“That might have been the first time I’ve ever cried in a general meeting trying to sign a writer.”
Kendrick Tan of Lit Entertainment Group joins us once again and breaks down the emotionally charged story of Godwin Jabangwe and his animated-musical pitch TUNGA.
Ron Howard
Based on the true story of Chris Wyle, the young gay visionary who created Cambridge Analytica and eventually blew the whistle on them after they defrauded America’s Presidential election.
Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott, Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese and others have had erratic filmographies in their later years, but it’s not because they’re any less talented as filmmakers.
After the surprise firing of Phil Lord and Chris Miller, Kathleen Kennedy and Lucasfilm have tapped Ron Howard to take over the untitled Han Solo standalone film.
Chronicles J.D. Vance’s upbringing in the Rust Belt city of Middletown, Ohio, and the Appalachian town of Jackson, Kentucky, where he grew up among the working class “hillbillies.” He and his family endured social and economic hardships, and also struggled with drug addiction.
After being dumped by her boyfriend who is a spy, a woman and her friend become embroiled in a conspiracy.
Based on the novel Afterlife.
The Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence is taking a trip into the past to play Zelda Fitzgerald in the biopic, currently titled Zelda. The project is in development as a potential directing vehicle for Ron Howard.
Centers on Zelda Fitzgerald, the wife of author F. Scott Fitzgerald and his indispensable muse and fiercest competitor. Desperate to define herself through her own art, the film explores the question: Can love exist between creative equals? Born in Montgomery, Alabama, Zelda Fitzgerald was dubbed was hailed as the “first American Flapper.”
In a futuristic city where superheroes fight crime, a veteran is forced to partner with a cocky rookie.
Logline being kept under wraps, but a role reversal remake of the 1984 film starring Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah.
When Robert Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Sienna Brooks, a doctor he hopes will help him recover his memories. Together, they race across Europe and against the clock to stop a madman from unleashing a global virus that would wipe out half of the world’s population.
Ron Howard is circling the director’s chair for Seveneves, the adaptation of Neal Stephenson’s acclaimed sci-fi novel. Howard, who is already a producer on the project, would be reuniting with his Apollo 13 screenwriter Bill Broyles.
When a cataclysmic event threatened life on Earth, the human race survived by traveling into space, and 5,000 years later, the descendants travel to Earth, completely altered by the disaster and time.
Jackie Earle Haley will sink his teeth into the role of the evil vampire, Sayre in the upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower.
Two hitmen kill an unresisting ex-prize fighter, and when an investigator pursues the case, he uncovers a tale of betrayal, crime and a series of events that led to his murder.
This week, Napster founder and former Facebook president Sean Parker unveiled his latest venture project, Screening Room, and sought the backing of some of Hollywood’s biggest filmmakers. Now, a line has been drawn in the sand, with some of Hollywood’s biggest players taking sides.
The highly anticipated adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower has added young up and comer Tom Taylor to the cast.
Following months of speculation, it has been confirmed that Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey will star in Sony’s adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower. With the A-listers on board, production on the long-awaited project is expected to begin this spring.
Model-turned-actor Abbey Lee is the latest name to be thrown into the ring for the highly-anticipated movie adaptation of The Dark Tower. Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey are also slated to star
The Academy Award-winning director is set to helm Warner Bros.’ live-action adaptation of the classic story about a wooden puppet who wants to be a real boy.
Idris Elba is said to be circling the lead role in Sony’s adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower. Elba would anchor the first of what Sony expects to be a multi-film franchise.
The twenty-one crew members of a whaling boat resort to extreme measures in order to survive after their ship is attacked by a giant whale in 1820.
Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s latest project is centered around the world of skateboarding. While details of the story are being kept under wraps, we hear that it’s being pitched as 8 Mile meets Lords of Dogtown.
A teenager uses skating to escape the urban blight. Pitched as 8 Mile meets Lords of Dogtown.
The twenty-one crew members of a whaling boat resort to extreme measures in order to survive after their ship is attacked by a giant whale in 1820.
The pic, which is being produced by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard for their Imagine Entertainment shingle, was sold as a pitch from Ben Schwartz in 2012, with Schwartz also hired on to write. Josh Greenbaum is now feeling the pangs of love for the project, and has signed on to direct.
Kept under wraps, but centers on a heist of the world’s greatest treasures.
Though it’s not going to hit shelves until March 1st, 2016, Taylor Bayouth’s How to Steal the Mona Lisa: and Six Other World-Famous Treasures is already primed for a big-screen adaptation.
A teenage boy gets pulled into the lie to protect his father’s secret, second family.
