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Panamanian boxer Roberto Duran, known as "Manos de Piedra" (Hands of Stone) for his powerful punches made boxing history with his infamous bouts against undefeated lightweight champion Sugar Ray Leonard. Venezuelan filmmaker Jonathan Jakubowicz portrays Duran's story in the new film Hands of Stone with Edgar Ramírez playing Duran, music sensation Usher as Sugar Ray Leonard and Robert De Niro returning to the cinema world of boxing as trainer Ray Arcel who came out of retirement to mentor the ferocious fighter.

Director Baz Luhrman credits the six Golden Globe nominations received by his Moulin Rouge in 2002 with helping put musicals back on the map as a viable Hollywood form. That film was, of course, the groundbreaking follow-up to his acclaimed reimagining Romeo and Juliet, and its tale of bohemian art and heartbreak in turn-of-the–century Paris owed as much to classic musicals as to Bollywood films.

When Netflix launched Narcos last year, the series that dramatized the rise to power of Pablo Escobar and his Colombian cocaine cartel, they had a bona fide hit on their hands. That success was due to one of the most amazingly true organized crime sagas of our times and in no small part to the show’s star, Wagner Moura.

In a little more than ten years Robert Kirkman has gone from cult figure in the indie comics scene to superstar of the horror fantasy nerd-dom. The latter status achieved of course as author of AMC’s Golden Globe nominated (and cable ratings winner) The Walking Dead.

As Walking Dead fans anxiously wait to learn the fate of their heroes after the latest gut-wrenching cliffhanger, the companion series, Fear of the Walking Dead returns to the air with season “2B” featuring the continuing saga of the West Coast survivors. After the prologue which detailed the onset of the Walker plague Madison, Travis, Nick and Alicia evacuated Los Angeles and had a series of (mis)adventures at sea.

Losing 30 pounds while working in one of the prime gastronomical destinations in the world – Rome – and spending hours in the gym to acquire the lean and muscled look of Hebrew prince-tuned-slave-turned-champion-charioteer Judah Ben-Hur were worthy sacrifices, according to English actor Jack Huston (Boardwalk Empire, American Hustle, The Longest Ride). In this exclusive interview to our own Katherine Tulich (with camerawork by Mirai Konishi), Huston and Brit cast mate Toby Kebbell (Black Mirror, War Horse, The Counselor, Warcraft) reveal their insights into director Timur Bekmambetov’s re-imagining of Lew Wallace’s 136 year old novel, already brought to the screen three times (plus stage and television adaptations going all the way back to 1899).

There were over 10,000 of the world's best athletes competing in Rio with one aim in mind, gold! Eddie Redmayne already achieved his precious metal, at least in the form of a 2014 Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama but that didn't stop the 34 year-old Brit from travelling to Brazil to soak in the Olympic spirit and catch a few races. The HFPA's Scott Orlin caught up with him there.

Showtime’s Roadies takes viewers behind the scene on a rock ‘n roll road tour, pulling back the curtain on the life of the techs that make the giant stadium shows happen. The touring rock milieu is a natural for the show’s creator, director Cameron Crowe who parlayed his experiences as a Rolling Stone journalist most, ehm, famously.

Travis Knight is not your run-of-the-mill studio CEO, nor your usual animator … or film director for that matter. It's fair to say that the 43-year-old multi-hyphen filmmaker comes to movies via an entirely original route.

When he first appeared on screen many people saw Jason Bourne as a natural heir to that other secret agent that goes by J. B.