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The HFPA has been a proud supporter of Project Involve, the mentoring and artist development program run by Film Independent. For over 25 years the program has incubated the careers of aspiring filmmakers by pairing young creators with top Hollywood mentors to pursue industry tracks ranging from animation to festival programming, editing, cinematography, writing, directing and producing.

A movie in which Chris Rock switches from comedy to horror spiraled to the top of the domestic box office. Spiral, whose original full title is Spiral: From the Book of Saw, catapulted to number one with $8.

Debbie Allen won a Golden Globe as Best Actress in a TV series for Fame. She was interviewed by journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 1982.

In 1928, the 22-year-old “It Girl” Clara Bow gave a candid interview to Photoplay entitled ‘My Life Story. ’ In it she described her rags to riches story.

The recent box office success Godzilla vs. Kong encapsulates the vibrancy and prosperity of Hong Kong, a city that has been featured in Hollywood blockbusters such as Ghost in the Shell, Tomb Raider, Pacific Rim and many more.

A recent world premiere at the Hot Docs Film Festival, Faceless is a vital slice of 21st-century dissent portraiture, a nonfiction work that paradoxically locates a reservoir of humanizing empathy chiefly through its focus on masked protestors. An engaging directorial debut from Jennifer Ngo, the movie provides a gripping look at the 2019 Hong Kong demonstrations against a controversial Chinese extradition bill, as seen through the eyes of various young women and men seeking to protect what they view as their way of life.

Bangladeshi filmmaker Rubaiyat Hossain wants to raise awareness to social realism. Her movie Made in Bangladesh tells how Shimu’s (Rikita Nandini Shimu) battles against corporation, capitalism, and patriarchy.

When comic book writer Mark Millar sold his Millarworld publishing company to Netflix in 2017, the streamer was given access to an expansive library of potential new franchises. Included in the list of comic book properties was the much-loved superhero saga Jupiter’s Legacy, which first launched in 2013 and has now been turned into an original live-action television series with a cast that includes Leslie Bibb, Josh Duhamel, Ben Daniels and Matt Lanter.

Regardless of the next air date of the Golden Globes, implementing transformational changes as quickly - and as thoughtfully - as possible remains the top priority for our organization. We invite our partners in the industry to the table to work with us on the systemic reform that is long overdue, both in our organization as well as within the industry at large.

Guy Ritchie and Jason Statham, teaming up for the fourth time in Wrath of Man, unleashed box office fury this past weekend with $8. 1 million to take the number one spot in the domestic chart.