Jon Favreau News

"You have to be very humble to start over," says Latin actress Ana de la Reguera when we connect very early on a Monday morning.
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Whether it’s Will Ferrell’s loveable smile, the yellow tights, or the fact that you can laugh and be a kid again while watching the film- we can all agree that Elf is the greatest holiday movie sin...
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Nothing says Wild West like a firm pair of cowboy boots, hard brimmed hat and a...laser arm gun? So is the plight of Daniel Craig in Iron Man director Jon Favreau’s "Cowboys & Aliens," out this we...
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Happy Birthday to: Actor/director Jon Favreau (1966) Actor Omar Gooding (1976) Actress Joy Bryant (1976) Fugees star Pras (1972) Saturday Night Live alum Chris Kattan (1970) South Park creato...
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Looks like the Miramax makes the hits, Lionsgate releases the glitz love fest continues and we’re joining in on the celebration with peaks at some of their latest in the collection of films to hi...
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Based on its name, “Cowboys & Aliens” sounds like a playful, genre-mashing romp, similar to something imagined by Tarantino or Rodriguez. “Iron Man” director Jon Favreau tries to prove though, tha...
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What do you get when you blend Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, an overflow of Westernized attitude, look and feel, Aliens and a plot which would need to be approached with a suspended mi...
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Two Jews On Film - By Joan Alperin-Schwartz: The year is 1873. The place...New Mexico...A man (Daniel Craig) wakes up in the middle of nowhere. He has no idea who he is or where he is. All he kno...
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It seemed a great recipe for success: my favorite actor (Daniel Craig), one of film's iconic names (Harrison Ford), and one of my favorite directors (Jon Favreau). And it almost was. While Cowboys ...
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Iron Man director Jon Favreau was schooled in the art of mixing music by DJ Adam Goldstein. Favreau has been dabbling in DJ-ing for years, but it wasn't until he met Goldstein, aka DJ A.M., while ...
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“Captain America: The First Avenger” surprised me last week, by outdoing other summer superhero films like “Thor” and “Green Lantern.” Director Joe Johnston delivers a good old fashioned fun time ...
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Olivia Wilde owes her life to her "Cowboys & Aliens" co-star Walton Goggins after he saved her from getting trampled to death in a horse stampede scene. The star appears alongside Daniel Craig an...
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Jennifer Lopez, Justin Timberlake, and Rihanna are among the stars who have paid tribute to members of the U.S. military as Americans celebrate Memorial Day on Monday.
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Harrison Ford became so attached to the horse he rides in new movie Cowboys & Aliens, he is "trying to buy" his trusty steed. The Indiana Jones star plays a cowboy in Jon Favreau's sci-fi western...
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Liam Neeson, who starred as Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace has signed on to reprise his role for two episodes on Cartoon Network's series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Neeson...
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Jon Favreau has left Marvel movie bosses desperately searching for a new director to take charge of "Iron Man 3" after turning down an offer to direct the project. Favreau helped to create a huge...
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Based on the graphic novel by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, Cowboys & Aliens starts in 1800s Arizona, where the local cowboys, headed by gunslinger Zeke Jackson (Daniel Craig), and the indigenous Apach...
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Director Jon Favreau has signed up to bring Disney's latest theme park attraction to the big screen - he's working on a movie based on The Magic Kingdom. Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean" ride s...
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The hilarious Christmas film "Elf" tells the tale of a young orphan child who mistakenly crawls into Santa's bag of gifts on Christmas Eve and is transported back to the North Pole and raised as an...
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Happy Birthday to: Actor/director Jon Favreau (1966) Saturday Night Live alum Chris Kattan (1970) South Park creator Trey Parker (1969) TV carpenter Ty Pennington (1965) Actor John Lithgow (19...
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A bizarre defamation suit against the producers of Vince Vaughn comedy "Couples Retreat" has been thrown out of court in New York. Former model Irina Krupnik claimed a snap of her in a bikini, use...
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"Iron Man 2" has rocketed to the top of the box office chart to score the fifth biggest opening weekend in history with a powerful $133.6 million. The sequel to the 2008 hit, starring Robert Down...
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After Jon Favreau and Robert Downey Jr. blew away audiences with the box office smash “Iron Man” in 2008, fans almost instantly demanded a sequel to the metal hero’s first outing. Making the follo...
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On Thursday, I watched the reboot to the Freddy Krueger series “A Nightmare on Elm Street.” The film kept my attention however it did not blaze a new trail in the genre or introduce any compelling ...
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Buffy The Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon is close to signing a deal to direct The Avengers film, according to reports. Bosses at Marvel have been hunting for a moviemaker to oversee the highl...
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A vacation in paradise goes hilariously awry in "Couples Retreat", the laugh-out-loud comedy coming to Blu-ray Hi-Def, DVD and Digital Download on February 9, 2010 from Universal Studios Home Enter...
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Robert Downey, Jr. is so determined to make Iron Man 2 a hit, he's helping rewrite the screenplay to ensure it surpasses the original superhero movie. The actor starred as billionaire entrepren...
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In Four Christmases, a crafty couple run the Christmas Day gauntlet by racing to visit their divorced parents' four separate households in this Vince Vaughn/Reese Witherspoon comedy that proves the...
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Charging home on December 15th comes Walt Disney Pictures' actionpacked comedy-adventure G-Force. Packaged as an exciting Disney "Combo Pack" (a Blu-ray + DVD + DisneyFile Digital Copy of the movie...
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Happy Birthday to: Actor/director Jon Favreau (1966) Saturday Night Live alum Chris Kattan (1970) South Park creator Trey Parker (1969) TV carpenter Ty Pennington (1965) Actor John L...
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