For Lin-Manuel Miranda’s directorial debut, Deadline has reported that the Hamilton star has cast Andrew Garfield (Hacksaw Ridge) in the lead role of tick, tick… BOOM!, an adaptation of the musical stage play from Rent playwright Jonathan Larson. tick, tick… BOOM! is an autobiographical musical from Larson, which he wrote and performed in 1990. The play gained newfound popularity […]
Ron Howard to adapt The Shrinking of Treehorn as animated film
Filmmaker Ron Howard is set to turn his attention to the world of animation for the first time, with Variety reporting that he has signed on to direct a feature-length adaptation of Florence Parry Heide’s children’s book The Shrinking of Treehorn. The 1971 book follows a young man who begins shrinking in size after playing […]
Ron Howard explains why he believes Solo: A Star Wars didn’t perform at the box office
Ron Howard, the director of Solo: a Star Wars Story, has offered his opinion on why the film didn’t meet box office expectations. Whenever a new Star Wars film arrives at cinemas, the expectation that the film will perform in a huge way is very evident. So when a film like Solo: A Star Wars […]
Ron Howard discusses his disappointment with The Dark Tower movie
After spending years in development hell as a multi-part, multi-format adaptation, Stephen King’s epic fantasy The Dark Tower finally made it to the screen in 2017, although the resulting movie wasn’t quite what many were hoping for – including, it seems, producer Ron Howard. Howard and fellow producers Avika Goldsman and Brian Grazer first picked […]
Willow sequel could be heading to Disney+
Rumours of a follow-up to Ron Howard’s Willow have been omnipresent in gossip columns for decades, with the Apollo 13 director addressing them as recently as last year whilst performing the rounds for Solo: A Star Wars Story. Now it’s being reported that if you didn’t have reason enough for signing up to Disney+, what with […]
Solo’s Ron Howard interested in directing another Star Wars movie
Ron Howard, the director of Solo: A Star Wars Story, has revealed that he would be up for directing another Star Wars movie. While Solo: A Star Wars Story didn’t perform anywhere near expectations at the global box office, those that did see it found a lot to love and a lot of the credit must […]
Blu-ray Review – Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
Solo: A Star Wars Story, 2018. Directed by Ron Howard. Starring Alden Ehrenreich, Joonas Suotamo, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Paul Bettany, Donald Glover, Thandie Newton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Jon Favreau, Linda Hunt, Ian Kenny, John Tui, and Warwick Davis. SYNOPSIS: The second (and last?) standalone Star Wars movie serves up the origin story of everyone’s favorite […]
Ron Howard to direct 68 Whiskey pilot
Following the box office disappointment of Solo: A Star Wars Story, Ron Howard is dusting himself off and heading to the small screen for his next project, with Deadline reporting that he will direct the pilot 68 Whiskey for Paramount Network. Written by The Brink co-creator Roberto Benabib and adapted from the Israeli TV series […]
Boycotting films is not only pointless, but hurtful to the franchise
Ricky Church on boycotting movies… Since the release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi in December, Star Wars fandom has been divided to say the least. Some ‘fans’ who hated The Last Jedi have been extremely vocal in their utter hatred of the film, going so far as to demand Lucasfilm and Disney retcon it […]
Ron Howard says that reports of Star Wars Anthology movies ending are not “entirely accurate”
Solo: A Star Wars Story director Ron Howard has said that reports of Lucasfilm shelving future anthology films are not “entirely accurate”. Solo certainly didn’t go the way Lucasfilm was hoping in terms of box office numbers and in the weeks after its release, there have been reports of Lucasfilm ending work on future anthology […]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- …
- 12
- Next Page »