By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Matthew McConaughey discovered a side benefit to shedding 30 pounds to play a role as an AIDS patient for the movie “Dallas Buyers Club.” “They say we only use 10 percent or our brain so there’s a 90 percent well of reserve that we haven’t even [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson play a pair of turkeys that travel back to 1621 to try and prevent their species from becoming the main course in the annual Thanksgiving tradition in the animated comedy “Free Birds.” Both Texas natives, they came aboa [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Dean Devlin’s Electric Entertainment has picked up all worldwide sales rights, excluding the Philippines, to the critically acclaimed Filipino drama “Transit,” it was announced Monday. The drama marks the debut of director Hannah Espia. The Taga [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Whatever you do, don’t call Harrison Ford, the actor who embodied Han Solo and Indiana Jones, an icon. “I don’t know what an icon does except stand in a corner quietly accepting everyone’s attention,” he says in his low, gravelly voice. “I like [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Let me start with a disclaimer: I’ve known Cole Haddon, the creator and co-executive producer of the new NBC series “Dracula,” premiering at 10 p.m./9 Central Friday, Oct. 25, for many years. I sat with him at roundtables and press conferences at vari [...]