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Halloween served up a scare for Hollywood, as a host of star-studded awards vehicles and the requisite horror thrillers all flopped at the domestic box office. Sandra Bullock, who plays the lead in and produced political passion project Our Brand is Crisis, saw the lowest wide release opening of her career with just $3.

There is at least one film festival every day and every week of the year taking place somewhere in the world. But nowhere is film more often celebrated than in the heart of the film industry, in Hollywood.

A Halloween treat: Extraordinary Tales, the animated film featuring the voices of great movie masters of terror, will be screened at the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia, on Halloween night, and in selected theaters around the country during the same week. A shocking animated anthology of horror comprised of five short stories based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Extraordinary Tales includes the talent of Sir Christopher Lee in his last work before his passing, and the original Dracula, Bela Lugosi, coming back from the land of the dead in a lost recording of “The Tell-Tale Heart”.

Multiple Golden Globe nominee and winner Ricky Gervais will be back for more! Yes, after hosting the show in 2010, 2011 and 2012 Ricky will be back on our Beverly Hilton stage on January 10, 2016 to MC the Golden Globes Awards Ceremony. Returning to the same stage where he brought his acerbic sense of humor to Hollywood, he is sure to add his special kind of British spice to the proceedings.

The HFPA’s Ali Sar talks to Genndy Tartakovsky the director behind the Hotel Transylvania franchise and one of the most distinctive voices in animation todayThere is a child in every animator, and Genndy Tartakovsky is no exception. The challenge is how to make the best use of this talent.

It was a scary week in the North American market – and Halloween is not even here yet. Every single movie opening domestically flopped – and flopped badly.

With the passing of one of Hollywood’s truly legendary leading ladies, the HFPA’s Phil Berk remembers a one-of-a-kind icon. Maureen O’Hara gave her last HFPA press conference in June of 1991.

Look closely. Of course you are either scared out of your wits or enthralled by Guillermo del Toro’s masterful retelling of a classic gothic ghost story, but take a moment and try.

In Back to the Future Part II, Marty McFly travels to October 21, 2015 to try and save his, as yet unborn, children. Well, the future is finally here! On this same momentous date Ana Maria Bahiana goes back to, well.

Goosebumps, a horror-comedy based on the children’s book series and starring Jack Black, is the new domestic champ. The film grossed $23 million, stealing the top spot from the space epic The Martian, which, in its third week, grossed $21.