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  Some of us get to lie in bed and work – particularly if you are Golden Globe winner Colin Farrell, who talked with HFPA members on location for his latest movie, Seven Psychopaths, which reteams the actor with his In Bruges director/writer, Martin McDonagh. In the movie, a visual love story to the City of Angels that includes locations in downtown, the desert and the Hollywood Sign, Farrell portrays a struggling screenwriter who inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles underworld after his friends (Sam Rockwell and Christopher Walken) kidnap a gangster’s (Woody Harrelson) Shih Tzu.

Reese Witherspoon stars in This Means War.

The Harry Potter star takes on new roles.

  Australian filmmaker and deep-sea diver Andrew Wight, who met with the HFPA last year to discuss his 3D film Sanctum, has died in a helicopter crash on the south coast of Australia. Wight, 52, worked closely with Oscar-winning director James Cameron, who co-produced Sanctum with him.

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Rachel McAdams stars in The Vow.

John Krasinksi helps save the whales in Big Miracle.

DALLAS IS BACK After 20 years the popular drama Dallas is returning to television, so members of the HFPA paid a visit to Texas to talk to the cast of the new series and to visit the famous Southfork ranch.    The original series, which ran for 365 episodes from 1978 to 1991, was seen in 96 countries and dubbed into 55 languages.

  Congratulations to the Sundance Film Festival winners!!! The HFPA is proud to be an annual supporter of the Sundance Institute and their ongoing artistic development programs which nurtures emerging independent-minded filmmakers, many of whom go on to participate in the annual Sundance Film Festival. “Every year the Sundance Film Festival brings to light exciting new directions and fresh voices in independent film, and this year is no different,” said festival director John Cooper at the awards ceremony.