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Costume Designers Amy Roberts and Sidonie Roberts knew that for the fourth season of The Crown, the main focus would be on recreating Princess Diana’s legendary wedding dress. It was originally designed by David and Elizabeth Emanuel for ‘the wedding of the century’ in St Paul’s Cathedral on July 29, 1981.

On the screen he's blonde with piercing blue eyes, always dressed in his immaculate superhero suit in the colors of the American flag, defiant and arrogant behind the camera and smiling and charming in front of it. He's the perfect Homelander in The Boys and certainly one of the many reasons the show, created by Eric Kripke, has become a hit on Amazon.

Beginning in 1952 when the Cecil B.  deMille Award was presented to its namesake visionary director, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has awarded its most prestigious prize 66 times.

Frank Langella played Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon (2008) directed by Ron Howard from the 2006 play by Peter Morgan, CBS CEO William Paley in Good Night, and Good Luck (2005) by George Clooney, Judge Julius Hoffman in The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) written and directed by Aaron Sorkin. He also played a sensual vampire in Dracula (1979) directed by John Badham from a play based on Bram Stoker’s 1931 novel, that he had performed on Broadway.

In recent years, India has produced an annual average of over 1,500 films. The wrestling film Dangal directed by Nitesh Tiwari made nearly US$190 million in China’s box office in 2016.

Italian actress and icon Isabella Rossellini, 68, talks about her upcoming show, Sex and Consequences, a one-of-a-kind, 40-minute absurdist comedy about biodiversity and the multiple ways animals reproduce.   The show will be streaming live from her farm, 60 miles outside New York City, and will feature some of her favorite furry co-stars, including goats, dogs, and a temperamental chicken.

A healthy ego and caustic wit fuel Richard Fleischer’s no-hold-barred “Just Tell Me When To Cry”, his highly spirited autobiography published in 1993. He retired five years earlier after a prolific career started in 1946 and an impressive 47 films to his name.

Federico Fellini is quoted as saying that “from a sentimental point of view” he was “most attached” to his film La Strada. He told writer Edward Murray in Ten Film Classics: A Re-Viewing: “I feel that it is my most representative film, the one that is the most autobiographical; for both personal and sentimental reasons because it is the film that I had the greatest trouble in realizing and that gave me the most difficulty when it came time to find a producer.

Golden Globe winner Laura Linney describes Netflix’s Ozark as a family drama that deals with money laundering. “It’s a bit of a thriller and goes a bit of the subterranean deep dive on identity and who we are and why we are who we are,” she tells HFPA journalist Alexander Nevsky.

Lav Diaz, who is known to be an avid supporter of the slow cinema movement with his usually more than three-hour feature presentations, recently added a feather to his cap with his Orizzonti win for Best Director of his unusually “short” two-hour black-and-white film, Genus Pan (Lahi, Hayop) at the Venice International Film Festival. The movie follows the lives of three Filipino mine workers as well as exposing the corruption of government authorities and questioning the notion of humanity.