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The night was warm and tropical, champagne flowed freely and stars, filmmakers and executives mingled with our members and representatives of the hardworking non-profits, schools and universities we are proud to support - it's August and the Hollywood Foreign Press is ready to announce its new officers and the recipients of our $2. 8 million in grants, with the help of some of the most brilliant members of the industry, in front and behind the cameras.

“The climate crisis is not a partisan issue. It never should have been, but it has become one.

Golden Globe winner Charlize Theron is burning the world screens this month with an extraordinary performance in Atomic Blonde as a high-powered spy in Berlin at the end of the Cold War, in 1989. She produced the movie and was very hands-on on the brilliant soundtrack.

Scroll through to see the drama on the carpet. Hems went from sweeping the carpet to high on the thigh.

Some of Hollywood’s brightest stars were on hand to help the Hollywood Foreign Press Association present its philanthropic endowments for 2017-18 on August 2. This year the HFPA once again awarded over $2.

The last edition of Taipei Film Festival included a screening of the classic Japanese movie Ugetsu (1953), which was restored with funds provided by the HFPA, as part of the Association’s commitment to film restoration. Close to $3 million have been donated since the program started some 20 years ago.

It was a tense race between the top two at the domestic box office but in the end Dunkirk put a sad face on The Emoji Movie’s opening run. This weekend’s biggest story comes however from the Far East, where Wolf Warrior II opened to a stunning $140 million in China.

Golden Globe winner Michael Keaton stars in the action thriller American Assassin. A veteran actor, still very much proud of his portrait of Batman directed by Tim Burton,  Keaton finds inspiration in music for his different roles.

“I am so excited to see women and women of color as directors, making strides, and getting to work,” says Zetna Fuentes, director of the 7th episode of Snowfall, the FX series that chronicles the proliferation of cocaine in LA’s inner city and the connection to the CIA in its quest to fund a proxy war in Central America. The series involves a diverse cast, and is in two languages, with subtitled Spanish dialogues.

A new franchise made its debut at Comic-Con and it comes with the Marvel logo attached to it. For the fans of the comic named Inhumans, there's not much to explain but for the ones with less knowledge about that world, former Game of Thrones villain Iwan Rheon and the star of Hell on Wheels, Anson Mount, stopped by the HFPA lounge at Comic-Con to give us some basic tips: 'I play Black Bolt', Mount said.