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There was great news for film buffs last month in Los Angeles with the grand reopening of one of the city’s architectural movie treasures. The United Artists Theater on Broadway and 8th street experienced an auspicious rebirth as a venue for live performances when it hosted a three-day inaugural run by the Los Angeles Dance Project, a modern dance troupe that has taken up residence in the beautifully renovated UA.

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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association recently flew to a remote CIA operating base in an undisclosed location – ok, it was an ex-factory on the outskirsts of London and the “base” was an elaborate filming set for the extremely classified production of 24 – Live Another Day. That’s tight as everyone knows by now, after a five-year hiatus, Jack Bauer will be back next May in the highly anticipated reboot of the 24 series, trying once again to beat the clock and save the world in a new series of action-packed episodes.

The HFPA recently got a special treat: A sneak behind-the–scenes peak at the set of the upcoming animated film The Boxtrolls. The story, adapted from Here Be Monsters, the children’s book by Alan Snow, is coming to life at Laika studios, a 150,000-sq.

New York Fashion Week, which is held February and September of each year, is one of the most anticipated events for the fashion industry. For seven to nine days, international fashion designers congregate in the Big Apple to show their collections to buyers, press, and fashion aficionados from all over the world.

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Congratulations to Nick Goepper from the United States Olympic Team who took home a Bronze medal in the inaugural men’s slopestyle skiing event. Along with teammates Joss Christensen and Gus Kenworthy (the same guy who has been saving puppies in Sochi), they completed a clean sweep for the U.

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One of the great pleasures of the past Sundance film festival was screening A Most Wanted Man at the Eccles, on January 19. Philip Seymour Hoffman’s performance in Anton Corbijn’s taut adaptation of the Le Carré thriller is nothing short of exceptional, as we noted at the time, the sort of intense interpretation which was his hallmark, and now sadly his legacy: He is in almost every scene of that film and yet you want to see more of him! Hoffman, 46, who was found dead in his New York apartment, was a five-time Golden Globe nominee and had won the Award for best actor in 2006 for his role in Capote.