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Golden Globe winner Rachel Bloom, star of the CW series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend – in which music plays a major role-  says that show tunes were a healthy companion growing up. “As an only child, music was how I escaped into a fantasy world, to be honest.

Ma Ma is the first movie fully produced by Penélope Cruz. The three-time Golden Globe nominated actress has produced before but, as she herself recognized, “never from the first moment”.

Aquarius, the Brazilian drama directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and starring Golden Globe nominee Sonia Braga, feels bigger than just another foreign film. The walls of Aquarius, the building that gives the title to this drama, are pregnant with meaning, especially for anyone from Brazil or aware of the latest news from the largest Latin American country.

Tyler Perry’s Boo! A Madea Halloween scared the pants off Tom Cruise’s Jack Reacher: Never Go Back and finished the weekend in first place. Madea came back from a deficit on Friday where it was trailing Reacher by $1.

The HFPA’s Helen Hoehne interviews Indie, B-movie and art-house legend Udo Kier World-renowned cult actor Udo Kier (72) has starred in hundreds of films from art house to blockbuster. He has played Frankenstein and Dracula and worked for directors as diverse as Fassbinder, Dario Argento and Lars von Trier.

Australian actors Rebel Wilson and Jai Courtney, along with Australian filmmaker James Wan, were honored at this year’s star-studded Australians in Film Awards, which took place at NeueHouse Hollywood on October 19. Rebel Wilson received the inaugural Screen NSW Annette Kellerman Award, presented by Vogue magazine Australia, as a trailblazing Australian woman who has made her own mark in Hollywood.

Given the amount of films devoted to music’s many forms, it is perhaps not altogether by chance that it is the Auditorium Parco della Musica – a futuristic concert venue designed by architect Renzo Piano – that hosts the Rome Film Festival. One such offering is John Carney’s Sing Street.

Gina Rodriguez, star and Golden Globe winner for her breakthrough television performance in Jane the Virgin, is on top of the world these days, as she also stars in the box office hit movie Deepwater Horizon, about the tragic BP oil spill off the Louisiana coastline. When we met, the joyful actress had something interesting to say about music and how she loves this art form capable of crashing barriers between people from different nations.

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.