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Smother was intended to be a show about stepmothers, but then the series, aired by Irish broadcaster RTE, took a completely new turn, explains Irish writer Kate O’Riordan who is behind the show. The novelist, who started in television by adapting “Involved”, her first book, into an ITV series, had several TV credits before Smother, the most well-known and successful internationally probably being Mr Selfridge with Jeremy Piven in the lead.

Hoy es uno de los actores más exitosos de la Argentina, que vive en estos días un gran momento profesional: ha sido nominado al Premio Platino como Mejor actor por su trabajo en la película El robo del siglo y a la vez estrena esta semana en Netflix la miniserie El reino, dirigida por Marcelo Piñeyro, en la que tiene uno de los papeles principales. Sin embargo, Diego Peretti no oculta que la actuación se impuso aunque él tuviese otros planes en su vida.

The Suicide Squad blasted its way to the top of the weekend box office charts and dethroned The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It as having the highest debut figures for an R-rated movie in the coronavirus pandemic era. However, box office analysts regarded The Suicide Squad’s $26.

Marlee Matlin, who won a Golden Globes as Best Actress for Children of Lesser God directed by Randa Haines, spoke to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 1986 about growing up deaf. “I grew up with a hearing family, so we had both speech and sign language mixed together.

Born in 1931, Alvin Ailey Jr. , the pioneering African-American dancer, director, and choreographer, who helped change the landscape of modern dance, would have been 90 this year.

Three months after a promise of sweeping reform measures, Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) members approved a new set of bylaws codifying measures that restructure the organization along the lines of inclusion, accountability, and ethics, and greater responsiveness to the film industry and the diversity of world journalism. “Three months ago, we made a promise to commit to transformational change and with this vote, we kept the last and most significant promise in reimagining the HFPA and our role in the industry,” said Ali Sar, HFPA Board President.

Israeli actor Sasson Gabai believes that when people get together they realize how much they are alike. He tells HFPA journalist Sam Asi that that’s what The Band’s Visit is about.

An engaging, candid documentary look at award-winning Swedish auteur Roy Andersson as told chiefly through the lens of his work on his self-proclaimed last film, Being a Human Person is a movie that gives ample consideration to its subject’s primary professional thematic preoccupations: vulnerability, insecurity, and the weight of mortality. It also serves to celebrate more broadly humanity’s inherent need for art, and its use as a salve for what burdens us.

Disney’s Jungle Cruise sailed to the top of the domestic and international box office charts and docked with a worldwide tally of $68. 1 million.

Forest Whitaker spoke with the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in 2006 about playing Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland. He won a Golden Globe as Best Actor in a Drama for this performance.