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A Commitment for Years to Come The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is to donate $2 million to the Los Angeles City College's Cinema and Television Department. Funds from the donation will be used to upgrade all studio, post production and theater facilities and will also finance numerous annual scholarships.

It had to go against the Pacquiao vs. Mayweather, the “Fight of the century”, a major event all over the planet that generated over $400 million of pay-per-view sales.

The Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival promised to surprise, reveal, awake everyone’s creativity and reinvent a love affair with the audience and the city. As a first time BAFICI attendee my love affair with the city couldn’t be reinvented but it began: The combination of the city’s European architecture and Argentine friendliness certainly stole my heart.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau portrays the brutal Jaime Lannister in HBO’s series Game of Thrones but he tells the HFPA it’s really all out of love. You wouldn’t exactly call Jaime Lannister a role model and the 44-year-old Danish actor who portrays him in the hit series Game of Thrones agrees with that.

Avengers: Age of Ultron kicked off what will undoubtedly be a gargantuan run with an already massive $202. 2 million opening in Europe and Asia.

The traditional summer blockbuster season is still months away and yet thanks to Furious 7’s smoldering launch we already have the first billion-dollar movie of 2015. The pinnacle of a franchise that in fourteen years has known nothing but success, 7 scored its third straight win run at the U.

Child 44 the mystery-thriller based on the novel by Tom Rob Smith set in stalinist Soviet Union was abruptly pulled from release in Russia. The Daniel Espinosa film starring Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Noomi Rapace and Vincent Cassel, deals with the hunt for a serial killer, but the larger villain arguably is the totalitarian state which insists the murders did not take place because “murder is strictly a capitalist crime”.

Jeremy Piven has played his role as Ari Gold in Entourage so well that a lot of people mistake him for a pompous, abusive jerk. But that is not who the soon-to-be 50 year-old actor is.

The slate of films featured at the 68th Cannes Film Festival was finally revealed today. They include George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road, Pixar’s Inside Out and Woody Allen’s Irrational Man along with new films by Gus Van Sant (Sea of Trees) and Todd Haynes (Carol).

The 34th Istanbul Film Festival cancelled its film competitions as well as the closing ceremony this week due to the withdrawal of more than 20 filmmakers in a protest against government censorship. The festival is a major film showcase for the region and is regularly attended by members of the HFPA.