By HEATHER TURK Front Row Features Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book” might be a literary classic, but many would say that Walt Disney Productions’ 1967 animated film of the same name is the definitive version of the coming-of-age tale of a man-cub raised in the jungle by a family of wolves. Tha [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Disney’s original “Pete’s Dragon” flew into theaters four years before Bryce Dallas Howard was born. Now, the 35-year-old actress stars in the studio’s 2015 update of the iconic fantasy adventure film. In it she plays Grace, the sensible grown daughte [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—The exotic adventure stories of 19th century author Rudyard Kipling are revisited in Jon Favreau’s imaginatively shot live-action/CGI hybrid “The Jungle Book,” which also hearkens to Disney’s 1967 animated musical classic. It tells the tale of Mowgli, [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Holliday Grainger was destined for a career in show business. Her parents named her after legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday, adding an extra “l” for flourish. “My parents were on the way to the registry office, and realized they had to come up with [...]