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It was a room full of enthusiastic young students at the Writers Guild Theater on Sunday night as the CSUN Cinema and Television Department unveiled the winners of the documentary and narrative shorts thesis projects from the graduating class of 2017. Earlier this year that department of the California State University of Northridge received a grant of 2 million dollars from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to be assigned to their television production studios and for student scholarships.

Alien: Covenant is the sixth film in a series that began in 1979 and has made film history. Emanuel Levy looks back at the franchise.

I Love Dick. The very title titillates.

Algerian-born Sofia Boutella will soon be seen in the title role of the upcoming film The Mummy starring Tom Cruise. Sofia started out as a dancer for, among many others, Madonna, Michael Jackson and Nike.

Blockbuster season is in full swing and reports of stratospheric openings will be coming in strong until the end of September. This week it’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

English film director Guy Ritchie's childhood dream - to do the ultimate cinematic version of the legend of King Arthur -has become reality. The movie, King Arthur – The legend of the Sword, will be out worldwide next week, but when we talked to Guy in New York we were surprised at how music was crucial to him.

BAFICI (the independent film festival of Buenos Aires) wrapped its19th edition leaving a great impression. Boasting a wide selection of over 400 titles from all over the world, the festival showed quality and diversity in its international, national and Latin American sections.

After taking a brief hiatus from the top of the global charts Disney is back at number one with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.

Golden Globe winner Geoffrey Rush can be seen in the extraordinary portrayal of Albert Einstein in the new National Geographic TV series Genius. Unknown to many, the “genius” was an avid fan of Mozart and a dedicated amateur violinist.

The Fate of the Furious hardly slowed down for its second lap around the planet, taking an extra $202 million in its second weekend. For the whole week, Monday through Sunday, that figure jumps to $476 million and brings this film’s global haul to $908 million dollars in just eleven days.