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With no major new releases, Top Gun: Maverick was, at one point on Sunday, poised to re-claim the number two spot even after 12 weeks of release. But as this report is being written, it looks like DC League of Super-Pets narrowly edged out Tom Cruise’s blockbuster to win second place.

Gru is definitely rising. After weeks of slumping revenues, Minions: The Rise of Gru has brought a breath of fresh air.

German humor rules the chart again. Jordan Peele breaks into the top ten.

It’s hard to believe it was 25 years ago when Ben Affleck, then 25 years old, stood on the stage at the Beverly Hilton, together with longtime buddy and collaborator Matt Damon, and accepted their first Golden Globe award. It was a Best Screenplay award for Good Will Hunting.

On August 26, fans can see Sylvester Stallone as a dark superhero in Samaritan, that he also produced. Back in 1977, he received two Golden Globe nominations – Best Actor and Best Screenplay for Rocky.

Filipina American Theresa Navarro, Vice President for External Affairs of American Documentary (AmDoc), a Hollywood Foreign Press Association grantee, grew up in a family which loved cinema. “My fondest childhood memories involve going to the drive-in theater with my family or sneaking Asian snacks into the matinee with my cousins,” Navarro recalled.

Moon Man, the blockbuster Chinese sci-fi comedy, has sold over 50 million tickets in just over two weeks of release and is breaking box office records in covid times. For the weekend, it earned $31.

“Ever since I was 16, I was determined to have the greatest adventure any one person could have. ” Those words were spoken by David Bowie, one of the greatest artists of our time, and were a declaration he proved true, as shown in the groundbreaking documentary Moonage Daydream, by writer and director Brett Morgen, due for release worldwide on Imax in September.

Nonfiction films which trade in biography arguably have the ability to avoid a good number of the narrative pitfalls that frequently bedevil fictionalized biopics. They’re less frequently compromised by the active participation of their subjects, for starters.

Representatives from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association led an informative panel at the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival (MVAAFF) in Massachusetts earlier this week, where they discussed the organization’s recent reforms and Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) efforts. The lively session was hosted by co-founder of the MVAAFF, Stephanie T.