By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Grammy winning music artist Mary J. Blige was the first performer filmmaker Adam Shankman thought of when he was casting his newest big screen musical adaptation “Rock of Ages.” “I think I just wanted (her) to sing around me,” says Shankman, who previ [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Julianne Hough steps into the room sipping a tall glass of orange juice. Dressed in a black and white patterned jumpsuit, the stunning blond and former “Dancing with the Stars” performer looks perky and prepared for a full day of interviews. She stars [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Is Julianne Hough too hot for PG-13? That’s what director Adam Shankman explained at a press junket Sunday for the upcoming big screen adaptation of the hit Broadway musical “Rock of Ages,” in which the former “Dancing With the Stars” performer turned [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features More than four decades after “Yellow Submarine” appeared in theaters, the surrealistic animated fantasy featuring the Beatles as pop-art cartoon characters surfaces again in a digitally restored DVD version June 5. The groundbreaking feature’s colorfully  [...]