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Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Travis Kalanick, former co-founder and CEO of the ride-sharing service. Created by Brian Koppelman and David Levien and based on the 2019 book of the same name by Mike Isaac, Super Pumped aims to tackle the rise and fall of corporate empires.

“By collaborating with other diverse groups, we can provide leading industry stakeholders with collective guidance on how best to use their enormous cultural influence to advance equity and inclusion for people of all backgrounds,” said Jeremy Tran, executive director of Gold House, the leading nonprofit collective of Asian and Pacific Islander (API) leaders, on why it joined the HFPA, NAACP, and others in the Reimagine Coalition. In October last year, the HFPA and NAACP announced a five-year partnership that included the unique dimension of the Reimagine Coalition.

PaleyFest LA, which showcases buzzworthy TV shows, aptly concluded this year with one of the most popular, Emily in Paris. After screening an exclusive clip from the show, the creator and cast members participated in an interactive Q & A panel with the festival attendees, which was moderated by People magazine’s Janine Rubenstein at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood.

As predicted, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness caused a box office frenzy and set several precedents: the best bow of a Disney film in the pandemic era; and the biggest opening figures so far this year. The Marvel Cinematic Universe epic, respected filmmaker Sam Raimi’s first movie after almost ten years, made $185 million, which was on the high end of expectations.

Magic beat magic at last weekend’s box office when another Marvel hero took the lead over the beasts in Germany. And opera fans proved once again that they love a classic Puccini.

While Disney is celebrating the $265 million international opening week numbers for Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, there is no China release for the movie.

Colin Firth, winner of the Best Actor Golden Globe for The King’s Speech (2010) by Tom Hooper, spoke to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 2001 and 2004 about playing Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy in the TV miniseries Pride and Prejudice (1995) from the 1831 novel by Jane Austen, and a modern version named Mark Darcy in Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004) with Renée Zellweger from Helen Fielding’s novels.

This year, Cannes will be really Cannes! The festival, which celebrates its 75th anniversary this year, will be held from May 17 to 28 in an almost normal configuration and will offer top-of-the-range competition. After 2020’s edition was canceled due to Covid and a smaller version held in summer 2021, this year the festival anticipates normal attendance levels.

Markers of social progress, the struggle for greater equality and representation, can often seem tenuous and vague. As recent events have amply illustrated, backsliding can occur, wiping out years or even generations of advancement heretofore presumed permanent.

A couple of years ago, Golden Globe nominee Andie MacDowell, who is a mother of three children, a son Justin, and two daughters Margaret and Rainey (a musician known as Rainsford, who debuted in 2012 as Miss Golden Globes), posted an archive photo on Instagram. She wrote: “My children including my son are my greatest teachers.