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Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, China has surpassed the United States to become the world's biggest film box office for the first time. Producing over $460 million in ticket sales, the epic war movie The Eight Hundred is the year’s biggest-grossing movie in the country.

As a 23-year-old native Texan, Cooper Raiff decided to make a movie with no prior filmmaking experience. For his effort, S#!%house, he won the featured narrative competition at this year’s South by Southwest Film Festival.

A big change happened to Kate Walsh during the Covid-19 pandemic - she moved to Australia. The American actress known for Grey’s Anatomy and her own spin-off show Private Practice was visiting her friends when the global pandemic started.

Broadway musicals have often drawn inspiration from historical characters, from literature and from movies. Evita, The Color Purple, Sunset Boulevard, Hairspray, Mean Girls, Once and Tootsie all have been given the musical treatment.

Henry Golding, a TV travel journalist, was picked by director John Chu to play the leading role of the wealthy groom from Singapore in the ensemble comedy Crazy Rich Asians (2018) with Constance Wu, Michelle Yeoh and Awkwafina. Golding then chose the drama Monsoon (2020) as his second feature, to play Kit, a man raised in England returning to Vietnam, the country where he was born and that his parents fled when he was 6-years-old.

Between 1948 and 1983 Golden Globes were awarded in a special category of “New Star of the Year” conceived to recognize young actors making a mark in their early roles. In this series, the HFPA’s Phil Berk highlights those that would follow their auspicious starts with distinguished careers.

The Undoing is set in the heart of New York City. The main characters, Grace and Jonathan Fraser, – played by Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant – live on the rich Upper East Side, where women and men take luxurious designer brands for granted as part of their wardrobe.

British-born actor and model Noah Huntley (The Royals, Dracula Untold, 28 Days Later) stars in the CW sci-fi drama series Pandora. The series which is set in the year 2199 was shot under COVID restrictions in Bulgaria.

In her autobiography “On the Other Hand,” Fay Wray says when director Merian C. Cooper offered her the role of Ann Darrow in King Kong opposite “the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood,” she thought her co-star would be Gary Cooper.

Golden Globe winner Stanley Tucci spoke with HFPA journalists about being a third-generation Italian American and his love for cooking, while promoting the 1996 movie Big Night that he wrote and co-directed. "Big Night is a little bit of my life, not that there's anyone in my family in the restaurant business, but the way people relate to one another is really autobiographical.