These companies bring a lot to the table since they own stakes in Hollywood properties and have a lot of money,” said one source.

After the triumph of Apollo 11, NASA faced its darkest hour. When Apollo 13 suffered a catastrophic explosion in space, survival depended on sheer ingenuity and courage.

Recently, yet another Apollo astronaut, Jim Lovell, passed on. Lovell’s fame was as defined by his role as a pop culture icon as it was by his astronaut heroics. Everybody who came of age during the ...

Houston, we have a problem.” — and director Ron Howard had a few of them himself shooting his riveting, reality-based 1995 ...

Director Ron Howard's "Apollo 13," the cinematic account of the ill-fated lunar flight in 1970, blew out the candles on its big 30th birthday on June 30, 2025. But in case you missed the celebration, ...

“I’m in there getting my physical with Kevin Bacon. It’s everything — it’s the treadmill, urine, blood works, heart monitor the whole thing,” Howard, 71, told Stephen Colbert during his Wednesday, ...

What really happened on Apollo 13? In April 1970, three astronauts were headed to the Moon when a deadly oxygen tank explosion turned their mission into a fight for survival. With systems failing and ...

He said on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert that at one point he passed out and peed himself in front of Kevin Bacon The filmmaker's Oscar-winning drama, which tells the harrowing story of NASA's ...

Ron Howard’s 1995 film Apollo 13 is one of the best movies of the ‘90s, winning two Academy Awards (but not Best Picture) from nine nominations. The fact that it’s based on the real-life doomed moon ...