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The Golden Globes®, Hollywood’s premier global entertainment award, is sponsoring The Hollywood Reporter’s second annual “Raising Our Voices: Setting Hollywood’s Inclusion Agenda” lunch, taking place at the Wallis Annenberg GenSpace today. “Raising Our Voices” brings together the industry’s most influential and inspiring executives, storytellers and thought leaders for a groundbreaking series of discussions on the state and future of Hollywood's diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) movement.

German filmmaker Wim Wenders has a rich history with the Cannes Film Festival. In 1982 he made a short documentary, Room 666, in which he asked festival attendees Jean-Luc Godard, Steven Spielberg and other notable directors about the future of cinema.

A book that lifts the veil on the creative process behind the show’s Costume Design. Having worked in fashion and costume design for many years, Heidi Bivens became a household name as the costume designer for the HBO teen drama Euphoria.

Former Oscar nominee (The Man Who Sold His Skin) and Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania was one of the winners of  the L’Oeil d’Or award for best documentary during the 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Her movie Four Daughters, that was also in competition for the Palme d’Or, made significant waves during the festival.

Max Malka, the creator of the first Finnish Netflix series Dance Brothers, felt early on that producing was her calling. When she was 18 and applying to Helsinki Film School, nowadays part of Aalto University, she was reading descriptions of different majors.

Jane Fonda was one of the special guests at the 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Not only did the iconic actress and producer deliver the Palme d’Or during the closing ceremony, she also participated in an one hour and a half Q&A with avid festival-goers eager to learn more from this Hollywood living legend.

Over 30 years could be an eternity in Hollywood, an industry that praises itself to be ahead of times. And if it’s about a span between a successful movie and its sequel, that period of time could seem unthinkable.

A mermaid splashed to the top and drowned out action stars and superheroes. The Little Mermaid, Rob Marshall’s live-action remake of the 1989 animation blockbuster, starring Halle Bailey in the title role, opened with $104 million in the three-day weekend frame.

The talent, the deep voice, the luminous screen presence: Annette Bening has it all. Add to that a sharp mind and impeccable taste in her choice of roles, and what you get is a truly successful career.

As legacy media and publishing platforms have grappled with fallout from the steady encroach of the internet over the past two decades, a lot of old barriers to entry (both overt and less obvious on the surface) have at least partially eroded. Remnants and engrained instincts of gatekeeping hurdles, though, remain.