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With Meryl Streep rocking’ the screen as Ricki, front woman of The Flash, we were curious to find out what other actors had been bitten by the pop bug and shared the experience with us. These are some of them.

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.

Exactly 70 years after the U. S.

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.

As ITV’s Mr. Selfridge shoots its fourth season it can be somewhat difficult for us, in the audience, to imagine Harry Selfridge as anyone but the buoyant, assertive personality that Jeremy Piven lends to him.

It was a busy week in New York City: stars from the Showtime series The Affair – launching Season 2 in October – and Netflix’s entry in the Marvel Multiverse, Jessica Jones – premiering later in the Fall – were in town to promote their work … and to show off their flair for fashion. HFPA’s own Janet R.

Fans of Sam Raimi’s cult Evil Dead movie franchise have waited a long time for a new chapter since Army of Darkness was released in 1992. Turns out they’re in luck: They will have ten new chapters soon, as Starz TV launches the 10-episode Ash vs.

As the fifth Terminator movie rolls out globally, it can be hard to remember that this billionaire franchise had very humble beginnings, taking the industry – and the fans – by surprise back in 1984? The Terminator’s extraordinary journey began as a nightmare in 1981 – a literal nightmare that woke up a feverish James Cameron in the middle of the night, with the image of a metallic torso dragging itself from an explosion stuck on his brain. Cameron, was a fledgling Canadian-born filmmaker that had risen through the ranks of Roger Corman’s b-movie factory, from model maker to director of Piranha II: The Spawning.