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Laurence Fishburne talked to journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 1993 about playing Ike Turner in What’s Love Got To Do With It opposite Angela Bassett as Tina Turner. “I didn't want to play Ike, to begin with, because in the script he was pretty one-dimensional.

The members of the HFPA have voted overwhelmingly to adopt a plan for radical reform of the Association.  Today’s vote reaffirms our commitment to change.

With The County, director Grímur Hákonarson delves into an agricultural co-operative in rural Iceland and the mafia-like tactics it uses to keep farmers in their grip. When dairy farmer Inga’s husband has a car accident, she discovers that her husband has worked as an informer for the co-op making sure that they keep the monopoly in the county.

At the 1992 Academy Awards, the Indian director Satyajit Ray was presented with the honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement in film. Ray was dying, filmed in his hospital bed.

Director, actor, and author Yangzom Brauen, the daughter of Swiss anthropologist Martin Brauen and Tibetan artist Sonam Dolma Brauen, was born to be a socially conscious activist. She tells HFPA journalist Marlene von Arx that those themes are also important on the two TV shows, The Republic of Sarah and Rebel, that Brauen has been directing lately.

The Story of a Three-Day Pass, the first film by seminal African American director Melvin Van Peebles is returning to theaters after a new 4K restoration by Indiecollect. The restored film which made its world debut in 2020 at the HFPA’s Restoration Summit, tells the story of a Black US serviceman stationed in Paris who falls in love with a French woman.

China flexed its muscle as the world’s largest film market during the recent five-day May Day and Labor Day weekend. The box office total of the top three movies alone reached more than $124 million.

Angela Bassett won a Golden Globe as Best Actress in a Musical for playing Tina Turner in What’s Love Got to Do With It.   She spoke about her role to Hollywood Foreign Press journalists in 1993.

Justin McConnell’s Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business is a film about the harsh realities of indie filmmaking as we follow McConnell’s trials and tribulations while he endeavors to get his project greenlit through a five-year process. Navigating the current film business is more difficult now than ever before: rapidly changing technology and an overcrowded marketplace have led to an industry in which anyone can make a film, but few can make a living.

Ever since director Davis Guggenheim's nonfiction distillation of former American Vice President Al Gore's deeply personal slideshow about the dangers of global warming, 2006's An Inconvenient Truth, galvanized viewers en route to racking up $50 million in the worldwide box office and two Oscar victories, environmental documentaries have had to grapple with its enormous cultural footprint. Previously seen as a niche market cinematically speaking, environmentalism has now gone mainstream.