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Continuing this year’s trend of sequel fatigue in the US market, Transformers: The Last Knight opened to a series domestic low $69 million. Its $45 million three-day take is less than half of Age of Extinction’s $100 million opening in 2014 and still $25 million off of the 2007 original Transformers.

In the upcoming third installment of the Planets of the Apes trilogy, War for the Planet of the Apes, four time Golden Globe nominee Woody Harrelson plays The Colonel, the ferocious commander bent into exterminating the Apes  We met at the Soho Hotel in London where the cool actor surprised us by sharing his enthusiasm for the new unreleased U2 album. “Bono played me half a dozen tracks and I can tell you, the album is amazing.

“I felt more experienced and more correct for the job than many people before me. ” Notes Patty Jenkins, the director of Wonder Woman, which has already garnered $573 million world wide and established itself as benchmark for female driven blockbusters.

Season Two of Queen Sugar, the series created and produced by Golden Globe-nominee Ava DuVernay – part I of the premiere aired yesterday, with part II coming up today – was shot in New Orleans where the story of the Bordelon family takes place. In May they were filming the midseason finale - and what a day to be on the set! One rarely gets to see such highly emotional scenes being filmed, much less reading the sides (pages being shot on a particular day), but in the interest of the unwritten ‘no spoilers, please!’-rule, we will not divulge details.

After a slight hiccup with Pirates earlier this month, Disney is back at the head of the pack with Pixar produced Cars 3. Lightning McQueen, the series’ anthropomorphic racecar voiced by Owen Wilson, rocketed into first place on the domestic chart with $53.

Golden Globe winner Sofia Coppola met the HFPA after her Cannes triumph – winning the  Best Director for her latest movie, The Beguiled. Her husband, Thomas Mars, leader of the French band Phoenix, collaborated with the soundtrack, so we asked Sofia how important music is in this movie.

The Los Angeles Conservancy, a longtime Hollywood Foreign Press Association grantee, just launched its annual mini film festival, The Last Remaining Seats: A Celebration of Classic Movies shown in historic movie palaces that are still functioning in Los Angeles. The opening night featured the 1997 neo-noir drama L.

Riding a wave of strong reviews and massive fanfare, Warner Bros. ’ Wonder Woman kept rival Universal’s new entry The Mummy in its tomb.

Meher Tatna has been elected president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) for the 2017-2018 year at the organization’s annual election meeting. Tatna succeeds outgoing president Lorenzo Soria.

According to Denzel Washington, Charlotte Bruus Christensen is on the fast track to becoming a big star in Hollywood. And he knows what he is talking about.