Even for foreign filmmakers, the Academy Award remains the biggest prize. Iran's Asghar Farhadi already has scored one and would like a second, but he is facing off against a record-breaking field of 76 contenders. | Read More
One of the season's most anticipated films, "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" is not showing in major Seoul theaters due to dispute over profit shares. | Read More
The director talks to The Hollywood Reporter about collaborating with his casts, Jennifer Lawrence's stratospheric rise and the film's seven Golden Globe nominations at the Dubai International Film Festival. | Read More
While Western figures from George Clooney to John McCain voice support, Ukrainian filmmakers are documenting the historic event with short films posted to social media. | Read More
A report on excessive severance payouts says the BBC is "the world's leading public sector broadcaster," and the payments "put its reputation at risk." | Read More
A conference of local industry moguls was told U.S. streaming giants can help as much as hurt, depending on how they reinvent themselves for a fast-changing market. | Read More
Iram Haq directed this Norwegian foreign-language Oscar submission that stars Amrita Acharia ("Game of Thrones") and Ola Rapace ("Skyfall"). | Read More
Homeland was built on Nicholas Brody. As much as the Showtime drama's central focus has always been Carrie (Claire Danes) and Saul's (Mandy Patinkin) CIA efforts to prevent stateside terrorism -- quite often, unsuccessfully -- the first window into their world of homeland security was Damian Lewis' liberated prison of war and on again/off again agent for Islamic fundamentalists. | Read More
Joan Fontaine, the polished actress who achieved stardom in the early 1940s with memorable performances in the Alfred Hitchcock films Suspicion — for which she earned the best actress Oscar over her bitter rival, sister Olivia de Havilland — and Rebecca, has died. THR awards analyst Scott Feinberg spoke Sunday with the actress' assistant, Susan Pfeiffer, who confirmed her death. No details were immediately available. | Read More
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