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In the pantheon of matinee idols of the silent film era in Hollywood was an unlikely star, Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa, who had legions of fans and earned $7,500 a week in his heyday for movies like Cecil B. DeMille’s 1915 The Cheat, The Tong Man and An Arabian Knight.

Lorna Marie Mugan is an award-winning Irish Costume Designer, whose partial television credits include Peaky Blinders and Mrs. Wilson.

The 4th of July has always brought big-time fun for Americans and big money for Hollywood. This year the USA, more so than the rest of the world, finds itself mired in an uncertain battle with the deadly Coronavirus.

From Ugly Betty and Devious Maids to Whiskey Cavalier and beyond, Ana Ortiz has been a firm fixture on the small screen for close to two decades. Alongside a variety of big-screen roles and animated projects, the acclaimed actress is also no stranger to live theater across the globe.

Steven Soderbergh, 57, is always on the cutting edge. 30-plus years after the Sundance debut of Sex, Lies, and Videotape, 20 years since his Best Director Oscar for Traffic and almost 10 years from the prophetic Contagion, the director, writer, producer, and cinematographer is promoting Beats, by young director Brian Welsh.

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.

Netflix’s four-part dramatic TV-series Unorthodox is partly a true story, based on author Deborah Feldman’s memoir Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots, published in 2012. But when Alexa Karolinski and Anna Winger adapted the book into a TV-series, the three women all agreed to transform the story and make it partly fictitious.

It’s an exciting week for composer and musician  Tamar-kali. She was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Tuesday.

He wrote comedy history. He made generations laugh.

Will Ferrell got the idea for Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga in 1998 when he was visiting Sweden for the first time with his then-future wife, Viveca Paulin. He was amazed by the European song contest and was captivated by how theatrical it was and how excitingly the voting process was presented.