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Golden Globe winner Sandra Bullock plays Danny Ocean’s (George Clooney) sister in Ocean’s 8  the film that is becoming an international hit. Her mother was a German opera singer and we asked her if music helped her also as an actress.

“The Indians are coming” is a phrase which no longer holds true in Hollywood as the Indians have already arrived and are busy leaving their make on the film industry. But it was not an easy path, the infant steps took years.

There is no question that the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF, June 29-July 7) preserves and nurtures the great tradition of Central and Eastern European Cinema. Even though film festivals can be seen as collective products of a culture, the choices of this one seem conscious, and all point to keeping the idea of film as a poetic art alive.

Paul Rudd has built a career on his “regular guy” persona, and in Ant-Man he played the smallest superhero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Now he’s back for more with Ant-Man and the Wasp.

When English actor Jared Harris and the HFPA journalist Nellee Holmes met at the AMC offices he revealed what happened on the Mad Men set when he was directing the episode 'Time & Life': “There were some pretty crazy moments because by then it was season seven and all those guys, they knew each other really well and they were really comfortable with each other.   And the guys had started this game where when you weren't watching, they would whack you in the balls with their fingers and try to whip your nuts.

HFPA Grantee The California State Summer School for the Arts (CSSSA) is a cutting-edge and immersive four-week program for talented and motivated high school students in the arts, held on the campus of the California Institute of the Arts each summer. The school provides education in seven artistic disciplines: Animation, Creative Writing, Dance, Film, Music, Theater and Visual Arts.

It was only last summer when a drop in the box office generated major panic in the film industry. It was supposed to mark the beginning of the end of the summer blockbuster, as audiences grew tired of seeing over again the same heroes and super-heroes.

Two-time Golden Globe winner Amy Adams trained as a ballerina but, at 18, found musical theater more to her liking. Music is in her blood - she had her breakthrough as a Disney Princess in the musical Enchanted.

Ruth Negga takes classic glamour and gives it a current twist. Every aspect of her look is carefully crafted, from her hair, to textures, shapes, purses, shoes and color.

HFPA members win awards at LA Press Club’s 60th Annual Southern California Journalism AwardsThree HFPA members – Ruben V. Nepales, Adam Tanswell and Janet R.