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John Waters was born in Baltimore in 1946. Raised Roman Catholic, he was a rather odd kid.

His role as "The Professor" in the international hit series Money Heist made him an international star. And that's how he got cast in the Amazon production, The Wheel of Time.

When the HFPA requested an interview to mark Pride month with Justice For My Sister (JFMS) founder, Kimberly Bautista, the executive director politely declined. Not because she wasn’t eager to promote the arts-based non-profit organization that receives grant support from the HFPA, but because she was taking a hiatus to produce her own short film about a genderqueer family and taking that opportunity to also employ participants from her organization’s PA (Production Assistant) Certification Program which would help set them up with a career in the film and TV industry.

The dinosaurs, especially the Giganotosaurus, stomped the box office. Proving that the franchise is not at all extinct, Jurassic World Dominion made a gigantic North American debut with $143.

Last weekend, T-Rexes were tall enough to wipe the F-18s from the skies, as the new Jurassic film made sure that Top Gun is not quite on top anymore. Jurassic World: Ein Neues Zeitalter (Jurassic World: Dominion) made an impressive debut in both, Austria and Germany, surpassing Top Gun: Maverick and putting the Tom Cruise starrer in second place.

The big release this weekend in China is Universal’s Jurassic World: Dominion which opened to $14. 9 million on Friday, June 10 on 60,000 screens -- only about 75% of Chinese cinemas.

Jennifer Lopez’s documentary, Halftime, opened the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival at the United Palace in Washington Heights. Lopez sizzled in a black velvet gown with sheer cutouts by Tom Ford, in the film’s world premiere.

Emma Thompson, two times Golden Globe winner out of ten nominations, spoke to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 1998 about Primary Colors directed by Mike Nichols, where she played a political wife modeled after Hillary Clinton opposite John Travolta as Bill Clinton. The film is about the 1992 Presidential campaign, but the actress also addressed the 1998 impeachment trial that was explored in the 2021 series Impeachment: American Crime Story.

We spoke to Gina Guarino Eskow about the Valley Cultural Foundation, an important non-profit organization that has changed the arts landscape of the San Fernando Valley. The Valley Cultural Foundation, one of the HFPA grantees, was founded in 1975 to assist the LA City Department of Parks and Recreation in bringing arts and culture to the San Fernando Valley.

Romantic thriller Stars at Noon, based on Denis Johnson’s 1986 novel of the same name, stars Golden Globe nominee Margaret Qualley (Maid) as Trish, a headstrong journalist who has an affair in Nicaragua with a mysterious, soft-spoken English businessman, Daniel, played by Joe Alwyn (Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk). While the book is set in the 80s, legendary director Claire Denis (High Life, Both Sides of the Blade) has updated the backdrop from that of the Nicaraguan revolution to the present day COVID pandemic era.