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Andrei Konchalovsky's РАЙ (Paradise) - winner of Venice’s Silver Lion for Best Director and  Russia’s submission in the foreign language film category of the Academy Awards - is, according to its director, writer and producer, a stern warning: ”History is full of great tragedies, most of which remain in our minds as ancient misdeeds that couldn’t possibly be replicated in the present day”, he says. “What has happened is a warning.

Chesley Burnett Sullenberger, III (born January 23, 1951) is an international speaker on airline safety and a commercial airline captain for 30 years. But “Sully” will be forever remembered as a national hero after he successfully executed an emergency water landing in the Hudson River on January 15, 2009.

This week’s box office number tell a very interesting story about star power and audiences’ preferences. Domestically, director Antoine Fuqua’s take on legendary 1960 western The Magnificent Seven led the charge with $35 million right out of the gate, easily beating rival openers Storks, Queen of Katwe and The Dressmaker.

Two-time Golden Globe Winners U2 are celebrating the 40th year since they got together, in the late afternoon of September 25 1976, in drummer Larry Mullen Jr. ‘s kitchen, hoping to form the best rock ‘n’ roll band in the world.

With works like Cronos, Mimic, The Devil’s Backbone, Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth, and Crimson Peak, Mexican author Guillermo del Toro has proved to have a fascination with darkness and an extraordinary eye for detail. His visually striking films and his unique vision has inspired the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to feature the filmmaker’s work in a major museum retrospective.

The Zürich film festival kicked off with a screening of Lion. The opening film directed by Garth Davis tells the true story of how five year old Saroo gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of miles across India, away from home and family.

You mention Golden Globe winner Eddie Murphy and Beverly Hills Cop immediately comes to mind. But very few people know that Eddie’s first love and interest rests with music.

If we take a look at the worldwide box office, there is a clear winner this week. It’s Bridget Jones’s Baby, which had a $30 million international weekend and was No.

On a week with Beatlemania in the air - thanks to the release of Golden Globe winner Ron Howard's documentary The Beatles Eight Days a Week:The Touring Years - Julian Lennon met up with the HFPA at a gallery Los Angeles currently showing his Cycle series of photos, focused on the lives of diverse people who inhabit the borders of the South China Sea. Lennon talked to us about his many interests in music and philanthropy - John Lennon’s first son is a kind and generous man with his many talents.

Ever since causing a sensation at an Eccles screening since entered in Sundance lore, last winter Nate Parker’s, The Birth of a Nation has been one of the most buzzed-about films of the year. The story of Nat Turner’s historic slave uprising of 1831, with its title polemically echoing D.