The filmmaker famously criticized the U.S. media’s focus on box office when making a trip to the fest in 1988. By Ryan Gajewski Senior Entertainment Reporter Ahead of the movie’s theatrical release, ...

Ron Howard was hardly a neophyte when he was enlisted by George Lucas to direct Willow (1988), the famed fantasy adventure about an aspiring sorcerer (Warwick Davis) who teams up with a hardened ...

Disney's press materials refer to the original 1988 movie "Willow" as "beloved," which despite its admirers feels like nostalgic inflation of a pretty generic George Lucas-plotted fantasy that ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook George Lucas and Ron Howard’s iconic fantasy is getting a major upgrade this winter. Willow, the ...

Ron Howard was hardly a neophyte when George Lucas enlisted him to direct Willow (1988), the famed fantasy adventure released in theaters 35 years ago Monday, about an aspiring sorcerer (Warwick Davis ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Warwick Davis in Willow, left, and Ron Howard directing Val Kilmer. (Photos: Everett Collection) But Willow’s lengthy, ...