In an interview about the making of the 1995 hit, director Ron Howard has admitted he had doubts about casting his mother in ...

The director, 71, told Vulture in an interview published on Aug. 13 that he needed some convincing from his dad, Rance Howard ...

Ultimately, Howard was taken in as a hired gun who re-shot most of the film. While the result didn't fully appeal to fans, ...

Apollo 13 director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer paid tribute today to Jim Lovell, commander of the ill-fated moon ...

The 'Apollo 13' director celebrated the real-life astronaut's 'intellect, courage and commitment to duty' after his death.

Famed NASA astronaut Jim Lovell, who died at the age of 97 on Thursday, played a role in the making of the hit movie Apollo ...

There’s a difference between being an Oscar-winning director and directing an Oscar-winning movie, not that Ron Howard cares ...

Tom Hanks has paid tribute to Jim Lovell, the NASA astronaut he portrayed in Ron Howard’s 1995 film Apollo 13, who has died ...

Ron Howard hasn't had much lately at the box-office, despite his efforts. In The Heart Of The Sea wasn't exactly warmly received at the box-office and came under $10,000,000 short of its budget.

Jim Lovell, the NASA astronaut who commanded the famous Apollo 13 mission around the moon and back, has died, NASA has ...

Apollo 13, director Ron Howard's Oscar-winning dramatization of NASA's ill-fated mission to send astronauts Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon), and Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) to the Moon ...

Actor Tom Hanks and director Ron Howard are among those paying tribute to heroic astronaut James Lovell following his death ...