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‘Run the Race’ Goes the Distance in Faith-Based Drama

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|February 20, 2019 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Director Chris Dowling recalls the day when his friend, producer Darren Moorman, called him to gauge his interest in helming a film project he was developing. “He said, ‘I’ve got a football movie project. Tim Tebow’s involved. Do you want to take a lo [...]

‘God’s Not Dead’ Finale Cast Talk God, Hollywood and Politics

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|March 26, 2018 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—When the faith-based film “God’s Not Dead” arrived in theaters in 2014, mainstream critics didn’t think it had a prayer at the box office. Instead, the independently financed film about a Christian college student who stands up against the system and [...]

There’s Something ‘Different’ About Renee Zellweger

Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 16, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Like the woman she depicts in the screen adaptation of bestselling memoir “Same Kind of Different as Me,” Renee Zellweger realized several years ago she needed to make some big changes in her life if she was going to live it fulfilled. The Oscar winni [...]

Tim McGraw Talks Faith and Forgiveness Themes in ‘The Shack’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|March 2, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Country singer/actor Tim McGraw has spoken at length about his troubled upbringing—being raised by a bipolar man whom he thought was his father and then accidentally discovering during his adolescence that his biological dad was former New York Mets p [...]

Jennifer Garner Has Faith in ‘Miracles From Heaven’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|March 16, 2016 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Jennifer Garner has three children with ex-husband Ben Affleck. So it was not much of a stretch for the Golden Globe-winning “Alias” star to portray a mom in “Miracles From Heaven,” who will do whatever it takes to save one of her children, afflicted [...]

Queen Latifah is No Stranger to ‘Miracles’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|March 14, 2016 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—With the success of their 2014 faith-based family drama “Heaven is For Real,” film producers Joe Roth, T.D. Jakes and DeVon Franklin have followed up with the big screen adaptation of Christy Beam’s similarly inspiring “Miracles From Heaven,” based on [...]

Joseph Fiennes Talks on Jackson, ‘Risen’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|February 16, 2016 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—As Hollywood was going all politically correct in admonishing the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences for not having enough diversity in its Academy Awards nominations this year (and last), Joseph Fiennes inadvertently touched off his own min [...]