Ron Howard

Get ready to jet-set to The Eternal City for a behind-the-scenes look at Angels & Demons. From Rome's St. Peter's Square to the Pantheon, TV Guide Network will take you on a tour of some of the historic locations included in the prequel to the 2006 blockbuster The Da Vinci Code. Watch interviews from the movie premiere with star Tom Hanks and director Ron Howard to see what they had to say about the thriller. Plus: Find out if Hanks will reprise the role of Robert Langdon in the next Dan Brown adaptation: The Solomon Key.

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After the fallout surrounding The Da Vinci Code, director Ron Howard is trying to get ahead of any criticism that his latest film, Angels & Demons, is anti-Catholic.

"Let me be clear: Neither I nor Angels & Demons are anti-Catholic," Howard wrote on the Huffington Post. He also suggested that Catholics who give his movie a chance will find something to like. "I believe Catholics, including most in the hierarchy of the Church, will enjoy the movie for what it is: an exciting mystery, set in the awe-inspiring beauty of Rome."

The flick again stars Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon, a Harvard professor of symbology who tries to track down the mysterious Illuminati, a group that has killed the four Cardinals in line to become the next pope. "Robert Langdon teams up with the Catholic Church to thwart a vicious attack against the Vatican. What, exactly, is anti-Catholic about that?" Howard wrote.

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Ron Howard thinks Americans should vote for Barack Obama. And so do Opie Taylor and Richie Cunningham.

During this campaign season, some celeb messages have been serious, others have featured useless yapping (we're looking at you Hayden Panettiere), but Howard's recent Funny or Die video is the fist to reunite cast members from two TV classics: The Andy Griffith Show and Happy Days.

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