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The echo of The Terminator – a total cost of $6. 4 million, with post-production and publicity included and a return of over $78 million – established new parameters in the industry: a new, successful take on action movies, and the careers of James Cameron as a filmmaker and Arnold Schwarzenegger as an actor with all the elements of a star.

Is it possible for Jordan Peele to release a film without setting the internet on fire? Nope. The 43-year-old writer, director, producer and Academy Award Winner’s highly anticipated third film, Nope, premiered with a $44 million debut last Friday, immediately sending social media into chaos over Peele’s motivations.

For the second week in a row, Thor: Love and Thunder is again number 1 at the box office in France. Directed by Taika Waititi with Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, and Christian Bale, the movie is about Thor fighting Gorr the God Butcher who intends to make the gods extinct.

Originally published: August 3, 2021 Medusa opens in LA and NYC on July 29, 2022.   With Medusa, writer/director, Anita Rocha da Silveira has created an important film that takes everyday life and subverts it into a horror story, because the truth is more frightening than anything we can dream up.

How many days in 2022 since there was a mass shooting in the US? Zero. Most are not even reported.

In a historic vote by its membership, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), announced the approval of Eldridge Industries LLC’s (Eldridge) proposal to create a new private entity to manage its Golden Globes® assets and preserve its charitable and philanthropic programs in a separate non-profit entity. “This is a historic moment for the HFPA and the Golden Globes®,” said Helen Hoehne, President of the HFPA.

The first Forum launched by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the World Bank Narrating Behavior Change Program had the headline “Global Challenges Require Global Solutions,” and centered on innovative partnerships between the entertainment and development sectors. Several crucial questions were asked, and several profound answers were given, challenging Hollywood and global content creators to join forces and expand their focus on edutainment – immersing audiences in engaging stories while providing useful information.

It’s almost 70 years since the term ‘edutainment’ was created by Walt Disney to describe True-Life Adventures, a series of short and full-length documentaries released between 1948 and 1960. Edutainment has been in place for centuries before that though nowadays vital issues are discussed not only through books, but via films, television, museum exhibits, games, social media platforms, and even in Metaverse via various special projects in VR and AR.

“Summer, the South of France…She is 18, less than perfect, and dangerous. ” That was the tag line on the 1987 US poster of the erotic thriller The Year of the Jellyfish, adorned with a seductive photograph of its star Valérie Kaprisky, wearing a come-hither look and with arms crossed over her bare chest.

  As the Golden Globes website has been highlighting for the past week, San Diego’s Comic-Con – a Holy Grail to geeks everywhere - finally returned after a three-year Covid-induced hiatus. Nothing replaces the experience of being there in person, but our HFPA members Anke Hofmann and Rocio Ayuso will try it in our new episode of the Golden Globes Around the World podcast.