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EXCLUSIVE: ‘SNL’ Alum Jon Rudnitsky Lands on Marshmallows with ‘Home Again’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|September 5, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—As the old saying goes, when one door closes, another opens. That was the case for Jon Rudnitsky, a comedian who had landed his dream gig as a cast member on “Saturday Night Live” in the 2015-16 season, but was unceremoniously not invited back the fol [...]

Encountering a Remastered Spielberg Classic on the Big Screen for One-Week Only

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|August 31, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—“Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” Steven Spielberg’s 1977 sci-fi adventure about alien-abduction and UFOs, returns to theaters for an exclusive one-week engagement beginning Friday, Sept. 1. As with most things Hollywood, the 40-year-old film has [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Hong Kong Action Star Philip Ng Honors Bruce Lee Legacy in ‘Birth of the Dragon’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|August 21, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON HOLLYWOOD—Bruce Lee, who helped introduce martial arts to Western culture, faced off against kung fu master Wong Jack Man in the 1964. Only a handful of people witnessed the event and their accounts of what happened vary, yet one outcome is clear—the matchup changed the course of [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Curiosity Led Filmmaker to Document Book Character’s Creators

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|August 15, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Ema Ryan Yamazaki grew up in Japan reading H.A. and Margret Rey’s “Curious George” books in her native language. As a child, she assumed the good little monkey who was always very curious was Japanese. Only later did she learn what a global phenomenon [...]

Ryan Reynolds Pairs Up with Samuel L. Jackson in ‘Hitman’s Bodyguard’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|August 14, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Ryan Reynolds plays the world’s best protection agent who is called upon to guard the life of his mortal enemy, one of the world’s most notorious hitmen (Samuel L. Jackson). As bodyguard Michael Bryce, he and hitman Darius Kincaid are thrown together [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Halle Berry and Producing Partner Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas Take No Prisoners with ‘Kidnap’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|August 1, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Fed up with paparazzi tormenting her young children, Oscar winning actress Halle Berry (“Monster’s Ball”) successfully championed state legislation that increased the penalties substantially—both monetarily and with longer jail time—against cameramen [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Elizabeth Olsen Investigates Agent Role in ‘Wind River’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 30, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Elizabeth Olsen has established herself as a versatile and in-demand actress, adept at big action movies as well as indie dramas. With a breakout role in the 2011 horror film “Silent Hill,” Olsen has gone on to make her mark in critical darlings incl [...]

Christopher Nolan Recreates Miraculous Event in ‘Dunkirk’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 17, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features SANTA MONICA, Calif.—As a schoolboy, Christopher Nolan learned the history of the 1940 evacuation of stranded Allied troops from Dunkirk. It wasn’t until decades later, though, when the British filmmaker and his wife/producer Emma Thomas boarded a small sailing [...]

Harry Styles Goes to War in ‘Dunkirk’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 12, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features SANTA MONICA, Calif.—The inside of an airplane hangar provides the perfect backdrop for a press junket to promote the new World War II drama “Dunkirk.” Dressed with vintage aircraft, guns and uniforms, the gloomy French beach projected onto a back wall, it also [...]

Actions Speak Louder Than Words for Amiah Miller in ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|July 10, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Amiah Miller reaches a milestone on July 16. That’s when the model/actress becomes a teenager. The Virginia native already knows one of the biggest birthday gifts she’s getting—it’s the opening weekend her big new movie “War for the Planet of the Apes [...]