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Warner Bros. cerebral thriller The Accountant finished its debut weekend with $24.

The trans actress keeps pushing boundaries with a starring role in Fox’s The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's do the Time Warp AgainThere is likely no film phenomenon quite like The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the 1975 cult film by Jim Sharman based on the Richard O’Brian stage production has become a staple of midnight screenings where fans dress up as the characters, perform and shout back at the screen. Fox TV has now tread on hallowed ground with a small-screen remake of the beloved camp classic.

The 11th edition of the annual Rome International Film Festival kicked off on October 13 and will run until October 23th under the artistic direction of Antonio Monda.   The Auditorium Parco della Musica, in Rome, is once again the main venue for the Fest where two-time Academy Award winner Tom Hanks took the stage for a conversation with the audience followed by a screening of scenes from some of his films, like Philadelphia, Forrest Gump and one he is particularly fond of That thing you do.

The film festival gets under way in the Crescent City, which has become a hub for film production. It may have been the biggest opening night the New Orleans Film Festival has ever seen.

Few know that Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity  began as a screenplay written by his son Jonás years before. Jonás’ idea was so enticing that Cuaron decided to take on the ambitious project, with his son as a co-writer.

Congratulations to our favorite Ramblin’ Man and Rolling Stone. The Prize for literature awarded Bob Dylan by the Nobel Committee is as unconventional as well-deserved for an artist who has been pushing the boundaries of music and poetry for over 50 years.

Cameron Crowe started his unusual career as a 16-year-old rock journalist for Rolling Stones. He went on to become a Golden Globe nominated filmmaker with Jerry Maguire and Almost Famous.

Showtime’s period drama Masters of Sex has reached its fourth season bringing the story of Masters and Johnson (Dr. William Masters and Virginia Johnson) closer to the hearts of the audience but further from the real lives of the pioneers in sex studies.

DreamWorks Pictures The Girl on the Train, a film noir with some preposterous twists, knocked Ms. Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children off the rails and it coasted into the station in first place at the domestic box office.

The beauty of film festivals is that each one, from the smallest to the biggest, has its own character. A character that is determined not only by the organizers and the quality of the program, but also by the location and the audience.