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25 June 2008 1:18 AM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

It would indeed be glorious news if this were true, and the way the speculation has mounted over the past several months it certainly seems to have more validity than ever.

Chud is speculating, based on several different sources, that an Arrested Development movie is more or less an eventuality. Now, we have to be careful: There has been no official announcement made by Ron Howard or Mitchell Hurwitz, and you'd think that's where it would have to come from. However, the Bluth men, particularly Michael (Jason Bateman) and George (Jeffrey Tambor) are not exactly ducking from the rumors in the current rounds of press duties.

Bateman, in an interview with the Times of London, says that a film version is planned for 2009. At least that's the subtext. He does say, however, that the show was subject to a number of possible interruptions that would distract you from the quick-fire,

Colin Boyd

21 June 2008 4:52 AM, PDT | From screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news

Kevin Bacon is set to star opposite Renee Zellweger, Chris Noth and Nick Stahl in Richard Loncraine’s upcoming comedy “My One and Only,” according to Variety.

The film is based on the childhood adventures of George Hamilton and focuses on Anne Deveraux, who took her kids from town to town along the East Coast to find a wealthy man and establish a new life.

Bacon will play a band leader she leaves behind when she embarks on the trip. Noth stars as a doctor she meets along the road.

Loncraine, whose credits include “Firewall” and “Wimbledon,” is directing a script by Charlie Peters. Production on the film is already in progress.

Bacon was last seen on the big screen in “Death Sentence.” He recently completed principal photography for “New York, I Love You” and will also star in Ron Howard’s upcoming political drama “Frost/Nixon.”

Franck Tabouring

18 June 2008 6:36 AM, PDT | From screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news

Universal announced it will release Sacha Baron Cohen’s upcoming comedy “Bruno” on May 15, 2009, according to Variety.

Much like “Borat,” the film follows one of Cohen’s eccentric characters on his quest to trick people into believing he’s real.

Created on Cohen’s popular TV show “Da Ali G Show,” Bruno is an Austrian fashionista and celebrity journalist who comes to America to interview famous people.

If you had an awesome time watching “Borat,” chances are you will enjoy this one just as much. After winning critical acclaim, “Borat” ended up pulling in $128.5 million domestically.

Competition will be tough for “Bruno,” as it will have to go against Ron Howard’s “Angels & Demons.”

Franck Tabouring

16 June 2008 6:41 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Robert Downey Jr. is set to bring a 10-year-old sci-fi movie idea to the big screen after negotiating to star in Cowboys and Aliens.

The Iron Man star is in talks to sign on to the film, about an alien spaceship that lands in the Wild West, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Brian Grazer and Ron Howard will produce the film, which has been in development for a decade.

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16 June 2008 3:07 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Tom Hanks and director Ron Howard have been forbidden from filming in two Roman churches by religious leaders.

The pair is making the prequel to controversial film The Da Vinci Code in the Italian city and asked permission to shoot in two churches considered vital to the storyline in Dan Brown's book Angels + Demons.

But Rome's diocese has told producers they'll have to film elsewhere, due to the controversial nature of the plot.

A spokesman for the diocese says, "It's a film that treats religious issues in a way that contrasts with common religious sentiment.

"We would be helping them create a work that might well be beautiful but that does not conform to our views."

The film deals with suggestions that Jesus was a married father when he died. Dan Brown's books about the mysterious Opus Dei, a secret society which protects the bloodline of Jesus, and Howard and Hanks' 2006 The Da Vinci Code film have upset Catholic leaders throughout the world.

But despite the ban, director Howard will be allowed to film exteriors of the churches, Santa Maria del Popolo and Santa Maria della Vittoria.

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2 June 2008 5:11 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Actress Bryce Dallas Howard has replaced Charlotte Gainsbourg in the highly anticipated fourth installment of the Terminator franchise.

Gainsbourg was originally cast to play Kate Connor, the wife of human rebel leader John Connor - played by Christian Bale - in Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins.

But Gainsbourg had to bow out due to scheduling conflicts with another film, a French comedy.

Howard - the daughter of veteran Hollywood director Ron Howard - has joined Bale on set in New Mexico, where shooting is already underway under the direction of Charlie's Angels filmmaker McG.

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17 May 2008 12:45 AM, PDT | From fantasymoguls.com | See recent Fantasy Moguls news

As the Cannes Film Festival prepares for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which premieres on Sunday, there is a question that begs asking. Why did Steven Speilberg and George Lucas decide to bring this "popcorn movie" to face the jaded industry types and elite critics on the French Riviera? In 2006, Brian Grazer and Ron Howard decided to open The Da Vinci Code at Cannes, which actually made some sense. The Pg-13-rated film was set in France, with a chunk of the film being shot in the Louvre Museum.

Steve Mason

3 May 2008 10:36 PM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

The Golden Compass has been named the most disappointing movie adaptation by Entertainment Weekly.

The film, based on Philip Pullman's fantasy novel Northern Lights, topped a list of 23 movies that didn't match up to their parent books.

Ron Howard's version of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code was placed second, the Us remake of Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch came third, Memoirs of a Geisha, based on Arthur Golden's bestseller was fourth, and the 2005 Ray Bradbury adaptation A Sound of Thunder rounded . . .

Simon_Reynolds_imdb_@digitalspy.co.uk (Simon Reynolds)

27 April 2008 7:17 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Actor Ewan McGregor is in negotiations to join the cast of Tom Hanks' forthcoming movie Angels And Demons.

Filmmaker Ron Howard will direct the film, the prequel to 2006 blockbuster The Da Vinci Code, in what will be the second big-screen adaptation of Dan Brown's popular books.

Hanks is set to reprise his role as symbologist Robert Langdon as he embarks upon a quest to uncover a conspiracy within the Catholic Church.

And McGregor is reportedly being touted to play a powerful Vatican insider assisting Langdon, according to Variety.

If the rumours are true, he will joins new leading lady Ayelet Zurer in the movie.

Filming is set to begin in May.

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