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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.

The television home of the Golden Globe Awards for the past 23 years, NBC has signed a new eight-year deal with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) and dick clark productions (dcp) that begins with the upcoming Jan. 6, 2019.

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Film Bios is an occasional series reviewing autobiographies of notable filmmakers. Four years before he passed away in 2008 at age 91, Dino Risi published I Miei Mostri, a sort of memoir - or confessions as the Italians prefer to call it -  actually an eclectic mix of miscellaneous recollections of his long life whose title, of course, refers to one of his most famous films, The Monsters (1963).

The OId Man and the Gun was announced as Robert Redford’s last movie as an actor. “I will stay in the business as a director and producer,” he assured us, adding that he never said, “This is my last movie.

The season has embraced all ranges of turquoise, pink and brinjal, while staple solids remain. Yellow through mustard all the way to brown puce are also flaring.

“You cannot be afraid of ambition,” says Renée Ehrlich Kalfus, a nominee of a BAFTA for Chocolat, and the winner of the Designers Guild Award for Hidden Figures. “You have to stay connected to your drive and ambition, and you have got to know what you know.

Ryan Murphy taught Billy Porter to dream the impossible.   Like being a leading character on a network television show, Pose, that is about his community.

HFPA Grantee Live Readings of famous screenplays, old-style musical performances accompanying film screenings and supporting filmmakers before, during and after their actual shooting takes place. Film Independent at LACMA has three specific programs and event series that the HFPA has supported over the years: LIVE READ has been immensely successful and interesting, where name actors, directors and writers have put on a stage reading of famous films.