By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Gerard Butler lends his voice once again as the elder Viking leader Stoick the Vast in the action-adventure animated feature, “How to Train Your Dragon 2.” On the heels of the 2010 film, which introduced audiences to Stoick, leader of a proud dragon-f [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Morgan Freeman knows something about authority figures, having played a number of them over the years, including a school principal in “Lean on Me,” a brigadier general in “Outbreak,” the U.S. president in “Deep Impact” and the Almighty himself in two [...]
(EDITORS: PLEASE NOTE THAT OBSCENITIES HAVE BEEN ASTERISKED) By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Gerard Butler may be a Scottish by birth but having made his success as an actor here in America, the “300” star appears to have adopted a certain amount of patriotic pride on this side of t [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—You could call director Michael Apted a pinch hitter. When fellow filmmaker Curtis Hanson had to drop out of making the surf movie “Chasing Mavericks” just four weeks into filming, Apted, whose credits range for the James Bond actioner “The World is N [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Gerard Butler looks tanned as he arrives for an interview to talk about his new surfing movie “Chasing Mavericks.” But the Scottish heartthrob insists the source of his tropical coloring isn’t the result of soaking in the great outdoors. “Tanning bed [...]