Mamie Gummer Scrubs Up for New TV Show
By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Mamie Gummer has spent the last few years working constantly in featured roles on stage, screen and television. But in The CW’s new dramady “Emily Owens, M.D.,” which premieres on October 20, she gets to shine in the title role. If she [...]
Rihanna Debuts ‘Diamonds’ Worldwide
By a Front Row Features Staff Writer HOLLYWOOD—Rihanna brought back the sparkle to the music world as she debuted her new single “Diamonds” on radio stations worldwide today, with the sales of the single released an hour after it hit the airwaves on iTunes along with music stores thro [...]
Screenwriter Says ‘Preacher’ Movie is “Gestating”
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—John August, who has been tapped to write the movie version of the DC/Vertigo Comics series “Preacher” created by writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon, describes the project as “gestating.” “I don’t know if the birth is going to be anytime soon, [...]
Surprise Announcement for ‘SYTYCD’ Finals
By PETERSON GONZAGA Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—It was long road for the final four contestants of Fox’s “So You Think You Can Dance” Season 9 as they danced their hearts away to await that final announcement of the winning male and female contestants. This season was the first [...]
Billy Burke and the ‘Revolution’
By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Billy Burke has been acting since 1990, and has appeared in a plethora of TV shows such as “Rizzoli & Isles,” “The Closer” and “24,” and movies like “Ladder 49,” “Fracture” and as Charlie Swan, B [...]
First look at Next Season’s ‘Foyle’s War’
By a Front Row Features Staff Report Acorn Media, Masterpiece/WGBH, ITV and Eleventh Hour Films released today the first images from the set of “Foyle’s War.” The three new episodes will air as part of the Masterpiece Mystery! Season on PBS in summer of 2013. “World War II [...]
‘Bucket List’ Producers Tapped for Academy Awards
By A Front Row Features Staff Report Craig Zadan and Neil Meron will produce the 85th Academy Awards, Academy President Hawk Koch announced today. This will be the duo’s first involvement with the Oscars. The 85th Academy Awards will air live on Oscar Sunday, February 24, 2013. “Craig and N [...]
Hollywood Reacts to ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Rampage
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Producers of “The Bourne Legacy,” the latest installment of the popular “Bourne” action-thriller franchise said Friday they have no intentions of altering or eliminating a scene in that film in which a mass shooting takes place by a lone gunman. The s [...]