If you weren’t an avid reader before, more than likely the pandemic has made you one. The global book publishing market is expected to rake in $92.68 billion this year (up from $87.92 billion in 2020), and projected to cross $100 billion by 2025. That means lots of people are reading books, and it doesn’t look like they’ll be stopping anytime soon. If you’re a fan of celebrity memories, we rounded up an eclectic list of titles to pre-order from Ron Howard, Jamie Foxx, Will Smith, Evanna Lynn, Mel Brooks, Stanley Tucci, and more....

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), Dick Clark Productions (dcp), and NBC today announced that Emmy-winning producer Jesse Collins will serve as showrunner and executive producer of the 80th annual Golden Globe Awards, returning live coast-to-coast on NBC and Peacock on Tuesday, January 10, 2023 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. Dionne Harmon of Jesse Collins Entertainment will also serve as an executive producer. “We are thrilled to have Jesse produce the historic 80th Golden Globes....

Based (apparently?) on Dana Canedy’s memoir, Washington’s film kicks off with a heartbroken and recently widowed Dana (Chanté Adams) writing a heartfelt letter to her young son. The implication is as clear as anything in Virgil Williams’ fumbling script: She’s penning said letter to give to the cute kiddo along with the titular journal, all in a bid to explain the love story from which he sprang. Uh, right? And yet the film fails to adhere to this very basic storytelling conceit, as Williams’ script soon opts to unpack a fraught romance that few people would feel comfortable sharing with their offspring....

Plot details for “Limbo” are remaining under wraps for now. The cast is led by Daniel Giménez Cacho, whose credits include Pedro Almodóvar’s “Bad Education,” Lucrecia Martel’s “Zama,” and Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s upcoming “Memoria.” Production designer Eugenio Caballero, an Oscar winner for Guillermo del Toro’s “Pan’s Labyrinth” who also worked on Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma,” is also on board for “Limbo.” In the most exciting bit of craft news, the Times confirms that Iñárritu is working with cinematographer Darius Khondji on the project....

“So I used a large string orchestra for the core of the sounds — piano, the woodwinds, the brass — around a ring of electronics,” Desplat said. That formed the basis of his musical approach to exploring parallel stories linking Clooney’s lonely astronomer in the Arctic with the crew of a spacecraft on its way back to a dying Earth. “Augustine [Clooney] is the center planet, and I could use various instruments around that,” Desplat said, “so that when we go from his perspective to the perspective of the spaceship crew, we have a continuity....

Having helped shape modern cinema, Alfred Hitchcock is revered as one of the most prolific directors in history and this year, his birthday falls on Friday the 13th. That date couldn’t be more fitting for the Master of Suspense. Hitchcock released over 50 films in his 60-year career amassing a catalog of classics such as “Rear Window,” “Psycho,” “The Birds,” “Marnie,” “North by Northwest,” “Vertigo,” “The Man Who Knew Too Much,” and “Rebecca....

For the first time, the filmmaker is breaking with her previous stance to voice support for FKA Twigs, who also starred in “Honey Boy.” In a statement obtained by Variety, the filmmaker said LaBeouf’s addiction issues do not excuse domestic violence. “I have a deep respect for FKA Twigs’ courage and resilience,” wrote Har’el. “Reading what she endured left me heartbroken and I stand with her in solidarity. I’m sending my love to her, Karolyn Pho, all victims of domestic violence, and everyone who is trying to stop cycles of abuse....