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Theaters were shuttered in China for the second weekend in a row as the country deals with the Coronavirus outbreak growing to over 18,000 reported cases and 362 dead. This drove global box office receipts to unexpected lows.

HBO The Outsider's literary pedigree is spotless: based on Stephen King's novel of the same title,  adapted for TV by screenwriter Richard Price, Oscar nominee in 1986 for The Color of Money,  and author of acclaimed TV series such as The Deuce and The Night Of.   As in the novel, the series mixes two genres seemingly incompatible, the crime thriller and the supernatural mystery.

 In August 2017, Swedish journalist Kim Wall was brutally murdered and dismembered by self-proclaimed Danish inventor Peter Madsen in his homemade submarine. At the time Australian documentarian Emma Sullivan was following Madsen in order to tell a completely different story about the eccentric self-made inventor’s Rocket-Madsen’s Space Laboratory.

After surprising the world with his stellar performance as Pablo Escobar in Narcos, for which he received a Golden Globes nomination in 2016, Wagner Moura disappeared as an actor until last September, when The Wasp Network, not still released commercially, was shown in Venice. So it is a big surprise to see him in his first leading role in English in Sergio, a Netflix production that was part of the Premieres program at the Sundance Film Festival, where he also was a member of the International Jury.

For over 40 years the Golden Globes have recorded famous and celebrated actresses, actors and filmmakers.   Born in Liverpool, England, and raised between Canada, London and New York Kim Cattrall won a GoldenGlobe in 2003 for her work in Sex and the City and was nominated again in 2000, 2001 and 2004.

Writer and director Veronica Chen presented her feature film debut, Smokers Only, at Sundance in 2002. Now, the Argentinian filmmaker is back with her film High Tide – a film about female sexuality, class, and power.

In the early 1990s, children’s cable network Nickelodeon, seeking animated programming different from the medium’s traditional powerhouse providers, opened itself up to outside pitches and turned to a hyperactive, highly imaginative upstart, John Kricfalusi, giving him a shot with a six-episode order for Ren & Stimpy, a TV show about an emotionally imbalanced chihuahua and his good-natured but dimwitted feline best friend. When the series premiered in August 1991, it was an out-of-the-gate smash hit, breaking rating records, immediately challenging The Simpsons (then just entering its third season) for domination among animation fans, and eventually raking in, at its peak, several billion dollars in merchandising per year.

Since the onset of the Arab Spring, the Sundance Film Festival has been a platform for in-depth documentaries. From Egypt, Libya, Syria, Iraq, and the Yemen, audiences have been taken behind the news headlines and introduced to the people who risk their lives facing brutal regimes for freedom and democracy.

Austrian actress Valerie Pachner was surprised when she got the role in Terrence Malick's A Hidden Life. “I still have this feeling of what a wonderful coincidence that Terrence Malick decided to do a film about an Austrian story with German-speaking actors,” Pachner told HFPA journalist Barbara Gasser.

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