By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Tom Shadyac has been making movie audiences laugh for more than a quarter-century. From “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective” to “The Nutty Professor” to “Bruce Almighty” and its sequel “Evan Almighty,” the Virginia native has carved out a niche of making popu [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Horror storyteller-with-a-soul Guillermo del Toro recalls roaming through a San Antonio bookstore as a young teenager and coming across Alvin Schwartz’s “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark,” illustrated by Stephen Gammell. “The cover illustration was s [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Israeli filmmaker Avi Belkin has been making films since he was a youth, having been trained at the Midrasha film school before embarking on a successful career as a documentarian in his home country. His first documentary feature, 2014’s “Winding,” w [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Child actor JD McCrary provides the voice of Young Simba and teenager Shahadi Wright Joseph plays his lioness bestie Young Nala in the all-new animated feature “The Lion King.” At a press conference to promote the release of the remake of the Disney c [...]