Asian cinema & Star Wars, CinemaCon, Christine Baranski, The Rock...and much more

... Robert Eggers, 15 films about workers, a very special Golden Globe _ and more! Week of May 2nd- 8th, 2022 STAR WARS: THE ASIAN ROOTS OF A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY Since the Big Bang of the [Star Wars]( universe in 1977 and during the rapid expansion that has followed, there have been countless celebrations. But one element was mostly absent, ignored, forgotten: the franchise's Asian roots. [More about Asian Pacific movies, filmmakers, actors, and style.]( [Read more]( CINEMACON 2022: THE INDUSTRY IS BACK The major studios showed their best pictures, from Top Gun: Maverick to Avatar,:The Way of Water, and promised that "simultaneous release is dead" [Read more]( CELEBRATING MAY 1ST WITH FILMS ABOUT WORKERS On International Workers’ Day, we celebrate the power of work through a variety of films that embraced this theme from the very beginning of this industry. Also: check the story of [The Wobblies]( a documentary about the birth of International Workers'sDay. [Read more]( WORLD BOX OFFICE: SONIC AND DUMBLEDORE RULE Globally, both [Eddie Redmayne]( Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore and [Jim Carrey]( Sonic the Hedgehog 2 hit the $300 million benchmark while [Sam Rockwell]( The Bad Guys hit the $100 million milestone. [Read more]( A VERY SPECIAL GOLDEN GLOBE FOR ROSAMUND PIKE When presenter Ben Stiller announced the winner, Rosamund Pike was truly surprised and a bit flustered. One big problem, though: she was in Prague, working on The Wheel of Time. [Read more]( A CONVERSATION WITH ROBERT EGGERS ABOUT THE NORTHMAN When you sit down to watch a Robert Eggers movie, you know you are in for a history lesson. But far from being a dry, dusty university lecture, Eggers' films have a perfectly calibrated vibrancy. [Read more]( CELEBRATING CHRISTINE BARANSKI AT 70...[]( She can be devastatingly funny, brilliantly smart, deeply emotional. She’s done theater, series, movies, and was highlighted by every award - including several Golden Globe nominations. [Read more]( ... AND THE ROCK, AT 50[]( Actor, singer, and ex WWF fighter, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson will hit a major milestone this week. With fearlessness, tenacity, and self-confidence, Johnson persevered to achieve his goals, against the odds. [Read more]( OUT OF THE ARCHIVES, 2006: [LILI TOMLIN]( [ROBERT ALTMAN]( “Bob was the same incredible guy, intellectually terribly curious and interested, in control but benign. I used to always call him the benign patriarch. [Read more]( Copyright © *2021* *HFPA, All rights reserved. Cover photo by © Greg Williams Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](. [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Website]( [Instagram](