John Hughes: Last News

Brenda Song kept a tradition of watching Home Alone during the holidays, but watching it with her fiancé Macaulay Culkin might have “ruined” her experience.

Monica Lewinsky’s podcast Tuesday and reflected on being cast in Hughes’ 1980 comedies “Sixteen Candles,” “The Breakfast Club” and “Pretty in Pink” as a teenager.“In terms of, did I know that I was a ‘muse,’ he told me that but when you’re that age, I had nothing really to compare it to,” Ringwald said.Ringwald explained while “Sixteen Candles” was Hughes’ directorial debut, she already had experience doing movies. “But I was still only 15 years old so I didn’t have a lot of life experience,” she noted.

Adam Fields oversaw the production of the iconic 1985 flick and, 40 years later, shared some insight into how the now-cult classic was originally pitched as a play.“John Hughes was a nobody when he sent me that script,” Fields exclusively told The Post at the opening of Tarantino | Pulp Rock at Hollywood Park earlier this month. “He sent it to me as a play, which I don’t know if I really want to talk about that, but it all took place in a classroom, and I said, ‘Why don’t you write a play? We’re in the movie business.'”“He goes, ‘Well, you know, I haven’t really worked with actors before, so I thought a play would be a good idea,” Fields said of Hughes’ response.

The Breakfast Club star Molly Ringwald has talked about how she dislikes The Brat Pack, a label used to describe a group of actors including herself who were successful in the ‘80s.Ringwald appeared in a number of films by the late director John Hughes in the middle of that decade, including The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo’s Fire, and Pretty In Pink.

Walking in the Fast Lane: Stories of a Lifetime,” said.Although “Sixteen Candles” was released several months prior, in May 1984, Hughes penned “Breakfast Club” first. He’d never directed any feature before.Hughes had just come off the release of “National Lampoon’s Vacation,” the comedy he wrote starring Chevy Chase, just as Meyer founded a company called A&M Films (part of A&M Records) in 1983. The producer liked what he saw and wanted to read more.

Simple Minds first heard “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” — their No. 1 single that would serve as the theme song and teenage anthem of the 1985 Brat Pack classic “The Breakfast Club” — it wasn’t exactly memorable to them.“It sounded a little generic to us,” Jim Kerr, lead singer of the band, told The Post.

Vision Quest” arrived smack in the middle of the ‘80s teen movie renaissance. It was preceded by John Hughes’ first two films, “Sixteen Candles” and “The Breakfast Club” (the latter by less than a month), as well as bona fide blockbusters like “Footloose” and “The Karate Kid,” making it seem at the time like a commercial trend-follower.

Chris Columbus finally addressed the question of how the McCallister parents could afford their lavish home in the 1990 Christmas classic. “Back then, [screenwriter John Hughes] and I had a conversation about it, and we decided on what the jobs were,” he said during an interview in December with the Hollywood Reporter. Columbus, who was also known for directing the first two “Harry Potter” films, said that he thought O’Hara’s character, Kate McCallister, “was a very successful fashion designer,” pointing out the mannequins displayed in the house.

Home Alone has finally revealed what Kevin McAllister’s parents had done for a living – specifically, to be able to afford such a big house in Chicago, as featured in the film.The five-bedroom, six-bathroom residence in Winnetka, Illinois has often been at the centre of discussion online, with fans of the 1990 festive film and its sequels questioning how the family were able to live in such a luxurious property.Now, director Chris Columbus has spoken about what the parents of Macaulay Culkin’s Kevin do for work to be able to afford the house in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast.Revealing the discussions he had with Home Alone screenwriter John Hughes about the characters’ backstories, he said: “Back then, John and I had a conversation about it, and we decided on what the jobs were.”Catherine O’Hara’s Kate McCallister, he revealed, “was a very successful fashion designer,” which he said is evidenced by the presence of mannequins in the house’s basement.John Heard’s Peter McCallister, meanwhile, he was less clear about. “The father could have, based on John Hughes’ own experience, worked in advertising, but I don’t remember what the father did.”He did, however, confirm that he did not have connections to a criminal underworld, which some have suggested is the reason that Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern’s Wet Bandits are drawn to the house.

classic “Home Alone” has finally revealed what Kevin McCallister’s parents did to afford their massive Chicago mansion.“Back then, John [Hughes] and I had a conversation about it,” Chris Columbus explained to The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published on Tuesday, “and we decided on what the jobs were.”As the 66-year-old filmmaker explained, the movie actually included a few hints. Take the dancing mannequins Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) placed in the window to ward off the criminals Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern), for example.Well, those actually belonged to Catherine O’Hara’s character Kate McCallister, who “was a very successful fashion designer,” according to the director.As for John Heard’s Peter McCallister? His job description wasn’t written in stone.

Home Alone is one of the most beloved Christmas classics, and fans have always been curious about one of the details in the movie: the McCallister’s Chicago home.

Vanity Fair in a recent interview. The movie was ultimately directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik.

A “bizarre” encounter with actor Chevy Chase led then-unknown filmmaker Chris Columbus to walk off National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. The Nosferatu producer recalled the experience publicly for the first time, detailing that Chase’s disrespectful interactions toward him led him to quit at a time when he desperately needed a next project.

Veteran actor Joe Pesci committed to the bit a little too much when he accidentally bit Macaulay Culkin‘s finger while shooting the 1990 Christmastime classic Home Alone.

in a whole new way now that his kids are old enough to enjoy it. If you're too young to remember, Culkin (yes, his younger is the guy from ) was a child superstar, but the role that made him famous didn't exactly make his dreams come true.The film “was kind of a curse and a blessing, for a while, for me,” he told an audience at a recent screening of the Christmas classic, per .

Tori Spelling just spilled ALL the tea about how she and Brian Austin Green slept together for the first time… because he didn’t “remember at all.” OUCH!

Michaela Zee John Ashton, known for his role as John Taggart in the “Beverly Hills Cop” films, died Thursday in Fort Collins, Colo., his manager Alan Somers confirmed to Variety. He was 76. Ashton played Detective Sergeant John Taggart in the first two installments of the “Beverly Hills Cop” series, released in 1984 and 1987, alongside Eddie Murphy and Judge Reinhold.

reported TMZ on Sunday.A rep for Ashton told the outlet that he passed on Thursday in Ft. Collins, Colorado after fighting cancer.

John Hughes has revealed that he was convinced to sign Kasper Schmeichel for Falkirk by fellow stopper Joe Hart and lifts the lid on just how the deal came about.

The Smashing Pumpkins‘ Billy Corgan has appeared on a podcast that charts the history of New Order, where he explains why the band’s “alien quality” landed with Generation X in the US.In the latest episode of Transmissions: The Definitive Story of Joy Division & New Order, released yesterday (September 19), host Maxine Peake focused on how the band’s first-ever US tour in 1980 came to be. Corgan chimes in to contextualise the unique connection British music sparked with the Gen Xers who were coming of age.Describing a generation of “latchkey kids” who had “too much TV” and “too much time alone”, the “alien quality” of bands like New Order began to resonate.“Bands like New Order seem to find that, ‘Yes, you’re young, Yes, you wanna fall in love and ‘es, you’re having your heart broken, but the world kind of isn’t the way it appears to be,'” he elaborates.Listen to the podcast episode below, which also features anecdotes from techno producer Kevin Saunderson and writers Andrew O’Hagan and Audrey Golden, along with interviews with current and former band members Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris, Gillian Gilbert and Peter Hook.A band like New Order, he continues, signified to kids like Corgan that “there was this other world out there that was cooler, had more depth of feel, had a level of sophistication even about teenage angst, that you certainly weren’t getting from America, particularly in the rock scene in the 80s.”He likened discovering New Order as a teenager to feeling like “the kid who sits in the back of the class because ‘nobody understands me and I got my weird trench coat'” from a typical John Hughes movie.“The minute you heard New Order, you were like, ‘They’re one of me’ or ‘I’m one of them’.

Shaun Evans, famed for his roles in Endeavour, Vigil and Until I Kill You, has landed the lead role in ITV's upcoming thriller, Betrayal. In the series, he will portray John Hughes, a spy who grapples with averting "a serious and dark threat to national security while making sense of his own place in the world".