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Disney's live-action remake of Dumbo made it out of the circus tent this weekend with a far from spectacular $45 million launch. Coming 78 years after the classic cartoon feature's 1941 release, Tim Burton's version is perhaps even more kid-friendly than the original, doing without thing's like the young elephant's psychedelic drinking experience and the not so subtly racist jive speaking Jim Crow crows.

If she had only made Cleo from 5 to 7, it would have been sufficient, if she had made only Le Bonheur, it would have been sufficient. Had she only made One Sings, the Other Doesn’t, it would have been sufficient.

Idris Elba, the Golden Globe-winning British actor known for the dark police series Luther, is showing his lighter and comedic side in the new Netflix series Turn Up Charlie, in which he plays an unsuccessful DJ, who is also a messy man-child. “I really wanted to do something funny, something that was just lighthearted,” Elba said in Los Angeles, “and this was a great opportunity to bring all of the things in my life that people would not see.

Henry Winkler has been acting since the 1960s, but it was his Arthur ‘Fonzie’ Fonzarelli - Happy Days' tough biker in a black leather jacket - that made him famous and brought him two Golden Globes in the 1970s.   Several TV shows-Children'ss Hospital, Royal Pains, Parks and Recreation, Arrested Development- followed, complemented with directing, producing and writing children’s books.

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.

It was an early start for the thousand plus press and VIPs who were invited to sit in the famed Steve Jobs Theatre at Apple headquarters in Cupertino on March 25 for a (not so)  mysterious ‘announcement’.  Shuttles from nearby hotels started at 7.

Jordan Peele has scored another hit and cemented himself as one of the world's premier surreal horror directors with Us opening to an outstanding $70 million in its domestic debut. The film is about a family who is terrorized by their doppelgangers, evil beings that look exactly like them and want to kill them and take over their lives, while on vacation in the picturesque hippy/surfer/college town of Santa Cruz, California.

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.

In The Mustang, Belgium actor Matthias Schoenaerts plays a violent prison inmate who undergoes a personal transformation when he is entered into a mustang-taming program.   HFPA journalist Greet Ramaekers sat down with Schoenaerts and talked about how an actor from Antwerp ended up having an internationally successful career.

There are still many unknowns about the Disney-Fox deal, but the acquisition of Fox by the Burbank Behemoth, which diminishes the historic major studios from six to five, promises to be epochal in many ways for the movie industry and the City of Angels. While we wait to learn its practical effects on everything from the feature production slate to city traffic, HFPA member and ex-president Phil Berk has this remembrance of a studio which will forever be part of filmdom history.