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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association today announced election results for a new, expanded Board and Credentials Committee, responsible for overseeing the ongoing reform plan to restructure the organization along the lines of accountability, ethics, and greater inclusion of the diversity of world journalism. Today’s results come less than three weeks after HFPA membership approved a new set of bylaws codifying the reform measures.

On March 12, 2020, all 41 theaters in the famed Broadway district of midtown Manhattan shut down because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly 18 months later, with the reopening of the majority of live stage shows slated to take place starting in September and stretching into October, director Oren Jacoby’s On Broadway arrives as a perfectly timed valentine.

After a difficult pandemic edition of the world’s oldest and most glamorous film festival in 2020, the dolce vita may just be back. The 78th edition promises the return of the world’s media, international filmmakers and Hollywood stars.

As summer winds down, Candyman raised the banner for the horror genre and was the movie that toppled the high-performing Free Guy from its number one position in the domestic box office race. The sequel to the 1992 hit, directed by Nia DaCosta who co-wrote the screenplay with Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld, collected $22.

It lasted eight days and was really intense. Almost 10,000 visitors descended into the small and beautiful health resort located two hours away from Prague to watch over 140 films, including 29 features that had their world premiere there.

Stevie Wonder, when interviewed by the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 1985, about his Golden Globe-winning song (and major evergreen hit) “I Just Called to Say I Love You” for the movie The Woman in Red directed by Gene Wilder, talked about apartheid. “Just to make the record straight, I did not say anything about the government of South Africa, because we are clear on where that's coming from already.

Wanuri Kahiu is keen on bringing joy to the world. Especially joy coming out of her home country Kenya, where she started a movement called “Afrobubblegum” with the intention of highlighting joyful art coming out of Africa.

She's back in Stockholm after spending a few days at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where she presented her first feature, Pleasure, in front of a live audience. Her name is Ninja Thyberg and in the eyes of Hollywood, she is the next big thing.

German director and screenwriter Christian Petzold plays with themes of mythology, love, freedom, innocence, and physical appearance in his latest movie, Undine. The protagonist (Paula Beer) works as a historian, lecturing on Berlin's urban development.

Sergey Fetisov might have been just another footnote in human history had his memoir The Story of Roman not fallen into the creative hands of writer-director Peeter Rebane and writer-star Tom Prior (The Theory of Everything). His chronicle of serving in the Russian military in Estonia during the height of the 1970s Cold War and falling into a love triangle with fighter pilot Roman Medveyev (Oleg Zagorodnii) and best friend Luisa (Diana Pozharskaya) serves as the backdrop to a provocative study of love, self-acceptance, betrayal and social mores.