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William Goldman’s adage that “nobody knows anything” when it comes to what will work in a motion picture to make it a success, could just as well be applied today to what will become of the now-shuttered industry after the COVID-19 pandemic has passed. With everybody in the business hunkered down for the foreseeable time, those working on the film finance end of the industry are among those wondering what happens next.

Susanne Bier is at it again. The Danish director, a Golden Globe winner for In a Better World in 2011, is also known for her Danish feature films Brothers and After the Wedding and as well as last year’s huge Netflix success Bird Box, has returned with another limited series.

Margaret Qualley. Don’t know who she is? Get to know her.

Based on Italian writer Roberto Saviano’s brutally candid novel ZeroZeroZero, the eponymous streaming series explores the inner workings of the cocaine trade and distribution worldwide. In a multilayered story that touches several continents, Andrea Riseborough plays the daughter of a New Orleans shipping mogul, who is involved in the dangerous world of drug trading – a rough and emotionally distant character directly opposite to her recent role as the kind and compassionate Alice in The Kindness of Strangers.

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.

It was August 1945 and in his two-story house on Whitley Terrace in the Hollywood Hills, Max Ophüls had started writing a personal bio at the request of a publicist for the company that had finally hired him after four years of unemployment. Like many of his European colleagues before him, the German-born and French-naturalized filmmaker had moved to America in 1941, hoping to find work in Tinseltown.

“After 56 years in the film industry, making more than 200 films, after so many broken bones, finally, this is mine,” Jackie Chan joyfully proclaimed at the annual Governors Awards where he was presented an Honorary Oscar Lifetime Achievement Award by Tom Hanks in 2016. Considered the heir to Buster Keaton, as well as to Bruce Lee, Chan is the first Chinese star to be honored by the Academy’s Governors for the cinematic legacy he has built for fans all over the world, the one star from the East that has received bona fide Hollywood stardom.

As India’s 1. 3 billion people are under lockdown, all commerce and activities have come to a grinding halt.

For over 40 years the HFPA has recorded famous and celebrated actors, actresses 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.

(Note: this interview was conducted on March 11th before mandatory quarantine and the closure of all domestic theaters. ) This year, history was made during the award season.