The 46th Chicago International Film Festival will honor Ron Howard with its Silver Hugo Career Achievement Award on June 12, 2010. During the Festival’s annual Summer Gala, the acclaimed actor, producer and director will receive the award, in recognition of his outstanding 50-year career in the film industry. Past recipients of this award have included Steven Spielberg, Orson Welles, Francois Truffaut, Sigourney Weaver, Nicholas Cage, Jodie Foster, Robin Williams and Clint Eastwood. On this...

Frost/Nixon by Ron Howard Directed by: Ron Howard Written by: Peter Morgan Produced by: Eric Fellner, Tim Bevan, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard Executive Producer: Matthew Byam-Shaw, Karen Kehela-Sherwood, David Bernardi, Debra Hayward, Liza Chasin, Todd Hallowell Cast: Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Sam Rockwell, Toby Jones   Synopsis: For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-ch...

6th edition Ischia Film Festival 23rd – 29th June 2008In the 5th century Torre of Michelangelo took place the final ceremony of the 6th edition of the Ischia Film Festival.Music and cinema entertainment as corollary of a award night ceremony with the quintet “Architorti”.The giury composed by the film maker Francesco Munzi, the set designer Amedeo Fago, the actor Mattia Sbragia and the journalist Francesco Alò awarded the foreign cinema.“Lost Holiday” by Lucie Králová as best docume...

The Ischia Film Festival 6th edition – 23rd|29th JUNEIn the striking landscape of the Reggia of Caserta, location set of the last Ron Howard’s film “Angels & Devils”, the director of the Ischia Film Festival, Michelangelo Messina will give the Foreign Award 2008 to the film maker. Ron Howard choosed the italian set for some of the shooting of his last film.The Foreign Award is the only award in the world to be given to a film during his shooting.Past editions winners of the Foreign award...

FOREIGN AWARD 2008 to “Angels and Demons” by Director Ron Howard"Angels and Demons," Sony Entertainment’s latest thriller directed by American, RonHoward and based upon the Dan Brown novel of the same title, is sure to excite viewers and fuel controversy as did its predecessor, “The Da Vinci Code.” With Italy as the film’s backdrop, American actor Tom Hanks reprises the role of Harvard Professor and hero, Robert Langdon.In “Angels and Demons,” Langdon takes on the secret sect of ...

Had director Ron Howard been a woman, how would “The Da Vinci Code ...