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While Taiwan becomes a hot location for big-budget project, Taipei’s local film festival aims at new and emerging talent from Asia and beyond. With Martin Scorsese filming his upcoming movie Silence, and Luc Besson flying Scarlett Johansson across the Pacific Ocean for Lucy, Taipei is quickly becoming one of the hot new international movie locations.

It was only a year ago that the domestic box office numbers kept going down and pundits were seriously talking of the theatrical experience turning into something reserved for major franchises and for the new crowds of ticket-buyers in China and other territories. But as 2015 has entered into its second half, and after major hits such as Furious 7, Avengers: The Age of Ultron, Pitch Perfect 2 and Jurassic World, we can now safely say that those reports about the imminent demise of the traditional theater were, as Mark Twain would say, greatly exaggerated.

All good things must come to an end and so did Comic-Con 2015, with a mad rush here at HFPA SDCC HQ! The last press conferences included James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe for Victor Frankenstein, the revisiting of the Mary Shelley novel that focuses on the relationship between the misunderstood doctor (McAvoy) and his faithful assistant Igor (Radcliffe). Ryan Reynolds stopped by with the cast of Deadpool the R-Rated anti-superhero (or is it super anti-hero?) movie that made big waves at the Hall H Fox presentation.

Families that dress up together, stay together. Or in San Diego’s Comic-Con, they have fun together! Yes, the creative pastime known as Cosplay that reaches fever-pitch at Comic-Con is definitely a family-friendly activity.

Candid shots taken by HFPA members.

Saturday is in many ways the heart of Comic-Con and even though the bar had been set pretty high by J. J.

Part of the delight of Comic-Con is walking the streets and seeing people not only pay homage to their favorite super hero, but to recognize that we all have an alter ego. That is perhaps the truest sense of “cosplay”.

About 6000 hardcore fans could be forgiven for thinking they died and gone to Star Wars heaven as they witnessed a Comic-Con extravaganza orchestrated by J. J.

Two-time Golden Globe winner Omar Sharif has died in a Cairo hospital aged 83. He had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

Among the most sought after tickets at this Comic-Con were those to the exclusive screening of the pilot for Fear The Walking Dead. And they were some of the most elusive too: Less than 200 lucky guests joined cast and show principals at a Gas lamp theater for a preview of AMC’s companion piece to its smash hit The Walking Dead.