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Writer-director Ron Shelton’s Bull Durham still resonates, twenty-two years after its release, as the baseball movie to hold all others up to. Veteran Catcher and minor-league veteran Crash Davis (Kevin Costner) finds his contract bought out, placing him with the Durham Bulls. The Bulls’ star player is Pitcher Ebby Calvin “Nuke” Laloosh (Tim Robbins), an empty-headed hotshot who dreams of nothing more than making it to “the show,” (the major league, in layman’s terms). And the team’s hope is that Crash will be able to impart some wisdom on Laloosh to better prep him for that career leap. Meanwhile, a hardball devotee named Annie Savoy (Susan Sarandon), a local who chooses one player per season as a personal “project”, selects Laloosh as flavor of the season. But it’s Crash who steals her heart and the movie quickly becomes as much about human emotions as it does baseball. Continued after the jump:

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Ron Shelton Wants To Go POUND FOR POUND with Billy Bob Thornton

by Ramses Flores Posted: August 21st, 2009 at 5:32 am

Billy Bob Thornton is now set to star in “Pound for Pound,” a boxing drama based on a novel from F.X. Toole, the author of the book that became “Million Dollar Baby.” The film will be written and directed by Ron Shelton (“Tin Cup”, “Bull Durham”) and will begin to film early next year. To find out more about “Pound for Pound” and why I think this is an odd choice for Shelton click the jump.

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Ron Shelton Going Back to the Green with Tim Allen and Dennis Quaid

by Ramses Flores Posted: August 16th, 2009 at 9:29 pm

The Hollywood Reporter has announced that writer-director Ron Shelton (“Tin Cup”, “Bull Durham”) will be returning to the golf course to direct “Q School”, a comedy starring Tim Allen and Dennis Quaid as a couple of friends competing to get into the PGA Tour. More info after the jump

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