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In the morning before the Los Angeles Premiere of the Disney film Christopher Robin  we met Golden Globe winner Ewan McGregor, the star of the movie, a stylish actor born in Scotland and now living in California. During the interview he mentioned music and how much it has affected his life growing up.

Will & Grace star and Golden Globe nominee  Debra Messing got together with HFPA journalist Barbara Gasser at the London hotel in West Hollywood. Messing talked about how she will celebrate her 50th birthday,  reflected on her life experiences as a young woman, and how she found a meaningful purpose to her life in college and later became a Global Health Ambassador for Populations Services International, which led her to visit HIV prevention programs in Malawi, Zimbabwe and Zambia.

HFPA Grantee They are between 14-22 and have covered the Democratic National Convention, the Women’s March and yes, the Golden Globes. They are young women from under-served communities that find empowerment and on-the-job training in digital journalism and media to bring their powerful perspectives to the global media stage.

Sixty years ago, American audiences willing to be scared could go to theaters to see Macabre, a horror movie advertised with great fanfare and an unusual warning: that viewers will be insured by Lloyd’s of London for one thousand dollars each, in case…they die of fright! It worked. The catchy gimmick was a new concept from the fertile and smartly mercantile mind of its director William Castle.

When The Mummy and Jack Reacher turned out to be box office disappointments, commentators were quick to claim that Tom Cruise was incapable of accepting that age eventually catches up with all of us, him included. He was history.

Golden Globe Nominee Rami Malek, soon will be on the world’s screens as Freddie Mercury, the iconic singer of the English band Queen. Malek’s love for music and acting was put to the test and when we met for a long lead interview on the movie - appropriately titled Bohemian Rhapsody - we asked Rami how these two passions and playing the mercurial singer changed his world.

They had the catchy songs, the camp costumes, the beats. And most of the world at their feet.

With one day between them, the two pillars of the international Fall circuit announced similar line-ups, establishing the trends and names that will be on the industry’s minds for the next busy months of prestige releases. Present in the line-up of both Venice and Toronto are Damien Chazelle’s astronaut saga First Man, starring Ryan Gosling (opening and in competition in Venice); Bradley Cooper’s take on the much-filmed A Star is Born, starring Lady Gaga (out of competition in Venice); and Roma, Alfonso Cuarón’s return to Spanish-language filmmaking (a special presentation in Toronto, in competition in Venice).

HFPA Grantee While its campus has existed for over 100 years, LAUSD/USC Media Arts & Engineering Magnet's transformation into a cinematic arts magnet happened less than five years ago. Affectionately known as USC MAE, this 6th – 12th-grade school is located just south of downtown Los Angeles in University Park, right across the street from USC.

In the past four years, The Purge franchise has racked up over $330 million at the worldwide box office (with one film currently still in theaters), peddling a unique mixture of horror, action and social commentary that has only grown more resonant against a backdrop of nationalistic political animus. Now it’s coming to the small screen as well, in the form of a 10-episode series set to premiere on September 4.