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‘Mummy,’ ‘Decline and Fall,’ ‘Rake’ and More on Home Entertainment … plus giveaways!!!

DVD Features News By Angela Dawson|September 10, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features An ancient evil is unleashed after centuries of captivity and her lust for revenge threatens to destroy the world in “The Mummy,” a spectacular saga unwrapping on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, DVD and On Demand on Tuesday Sept. 12, from Universal Pictures Home Entertai [...]

Bill Skarsgard Nails ‘It’ as Fearsome Stephen King Clown

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|September 7, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Bill Skarsgard brings on the scary as Stephen King’s most frightening clown villain, Pennywise, in the R-rated horror movie “It.” The 27-year-old actor, son of Sweden’s Stellan Skarsgard (“Pirates of the Caribbean” movies), is fearsome as the toothy p [...]

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 [...]

Time Traveling Drama ‘Outlander’ Returns for Third Season

Features TV Features By Judy Sloane|September 5, 2017 |0

By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—The wait is over for the devoted, patient fans of “Outlander,” the popular time-travel drama, based on Diana Gabaldon’s successful novels. The third season returns to Starz on Sunday Sept. 10 at 9 p.m. The first season was set in 1945 when married Briti [...]

Seth MacFarlane Boldly Goes Where Sci-Fi Shows Used to Go in New Series

Features TV Features By Judy Sloane|September 5, 2017 |0

By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Seth MacFarlane (“Ted, “Family Guy”), creator/writer/executive producer and star of Fox’s “The Orville,” wants viewers to know the series is not a spoof of the classic sci-fi series “Star Trek,” but it is an homage to the franchise. The live-action spac [...]

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 [...]

Gwendoline Christie Trades Armor for a Badge in ‘Top of the Lake: China Girl’

Features TV Features By Judy Sloane|August 30, 2017 |0

By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Proudly standing 6-foot-3-inches tall, British actress Gwendoline Christie has portrayed an array of unique characters, notably loyal warrior/protector Brienne of Tarth on “Game of Thrones,” and Captain Phasma, one of the main antagonists in “Star Wars: [...]

Executive Producer Jeph Loeb Talks ‘Marvel’s Inhumans’

Features TV Features By Angela Dawson|August 27, 2017 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—”Marvel’s Inhumans,” debuting on IMAX screens Friday, Sept. 1 and premiering exclusively on ABC on Sept. 29, tells the story of the Inhumans royal family after they are splintered by a military coup. Some escape to Hawaii, where the [...]

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 [...]