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Golden Globe winner Tim Robbins is known as a great actor, but we cannot avoid the musical legacy that he inherited from his father, a member of the acclaimed 60s folk band, The Highwaymen. One of his sons is becoming a rock star, and Tim himself has his own band, The Rogues Gallery – they played two concerts in Italy, in Spoleto and Ravello, which yielded a new live album of folk-inspired Americana material.

HFPA journalist Ana Maria Bahiana sat down with writer/director Kenneth Lonergan at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills.   They talked about his new miniseries, Howards End, based on the novel by E.

HFPA Grantee Project Involve (PI) is the most extensive artist development program of Film Independent (FI), a nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles and designed to support as well as nurture independent cinema. PI offers 9 months of intensive free mentorship, education and career development for about 25-30 emerging filmmakers the majority of whom belong to minorities, such as women, African Americans and LGBTQ groups.

Vittorio Taviani (born September 29, 1929, in San Miniato, Italy) passed away on April 15, 2018, at age 88. In close collaboration with his younger brother Paolo (born November 8, 1931), he directed some important movies in the history of Italian cinema: San Michele aveva un gallo (1971) from the novel The Divine and the Human by Leo Tolstoy;  Allonsanfàn (1974) with Marcello Mastroianni; Padre padrone (1977) the true story of Gavino Ledda, son of a Sardinian shepherd; La notte di San Lorenzo (The Night of the Shooting Stars, 1982), about a 1944 massacre in the cathedral of San Miniato; Good Morning, Babylonia (1987) about two Italian brothers who work in Hollywood as set designers on D.

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson can still claim the world crown title, but at home his position as the number one box office draw has entered into uncertain territory. On its second outing, Rampage had no trouble dominating once again the worldwide box office, pulling in $57 million from 61 territories and easily crossing the $200 million mark.

Golden Globe winner Jennifer Lawrence is a unique talent - she seems to excel in everything when she puts her heart and soul into it.  In her recent film Red Sparrow Lawrence learned the major steps of classical ballet only in three months.

HFPA journalist Tina Jøhnk Christensen met actor, playwright, musician and four-time Golden Globe nominee Jeff Daniels at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s offices in West Hollywood.  They talked about the importance of his TV show on Hulu, The Looming Tower.

HFPA GranteeLos Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA), the famed Arts High School, is located on the Cal State LA campus in East LA. It is considered to be one of the few top arts high schools in the country.

Here we go again! And again! For the 22nd time ColCoa - City of Lights to City of Angels - French Film Festival, the biggest ever showcase of French Cinema outside of France, will open at the Directors Guild of America’s headquarters in Los Angeles on Monday, April 23, 2018 with the North American premiere of Promise at Dawn by director Eric Barbier (The Last Diamond, ColCoa 2014). The picture is based on the autobiographical novel of the same name by two-time Goncourt prize winner Romain Gary.

 It was a tough battle between John Krasinski's almost-silent thriller A Quiet Place and Dwayne Johnson’s noisy action-adventure Rampage but in the end, New Line/Warner Bros’ 800-pound gorilla triumphed. The game-inspired Rampage took both the domestic and international box offices for a grand total of $ 148.