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Australian actress Essie Davis has faced a lot of challenges in an acting career that includes TV shows Game of Thrones and Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, films including Girl with a Pearl Earring, Nitram, The Babadook, and her Laurence Olivier award-winning performance in the 2013 West End production of A Streetcar Named Desire, opposite Glenn Close. But the Tasmanian-based actress was unprepared for one of her biggest challenges when starring in the New Zealand film The Justice of Bunny King - mastering a Kiwi accent.

George and Julia continue to rule the box office. Despite an ‘avatar’ attack.

Avatar, the most successful film of all time, returns to theaters where audiences can experience this sci-fi fantasy visual spectacle the way James Cameron intended. The film fueled several technological advances in the industry, such as motion capture used by actors during the filming process, and proved that original ideas can be a huge success.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association® (HFPA) today announced the awards timetable for the 80th Annual Golden Globe® Awards along with several changes including the splitting of an acting category in television. Nominations will be announced on Monday, December 12, 2022, with award winners announced on Tuesday, January 10, 2023, in a ceremony televised live on NBC and Peacock from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif.

The Woman King is directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, and stars Viola Davis and South African Thuso Mbedu, along with Sheila Atim, Lashana Lynch and John Boyega. To describe it as an action film might be true, but it leaves out the social significance that might not be immediately obvious to people who are accustomed to seeing themselves represented on all levels of society.

The work of the late Belgian film director, screenwriter, artist Chantal Akerman will be honored with a restored version of the film Tout Une Nuit (1982). The exclusive screening will take place in her native town of Brussels, starting October 4.

The Nigerian film industry, nicknamed “Nollywood,” is the second largest film industry in the world, just behind India in terms of output. Despite its widespread cultural influence, it hasn’t cemented its mark in the United States in the way other foreign (mainly western) film industries have.

The Zurich Film Festival has been bringing together established industry representatives and new talent with their ZFF Academy program since 2006. This year, the HFPA is proud to partner with the Zurich Summit and thus support the newly added ZFF Summit Climber program for up-and-coming talent in the field of film sales and distribution.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association® (HFPA), dick clark productions (dcp), and NBC today announced that Emmy®-winning producer Jesse Collins will serve as showrunner and executive producer of the 80th annual Golden Globe Awards®, returning live coast-to-coast on NBC and Peacock on Tuesday, January 10, 2023 at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT. Dionne Harmon of Jesse Collins Entertainment will also serve as an executive producer.

Merging fact with fiction, French-Caribbean musician Joseph Bologne, who adopted the name Chevalier de Saint-Georges, is the subject of the biopic Chevalier, and is portrayed by Kelvin Harrison Jr. in the titular role.