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In recent years, India has produced an annual average of over 1,500 films. The wrestling film Dangal directed by Nitesh Tiwari made nearly US$190 million in China’s box office in 2016.

Italian actress and icon Isabella Rossellini, 68, talks about her upcoming show, Sex and Consequences, a one-of-a-kind, 40-minute absurdist comedy about biodiversity and the multiple ways animals reproduce.   The show will be streaming live from her farm, 60 miles outside New York City, and will feature some of her favorite furry co-stars, including goats, dogs, and a temperamental chicken.

A healthy ego and caustic wit fuel Richard Fleischer’s no-hold-barred “Just Tell Me When To Cry”, his highly spirited autobiography published in 1993. He retired five years earlier after a prolific career started in 1946 and an impressive 47 films to his name.

Federico Fellini is quoted as saying that “from a sentimental point of view” he was “most attached” to his film La Strada. He told writer Edward Murray in Ten Film Classics: A Re-Viewing: “I feel that it is my most representative film, the one that is the most autobiographical; for both personal and sentimental reasons because it is the film that I had the greatest trouble in realizing and that gave me the most difficulty when it came time to find a producer.

Golden Globe winner Laura Linney describes Netflix’s Ozark as a family drama that deals with money laundering. “It’s a bit of a thriller and goes a bit of the subterranean deep dive on identity and who we are and why we are who we are,” she tells HFPA journalist Alexander Nevsky.

Lav Diaz, who is known to be an avid supporter of the slow cinema movement with his usually more than three-hour feature presentations, recently added a feather to his cap with his Orizzonti win for Best Director of his unusually “short” two-hour black-and-white film, Genus Pan (Lahi, Hayop) at the Venice International Film Festival. The movie follows the lives of three Filipino mine workers as well as exposing the corruption of government authorities and questioning the notion of humanity.

In the new supernatural series, The Haunting of Bly Manor, Oliver Jackson-Cohen not only has to navigate through the paranormal and the mystical, but he has to go toe-to-toe with other forces of nature: two adolescents, played by Amelie Bea Smith and Benjamin Evan Ainsworth. “I love working with kids,” laughs the 33-year-old London native, who reunites with the same creative team and cast from the 2018 series The Haunting of Hill House.

In a spectacular career spanning over four decades, Gregory Peck cultivated the screen image of the liberal, benevolent patriarch, greatly assisted by his famously deep, well-modulated voice. In Elia Kazan's 1947 drama, Gentleman's Agreement, he played a conscientious journalist fighting anti-Semitism.

Frank Langella knows a thing or two about sucking the life out of an individual. You see, he played Dracula, the title character in John Badham’s 1979 darkly romantic horror film adaptation of the Bram Stoker vampire tale.

Beginning in 1952 when the Cecil B.  deMille Award was presented to its namesake visionary director, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has awarded its most prestigious prize 66 times.