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For a 128-year-old character, Sherlock Holmes is doing very well. As we anticipate Benedict Cumberbatch’s turn as the Victorian version of the famous detective in his series’ Christmas Special, and enjoy Sir Ian McKellen’s turn in Bill Condon’s Mr.

Jake Gyllenhaal seems fearless in his choices as an actor – as can be witnessed by his astonishing transformation in Southpaw. But the 34-year old actor (and two-time Golden Globe nominee) reveals to HFPA member Tina Christensen that fear is actually what drives him.

The trials and tribulations of an aging rockstar are at the heart of a new comedy series produced by and starring Denis Leary and featuring Elizabeth Gillies and John Corbett. Photo credit: Margaret Gardiner/HFPA The stars of the new FX show, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, headed back to LA after an intense time at San Diego Comic-Con, promoting their series about a middle-aged rocker, who desperately wants to be famous.

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.

Omar Sharif, three time Golden Globe winner, an Egyptian-born international star, has died in Cairo, age 83. The only Egyptian actor to have achieved Hollywood stardom, Sharif emerged as a star very much like the way his character in Lawrence of Arabia emerges on the screen, in a classic shot devised by triple Golden Globe winner director David Lean, and photographed by ace British cinematographer, Golden Globe winner Fred Young: In what is perhaps one of the most dramatic entrances recorded on film, Sharif plays an Arab tribal chief, who join Peter O'Toole's Lawrence of Arabia in his fight against the Turkish army.

Jerry Weintraub, who died Monday, had a roller coaster life as an independent movie producer, reaching highs and lows in dizzying sequence in a career book-ended by two Golden Globe recognitions.   In the 1970s and 1980s he produced a handful of cutting edge features, starting with Robert Altman's Nashville, 1975, which garnered eleven Golden Globes nominations and one win.

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.

“Why are we still talking about whether women can be funny?” wonders comedienne extraordinaire Amy Schumer. Well if there was ever a doubt she aims to put it to rest with Trainwreck There is a truly perplexed look on Amy Schumer’s face when she is asked why she thinks there is such a large group of successful women in comedy right now.

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.

HJ Park looks back at a movie tradition both dastardly and delicious. The latest Bond novel Trigger Mortis is written by British writer Anthony Horowitz.