Universal Pictures has just paid $1 million for a spec script titled Mena, which Ron Howard is attached to direct. Gary Spinelli has penned the spec, and concerns real-life pilot Barry Seal who, in the 1980s, worked as a gun runner and drug trafficker for both the CIA and the Medellin cartel. In Deadline‘s report, they mention […]
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Niki Lauda asks Rush’s Daniel Brühl: ‘Do you really think I was such an a**hole?”
October 1, 2013 
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Daniel Brühl has the difficult task of making notoriously brusque F1 racer Niki Lauda seem sympathetic in Ron Howard’s new movie, Rush. The Austrian Lauda had an incendiary rivalry with the hard-living Brit James Hunt, played by Chris Hemsworth in the picture. We caught up with Brühl ahead of the film’s release to ask how […]
Continue readingRace war – Rush review
September 25, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo September 25, 2013 Rush tells of the furious rivalry between death-defying Formula 1 racers James Hunt and Niki Lauda. The former, a rascally Brit, left a trail of naked women and empty beer bottles in his pursuit for a world championship. The latter, a brusque Austrian, found himself at the center of […]
Continue readingPlay it Again – American Graffiti
April 24, 2013 0 Comments
By Jess Lomas April 24, 2013 As a teenager, summer days seemed endless, the nights were full of possibility, and the future was unwritten. Before George Lucas introduced the world to Star Wars, he captured those fleeting moments that signal the end of childhood and the beginning of adult life in American Graffiti; a homage […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Rush
April 9, 2013 0 Comments
Ron Howard’s real-life racing drama Rush has a brand new trailer, positioning it as a potential Oscar contender and definite pulse-quickener. Chris Hemsworth stars as Formula One driver James Hunt, with Daniel Brühl playing his rival Niki Lauda. The duo battled to dominate the FI circuit in the 1970s. With a screenplay from Peter Morgan (The Queen, Howard’s own Frost/Nixon), Rush certainly […]
Continue readingHow the Grinch Stole Christmas is getting an animated reboot
February 11, 2013 0 Comments
Universal Pictures had a massive hit on their hands with Ron Howard’s live-action Dr. Seuss adaptation, The Grinch. The studio is now plotting an animated do-over, set to hit cinemas nearly 15 years after Jim Carrey bounded around in the green body-suit. According to Deadline, Illumination Entertainment – who previously produced The Lorax for Universal – will animate the […]
Continue readingR.I.P. Andy Griffith
July 4, 2012 1 Comment
American TV legend Andy Griffith has died of natural causes in his North Carolina home. He was 86 years old. Griffith’s body was buried on Roanoke Island within five hours of his death, as per the requests of his family. He is best known for starring as the genial Sheriff Andy Taylor in the iconic […]
Continue readingJennifer Connelly in talks for Aronofsky’s Noah
June 20, 2012 0 Comments
Deadline reports Jennifer Connelly is in talks to reteam with Russell Crowe in Darren Aronofsky’s Noah. Connelly and Crowe last worked together on Ron Howard’s A Beautiful Mind back in 2001, and are now said to play husband and wife once again in Aronofsky’s biblical epic. Connelly has also worked with Aronofsky in the past; in […]
Continue readingWarner Bros resurrecting The Dark Tower
March 13, 2012 0 Comments
Warner Bros might come to the rescue of Ron Howard‘s seemingly doomed adaptation of Stephen King’s novel The Dark Tower, Deadline reports. Universal Pictures balked at Howard’s plan to produce three movies and two limited-run TV series’ based on the source material, and passed on the project last year. According to Deadline, Warner Bros is now […]
Continue readingNew season of Arrested Development officially in the works
November 21, 2011 0 Comments
Netflix have made a huge… well, whatever the opposite of a mistake is! The online US movie rental company will air a new season of the beloved TV show Arrested Development. Despite being axed in 2006, AD’s cult following has been clamouring for a new movie or more episodes (either way, they’re not picky). After […]
Continue readingUniversal head admits Cowboys and Aliens, The Wolfman and Land of the Lost “stunk”
November 4, 2011 2 Comments
Honesty! Don’t you love it? Universal chief Ron Meyer spoke about his studio’s recent misfires at the Savannah Film Festival, with refreshingly foul-mouthed candour. Movieline captured his headline quotes, the most significant of which relate to his disappointment over studio flops The Wolfman, Cowboys and Aliens, and Land of the Lost. “We make a lot of sh**** movies. Every […]
Continue readingThe Dark Tower being rebuilt (with a smaller budget); TV show headed to HBO
October 26, 2011 0 Comments
UPDATE: This post from 25/10/11 has been updated with news of the TV show headed to HBO. Earlier this year, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s ambitious vision for a film trilogy and two short-run TV series based on Stephen King’s epic Dark Tower books was nixed by Universal. Speaking to The Playlist, Grazer believes the […]
Continue readingRon Howard to direct superhero flick 364
September 12, 2011 1 Comment
It looks like Ron Howard – who made his name on films Splash, Cocoon and Willow – may return to the world of fantasy in his new picture. According to Deadline, Howard is attached to direct a new pitch from screenwriter David Guggenheim entitled 364. You’ll note that the title is the number of days in […]
Continue readingRon Howard abandons Dan Brown trilogy
July 27, 2011 1 Comment
Ron Howard will not direct the feature film adaptation of Dan Brown’s novel The Lost Symbol, despite helming its predecessors The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. According to Deadline, Howard will still produce the flick, which follows Robert Langdon on yet another symbology-related mystery. A studio insider claims Howard “”didn’t want to do that […]
Continue readingRon Howard moves from Dark Tower to murderous Mormons
July 20, 2011 1 Comment
It was only announced yesterday that Ron Howard‘s ambitious plans to adapt Stephen King’s seven-book series The Dark Tower had been nixed by Universal, yet the Oscar winning director already has another project in production. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Howard and producer Brian Grazer are set to bring Jon Krakauer’s novel Under the Banner […]
Continue readingThe Dark Tower crumbles underneath Ron Howard’s feet
July 19, 2011 1 Comment
The writing has been on the wall for some time, but Universal Pictures has officially bailed on Ron Howard‘s ambitious project The Dark Tower. According to Deadline, Universal balked at Howard’s plan to turn Stephen King’s epic seven-book series The Dark Tower into a trilogy of films and two limited run TV series. The script for […]
Continue readingChris Hemsworth teams up with Ron Howard for Rush
July 12, 2011 0 Comments
Thor himself, Chris Hemsworth, is in talks to star in Ron Howard‘s upcoming film Rush. According to Deadline, the movie tells the story of Formula One driver James Hunt and his rival Niki Lauda, who battled to dominate the FI circuit in the 1970s. Hemsworth would play Hunt. The script has been penned by Peter Morgan, […]
Continue readingRon Howard takes on Spy vs Spy
June 24, 2011 0 Comments
Ron Howard is set to bring the Mad magazine comic strip Spy vs Spy to the big screen, according to Deadline. The popular director will team with his Imagine Entertainment partner Brian Grazer and producer David Koepp on the film for Warner Brothers. The screenplay will be written by John Kamps, a writer with a limited […]
Continue readingArrested Development creator to remake Lars von Trier comedy
February 24, 2011 1 Comment
Well, you don’t read a headline like that every day. Mitchell Hurwitz, creator of the peerless and gone-far-too-soon TV show Arrested Development, is developing a remake of Lars von Trier’s Norwegian comedy Direktoren For Det Hele (or rather, The Boss of it All). The news comes from The Wrap, who claim Imagine’s Brian Grazer and […]
Continue readingRon Howard’s The Dilemma embroiled in controversy
October 12, 2010 0 Comments
One of the blandest trailers in recent history has also become one of the most controversial. The trailer for Ron Howard‘s The Dilemma opens with a sequence in which Vince Vaughn uses the word ‘gay’ as a derogatory term – and the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation are not happy. Distributor Universal has cut […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: The Dilemma
September 20, 2010 0 Comments
The trailer for Ron Howard‘s latest film The Dilemma has debuted online. It stars Vince Vaughn and Kevin James as best friends who…wait, where are you going? If you’re still with us…Vince Vaughn and Kevin James star as two best friends happily married to their beautiful wives (Jennifer Connolly and Winona Ryder respectively). However, their […]
Continue readingArrested Development creator working on film script (he’s half done!)
August 3, 2010 0 Comments
Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz has revealed that he is indeed working on the script for a film adaptation of his beloved television show. Hurwitz told The Live Feed that the script is half done, which means that it already has 50% more script than that other TV-to-film adaptation, Sex and the City 2. “The […]
Continue readingArrested Development movie OFFICIALLY in the works – Maebe.
October 8, 2009 2 Comments
source: thr.comDon’t lie to us Hollywood Reporter! We’ve been hurt too many times before. Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz and co-executive producer James Vallely are officially working on the screenplay for the long-gestating feature film of the classic cult television show. Hurwitz previously announced that he would not start working on a script until the […]
Continue readingInterview to the death – Frost/Nixon review
December 23, 2008 0 Comments
Frost/Nixon. Starring Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon and Sam Rockwell. Directed by Ron Howard. Rated M for coarse language. 122 mins. Who would have thought in a year of epic hero/villain pairings, a British talk show host and a disgraced American president would have provided the most riveting. Audiences were given such blockbuster battles […]
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