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Golden Globe winner Sir Ben Kingsley was a budding musician in the early ‘60s and his band, The Vikings, raised the interest of Beatles manager Brian Epstein. But it all came to an end when his promising acting talent took over.

After the heavily trending palette of blues, pinks and purples of the previous week, colors became more variant, but make no mistake – those hues are here for the season. Add in mustard through gold with the traditional solids thrown in and we are predicting the most colorful red carpet in years.

Playing William Shakespeare’s King Lear for the second time was a dream come true for Sir Anthony Hopkins. “My relationship with Shakespeare's a little bumpy.

HFPA Grantee “I’m from a blue-collar family, they all work in warehouses or dishwashing in restaurants”, says José Gutierrez who grew up in East L. A.

“My closest allies are indispensable. My producing partner, Anne Rosellini, and I can communicate with honesty, so I don't have to compromise with what I tell her and what I really want to do.

The big-screen adaptation of the kids book The House with a Clock in Its Walls, a pre-Halloween family film with Jack Black and Cate Blanchett, had a good start. It topped the US charts, with close to $27 million.

Three-time Golden Globe winner Julia Roberts, the girl next door turned into Pretty Woman, is still enjoying a brilliant career. A protective mother in the upcoming film Ben Is Back and a trauma counselor in the upcoming series Homecoming, Roberts promoted both works in Toronto.

Before Bob Odenkirk was known as Saul Goodman, the beloved shady lawyer from Breaking Bad, he was a comedy writer from Naperville, a suburb of Chicago. “I'm from a family of seven kids, and we entertained each other at the dinner table and there was a lot of storytelling.

Arriving in theaters 30 years after the first Predator, the one with Arnold Schwarzenegger fighting extraterrestrials, Shane Black’s The Predator took the top spot at the North American market but it came in below industry estimates. Analysts had predicted a debut in the range of $36 to $40 million.

Green Book, a sleeper hit among the big hits of Toronto International Film Festival, won the event’s People’s Choice Award. In previous years, TIFF’s audience prize has launched the trajectory of several films, among them Slumdog Millionaire, 12 Years a Slave, The King’s Speech, American Beauty and Chariots of Fire.