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Events for week of June 25, 2012

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TODAY: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment hosts a retirement party for Uggie, the canine star of “The Artist,” after he adds his paw prints to the forecourt at Grauman’s Chinese Theater.

ChineseTheatres.com

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WEDNESDAY: Liam Hemsworth, Yvonne Strahovski and Harvey Weinstein will be feted at the Australians in Film Breakthrough Awards. Century City’s Intercontinental Hotel.

AustraliansinFilm.org

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AMPAS screens a restored print of 1943’s “The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp,” introduced by Thelma Schoonmaker. Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Oscars.org

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THURSDAY: Friends and colleagues of the filmmaker Roger Corman gather for the Roger Corman Grand Reunion Flash Mob. Cameo Bar at Santa Monica’s Viceroy Hotel. Facebook.com/events/327243947342919

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FRIDAY: The Writers Guild Foundation launches its Writers on Genre series with F.X. Feeney interviewing Doug Richardson, Gary Scott Thompson and Erich and Jon Hoeber. WGA West headquarters.

WGFoundation.org

Works by Picasso, Warhol, Basquiat and others will be auctioned to benefit AIDS Project Los Angeles. Bonhams. Apla.org

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