinary life and legacy of Simone Veil (1927-2017) are celebrated in an ambitious opus that pays homage to one of the most revered and influential Frenchwoman. With Simone: Woman of the Century, Olivier Dahan completes a trilogy of iconic personalities, following his 2007 La Vie en Rose (which earned Marion Cotillard as Edith Piaf a Golden Globe for Best Actress-Motion Picture Musical/Comedy) and Grace of Monaco (with Nicole Kidman in the part of the movie star turned princess).

Adolescent years are rarely painless, especially in the case of precocious 13-year-old Fen Liang (Caitlin Fang), the protagonist in the Taiwanese drama American Girl. Fen finds herself uprooted from her adopted city of Los Angeles.

World War III is an Iranian thriller drama that begins as a black comedy and becomes darker as the story goes on. Directed, co-written, produced, and edited by Houman Seyyedi, the film is about Shakib (Mohsen Tanabandeh), a homeless day laborer who lost his wife and son in an earthquake years ago and is now working as a construction worker on a film about the atrocities committed by Hitler during World War II.

IMAX is going to benefit enormously from China’s release of Avatar: The Way of Water. According to The Hollywood Reporter, its CEO Richard Gelfond addressed the Wells Fargo TMT Summit last Tuesday and predicted huge returns at the box office going by the presales numbers and the performance of the first Avatar in 2010 which earned $200 million in China.

The coming-of-age movie Make a Wish follows Kaan, a young boy living a happy life in the countryside, until one day he learns that his family are moving to Istanbul. Upset by the news, and not wanting to leave his friends behind, Kaan finds a solution in a book titled “Make A Wish,” given to him by his aunt for his birthday.

Sara (Laura Galán) is a teenager who has grown up behind the counter of her father´s butcher shop. There, surrounded by sharp knives, bloody meat and animal carcasses she feels safe from her tormentors - a trio of girls (Irene Ferreiro, Camille Aguilar and Claudia Salas) who mercilessly bully her and make fun of her weight, and her own mother (Carmen Machi) who insists she must diet to avoid the constant teasing from the other girls in town.