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The longest-running film noir festival in Los Angeles returns to the Egyptian Theatre, anchored by movies that were restored with funds provided by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.  The Film Noir Foundation's Noir City festival  returned to Hollywood for its 17th annual edition and both the opening and the closing of the festival featured HFPA-funded restorations.

It was only last year that Prince was on the stage of the 72nd Golden Globes, presenting the Best Song award to John Legend and Common for Glory (from the movie Selma). Today the news of his death at age 57 came as a shock to fans worldwide.

If you have seen The Hunger Games, Beasts of No Nation, Selma or the television show Outsiders – which was just renewed for a second season on WGN America – then you have experienced the work of Tracy McKnight. The prolific Music Supervisor and Executive Music Producer’s work includes documentaries, television and features (blockbuster tentpole fare and independents alike).

It is “magico” said one of the organizers. And that may be the most apt description for the Film Festival in La Paz and Todos Santos in Baja California, Mexico.

An upcoming LACMA exhibition will bring Guillermo del Toro’s legendary horror collection to the public for the first time.  “This morning I woke up in the Dickens room, which is a room that is dedicated to Dickens, and all the furniture is Dickensian and Victorian, and it’s surrounded by books from the Victorian era (…) and I exited through the Nosferatu corridor by pushing the secret painting on the wall into my kitchen.

As part of its commitment to clarity and transparency, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has published a new, revised edition of rules and regulations for the Golden Globe Awards. The new document, valid immediately, is yet another step in an ongoing process of revising and refining the requirements and qualifications for the Globes.

The 74th.

It’s a jungle out there and, this week, Disney is its king. The Jungle Book, the Mouse House’s new iteration of Rudyard Kipling’s stories about a boy raised by wolves, dominated the worldwide box office in no uncertain terms.

Los Globos de Oro. Los Oscar.

It may seem strange that giant online retailer Amazon would make a presentation at CinemaCon, the annual convention of the Theater Owners Association (NATO), where the major Hollywood studios screen trailers and footage of their upcoming releases for exhibitors.   However, as executives Roy Price and Bob Berney explained at yesterday’s luncheon, Amazon Studios is now involved in movie productions and acquisitions and committed to showing their products in movie theaters.