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During the 4th of July weekend Americans display their flags, enjoy barbecues, rush to the beach, and they go the movies. The patriotic weekend is actually a very desirable time to open a new picture and to secure the date, and scare away the competition; studios sometimes claim it years in advance.

As the fifth Terminator movie rolls out globally, it can be hard to remember that this billionaire franchise had very humble beginnings, taking the industry – and the fans – by surprise back in 1984? The Terminator’s extraordinary journey began as a nightmare in 1981 – a literal nightmare that woke up a feverish James Cameron in the middle of the night, with the image of a metallic torso dragging itself from an explosion stuck on his brain. Cameron, was a fledgling Canadian-born filmmaker that had risen through the ranks of Roger Corman’s b-movie factory, from model maker to director of Piranha II: The Spawning.

“Why are we still talking about whether women can be funny?” wonders comedienne extraordinaire Amy Schumer. Well if there was ever a doubt she aims to put it to rest with Trainwreck There is a truly perplexed look on Amy Schumer’s face when she is asked why she thinks there is such a large group of successful women in comedy right now.

On January 7, 2015 Charlie Hebdo journalist Antonio Fischetti survived the terror attack on his magazine, as he explains, “only because I attended the funeral of my aunt. ” His voice still trembles when he speaks about the horrific attack in which terrorists stormed the weekly’s office in Paris killing 12 of his colleagues and friends.

HJ Park looks back at a movie tradition both dastardly and delicious. The latest Bond novel Trigger Mortis is written by British writer Anthony Horowitz.

The Mexican American director of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl studied under Scorsese, Nora Ephron, Alejandro González Iñarritu and Ryan Murphy before helming his uniquely personal story. While his name is yet to be widely known, Alfonso Gómez Rejón, director of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, a visual adaption of the novel written by Jesse Andrews is most definitely on the cusp.

Three members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association – Barbara Gasser, Janet Nepales and Ruben Nepales – won prizes in the 57th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards. The Los Angeles Press Club received a record number of close to a thousand entries, making this year’s contest the most competitive in recent memory.

Would the dinosaurs of Jurassic World continue to rampage across the universe as they have been doing since they started rolling into theaters a little over two weeks ago or would they finally be sated? That’s been the question on analysts’ minds and the resounding answer has been that there’s apparently quite a bit of appetite left in the not-so-extinct reptiles. Originally conceived by the fantasy of Michael Crichton and brought to the big screen by Steven Spielberg they continue to generate new records.

Joy, reflection, and gratitude marks stars’ reactions to the Supreme Court’s landmark decisionIt was a regular Friday morning in Hollywood when the Supreme Court’s historical ruling recognizing the constitutional right to same-sex marriages was announced. Movies and TV shows were being shot and edited, and stars were out and about promoting their latest projects.

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