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From July 30 to August 16 the second largest city in Australia, has been living and breathing film: Melbourne is hosting its annual Film Festival, created in 1952 and one of the oldest international events in the festival circuit. Over the span of three weeks, the event, has managed to jam pack a true marathon of screenings that includes all kinds of film.

If the weekly box office could be the subject of a film, it would be quite a cliffhanger: surprises, setbacks, comebacks, and unpredictable endings. It’s happened once again in these past few days, when the movie to beat was supposed to be Fantastic Four.

Lady Gaga and Jake Gyllenhaal have joined an all-star roster of presenters at the HFPA’s Annual Grants Banquet Dinner, on Thursday, August 13, at Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. Lady Gaga will soon be seen in FX’s series American Horror Story: Hotel.

Recently a group of HFPA members had the opportunity to spend some quality time with David Duchovny. The nature of the visit, however, was mostly top secret, except for the part involving a cake and some candles to celebrate Duchovny’s 55th birthday, on Friday, August 7.

Recently a group of HFPA members had the opportunity to spend some quality time with David Duchovny. The nature of the visit, however, was mostly top secret, except for the part involving a cake and some candles to celebrate Duchovny’s 55th birthday, on Friday, August 7.

She was Maria Callas in Olivier Dahan’s Grace of Monaco, a sweet and determined housekeeper in James L. Brooks’ Spanglish and a seductive go-between in Michael Cuesta’s Kill the Messenger.

With Meryl Streep rocking’ the screen as Ricki, front woman of The Flash, we were curious to find out what other actors had been bitten by the pop bug and shared the experience with us. These are some of them.

It was a perfect summer night for Mozart at the Hollywood Bowl under the full moon. Amazon invited HFPA members to the Bowl for the live shooting of the first episode of the second season of its series Mozart in the Jungle, which explores the lives of musicians in a fictitious symphonic orchestra.

The stars will converge on the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills on Thursday, August 13, for the HFPA’s Annual Grants Banquet Dinner. Grants to various non-profit entertainment-related organizations and scholarship programs will be announced by Halle Berry, Bryan Cranston, America Ferrara, Saoirse Ronan, Andrew Garfield, Benicio del Toro, Sarah Silverman, Joe Manganiello, Elizabeth Banks, Jon Hamm, Jane Fonda, Elliot Page, Sharon Stone, Brie Larson and Dakota Johnson.

Exactly 70 years after the U. S.