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Amazon’s Goliath represents TV giant’s David E. Kelley’s first foray into streaming media.

Haley Bennett is having quite the busy Fall, appearing in no less than three big-ticket films. First she was seen in Antoine Fuqua’s The Magnificent Seven, next she is about to make an impression in Tate Taylor’s psychological thriller The Girl on the Train and soon after she will appear in Warren Beatty’s Howard Hughes-inspired Hollywood fable Rules Don’t Apply.

Annual Gala Honors LACC Foundation, HFPA.

No other movie this year has been preceded by a buzz equal to that, which has surrounded The Birth of a Nation. Last January, with uncanny timing, Nate Parker’s telling of Nat Turner’s slave uprising of 1831, premiered to a memorable standing ovation at the Eccles Theater at Sundance.

Michael Crichton’s Westworld is the only film directed by the amazingly prolific sci-fi writer. It foreshadowed the themes he would develop in Jurassic Park as well as those of James Cameron’s Terminator series, with the relentless pursuit by an unstoppable cyborg-cowboy (an unforgettable Yul Brynner).

With titles like Westworld, Twin Peaks, Lethal Weapon and McGyver, studios are turning more and more to rebooting hits of the past to feed the ever growing demand for content. In the best of cases the retooling is left to the original creators.

It’s been a busy year for Woody Allen, a Cecil B. deMille Award recipient as well as Globe winner for the screenplays of Purple Rose of Cairo and Midnight in Paris.

The Deepwater Horizon accident and subsequent oil spill, which spewed millions of gallons of crude oil into the Gulf o Mexico, ranks as the nation’s worst environmental disaster. The devastating spill cast a pall of doom on the Gulf coast and embodied the real potential for ecological catastrophes posed by our carbon-based energy infrastructure.

The Marvel universe continues to expand on Netflix with the addition of Luke Cage to a lineup already featuring Daredevil and Jessica Jones (the streaming network also has Iron Fist, The Defenders and The Punisher in the works). Cage, played by Mike Colter, a character originally created in the 70s in the wake of “Blaxploitation” movies, was introduced to audiences as Jessica Jones’ love interest.

As part of our music roundtable series, Hollywood Foreign Press journalists recently met with Julian Lennon at the Leica Gallery in West Hollywood. The gallery is hosting an exhibit of Lennon’s photos titled “Cycle” – 50 photographs edited, as the artist told us, from over 4,000 shots taken during a river trip in Southeast Asia.