The director said one key part of the film was a big hangup for film studios Virginia Chamlee is a Politics Writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE for three years. Her work has previously ...

In Ron Howard's Emmy-nominated guest stint on The Studio as a fictionalized version of himself, he receives a note from the film studio that he does not take well. At this, Howard pauses before ...

We know her best for making a splash in her famous swimsuit photos, but as Christie Brinkley reveals in her new memoir, Uptown Girl, she originally tried out for the mermaid role in the 1984 film ...

"We were going to every studio, they were all turning us down, and one said, 'Does it really have to be a mermaid?' " he told the outlet Ron Howard says when he initially tried to sell Splash — his ...

Ron Howard says when he initially tried to sell Splash — his 1984 film about a man who falls in love with a mermaid who saved him from drowning — many film studios had one key issue: the mermaid.