By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—In the upcoming “Mary Poppins Returns,” the long-anticipated sequel to the hit 1964 Disney musical, Emily Mortimer plays an all-grown-up Jane Banks. The Rob Marshall-directed sequel, which also stars Emily Blunt, Meryl Streep and Dick Van Dyke is set [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Timothy Spall remembers a time when he couldn’t walk the streets of Belfast without being very cautious. He was in the Northern Ireland capital attending a film festival some 30 years ago. To get to his hotel, he couldn’t walk through the front door. [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—To his American fans, Colm Meaney will always be Transporter Chief Miles O’Brien of “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” a role he carried over into “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.” But Meaney, who’s lived in the U.S. for three decades, began life in Dubli [...]
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 [...]