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Emma Thompson was interviewed numerous times by the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press. This is what she said in 1997 about her mother, actress Phyllida Law, her costar in The Winter Guest directed by Alan Rickman.

Joshua Coates directed, co-wrote and produced Ageless Love, a true love story about a Jewish couple, Yale Schwartz & Nina Lemisch, living in Philadelphia in the late 1960s. It’s an against-the-odds story of how their relationship began, she was a 38-year-old widow raising five children, and he, a 24-year-old college graduate.

The HFPA’s progress towards reform is continuing, as this week we have put more key pieces in place that will help lead the transformational changes that we promised less than a month ago. We said on May 6th that we would move swiftly to show our commitment to reform and that we would regularly update the industry on our progress.

The HFPA’s progress towards reform is continuing, as this week we have put more key pieces in place that will help lead the transformational changes that we promised less than a month ago. We said on May 6th that we would move swiftly to show our commitment to reform and that we would regularly update the industry on our progress.

April 26, 1926 was the opening night of “SEX”, a play written, produced by and starring Mae West. It played at Daly’s 63rd Street Theatre in Manhattan, got scathing reviews (the New York Times called it “a crude and inept play, cheaply produced and poorly acted”), packed houses through that year and into the next, was seen by 325,000 people, and landed West in jail.

Lumière cinematography was introduced to the fast-growing Latin American cities like, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and Rio de Janeiro in 1896 and other Latin American cities soon after. By the 1910s all countries were making films locally, but Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil eventually develop to become large film industries in Latin America.

Mysteries have always interested Brazilian filmmaker Diego Freitas. He tells HFPA journalist Ana Maria Bahiana that he chose film thrillers and horror movies because they aren’t as expensive as fantasy.

As an association of journalists which includes many freelance reporters and entertainment journalists, HFPA members are well cognizant of the seismic changes the profession has undergone in recent years. As traditional business models and revenue streams have been called into question by the mergence of the internet and digital media, newsrooms have been decimated in the US and the world over.

F9 raced to finish spectacularly in its debut in several overseas territories and quickly set milestones. On its earnings from eight markets, the latest installment of the hugely popular Fast & Furious franchise marked the biggest international bow for a Hollywood movie during the COVID-19 health crisis period.

Samuel L. Jackson played a philandering Louisiana doctor in Eve’s Bayou written and directed by Kasi Lemmon.