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  • Jon Favreau returning to Iron Man 3 - as an actor - 25 May 2012
    -Filmmaker Jon Favreau is making a return to the Iron Man franchise - to reprise his onscreen role as Robert Downey, Jr.'s bodyguard sidekick.-Favreau directed the first two installments of the Marvel comics movie adaptation, but announced in 2010 that he would not b


  • Ford is Favreau's Cowboy - 9 April 2010
    -Director Jon Favreau has confirmed Indiana Jones star Harrison Ford will swing into action in upcoming blockbuster Cowboys And Aliens.- -Robert Downey Jr. reportedly pulled out of the project to concentrate on filming a sequel to Sherlock Holmes, and recent rumours


  • Favreau to take on Cowboys and Aliens? - 3 September 2009
    -Director Jon Favreau is in talks to reteam with Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr. for a new comic book adaptation of Cowboys And Aliens.- -Downey Jr. has been linked to the project for over a year, but production has been delayed because studio bosses have yet to appo

Jon Favreau - what members say


  • Swingers
  • Swingers review by from Nottingham
    Rated - 5.0 stars Great guy film 29 September 2006
    ...Brilliant film about male friendship and bonding, with Jon Favreau and a never-better Vince Vaughan swim through the world of L.A. nightlife, dropping one-liners and tryin...   Read customer review
  • Iron Man
  • Iron Man review by Meako from Sheffield
    Rated - 5.0 stars Solid Marvel entertainment 30 April 2008
    ...When Jon Favreau was announced as director for this latest Marvel comic adaptation I got a buzz of excitement. Favreau is something of a comic book fan, and his first com...   Read customer review
  • Iron Man 2
  • Iron Man 2 review by AnAmericaninScotland from Edinburgh
    Rated - 3.5 stars Good, superficial fun. 29 April 2010
    ...oth the arrogant charm of Robert Downey, Jr. and the sense of fun that director Jon Favreau bring to the Iron Man films. As with the first installment, 'Iron Man 2' is a c...   Read customer review

Jon Favreau - filmography


  • Cowboys And Aliens - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Olivia Wilde,  Daniel Craig,  Harrison Ford
    Director: Jon Favreau
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Based on the graphic novel by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, COWBOYS AND ALIENS starts in 1800s Arizona, where the local cowboys, headed by gunslinger Zeke Jackson (Daniel Craig), and the indigenous Apache tribe have been feuding fiercely for quite a while. Their skirmish is interrupted, however, by the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 8,411 members
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  • Revenge of the Electric Car (2011)
    Starring: Tim Robbins,  Danny DeVito,  Jon Favreau
    Director: Chris Paine
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In 2006, thousands of new electric cars were purposely destroyed by the same car companies that built them. Today, less than 5 years later, the electric car is backĀ… with a vengeance. In "Revenge of the Electric Car," director Chris Paine takes his film crew behind the closed doors of Nissan, GM, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
    Due for release on 17th September 2012
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  • Iron Man 2 on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Robert Downey Jr.,  Gwyneth Paltrow,  Scarlett Johansson
    Director: Jon Favreau
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    With the world now aware of his dual life as the armored superhero Iron Man, billionaire inventor Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) faces pressure from the government, the press, and the public to share his technology with the military. Unwilling to let go of his invention, Stark, along with Pepper ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 49,712 members
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  • I Love You, Man on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Jason Segel,  Paul Rudd,  Jaime Pressly
    Director: John Hamburg
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Peter Klaven is a successful real estate agent, who, upon getting engaged to the woman of his dreams, Zooey, discovers to his dismay that he has no male friend close enough to serve as his best man. Peter immediately embarks on a series of bizarre and awkward 'man-dates' to find such a friend, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 26,194 members
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  • Couples Retreat (2009)
    Starring: Vince Vaughn,  Jason Bateman,  Jon Favreau
    Director: Peter Billingsley
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A comedy centered around four couples who settle into a tropical-island resort for a vacation. While one of the couples is there to work on the marriage, the others fail to realize that participation in the resort's therapy sessions is not optional.
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 820 members
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  • Couples Retreat - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Vince Vaughn,  Jason Bateman,  Jon Favreau
    Director: Peter Billingsley
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A comedy centered around four couples who settle into a tropical-island resort for a vacation. While one of the couples is there to work on the marriage, the others fail to realize that participation in the resort's therapy sessions is not optional.
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 233 members
    Not available for rental
  • I Love You, Man - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Paul Rudd,  Jason Segel,  Rashida Jones
    Director: John Hamburg
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Peter Klaven is a successful real estate agent, who, upon getting engaged to the woman of his dreams, Zooey, discovers to his dismay that he has no male friend close enough to serve as his best man. Peter immediately embarks on a series of bizarre and awkward 'man-dates' to find such a friend, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 6,061 members
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  • Iron Man - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Robert Downey Jr.,  Terrence Howard,  Shaun Toub
    Director: Jon Favreau
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Iron Man tells the story of Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), the enigmatic heir to the Stark Enterprises fortune. A driven inventor and executive who seems to have it all, Tony is haunted by his dark side. Though he commands his empire by day, by night he secretly becomes Iron Man, the living ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 17,596 members
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  • Four Christmases - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Tim McGraw,  Jon Favreau,  Kristin Chenoweth
    Director: Seth Gordon
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn pair up for this Christmas comedy about a couple who has to visit four different sets of parents as a result of divorce. Seth Gordon, director of the highly praised documentary THE KING OF KONG: A FISTFUL OF QUARTERS, makes a move into narrative territory with ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,066 member
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  • Four Christmases on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Vince Vaughn,  Reese Witherspoon,  Robert Duvall
    Director: Seth Gordon
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    When upscale, happily unmarried San Francisco couple Kate and Brad find themselves socked in by fog on Christmas morning, their exotic vacation plans morph into the family-centric holiday they had, until now, gleefully avoided. Out of obligation--and unable to escape--they trudge to not one, not ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 22,462 members
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  • Iron Man on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Robert Downey Jr.,  Terrence Howard,  Gwyneth Paltrow
    Director: Jon Favreau
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Iron Man tells the story of Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), the enigmatic heir to the Stark Enterprises fortune. A driven inventor and executive who seems to have it all, Tony is haunted by his dark side. Though he commands his empire by day, by night he secretly becomes Iron Man, the living ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 93,098 members
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  • Open Season on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Martin Lawrence,  Ashton Kutcher,  Fergal Reilly
    Director: Roger Allers,  Jill Culton
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    OPEN SEASON, an animated action-adventure, follows the fortunes of two forest-animal misfits. Boog (Martin Lawrence) is a gentle and domesticated bear; Elliot (Ashton Kutcher) is an absentminded and accident-prone deer who has been shunned by his herd. Together, they struggle to adapt to the ways ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 19,583 members
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  • The Break-Up on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Vince Vaughn,  Jennifer Aniston,  Vincent D'Onofrio
    Director: Peyton Reed
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Gary (Vince Vaughn) and Brooke (Jennifer Aniston) are a mismatched couple who meet, develop a seemingly contented relationship, and buy a beautiful condo together within the movie's first few minutes. Soon an all-too-believable fight triggers the title event, and they spend the rest of the movie ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 57,623 members
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  • The Break-Up - Blu-ray (2006)
    Starring: Vince Vaughn,  Jennifer Aniston,  Joey Lauren Adams
    Director: Peyton Reed
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Despite its seemingly classic date-movie setup, THE BREAK UP bucks romantic comedy tradition at almost every turn. Gary (Vince Vaughn) and Brooke (Jennifer Aniston) are a mismatched couple who meet, develop a seemingly contented relationship, and buy a beautiful condo together within the movie's ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 202 members
    Not available for rental
  • Zathura on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Josh Hutcherson,  Jonah Bobo,  Dax Shepard
    Director: Jon Favreau
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Older brother Walter (Josh Hutcherson) and the younger Danny (Jonah Bobo) are constantly at war with one another, bickering over the mediating voice of their long-suffering father (Tim Robbins). When he has to go to the office to replace some papers the boys destroyed in their crossfire, he leaves ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 23,012 members
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  • Wimbledon on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Kirsten Dunst,  Paul Bettany,  Sam Neill
    Director: Richard Loncraine
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Richard Loncraine's 'Wimbledon' is a lighthearted romantic comedy set in the high-pressure world of professional tennis. Peter Colt (Paul Bettany) is a 31-year-old Englishman who was once ranked 11th in the world, but has now dropped to a pathetic 119th. Realising that his days are numbered, Peter ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 59,827 members
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  • The Big Empty on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Jon Favreau,  Joey Lauren Adams,  Bud Cort
    Director: Steve Anderson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    It's an easy gig - low risk, big pay out. Just deliver a blue suitcase to a trucker named Cowboy at a lonely little spot called Baker, out in the desert near Vegas. Hand over the suitcase, get $27,000 cold, hard dollars in return. For struggling, street-bound 30 something actor John Pearson it's ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 1,251 member
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  • Elf on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Will Ferrell,  James Caan,  Bob Newhart
    Director: Jon Favreau
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Will Ferrell makes yet another memorable splash on the big screen in Jon Favreau's sweet and hilarious Christmas fable. Ferrell is Buddy, an innocent figure who was raised as an elf in the North Pole by his adoptive father, Papa Elf (Bob Newhart). When Buddy discovers that he's actually a human ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 30,115 members
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  • Something's Gotta Give on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Jack Nicholson,  Diane Keaton,  Keanu Reeves
    Director: Nancy Meyers
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    In the sparkling comedy SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE directed by Nancy Meyers (WHAT WOMEN WANT), divorced, successful playwright Erica Barry (Diane Keaton) has given up on finding a fulfilling romantic relationship. When her beautiful young daughter Marin (Amanda Peet) visits the family's Hamptons home ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 36,252 members
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  • Elf - Blu-ray (2003)
    Starring: Will Ferrell,  James Caan,  Bob Newhart
    Director: Jon Favreau
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Will Ferrell makes yet another memorable splash on the big screen in Jon Favreau's sweet and hilarious Christmas fable. Ferrell is Buddy, an innocent figure who was raised as an elf in the North Pole by his adoptive father, Papa Elf (Bob Newhart). When Buddy discovers that he's actually a human ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 1,157 member
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  • Made on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Jon Favreau,  Vince Vaughn,  Famke Janssen
    Director: Jon Favreau
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Following their success five years before with SWINGERS, Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn team up again in MADE, a comedy about two very different down-on-their-luck L.A. friends who get caught up in a dangerous deal in New York City. Favreau stars as Bobby, a hardworking, very serious construction ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 1,462 member
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  • The Replacements on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Keanu Reeves,  Gene Hackman,  Orlando Jones
    Director: Howard Deutch
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Inspired by the too-ludicrous-to-be-believed National Football League strike of 1987, Howard Deutch's THE REPLACEMENTS follows a team of scab players as they fill in for the real pros. Jimmy McGinty (Gene Hackman), a compassionate and dedicated coach, is rehired by the owner of the Washington ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 2,872 members
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  • Love And Sex on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Famke Janssen,  Jon Favreau,  Noah Emmerich
    Director: Valerie Breiman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Kate Welles (Famke Janssen) is a writer at Monique magazine whose editor assigns her an article on the perfect relationship. She is supposed to draw on personal experience, but Kate is so unlucky in love that she refers to herself as a "relationship leper." As she sifts through the emotional debris ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 963 members
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  • Very Bad Things on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Christian Slater,  Cameron Diaz,  Daniel Stern
    Director: Peter Berg
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A group of friends decide to give Kyle one last night of freedom before his wedding day. A bachelor party in Las Vegas sounds just the ticket. Drugs, booze and a stripper turn the party into murder and a test of friendship.
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 7,413 members
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  • Swingers - Blu-ray (1996)
    Starring: Jon Favreau,  Vince Vaughn,  Ron Livingston
    Director: Doug Liman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A knowing examination of the psyche of the modern American male, Doug Liman's debut comedy Swingers stars screenwriter Jon Favreau as the sensitive Mike, a struggling actor and stand-up comic looking for romance in the wake of the dissolution of a six-year relationship. Against his better judgment, ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 81% from 7 members
    Due for release on 16th July 2012
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  • Rudy (1993)
    Starring: Sean Astin,  Jon Favreau,  Ned Beatty
    Director: David Anspaugh
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Rudy has always been told that he was too small to play college football. But he is determined to overcome the odds and fulfill his dream of playing for Notre Dame.
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 93 members
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Jon Favreau facts

5 most recent films

Cowboys And Aliens - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Cowboys and Aliens - 3.0 stars
Revenge of the Electric Car - 3 stars
Brother's Justice - 1.0 stars
Iron Man 2 - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Iron Man - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Iron Man - 4.0 stars
Elf - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Replacements - 3.5 stars
Rudy - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Revenge of the Electric Car - 3 stars
Brother's Justice - 1.0 stars
Cinema Collection - Vol. 3 and Vol. 4 - 1.5 stars
Rocky Marciano - 3.0 stars
PCU - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Vince Vaughn - 13 times - show films
Samuel L. Jackson - 8 times - show films
Gwyneth Paltrow - 8 times - show films
Robert Downey Jr. - 8 times - show films
Faizon Love - 7 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Doug Liman - 5 times - show films
John Hamburg - 3 times - show films
Jill Culton - 3 times - show films
Roger Allers - 3 times - show films
Seth Gordon - 2 times - show films