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Kate Winslet plays 19th-century British paleontologist Mary Anning in Ammonite, written and directed by Francis Lee, her mother is played by Gemma Jones, who had also played her mother in Sense and Sensibility (1995) directed by Ang Lee from the novel by Jane Austen. She spoke to HFPA journalists back then about working with Emma Thompson, who had written the screenplay adaptation of that film and was playing her older sister.

Tickets or credentials to a festival these days are mostly virtual. Organizers all over the world have had to adapt to the rules of 2020.

Kate Mara’s rite of passage into acting came under the lights of the hit TV series Law and Order.

As an actor, Vince Vaughn has crashed weddings, interacted with dinosaurs, seen his relationship break up, gone to therapy and excelled at dodgeball. In his thirty-two-year career, he’d never been asked to play the part of a teenage girl.

Let’s start at the very beginning, the silent era of films, when film music was provided by each individual theater. It was either performed live with musicians or by a phonograph.

Gillian Anderson, who plays Margaret Thatcher in the fourth season of The Crown, had never experienced anything as grand as being part of this series. Taking on the role of Great Britain’s first female Prime Minister was also a welcome challenge that made the former star of the X-Files series transform her looks, mannerisms and speech patterns to portray a woman whom the world knew as the Iron Lady, and who ruled her nation with a strong hand for 11 years.

Growing up in a nice Jewish family in South Orange, New Jersey, Zach Braff knew his parents had set a high bar for him. With his father an attorney and his mother a clinical psychologist, it only took twenty-six years for him to fulfill his familial destiny when he became a doctor.

In May 1923, Adolph Zukor, head of Paramount Pictures, sent director Cecil B. deMille a telegram: “You have lost your mind.

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, China has surpassed the United States to become the world's biggest film box office for the first time. Producing over $460 million in ticket sales, the epic war movie The Eight Hundred is the year’s biggest-grossing movie in the country.

As a 23-year-old native Texan, Cooper Raiff decided to make a movie with no prior filmmaking experience. For his effort, S#!%house, he won the featured narrative competition at this year’s South by Southwest Film Festival.