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On Demand services, which allow audiences to access movies from the comfort of their own home are the elephant in the screening room at this CinemaCon where exhibitors make no bones about being worried of possible repercussions on ticket sales. Especially with schemes like Screening Room, which aims to offer movies at home on the day of release in theaters.

This year, as for the previous 20 years, a sizable contingent of HFPA journalists is attending CinemaCon, the annual convention of the Theater Owners Association (NATO), at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas.  This Hollywood Foreign Press tradition started in 1996, when the event was still called ShoWest, and was held at the Bally’s and Paris hotels.

Cantante, músico, político, poeta, artista y además actor. Ese es el bagaje de Rubén Blades, el hombre que tantas veces nos hizo bailar al ritmo de salsa.

This was not a good weekend for super heroes, at least not in the US and Canada. After two weeks of steady box office drops – 66% right on the first week, 60% on top of that afterwards – Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was beaten on the domestic front by the Melissa McCarthy vehicle The Boss.

"If I do have some period in which I know some power or money, I will watch out that it does not corrupt me", Francis Ford Coppola told us in December of 1990, when the last installment on his extraordinary Godfather trilogy was being released. Nominated seven times for Golden Globes in the writer and director categories - for The Godfather Part II, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, The Cotton Club and The Godfather Part III - Coppola won three times: in 1973, for best director and best screenplay, for The Godfather.

A book by Alice Munro, Runaway, appeared in the hands of Elena Anaya in a scene from Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I live In (2011). That same book, and specifically three of its stories, have inspired the script of Julieta, the latest film from the Spanish filmmaker.

After dominating the charts last weekend, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice showed itself to be not quite as invincible as its namesakes.

“You can’t underestimate the power of women role models. ” Says Dame Pippa Harris, a producer, and one of the founders of Neal Street Productions along with Sam Mendes and Caro Newling.

Patty Duke, multi-talented child actor who had a long and sometimes troubled career has died.  She was nominated four times for a Golden Globe award and won twice- as Most Promising Newcomer-Female in 1962, for her supporting role in The Miracle Worker, and in 1969 as Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical Motion Picture for Me, Natalie.

Mark Wahlberg is in a Boston state of mind. The Golden Globe nominated actor and producer (Best Supporting Actor for The Departed, in 2007 and Best Actor Drama for The Fighter in 2011), is back in his New England hometown shooting the Peter Berg helmed Patriots Day, which chronicles the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the citywide manhunt to find the terrorists responsible.