Screen Daily is reporting that Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment has optioned the movie rights to British author Jason Arnopp’s supernatural novel The Last Days of Jack Sparks, enlisting Arnopp to pen the script. The 2016 novel “follows titular pop culture journalist Jack Sparks who is researching a book on the occult. After sparking a Twitter […]
Movie Review – Inferno (2016)
Inferno, 2016. Directed by Ron Howard. Starring Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Omar Sy, Irrfan Khan, Ben Foster, and Ana Ularu. SYNOPSIS: When Robert Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Dr. Sienna Brooks, and together they must race across Europe against the clock to foil a deadly global plot. […]
Jennifer Lawrence set for Zelda Fitzgerald biopic with Ron Howard
THR is reporting that Jennifer Lawrence has signed on to play the jazz age icon Zelda Fitzgerald in a new biopic which is being developed by Inferno helmer Ron Howard. The biopic – currently titled Zelda – has been written by screenwriter Emma Frost (The White Queen), and tells the story of Fitzgerald, a socialite, […]
Second Opinion – Inferno (2016)
Inferno, 2016. Directed by Ron Howard. Starring Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Ben Foster, Omar Sy, Sidse Babbett Knudsen and Irrfan Khan. SYNOPSIS: When Robert Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Dr. Sienna Brooks, and together they must race across Europe against the clock to foil a deadly […]
Movie Review – Inferno (2016)
Inferno, 2016. Directed by Ron Howard. Starring Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Omar Sy, Irrfan Khan, Ben Foster, and Ana Ularu. SYNOPSIS: Robert Langdon must regain his memory and his problem solving skills in order to save the world’s population from a deadly new plague. Full disclosure: I read the book Inferno when it first came […]
Movie Review – The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years (2016)
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years, 2016. Directed by Ron Howard. Starring Ron Howard, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon (archive footage) and George Harrison (archive footage). SYNOPSIS: Documentary about the Fab Four’s early years performing at sold-out venues around the world. The only other official documentary that’s ever been made […]
Ron Howard on bringing Stephen King’s The Dark Tower to the screen
After spending years developing the project, producers Ron Howard and Brian Grazer are now less than half a year away from realising their dream of bringing Stephen King’s The Dark Tower to the big screen. However, as we’ve seen and heard, director Nikolaj Arcel’s film is not going to be a direct adaptation of King’s fantasy […]
Disney’s Splash remake to star Channing Tatum and Jillian Bell
Just this past June, producer Brian Grazer teased during an interview that a remake of his over three-decade-old surprise hit Splash, which starred Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah, was in the works with an interesting twist; today, that project has been revealed, as Deadline reports that a remake of Splash starring Jillian Bell and Channing […]
Splash remake is on the way, says producer Brian Grazer
In an interview with CNBC, producer Brian Grazer (Inferno, A Beautiful Mind) has said that one his earliest films Splash is getting the remake treatment. Released in 1984, Splash was Grazer and producing partner Ron Howard’s first significant hit, with Howard also directing. Tom Hanks (A Hologram for the King) and Darryl Hannah (Kill Bill) starred in […]
DVD Review – In the Heart of the Sea (2015)
In the Heart of the Sea, 2015. Directed by Ron Howard. Starring Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy, Tom Holland, Ben Whishaw and Brendan Gleeson. SYNOPSIS: Massachusetts, 1850. Young novelist Herman Melville visits ageing Thomas Nickerson, the only survivor of the Essex, a whaling ship sunk decades earlier by a great white whale. Nickerson […]
