‘Demolition’ Man: Jake Gyllenhaal
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features NEW YORK—In the drama “Demolition,” Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal (“Brokeback Mountain”) plays a successful investment banker named Davis, who suffers a major breakdown after losing his wife in a tragic car accident and then has to rebuild himself from the grou [...]
Could More Fring be in Esposito’s Future?
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Giancarlo Esposito attended the press conference today for Disney’s upcoming effects-laden update of “The Jungle Book,” opening April 15. Esposito provides the voice of Akela, the fearless leader of the wolf pack that takes man cub M [...]
Melissa McCarthy is ‘Boss’ in New Comedy
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Hollywood comedies are filled with oppressive employers: from Dabney Coleman’s sexist and tyrannical Franklin M. Hart Jr. in “9 to 5,” to Meryl Streep’s Miranda Priestly in “The Devil Wears Prada” to all of the higher-ups in “Horrible Bosses,” to name [...]