Warren Beatty’s Untitled Howard Hughes Pic Finally Takes Flight Financed By Billionaire Boys’ Club; Ehrenreich, Collins To Star In Love Story; Bening And Broderick Also In

EXCLUSIVE: It took two decades, but it’s finally getting off the ground thanks to billionaires Ron Burkle and Steve Bing, Windsor Media’s Terry Semel and Arnon Milchan’s New Regency. The heavies have come together to finance Warren Beatty’s long-gestating Howard Hughes-based project. The roughly $26.7M production, which Beatty will direct and appear as Howard Hughes, will center around Alden Ehrenreich (Beautiful Creatures, Blue Jasmine) as Hughes’ assistant and his love interest played by Lilly Collins (Mirror, Mirror). New Regency, Beatty and Brett Ratner (RatPac Entertainment) are producing. RatPac’s James Packer executive produced. Regency will handle foreign through Fox. They’ve already shot a small amount of film on the picture but it starts rolling in earnest today. Beatty’s wife Annette Bening and Matthew Broderick and other surprises are expected (ala Jack Nicholson, maybe? One can only hope). The focus of the story is on the love story of the two younger characters.
The public knows Beatty as a talented actor, but he is a heck of a director and writer, too. Two of the pictures he wrote and directed  – the love stories Heaven Can Wait (co-director Buck Henry) and Reds — were Academy Award Best Picture winners. The cult favorite Heaven Can Wait (based on the stage play Here Comes Mr. Jordan and better than the original ... Read More »

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