By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Joel Hopkins is living proof that “when God closes a door, he opens a window.” After making the well-received low-budget feature “Jump Tomorrow,” the native Brit was among the directors considered to helm the big screen adaptation of the popular child [...]
HOLLYWOOD— For the first time in its 12-year history, The Huading Awards, China’s biggest film awards ceremony, was held at the Ricardo Montalban Theatre here on Sunday, June 1. The awards ceremony reached over 1 billion viewers through its telecast on various Chinese networks in China, Hong Kong [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Joel Kinnaman was only seven years old when Paul Verhoeven’s cautionary sci-fi drama “RoboCop” came out. It was an iconic film for the Swedish-American actor, so when he heard from his agent that the film was set for a reboot, he thought he would be interested [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—“Enlightening, diverse and innovative!” is the theme of the Eighth Annual Los Angeles Greek Film Festival (lagff.org), opening Wednesday, June 4, with Nick Cassavetes’ hit romantic comedy “The Other Woman.” The comedy stars Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann a [...]
By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features The laughs in Seth MacFarlane’s western romp “A Million Ways to Die in the West” range from “bottom” feeding pooping in the street jokes to fun tribute fare as when MacFarlane’s hapless sheep rancher character Albert happens upon a barn where (SPOILER ALERT) “Bac [...]