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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) announced an agreement to co-sponsor a series of Global Forums with the Narrating Behavior Change Program of the World Bank to promote the growth of edutainment programming around the world; the use of entertainment media with educational objectives. “This partnership seeks to connect Hollywood with the global development community by developing new creative programming with the goal of helping to promote important sustainability goals, which improve the lives of millions of people struggling with healthcare, environmental and other challenges,” said Helen Hoehne, president of the HFPA.

Guadalajara International Film Festival June 2022 With gender politics raging while women artists and professionals struggle to secure equitable footing in the world, female-driven stories continue to enrich global cinema. Flávia Neves and Marianna Bastos are two new Brazilian filmmakers who dare to challenge a history of oppression and whose films competed in the Ibero-American Features section at the Guadalajara International Film Festival.

OUTFEST was established in 1982 in Los Angeles as the first and only global LGBTQIA+ arts, media, and entertainment organization to support artists, communities, and filmmakers to change the world through their stories. Since 2005, the HFPA has donated almost $600,000 to this wonderful non-profit organization that last year hosted over 300 screenings and panels, six programs and engaged with over 50,000 attendees.

Every summer, National Sunglasses Day spotlights the importance of wearing tinted eyewear to shield our eyes from the UV rays. People have been protecting their eyes from the glare of the sun since prehistoric times when generations of people living in the snow-bound Arctic Circle used pieces of flattened walrus, ivory or caribou antler fitted to their eyes to protect them from burning snow and ice reflections.

Speaking on June 13 via a Variety streaming room event, some of the cast of Ted Lasso, including Hannah Waddingham, Phil Dunster, Toheeb Jimoh, Nick Mohammed, and Sarah Niles, gathered via Zoom to talk about the award-winning series (including six Golden Globe nominations and two awards). In the previous season, Waddingham’s soccer executive, Rebecca, had some upheaval in her romantic life when her relationship with AFC Richard player, Sam (Toheeb Jimoh), came to an end.

Aiming to follow in his father’s swashbuckling footsteps, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. bought the rights to the 1926 book “His Majesty, the King: A Romantic Love Chase of the Seventeenth Century” by Cosmo Hamilton in 1941.

Elvis Presley is King again. After Elvis and Top Gun: Maverick duked it out for number one, locked in a dead heat, the King prevailed over Capt.

Not a single film, over seven days, made it through the one million euro mark. The craziest heat wave in decades, with its terrible drought, is influencing lifestyles around the peninsula.

In rock’ n roll he was “The King”. In the movie version of his life, Elvis failed to reach number one – or even two – in the countries where he had over 30 number one hits.

Jurassic World: Dominion continues to make money in China, but it fell out of the No. 1 slot this weekend.