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After fifty years of non-stop praise and film history case study, The Godfather: Part I, Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 masterpiece about family patriarch Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) is as young and looks as great as ever.   We were reminded of its overall importance by a special screening at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, with the Golden Globe and Academy award-winning Nino Rota’s score played live by a 60-piece orchestra of LA’s most talented orchestral musicians, conducted by Scott Terrell.

The 1954 awards were held jointly by the Hollywood Foreign Correspondents Association (HFCA) and the Foreign Press Association of Hollywood (FPAH), the two organizations that in 1955 would merge to form the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). The invitation came from the International Press of Hollywood, presenting the Golden Globe and World Film Favorites Awards for 1953, and took place on Friday, January 22, 1954, at Club Casa Del Mar in Santa Monica.

Pierce Brosnan has been nominated twice at the Golden Globes, the first in 1985 for the television series Nancy Astor and in 2006 for the film The Matador. In addition, he was awarded an honorary Order of the British Empire for his “outstanding contribution to the British film industry.

Till is the true story of ‘Mamie Till-Mobley’s’ (Danielle Deadwyler) unbending pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till (Jalyn Hall), who was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. Frankie Faison takes on the role of John Carthan, father of Mamie and grandfather of Emmett.

The year 1952 was a banner one for musicals, and the 10th Annual Golden Globes, held on February 26, 1953, at the Ambassador Hotel, celebrated five of the best as nominees for Best Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. The Golden Globe winner, director Walter Lang’s With a Song in My Heart, is a biographical musical based on the life of singer Jane Froman, who suffered massive injuries in an airplane crash on her way to a USO tour during World War II.

Despite horror films flooding the theaters in time for the Halloween season, Dwayne Johnson’s Black Adam still topped the box office charts in its second week. Johnson’s first superhero movie, which took 15 years to bring to the big screen (counting from 2007 when the announcement was first made), grabbed $27.

It was another terrible weekend at the Chinese box office with no new releases and more Covid-related lockdowns. The returns have been moribund for weeks now with no genuine hits aside from Moon Man.

The Golden Globe Awards, in their early years, were a less formal affair than they have been since 1971 when they started being hosted in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel. In 1952, the event was held for the second straight year at Ciro’s, a popular nightclub on the Sunset Strip.

Daniel Radcliffe, now 33, portrays the comedy songwriter in the parody biopic Weird: The Al Yankovic Story with Evan Rachel Wood playing Madonna.  We went back into our extensive archives of exclusive HFPA interviews to see how the British actor, then 12 and 13-years-old, together with his young co-stars, Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley and Emma Watson as Hermione Granger, talked to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press about playing Harry Potter in the first two movies of the saga based on the novels by J.

Nonfiction movies generally provide the cheapest form of travel there is, offering entrée to a diverse array of different cultures, worlds, and points of view. It’s probably also true, however, that the natural inquisitiveness of talented documentary filmmakers is infrequently matched by a visual vocabulary that elevates the subject being explored in their movies.