Ferris Bueller's Day Off News

Stunned by the untimely death of writer-director John Hughes this past August, movie fans the world over showered the filmmaker's beloved '80s teen comedies - "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club," "Weird Science" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" - with nostalgic praise and spoke of the impact those films had on their lives.

A police chief accused of scheming to sell items from the home of a surrogate mother used by Sarah Jessica Parker has been found guilty on three counts.

Sale Price: $5.2 million List Price: $5.795 million Nancy L. Hughes, the widow of the director John Hughes , has paid $5.2 million for the Lake Forest mansion owned by the developer Robert Shaw.

Shout Factory's got the third installment of Michael J. Fox's not-too-shabby return to prime-time situational comedy.

The Virginia Film festival wrapped up its' weekend of events in Charlottesville with a bang on Sunday night.

The 22nd-annual Virginia Film Festival brought in a bit more than $71,000 in ticket sales, marking an 87 percent increase over the previous year's festival and just barely missing an all-time record.

This year's Virginia Film Festival capped off with an '80s classic on its final day.

On a set of "This Is It" On a set of "This Is It" Kenny Ortega taught modern Hollywood how to dance.The director of the MichaelJackson documentary, "This is It" , Ortega began his career as a choreographer and is responsible for some of the most iconic, indelible dance performances captured on film in the last 30 years.

The Eastman House this month celebrates the late filmmaker John Hughes, the cinematic pied piper of adolescent America in the late '80s. Hughes virtually invented the teen film of the modern era, creating a formula of clever, cynical teens who overcame angst-ridden lives by being wittier and way ahead of their parents, teachers and other adults.

With all due respect to the late John Hughes , his movies didn't define '80s adolescence any more than Gidget spoke for the Beat Generation.

Just before the famed director's death, local fan Austin Sadowski toured the U.S. to assess his impact on a generation Will Sloan Late in Don't You Forget About Me , Toronto-based director Matt Austin Sadowski's documentary about the career and cultural legacy of John Hughes, one of the interviewees observes that though Hughes's films are beloved ...

For every time you've hit snooze and seriously considered playing hooky from that insufferable ancient history lecture; for every time you've deadpanned "Bueller? Bueller?" in an empty meeting room; for every time you've busted out a dance move to The Beatles' hit "Twist and Shout" or jammed to a song by the California-based band Rooney, take a ...

Caption: Matthew Broderick Opening night of 'A Steady Rain' on Broadway at Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre - Arrivals New York City, USA .... Theatre bosses in charge of MATTHEW BRODERICK's new Broadway show have denied they are planning to fire the director after a shambolic preview performance.

This is not how Matt Austin Sadowski wanted to release his John Hughes movie. A couple of years ago, the Toronto actor-filmmaker decided to make a documentary about the writer-director who defined the 1980s teen movie with Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off and vanished from sight in the early 1990s.

Cybill Shepherd , who's still got it, picked up the bill for her and three guests at Pod Saturday night.

This week sees the release of Michael Jackson's This Is It , the much-anticipated behind-the-scenes 3-D concert movie constructed from 100 hours of footage of rehearsals for Jackson's aborted tour.

Ben Stein, best known for a small role in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," talked about the economic crisis and other issues last night at the University of Mary Washington's Fredericksburg Forum.

To mark the opening of the London film festival, framescourer takes us on a whistle-stop tour of the best clips on fetes, fiestas and festivities Dancing in the streets a scene from Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

San Diego California, Baltimore Maryland and Pensacola Florida all have in common with each other as well as with every other single large, mid-sized and small city, and every bedroom community, crossroad town, rural burg, and mountain valley village in between America's two scenic and sprawling longitudinal oceanfronts? Better yet, what does every ...

Veteran comic sidekicks Rachael Harris and Alan Ruck are joining the ABC freshman sitcom "Cougar Town," according Michael Ausiello at EW.com . Ausiello learned exclusively that Rachael will be playing Shanna, an adversary of Courteney Cox's character.