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It was another terrible weekend at the Chinese box office with no new releases and more Covid-related lockdowns. The returns have been moribund for weeks now with no genuine hits aside from Moon Man.

The Golden Globe Awards, in their early years, were a less formal affair than they have been since 1971 when they started being hosted in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel. In 1952, the event was held for the second straight year at Ciro’s, a popular nightclub on the Sunset Strip.

Daniel Radcliffe, now 33, portrays the comedy songwriter in the parody biopic Weird: The Al Yankovic Story with Evan Rachel Wood playing Madonna.  We went back into our extensive archives of exclusive HFPA interviews to see how the British actor, then 12 and 13-years-old, together with his young co-stars, Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley and Emma Watson as Hermione Granger, talked to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press about playing Harry Potter in the first two movies of the saga based on the novels by J.

Nonfiction movies generally provide the cheapest form of travel there is, offering entrée to a diverse array of different cultures, worlds, and points of view. It’s probably also true, however, that the natural inquisitiveness of talented documentary filmmakers is infrequently matched by a visual vocabulary that elevates the subject being explored in their movies.

Hollywood, so goes an old adage, loves movies about Hollywood. And most critics and film lovers agree: To this day, there is none better than Sunset Boulevard.

Poker Face stars Russell Crowe as a tech billionaire and gambler Jake Foley, who invites his childhood friends for a night out for a high-stakes poker game and offers them a chance to win more money than they could ever imagine. But to play the game, they’ll have to reveal the one thing they spend their lives trying to keep: their longtime secrets.

It was a memorable moment in my long career as a journalist, when we traveled to Memphis, Tennessee in June 1989, for the premiere of the movie Great Balls of Fire and press interviews with director Jim McBride, Dennis Quaid, and Jerry Lee Lewis himself, the legendary musician who recently passed away at the age of 87. On that occasion, we also visited Sun Studios where local artists like Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, B.

In the room devoted to a Spike Lee exhibit at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, which opened to the public in 2021, there hang three posters of movies that inspired the lauded director: Breathless (1960), by Jean-Luc Godard; Seven Beauties (1975), by Lina Wertmüller; and The Bicycle Thief (1948), by Vittorio De Sica. The Bicycle Thief was the very first movie to win a Golden Globe as Best Foreign Language Film, in a ceremony held February 23, 1950, in the Embassy Room of the Ambassador Hotel, the 1950 Golden Globes.

More than seven years after his acclaimed thriller debut D'Ardennes, Belgian film director Robin Pront (36) is back with an ambitious biopic. Zillion tells a true story of computer genius Frank Verstraeten, who opened his own futuristic mega-discotheque named Zillion and became a key figure of the Antwerp nightlife, with the most beautiful women in Belgium and forging an alliance with Dennis Black Magic, the porn king.

Svandis Dora Einarsdottir stars as the female Chief of the Narcotics Division in the Netflix crime series Entrapped (2022). In Entrapped, the third season of the Scandi noir series, the Icelandic police force is investigating the brutal murder of a young man who lived in rural Iceland with a pagan cult which is engaged in a land dispute with a motorcycle gang with ties to Denmark.