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The Eurasia International Film Festival (EIFF), taking place from June 30 to July 7 in Nur-Sultan (formerly Astana), the capital city of the Republic of Kazakhstan, is the largest competition film event in Central Asia. The venue for EIFF could not be better chosen.

Franco Zeffirelli, who died recently at 96, was Italian to his core, but also had a life long love of England, and won his Golden Globe for directing a movie in English with an all British cast, based on a Shakespeare play, Romeo and Juliet, in 1968. The movie won the Best English Language Foreign Film, a discontinued Golden Globe category.

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.

Major fireworks went off for Spider-Man: Far from Home as Sony's second co-production with Marvel Studios netted a massive $185 million over the Fourth of July holiday. Sony opted to open their latest Spider movie two days ahead of the midweek national holiday in the US.

For over 40 years the HFPA has recorded famous and celebrated actresses, actors and filmmakers. The world's largest collection of its kind - over 10,000  items - is now in the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences Margaret Herrick Library.

At first, Patricia Arquette couldn’t understand her character, abusive mother Dee Dee, on the miniseries The Act.   But as an actress, she had to.

Another outstanding awards night for our nominated members in the 61st Southern California Journalism Awards, Foreign Correspondents, category: Entertainment News or Feature, resulting in:2nd Place: Barbara Gasser, Maxima, “Cultural Revolution - Hollywood after Weinstein”3rd Place: Adam Tanswell, SciFiNow, “Avengers Set Visit”The 1st place winner in this category was Hugo Daniel, The Mail on Sunday, 'Tina turned her back on me'. The 61st Southern California Journalism Awards was presented by the Los Angeles Press Club and held at the legendary Millennium Biltmore Hotel Downtown Los Angeles.

The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, one of the world’s oldest, is celebrating its 54th iteration this year, and one of the highlights of this year’s edition was the screening of Stanley Kubrick’s 1957 anti-war masterpiece Paths of Glory in the festival’s Out of the Past section. This film is one of the 92 films restored with HFPA funding in collaboration with Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation.

Now in its 65th year and set in one of the Sicilian coastline’s most ancient cities, the Taormina film festival is one of the oldest in the world, It also happens to have one of the most iconic original Greek theatres in the world and filmmakers who have their work shown in that magnificent arena can consider themselves very lucky. This year legendary director Bruce Beresford gets to see the audience reaction at the aptly named Teatro Antico for his latest, Ladies in Black, on opening night.

Toy Story 4 stayed on top of the domestic box office chart in its second weekend in theaters, taking $57. 9 million to reach a home market cume of $236.