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Looks like the reports about the death of movie theaters, and of the communal experience of enjoying images of people larger than life on the big screen, have been greatly exaggerated after all. Just a few weeks after the summer’s dismal numbers and the failure of several blockbusters led analysts to predict the end was coming and that the future belonged to streaming and some other technology yet to come, September has turned into something of a miracle month for the industry.

Steven Spielberg and Christopher Nolan introduced special screenings of films restored thanks to Hollywood Foreign Press Association grants at the American Cinematheque. The program was presented jointly with the Film Foundation as part of the events celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Golden Globe Awards.

Golden Globe winner Emma Stone portrays tennis maverick  Billie Jean King in the upcoming movie Battle of the Sexes. Emma, 28, is the same age as Billie Jean was when, in 1973, she met and beat tennis Wall of Famer and self-defined hustler Bobby Riggs, writing an important chapter for equality in sports and elsewhere.

Nico, 1988, which opened the  2017 Venice Horizons section and also played in Toronto, is not the first documentary about Christa Paffgen, better known as Nico, the superstar of Andy Warhol’s famous Factory and later lead singer of The Velvet Underground. In 1995, another female director, Susanne Ofteringer, chronicled in Nico Icon the self-destructive lifestyle of the German singer, actress, and model, but it was a too broad documentary that tried to encompass a whole life in the frame of one hour.

It is still it. The surprise late summer success that came at the end of a challenging and worrisome box office season.

  THE HOLLYWOOD FOREIGN PRESS ASSOCIATION, THE FILM FOUNDATION, AND THE AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE TO CELEBRATE THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS WITH RESTORED CLASSIC FILMS SCREENING SERIES AT THE EGYPTIAN THEATRE TITLES INCLUDE “THE RED SHOES,” “A FACE IN THE CROWD,” “COME BACK TO THE FIVE AND DIME, JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN,” “DEATH OF A SALESMAN,” AND “THE APU TRILOGY”   HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (Sept.

It has become the most succesful September release ever, winning its second weekend box office with $60 million for a worlwide total of $371. 3 million.

Stressors that cause fear are something that, in real life, most of us try to avoid. Humans, after all, instinctively seek out that which offers them comfort.

In January the Hollywood Foreign Press Association  announced the award of a $2 million endowment to California State University Northridge to support the school’s acclaimed Department of Cinema and Television Arts. The grant is part of the Hollywood Foreign Press’ commitment to fostering excellence and diversity in film arts education.

It was quite obvious for Jessica Biel what she had to do. She had taken some time off when she became a mother when she felt the urge to start working again.