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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association will hold its Annual Grants Banquet Dinner tomorrow, August 13, at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. Thethe night begins with a champagne reception at 6 p.

Lady Gaga and Jake Gyllenhaal have joined an all-star roster of presenters at the HFPA’s Annual Grants Banquet Dinner, on Thursday, August 13, at Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. Lady Gaga will soon be seen in FX’s series American Horror Story: Hotel.

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.

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.

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.

Tilda Swinton, Johnny Depp, Idris Elba and Eddie Redmayne will swing by Venice’s Lido island before making an appearance in Toronto: their movies, A Bigger Splash (Luca Guadagino, director), Black Mass (Scott Cooper, director), Beasts of No Nation (Cary Fukunaga, director) and The Danish Girl (Tom Hooper, director) have been picked up by both festivals. The LINE-UP for this year’s Venice Film Festival highlights European and North American titles, with Latin America in the mix as well.

On January 7, 2015 Charlie Hebdo journalist Antonio Fischetti survived the terror attack on his magazine, as he explains, “only because I attended the funeral of my aunt. ” His voice still trembles when he speaks about the horrific attack in which terrorists stormed the weekly’s office in Paris killing 12 of his colleagues and friends.

Three members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association – Barbara Gasser, Janet Nepales and Ruben Nepales – won prizes in the 57th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards. The Los Angeles Press Club received a record number of close to a thousand entries, making this year’s contest the most competitive in recent memory.

Joy, reflection, and gratitude marks stars’ reactions to the Supreme Court’s landmark decisionIt was a regular Friday morning in Hollywood when the Supreme Court’s historical ruling recognizing the constitutional right to same-sex marriages was announced. Movies and TV shows were being shot and edited, and stars were out and about promoting their latest projects.