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It was a perfect summer night for Mozart at the Hollywood Bowl under the full moon. Amazon invited HFPA members to the Bowl for the live shooting of the first episode of the second season of its series Mozart in the Jungle, which explores the lives of musicians in a fictitious symphonic orchestra.

The stars will converge on the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills on Thursday, August 13, for the HFPA’s Annual Grants Banquet Dinner. Grants to various non-profit entertainment-related organizations and scholarship programs will be announced by Halle Berry, Bryan Cranston, America Ferrara, Saoirse Ronan, Andrew Garfield, Benicio del Toro, Sarah Silverman, Joe Manganiello, Elizabeth Banks, Jon Hamm, Jane Fonda, Elliot Page, Sharon Stone, Brie Larson and Dakota Johnson.

Exactly 70 years after the U. S.

On the morning of August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, on August 9, another atomic bomb was dropped over Nagasaki.

Russia is not only a key market for American movies – it is an integral part of film history, an avid and storied producer and consumer of cinema. Why, then, is the Russian government considering a new tax on tickets that will make moviegoing a thing of the past for most Russians? HFPA’s own Serge Rakhlin investigates.

The catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil spill of 2010 has inspired cinematic adaptations, big and small. The small-budget, independent The Runner, opening this week, has a first time writer/director, Austin Stark, and a cast led by Nicolas Cage, Sarah Paulson, Connie Nielsen and Peter Fonda.

Matthew Morrison, beloved as “Mr. Schue” to many fans of the hit FOX series Glee which ended its six-season run last March, is singing and dancing again – on Broadway! Matthew is back with aplomb with a starring role in Finding Neverland, a musical based in part on the dramatic movie of the same name which earned five Golden Globe Award nominations, including best picture-drama.

The era of big stars has recently come to an end. The days in which Tom Cruise’s name alone on the marquee was enough to draw audiences are over.

There was nothing irrational about the clothes the stars wore while promoting Woody Allen’s Irrational Man. While Emma Stone went ‘classic’ in a pencil skirt and top by Michael Kors, Parker Posey wore a jumpsuit by Leanna Zuniga of Electric Feathers.

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, the fifth installment of the successful franchise, is making the rounds around the globe, after a hot (in every sense of the word) premiere in Vienna and cascading opening dates in the U. S.