By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—“Magic Mike XXL” is all about muscular guys showing off their well-oiled six-packs and mad dance moves, right? Well, sort of. There is also a substantial infusion of female power in this much-anticipated sequel to the 2012 sleeper hit. Jada Pinkett Sm [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Matt Bomer and Joe Manganiello go back. Way back. The hunky actors were classmates at Carnegie-Mellon University in the early 2000s, where they were enrolled in the Pennsylvania college’s drama program. After years of formal acting training, they got [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Veteran actor Victor Garber is getting ready to return to the set for the next season of “The Flash,” in which he plays Dr. Martin Stein, half of Firestorm. It’s a character he will reprise in a spinoff of the popular CW series called “Legends of Tomo [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Mark Wahlberg arrives for an interview with his arm in a brace. No, he didn’t get into a brawl and it isn’t a result of playing too many rounds of golf. (His current favorite pastime.) The Dorchester, Mass. native reveals he is following a physiothera [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—As Mark Ruffalo waits to hear official word on whether he will be returning as Bruce Banner/Hulk in “Avengers: Infinity War, Part 1,” slated to hit theaters in 2018, the peripatetic actor is keeping busy doing what he enjoys: making independent films [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Comedian Bill Hader is the voice of Fear in the new Disney Pixar animated feature “Inside Out.” The former “Saturday Night Live” cast member joins fellow alum Amy Poehler as one of five core emotions inside an 11-year-old girl’s head. Hader and Poehle [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Put this on your want list. A limited Blu-ray Collector’s Edition of the first season of the hit FX sci-fi series “The Strain” is available Tuesday, July 14. It includes an exclusive Master’s Bust figurine as well as all 13 episodes of the first season. The sec [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features EMERYVILLE, Calif.—Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera are Pixar Animation Studios veterans. Docter was the third animator hired at the studio in 1990; Rivera joined in 1994 as its first intern. Both have risen through the ranks in the subsequent decades. Docter, who [...]
By PETERSON GONZAGA Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Chanel Iman and Quincy Brown are familiar with the entertainment scene but are newbies in the acting world. As a world-renowned fashion model that has graced the pages of Vogue and other high-end magazines along with modeling the best fashions worl [...]