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Edward Norton, like his character in Motherless Brooklyn, has an obsession with words. He got familiar with fictional private detective Lionel Essrog when he read Jonathan Lethem’s novel in 1999.

One in an occasional series exploring the state of Hollywood films in global markets. In Nigeria, whose film industry is called Nollywood, 2018 was a great year for box office returns – 5 billion Naira ($13.

A partnership of the Goethe-Institut, Friends of Goethe in Southern California and the American Cinematheque produced the 13th showcase of new German films in Los Angeles, this past weekend, October 11-14, 2019. Although Germany yields a considerable number of films annually and holds one of the biggest European film festivals, the Los Angeles event seems to be marked by a “less is more” attitude, and has remained unaffected by the ambition to match the surrounding Hollywood flare.

This weekend saw Joker laughing away maniacally at the top of the charts while serious new contenders fell by the wayside. Gemini Man, from Paramount, took the biggest hit among these with its $20.

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.

RadhaKrishna Parthiban is an Indian film actor, director, producer, and writer with over 70 films to his credit in Tamil cinema and a winner of the prestigious Indian National Award for films. In his latest venture Single Slipper Size 7, he takes on the challenge of being the director, producer, writer, and single actor.

For over 40 years the HFPA has recorded famous and celebrated actresses, actors and filmmakers. The world's largest collection of its kind - over 10,000  items - is now in the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences Margaret Herrick Library.

Now in its 10th year, the Oaxaca Film Festival in Mexico has grown into an exciting event for movie lovers and filmmakers. During the opening ceremony, held at the Macedonio Alcalá Theater, filled to the rafters with participant and public, festival director Ramiz Adeeb Azar thanked recently deceased artist Francisco Toledo for hosting the first screenings at his cine club El Pochote (named after the sacred Mayan Tree of Life).

Allen Leech’s character Tom Branson has become the audience’s eye to discover an aristocratic lifestyle in Downton Abbey. On the Golden Globe-winning series Branson, a former chauffeur, a political rebel and the husband of late Lady Sybil Branson became an estate manager of Yorkshire country estate.

One in an occasional series exploring the state of Hollywood films in global markets. The French are the biggest movie-goers in Europe, they have the highest number of screens per capita (one per 31 persons) and young people go more often than older ones.