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It used to be original stories. Then came book adaptations, remakes, franchises, sequels, prequels, small screen to big and big screen to small.

Golden Globe winner Ian McShane is a very busy man.   Hellboy is in theaters, the second season of American Gods is running, and Deadwood (the movie), John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum and Bolden are all premiering in May.

Taraji P. Henson knew she had to tell the story of civil rights activist Ann Atwater in The Best of Enemies.

For Thierry, Frémaux cinema is the most important thing in the world.   The director of the Cannes Film Festival, the Lumière Film Festival, and the Institut Lumière recently joined HFPA Film Restoration Summit in Los Angeles and gave a special presentation on the Lumière brothers restoration project.

Amy Seimetz considers herself lucky- as an actress, writer, director and producer she can cathartically exorcize some of her demons. “Even in Pet Sematary or any of the horror work or genre work that I’ve done, there is the catharsis to exercising your existential dread.

Henry Winkler has been acting since the 1960s, but it was his Arthur ‘Fonzie’ Fonzarelli - Happy Days' tough biker in a black leather jacket - that made him famous and brought him two Golden Globes in the 1970s.   Several TV shows-Children'ss Hospital, Royal Pains, Parks and Recreation, Arrested Development- followed, complemented with directing, producing and writing children’s books.

In The Mustang, Belgium actor Matthias Schoenaerts plays a violent prison inmate who undergoes a personal transformation when he is entered into a mustang-taming program.   HFPA journalist Greet Ramaekers sat down with Schoenaerts and talked about how an actor from Antwerp ended up having an internationally successful career.

Golden Globe-nominated Cuban-American actor Andy García sat down with HFPA journalist Silvia Bizio in Los Angeles and talked about his long career from 8 Million Ways to Die to his recent movie The Mule.   Working with Clint Eastwood was a dream come true for him.

When Gloria, Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio ’s fourth feature-length film, was released in 2013, it caught Julianne Moore’s attention. Lelio was told that Moore had seen saw the film -the complex journey of a divorced woman - and loved it but he wasn’t interested in doing the remake.

As a boy in New Jersey, Kevin Feige waited for Fridays – that was his movie night.   Now, as a film producer, he is creating movie nights for people around the world.