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A general view of atmosphere during the 68th annual Cannes Film Festival on May 13, 2015 in Cannes, France.

Opening night with a female director, french film-makers dominate Critic’s Week and a very diverse jury. The Cannes Film Festival gets underway today on the Riviera.

Los Angeles. If someone had been given the mission to find something negative to say about the commercial performance of Avengers: Age of Ultron he or she could point out that the Disney/Marvel property dropped 60% in its second weekend in the U.

Nordic welfare countries are complex.  They are often named as the happiest countries on Earth but there is a darker side to the coin; their people are one of the top ranked consumers of antidepressants.

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The HFPA announced a $2 million endowment to the Los Angeles City College Foundation for the college’s Cinema and Television Department. This is the largest donation ever awarded by the Associations, which over the years, has given grants totaling more than $20 million to entertainment related charities and scholarship programs.

A Commitment for Years to Come The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is to donate $2 million to the Los Angeles City College's Cinema and Television Department. Funds from the donation will be used to upgrade all studio, post production and theater facilities and will also finance numerous annual scholarships.

It had to go against the Pacquiao vs. Mayweather, the “Fight of the century”, a major event all over the planet that generated over $400 million of pay-per-view sales.

The Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival promised to surprise, reveal, awake everyone’s creativity and reinvent a love affair with the audience and the city. As a first time BAFICI attendee my love affair with the city couldn’t be reinvented but it began: The combination of the city’s European architecture and Argentine friendliness certainly stole my heart.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau portrays the brutal Jaime Lannister in HBO’s series Game of Thrones but he tells the HFPA it’s really all out of love. You wouldn’t exactly call Jaime Lannister a role model and the 44-year-old Danish actor who portrays him in the hit series Game of Thrones agrees with that.