MUMBAI: Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard attended the opening day of the American Film Market to meet with buyers and talk about his vision for his new Formula 1 film Rush on behalf of Exclusive Media Group.
 
Alongside Exclusive co-chairmen Nigel Sinclair, and Guy East and Cross Creek’s Brian Oliver, Howard participated in a number of intimate round table meetings about the epic Formula 1 feature film and highlighted how he’d become such a fan of the sport.
 
Rush is co-produced and co-financed by Exclusive with Cross Creek Pictures. This marks the third collaboration between Exclusive and Cross Creek, who are also co-producing the picture with Imagine Entertainment, Working Title and Revolution Films. Howard, Brian Oliver, Brian Grazer, Eric Fellner, Peter Morgan and Andrew Eaton are all named as producers. Exclusive’s co-chairmen Nigel Sinclair and Guy East executive produce Rush with Exclusive’s Head of Production Tobin Armbrust. Imagine’s Todd Hallowell will also Executive Produce. Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl star in the film penned by Peter Morgan.
 
Alex Walton, President of Exclusive Films International, is debuting Rush to buyers at AFM.
 
Currently in production, Rush is being released by Universal Pictures in the US in 2012.