howard hughes

Say Hello To My Little Friend! Al Pacino & Brian De Palma On The Set Of SCARFACE

Switching booze for cocaine and transposing the action from Chicago to Miami, Scarface updates the Howard Hawks/Howard Hughes gangster movie from 1932 and delivers an iconic piece of cinema which has now surpassed the original in terms of legacy. [...]

August 30, 2020

Go Pro: The Great Warren Beatty

The mighty Warren Beatty’s off-screen persona as a ladies-man has arguably made him more famous than his movies. However, Beatty uses this as a way of twisting audience expectations, delivering films with a strong emotional (and political) [...]

May 1, 2020

Blu-ray Review: Brian De Palma’s SCARFACE

“Say hello to my little friend!” The general belief is that remakes are a very bad thing. Yes, sometimes that is true, but other times that is Scarface. Written by Oliver Stone and directed by Brian De Palma, this remake of the the [...]

November 4, 2019

Dip The Wick With The Latest Clip From Warren Beatty’s RULES DON’T APPLY

Warren Beatty’s classy looking Rules Don’t Apply hits US screens this weekend. It doesn’t arrive in the UK until january 2017 – but this clip is a little something to keep us going. An aspiring young actress (Lily Collins) [...]

November 23, 2016

Get On The Story And Understand The Comical Consequences Of RULES DON’T APPLY

Rules Don’t Apply might just be one of the most anticipated films in the history of Movies In Focus (I first started writing about it in June 2012). The Warren Beatty film hits the UK in January 2017 and the marketing is starting to hit in a big [...]

November 9, 2016

RULES DON’T APPLY When You Work With Warren Beatty

Have you ever wondered what it’s like working with Warren Beatty? Then check out this new Rules Don’t Apply featurette. Early word on this is good – and it’s still a highly anticipated release for Movies In Focus. Rules [...]

November 2, 2016

Poster For Warren Beatty’s RULES DON’T APPLY

Movies In Focus has been waiting on Warren Beatty‘s Rules Don’t Apply for years. It’s (finally) almost here – and this is the poster to prove it! The synopsis: An aspiring young actress (Lily Collins) and her ambitious young [...]

October 26, 2016

Marvel Fanboys Need to Watch This Trailer For Warren Beatty’s RULES DON’T APPLY

Forget your comic book movies – the next movie to watch is Warren Beatty‘s Rules Don’t Apply. Beatty is a master filmmaker and movie star – this Howard Hughes ‘dramedy’ looks like it will deliver the goods in a [...]

September 29, 2016

Warren Beatty Is Back In The Trailer For His Long Awaited Howard Hughes Pic RULES DON’T APPLY

Leave it to Warren Beatty to deliver a cracking trailer for his long gestating Howard Hughes movie, Rules Don’t Apply. Beatty’s Hughes isn’t the central focus here, instead it’s Lily Collins and Alden Ehrenreich’s young lovers who are [...]

July 16, 2016

RULES DON’T APPLY To Warren Beatty’s New Howard Hughes Movie

Rules Don’t Apply – that’s the name of Warren Beatty’s long awaited Howard Hughes movie (and Movies In Focus’ must-see movie of 2016). Beatty has unveiled the movie’s title, along with new images and it’s official release date (11 [...]

May 19, 2016

Going Solo: Alden Ehrenreich Set To Play Famed Corellian Smuggler

It looks like Alden Ehrenreich is going to have to learn how to do the Kessel Run in less than 12 par secs. The actor has officially snagged the role of young Han Solo in Lucasfilm/Disney’s solo Solo movie, which is set to be directed by Phil Lord [...]

May 7, 2016

Warren Beatty’s HOWARD HUGHES Reveal; Detailed Plot Description

Jeffery Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere has revealed that Warren Beatty’s untitled Howard Hughes movie will be research screened in LA at the Pasadena Arclight on Monday 18th April. That means we’ll be getting some reactions to the long gestating [...]

April 17, 2016

No Cannes Launch For Warren Beatty’s HOWARD HUGHES Movie; Distributor Found

Roger Friedman at Showbiz 411 seems to have his finger firmly on the pulse of Warren Beatty’s (as yet untitled) Howard Hughes movie. Friedman states that Beatty himself got in touch to scupper the recent rumours that his film would debut at the [...]

April 3, 2016

There’s A New Image Of Lily Collins And Annette Bening – But Where’s Warren Beatty’s HOWARD HUGHES?

Warren Beatty wrapped shooting his mysterious (and still untitled) Howard Hughes movie over a year ago and since then he’s been honing the film in the editing room. Beatty is a notorious perfectionist and he’s likely working and reworking the [...]

August 22, 2015

Strange Bedfellows: Warren Beatty, Brett Ratner… and Michael Jackson

They say pictures are worth a thousand words, but this one of Warren Beatty, Michael Jackson and Brett Ratner leaves me speechless. Beatty and Ratner is easy to get. The pair have been friends for years and Ratner is producing Beatty’s forthcoming [...]

November 22, 2014

Alec Baldwin Joins Cast Of Warren Beatty’s HOWARD HUGHES Movie

Alec Baldwin has just done a two-day stint on the set of Warren Beatty’s Howard Hughes movie. Little is known about Beatty’s long gestating biopic, other than the interesting cast (Baldwin joins Martin Sheen, Matthew Broderick, Annette Bening, [...]

May 10, 2014

First Behind The Scenes Images From Warren Beatty’s HOWARD HUGHES Movie

It’s happening – it’s really happening. Here are the first behind the scenes images from Warren Beatty’s untitled Howard Hughes movie (that’s Beatty in the blue baseball cap). It’s his first movie as a director since 1998’s [...]

March 4, 2014

Great News: Warren Beatty’s HOWARD HUGHES Movie Starts Production

I’ve been writing about movies for a long time and I have seen a lot of long gestating passion projects come and go. However, one of the most interesting films never to be made has always been Warren Beatty’s film about Howard Hughes. Beatty has [...]

March 2, 2014

Profile: Warren Beatty

Filmmaking genius Warren Beatty is one of Hollywood’s great movie stars, and he’s also an Academy Award winning director,writer and producer. ‘The Pro’ has many great movies under his belt and even his lesser efforts (like The [...]

March 30, 2013

Billy Ray Serenades Scorsese With Some SINATRA

Writer Billy Ray (NOT of Cyrus fame) has been brought in to write the script for Martin Scorsese’s Frank Sinatra biopic. Scorsese has long been interested in bringing a Sinatra tale to the screen, originally planning a Rat Pack film that was set [...]

August 20, 2012

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