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How do you take costumes avid fans know intimately and update them? That was the challenge for costume designer Michael Wilkinson. Having created the clothing for 300, American Hustle and Man of Steel, the Academy Award nominee was up to the task.

Looks like in the current economic situation the Russian government listened to the strong distributors lobby and does not want to kill their precious golden goose, Hollywood’s high-profile and very profitable movies. Even with the drastic drop of exchange rate of ruble to dollar Deadpool Russia showed had the best box office numbers foreign markets in the pic’s initial rollout: more than 12 million dollars during the first weekend of release (the total to date is over $23 million, still the highest in continental Europe).

In 2015 a delegation of HFPA journalists were lucky enough to travel to England to visit the set of Downton Abbey and tour the iconic Highclere Castle that serves as the manor around which revolved the plots of the immensely popular, Golden Globe-winning drama. The stunning Jacobethan manor in Hampshire was every bit as majestic in person as it appears on film.

The old gods have faltered once again in the age of super-heroes. After the lackluster performances of  2014's two big-budget biblical thrillers Noah and Exodus: Gods and Kings, Lionsgate and Thunder Road Pictures suffered  a disappointing launch for their ambitious period epic Gods of Egypt.

There’s a right way to wear bling. It seems like it should be easy.

Fresh, flouncy, and always fashion forward Lupita Nyong’o combines a unique vision with fun and fantasy. .

The 32nd Sundance Film Festival kicked off today in Park City, Utah, with the traditional press conference headlined by festival creator/mentor/ president of the Sundance Institute Robert Redford. With Sundance Institute Executive Director Keri Putnam and Sundance Festival director John Cooper also in attendance, the annual press conference has become a kind of state of the independent cinema assessment.