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Bronwyn Cosgrave has the kind of credits every Instagram fashionista wants. The former Features Editor of British Vogue curated Designing 007 - with the Oscar-winning costume designer Lindy Hemming.

As announced by this headline-grabbing title, it would be an understatement to describe up-and-coming filmmaker Musa Alderson-Clarke as unhappy with former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who ran the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022. In Alderson-Clarke’s protagonist Kaz (Shadrach Agozino), we meet a grieving man whose mother suffered from depression and who killed herself during the lockdown of the Covid pandemic, a tragedy that coincided with the time when Johnson himself was attending an office Christmas party.

Leah Meyerhoff takes us behind the curtain of Film Fatales, an art nonprofit that has been crucial for a more gender diverse equity presence in the entertainment business. For decades, the film industry has struggled with gender disparities and systemic biases that have limited opportunities for gender-marginalized creators.

In addition to its curated and prestigious world premieres, the Cannes Film Festival has a notoriously active marketplace, with producers and filmmakers from all over the world descending each year upon the Côte d’Azur to pitch their would-be projects and attempting to secure financing. In 1982, however, director Wim Wenders had a different aim.

Since our last story about Hollywood’s passion for art, there have been a lot of relevant updates. For instance, Sharon Stone recently had her very first solo gallery exhibition in Culver City, Los Angeles.

The documentary feature, Freedom is Beautiful, focuses on two remarkable Kurdish Iranian asylum seekers who are musicians, artists, poets and close friends. Farhad Bandesh and Mostafa ‘Moz’ Azimitibar were also freed within a month of each other, in 2020, after each having spent eight years locked up in brutal refugee camps on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island and a Melbourne detention center run by the Australian Government.

“How do you respond when the great Howard Gordon (Homeland, 24) says, ‘We’ve a role for you,’ then describes the character as, ‘A mess who makes terrible decisions with men and is not a funny comedian…?’” So asks comedian Whitney Cummings of the packed theater in West Hollywood at the THR Live event, pausing with perfect timing so the audience’s laughter won’t drown out her next words. The circumstances faced by her character on Fox’s Accused moved the women’s activist deeply.

When director Josephine Landertinger Forero first met Cris, he was one of the "honorary members of the poverty club" abandoned in a remote corner of the Caribbean Sea. But the experienced eye of the documentary filmmaker knew that the island where the young man lived, Tierra Bomba, was too small for him.

Partnership Creates the Golden Globe Foundation, a California Nonprofit Public-Benefit CorporationDick Clark Productions (DCP) and Eldridge have acquired all the Golden Globes’ assets, rights, and properties from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). The transaction will result in the winddown of the HFPA and its membership.

Who won the battle between Spider-People and the Maximals? It was a close fight but Transformers: Rise of the Beasts ultimately won over Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. On their debut, the Cybertronians rose to the top with a three-day weekend haul of $60.