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 ...

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

Apollo 13' director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer pay to Jim Lovell, commander of the ill-fated moon mission on which ...

Five years before Tom Hanks got stuck on an island in Cast Away (2000), he was stuck in space in Ron Howard's film Apollo 13, ...

"Apollo 13," which is heading to IMAX, recounts the perilous 1970 efforts of three astronauts to return to Earth safely ...

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

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Lovell’s story became the centerpiece of Ron Howard’s Apollo 13, the 1995 Oscar-winning blockbuster that starred Tom Hanks as the calm, competent commander of the near-tragic moon mission.

The 1984 romantic fantasy film famously features Tom Hanks as a man who falls in love with a woman who is secretly a mermaid ...

Nearly a century ago, an uninhabited island in the Galapagos became home for several German expatriates who, as Ron Howard’s “Eden” makes clear, did not find paradise.