By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—American audiences were introduced to British comedian Russell Brand when he played hedonist rocker Aldous Snow in 2008’s “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” a character he reprised two years later in “Get Him to the Greek.” Controversial and outspoken, Brand  [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Film icon Woody Allen continues his globe-trekking ways following the success of his films set in London (“Match Point,” “Scoop”), Barcelona (“Vicky Cristina Barcelona”) and Paris (“Midnight in Paris”), with yet another beautiful old European city as  [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features EMERYVILLE, CALIF.—The first thing you notice outside Pixar’s college campus-like headquarters here is a collection of oversized rocks strategically laid out in a circle. Is it some sort of holy place where offerings are made to the animation gods? Perhaps it’s [...]