EXCLUSIVE: Ron Howard directed and produced both of Sony Pictures' films based on Dan Brown's bestselling novels, The Da Vinci Code (in 2006) and Angels & Demons (2009). Now I've learned that the Imagine Entertainment principal will not be directing the next movie based on Brown's 2009 book The Lost Symbol which is a follow-up to the events described in Da Vinci Code. "He wanted to produce this one, not direct," a Sony insider tells me.�So Sony Pictures has started looking for a new helmer. Like the two 
other books made into films, this third one stars Tom Hanks as Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon. "Ron told Amy Pascal and Michael Lynton that he was not going to be directing Dan Brown's novels anymore," an insider tells me. "He just didn't want to do that thing over and over, the�same character and the same stories." But if you look at Howard's box office track record as a director since his Oscar-winner A Beautiful Mind (2001),�the Dan Brown films were his most successful�with such wide release movies as�Missing, Cinderella Man,�and The Dilemma all underperforming. He could use a surefire hit. After all, The Lost Symbol sold one million hardcovers and e-books in the U.S., the UK, and Canada on its first day, making it the fastest selling adult novel in history. Interestingly, Sony Pictures is making a Somali ... Read More »Michael Jackson Michael Jordan Jackie Chan Jet Li Cameron Diaz
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