By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—There’s no denying that when Will Smith enters the room, electricity fills the air. “I feel so good, it’s almost a damn shame,” he exclaims when asked how he’s feeling. And why shouldn’t he? The onetime Fresh Prince is now the king of Hollywood, havin [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—If the hilltop mansion in the new feature film “Dark Shadows” looks familiar, it should. Production designer Rick Heinrichs, who won an Academy Award for his work on director Tim Burton’s “Sleepy Hollow,” purposely took inspiration from the one that a [...]
By PETERSON GONZAGA Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—A new contender has stepped into the lucrative action movie field. It’s called After Dark Action, a partnership between After Dark Films and Joel Silver’s Dark Castle Entertainment. The partnership will debut its initial five original films i [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Johnny Depp and Tim Burton first collaborated 22 years on the offbeat romantic monster movie “Edward Scissorhands.” Depp played the softhearted metallic monster with razor-sharp scissors for hands; Burton was an up-and-coming filmmaker who co-wrote th [...]
By MICHAEL HIXON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Actress-producer Rita Wilson grew up listening to the radio in her parent’s car in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Songs that were about the romanticized version of love from that era evolved into the singer-songwriters that dominated the radio in the [...]