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

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

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 pay to Jim Lovell, commander of the ill-fated moon mission on which ...

Apollo 13, director Ron Howard's Oscar-winning dramatization of NASA's ill-fated mission to send astronauts Jim Lovell (Tom ...

EXCLUSIVE: Apollo 13 mission commander astronaut Jim Lovell, memorialized through Tom Hanks’ performance in the Best ...

Tom Hanks posted a tribute on social media to James Lovell, who died on Aug. 7. Lovell was a NASA astronaut known for ...

Ron Howard Says He Almost Didn’t Cast His Own Mother in ‘Apollo 13’ (Exclusive) When Apollo 13 rocketed into theaters 25 years ago, it left an indelible impact on filmmaking.

The Oscar-winning actor played the real-life commander of the 1970 space mission that nearly ended in tragedy.

Directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, the late Bill Paxton and Kevin Bacon, "Apollo 13" bills itself as "the dramatic true story" of how NASA engineers in Houston, Texas, worked with the ...

Apollo 13, Ron Howard's docudrama about a disastrous mission to the moon, turns 30 this month. Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton led the cast, each playing the real-life astronauts who ...