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In the past few years we have heard it over and over, and even if there was no need for it, these last few days brought us further proof: China is cinema’s new Promised Land. Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation had its Chinese debut last week and it promptly made $86 million, which means it passed the $600 million worldwide mark and, after six weeks of release it topped the international charts – again.

Rain failed to dampen the sizzling Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) and InStyle party celebrating the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Stars from veteran Patrick Stewart and Golden Globe Best Actor winner Eddie Redmayne to eight-year-old Jacob Tremblay, sensational actor of the acclaimed Room, trooped to The Windsor Arms Hotel Saturday night, Sept.

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The In-style/HFPA party is one of the highlights of the Toronto Film Festival – and for good reason. The perfect combination of established A-listers and rising talent, plus a smorgasboard of people you know, and people you know you are going to know.

Latin America shone brighlty at the 72nd Venice Film Festival: two South American films, Venezuela’s From Afar (Desde Alla) took the top prize, the Golden Lion, with Argentina’s The Clan (El Clan) following close behind with the Silver Lion for best director for Pablo Trapero. In the Horizons’ section, Brazil’s Neon Bull (Boi Neon) received the Special Jury Prize.

The stars work hard in Toronto, the perfect venue to promote their Fall prestige films. Matt Damon was pure elegant casual at our press conference for The Martian at the Ritz Carlton hotel.

We are very relieved that beautiful actresses have finally stopped dressing like porn stars. The see-through-I-show-you-all look that was so de rigeur during the last award season seems to finally have gone where it belongs: in the closet or back on the window as the sheer curtain it was always meant to be.