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Novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in1982, died in Mexico City at the age of 87. The Colombian writer, best known for his hallucinatory masterpiece 100 Years of Solitiude, is one of the giants of South American and World literature, credited with perfecting the magic-realist style that influenced generations and inspired filmmakers worldwide.

The Tribeca festival, founded by Robert De Niro 13 years ago, is underway in New York. Our partners at Studio System News choose the 10 films not to miss at this year's edition: CLICK HERE to check them out.

The Galapagos Islands are famous for their remote and unique ecosystem and for their historic role in inspiring Charles Darwin’s theory of natural evolution. What is surely less known is how, in the 1930s, this idyllic archipelago far off the coast of Ecuador fired the imaginations of a group of Eurpoean eccetrics.

Thomas Sean Connery, born in Edinburgh, Scotland on August 25, 1930, was named Thomas after his paternal grandfather, nicknamed “Tommy” as a child, then “Big Tam” as a grown-up 6’2” athlete. Even after becoming the biggest movie star in the world with the success of the James Bond movies (1962-1971), he would remain proud of his humble beginnings on Fountainbridge Street, where he worked as a milk delivery boy on a horse drawn cart, in the mornings from age 9 and full-time from age 13, when he quit school during World War II.

Julian Fellowes gives her the best lines in Downton Abbey, she was J. R.

Captain America fended off Rio 2’s plucky parrots at the global box office as Winter Soldier retained the top spot for the second week in a row. Disney and Marvel Studios’ action flick once again claimed the domestic throne with $41.

Three-time Golden Globe nominee Charlton Heston, who in 1967 was honoured by the HFPA with the Cecil B deMille award, has become the 18th inductee into the U. S.

Just ten years ago the Chinese film market was a distribution backwater, a mere afterthought in Hollywood’s marketing and production strategies. Today the world’s second largest and fastest growing economy is the next frontier in entertainment.

The HFPA has donated $5,000 to producer Ryan Kavanaugh's charity, The Art of Elysium, an organization that encourages actors, artists and musicians to voluntarily dedicate their time and talent to children who are battling serious medical conditions. HFPA President Theo Kingma said: "We are committed to encouraging and supporting worthy charities and The Art of Elysium does wonderful work in helping seriously ill children.

Veronica Mars star Kristen Bell and her husband Dax Shepard have enlisted the help of the HFPA in taking their fight against the paparazzi to the next level. After welcoming their first child, Lincoln, last March, the actors became vocal advocates of the "no kids policy," boycotting every publication that features paparazzi shots of celebrity children taken without consent.