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Since its launch in 2010, fans of The Walking Dead have applauded the show for delivering a wealth of well-developed female characters to the small screen. From Michonne [Danai Gurira] and Maggie Greene [Lauren Cohan] to Carol Peletier [Melissa McBride], Sasha Williams [Sonequa Martin-Green] and Rosita Espinosa [Christian Serratos], the Golden Globe-nominated series has continued to present three-dimensional women in its post-apocalyptic storylines.

Pete Buttigieg’s historical run for the White House, as an openly gay and serious contender for a major party nomination, is a recurring theme in Jesse Moss’ new documentary, Mayor Pete. World-premiering at the Chicago Film Festival, Mayor Pete streams on Amazon Prime November 12.

The year is 1361, and a very young Margrete is witnessing the dead and wounded soldiers on the battlefield of Visby. Cut to 1402, Margrete (played by Danish actress Trine Dyrholm), has become Queen Margrete of Denmark and is negotiating with Norwegians and Swedes to create peace in the Nordic countries.

Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur opened Reykjavik Studios (RVK) in 2018 in a building that used to be a fertilizer plant. The studio, which is roughly 86,000 square feet is one of Europe’s largest and as Iceland is already a popular shooting location for international projects, Kormákur hopes to attract foreign productions to shoot here.

In 1984 Michael Douglas talked to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association about Kathleen Turner, his costar in Romancing the Stone directed by Robert Zemeckis as well as in the sequel Jewel of the Nile (1985) and The War of the Roses (1989) directed by Danny DeVito. “Kathleen was actually suggested by Joe Wizan, president of 20th Century Fox Studios, who had remembered her from The Man With Two Brains.

HFPA members Adam Tanswell and Janet R. Nepales won prizes in the 63rd Southern California Journalism Awards, the annual contest presented by the Los Angeles Press Club (LAPC).

Halloween Kills made a killing at the domestic box office on its debut with $50. 35 million which surpassed all expectations, including that of the horror sequel’s studio, Universal Pictures.

The new documentary The Mustangs: America’s Wild Horses opens with a quote from Luther Standing Bear, a Native American author, educator and actor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Man’s heart away from nature, he opines, becomes hard, and a lack of respect for growing, living things soon leads to a lack of respect for humans too.

Wes Anderson’s love letter to French cinema and homage to print journalism comes in the form of his upcoming film, The French Dispatch, in which he has recruited the Anderson ensemble of usual suspects including Bill Murray, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman, Tilda Swinton, Owen Wilson, and Bob Balaban, and has added some new faces to his well-worn troupe, including Alex Lawther, Timothée Chalamet, Lea Seydoux and Elisabeth Moss. At the New York Film Festival, the esteemed writer-director-producer joined some of his cast via Zoom from Cinchón, Spain, on the outskirts of Madrid, where he is shooting Asteroid City to discuss this much-anticipated new film.

Team House Studios is not your typical production company. Founded in 2020 by filmmaker Steven Grayhm with former NFL'er and Green Beret Nate Boyer, its aim was to become the foremost film and TV production company in the industry that was committed to empowering military veterans both in front of and behind the camera through real, hands-on training.