Craig Gillespie’s shiny reimagining of the 1985 kitsch classic is very much its own movie, but like any good spawn, it doesn’t forget where it came from.
"He's incredibly supportive and complimentary and things like that. I mean, honestly, all of my dad's friends are like that. They're all very thoughtful and supportive. And that's really wonderful." Tom Cruise is a big fan of his pal Ron Howard's actress daughter Bryce Dallas Howard.
"I went over the other day, he'd spent the night at my parents' house, and it was like eight and he was watching cartoons and stuffing his face with Oreos (cookies)! And then he was talking the whole day about how he went skateboarding with granddad. And I didn't even know that my dad skateboards. He took him to Venice Beach and went skateboarding with him - he's four!" Actress Bryce Dallas Howard is surprised at how liberal her director father Ron is parenting his grandson Theo.
The Universal/DreamWorks co-production of Cowboys & Aliens starring
James Bond’s Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford is locked beats Sony’s The Smurfs in a photo finish!
Universal Pictures bosses have scrapped plans to adapt horror author Stephen King's The Dark Tower books. Last year (10) Ron Howard signed up to direct a trilogy of films and a TV series based on the 1982 book, but studio bosses were unable to confirm an acceptable budget by a 15 July (11) deadline.