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Is it possible to be disappointed with a $375 million opening weekend? For Disney, where a $10 billion year at the global box office isn’t just a fairy tale, Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker’s hefty worldwide bow somehow falls below expectations. At $175.

On the TV show Living with Yourself, Paul Rudd plays a man who wants to be a better version of himself. It deals with the distance of a married couple and depression in an unusual way.

Tom Hanks is no stranger to winning Golden Globes. He’s been nominated nine times, winning three, and now he’s a nominee for playing Mr.

It may seem counterintuitive in this hyper-saturated modern-day celebrity landscape, but it sometimes takes a break to most remind an audience of what they love about a popular performer. Such certainly seems the case with Renée Zellweger, who in 2010 stepped off the constant merry-go-round of back-to-back productions and put a six-year pause on her acting career, to reflect and regroup.

Whether they say Joyeux Noël, Frohe Weihnachten, Feliz Navidad, Crăciun fericit, or Veselé Vánoce, Christmas is celebrated by more than 2 billion around the world, for some only as a cultural holiday. Families reunite, children wait for Father Christmas or Papa Noel or Dedt Moroz, and Christmas trees, gift-giving, and celebratory feasts are traditional.

“It’s not a biopic,” Eddie Murphy stressed about Dolemite Is My Name, in which he plays Rudy Ray Moore, an actor-comedian who created the Dolemite character in movies and records in the 1970s. “This movie is not about Rudy Ray Moore’s life, where he was from and where he was born,” added Eddie, whose portrayal of the man nicknamed as “the Godfather of Rap” earned him the Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy nomination for the 77th Golden Globes.

“It is always difficult to play somebody who exists,” Antonio Banderas said about playing a filmmaker inspired by Pedro Almodóvar in Pain and Glory. Almodóvar himself directed the film - titled Dolor y gloria in Spanish- about a filmmaker who reflects on the choices he has made in life and his series of re-encounters with the people in his past – a fictionalized autobiographical story which the director defines as “auto-fiction.

One presumes Louisa May Alcott might be a little humbled realizing that more than 150 years after she published her novel “Little Women”, artists would still be reimagining her tale of four sisters, Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy March, as they share their journey from childhood to adulthood. Set in Concord, Massachusetts during the Civil War, the story centers on their navigation through sibling rivalry, first love, loss, and marriage.

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.

Taron Egerton remembers the moment quite vividly. On a warm May evening in Cannes, Rocketman was having its World Premiere at the prestigious French film festival.