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Colin Firth, winner of the Best Actor Golden Globe for The King’s Speech (2010) by Tom Hooper, spoke to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 2001 and 2004 about playing Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy in the TV miniseries Pride and Prejudice (1995) from the 1831 novel by Jane Austen, and a modern version named Mark Darcy in Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004) with Renée Zellweger from Helen Fielding’s novels.

This year, Cannes will be really Cannes! The festival, which celebrates its 75th anniversary this year, will be held from May 17 to 28 in an almost normal configuration and will offer top-of-the-range competition. After 2020’s edition was canceled due to Covid and a smaller version held in summer 2021, this year the festival anticipates normal attendance levels.

Markers of social progress, the struggle for greater equality and representation, can often seem tenuous and vague. As recent events have amply illustrated, backsliding can occur, wiping out years or even generations of advancement heretofore presumed permanent.

A couple of years ago, Golden Globe nominee Andie MacDowell, who is a mother of three children, a son Justin, and two daughters Margaret and Rainey (a musician known as Rainsford, who debuted in 2012 as Miss Golden Globes), posted an archive photo on Instagram. She wrote: “My children including my son are my greatest teachers.

Historically, the landscape of successful Asians behind the camera has been sparse. Among the few who peopled this landscape, however, there have been standouts – famously, Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, who helmed over thirty films in his career during the mid-1900s, and is often cited as the inspiration for the work of Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and George Lucas.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, American television networks began a gradual modification to their primetime shows to reflect a more diverse perspective. Though Desi Arnaz rocketed to stardom as the Latin lead of I Love Lucy back in 1951, the networks were slow to embrace diversity outside of cultural typecasting.

Belgian Writer-Director Wouter Bouvijn is only 35 years old and already has three international laureated television series under his belt. Last April, his newest work 1985 premiered at the prestigious CanneSeries 2022.

All stars were on deck May 2 in Hollywood for the much-awaited premiere of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the latest offering from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and sequel to the blockbuster, Doctor Strange, in 2016, which grossed over $677 M worldwide. Doctor Stephen Strange’s movie litany other than the eponymously titled film six years ago includes such films as Thor: Ragnarok, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, and most recently Spider-Man: No Way Home.

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore remains in 1st place. Directed by David Yates, and starring Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law, and Mads Mikkelsen, the movie about Albus Dumbledore’s new assignment to Newt grossed $2,309,889.

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