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After Oscar Isaac graduated from Juilliard in 2005, he headed west to California where one of his first auditions was for acclaimed filmmaker Paul Schrader. Although the then 26-year-old actor booked the part, the film never got made.

When Penélope Cruz walked out of the cinema after viewing the film Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down, the then 16-year-old knew immediately that not only did she want to become an actress, but she wanted to work with director Pedro Almodóvar. Thirty years later, the Oscar-winning actress has gotten her wish for the eighth time as she presents their latest collaboration, Madres Paralelas (Parallel Mothers), at the Venice Film Festival.

Brazilian filmmaker Sandra Kogut loves people and their faces and that’s why she tells stories. She has developed a multi-talented career that began in performance and installation art and evolved into documentaries and feature films.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association today announced election results for a new, expanded Board and Credentials Committee, responsible for overseeing the ongoing reform plan to restructure the organization along the lines of accountability, ethics, and greater inclusion of the diversity of world journalism. Today’s results come less than three weeks after HFPA membership approved a new set of bylaws codifying the reform measures.

On March 12, 2020, all 41 theaters in the famed Broadway district of midtown Manhattan shut down because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly 18 months later, with the reopening of the majority of live stage shows slated to take place starting in September and stretching into October, director Oren Jacoby’s On Broadway arrives as a perfectly timed valentine.

After a difficult pandemic edition of the world’s oldest and most glamorous film festival in 2020, the dolce vita may just be back. The 78th edition promises the return of the world’s media, international filmmakers and Hollywood stars.

As summer winds down, Candyman raised the banner for the horror genre and was the movie that toppled the high-performing Free Guy from its number one position in the domestic box office race. The sequel to the 1992 hit, directed by Nia DaCosta who co-wrote the screenplay with Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld, collected $22.

It lasted eight days and was really intense. Almost 10,000 visitors descended into the small and beautiful health resort located two hours away from Prague to watch over 140 films, including 29 features that had their world premiere there.

Stevie Wonder, when interviewed by the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 1985, about his Golden Globe-winning song (and major evergreen hit) “I Just Called to Say I Love You” for the movie The Woman in Red directed by Gene Wilder, talked about apartheid. “Just to make the record straight, I did not say anything about the government of South Africa, because we are clear on where that's coming from already.

Wanuri Kahiu is keen on bringing joy to the world. Especially joy coming out of her home country Kenya, where she started a movement called “Afrobubblegum” with the intention of highlighting joyful art coming out of Africa.