Bo Derek and Miles O'Keeffe swinging on vine in 1981's "Tarzan, The Ape Man." (Getty Images) Sony Pictures has picked up the film rights to “Tarzan” from Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc., according to an ...

Sony Pictures has acquired film rights to Tarzan in a deal with the estate of original book author Edgar Rice Burroughs, Deadline has confirmed. Plans are in the earliest of stages we hear, with no ...

Legend of Tarzan hit theaters this weekend and is a film that was helped made possible by Dark Horse's Mike Richardson. You may be curious how all of that came about… I know I was… so when I had a ...

Tarzan hasn’t had the best luck on the big screen in recent years, but perhaps he can thrive with help from a new studio. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sony has acquired Tarzan’s film rights ...

Craig Brewer is apparently aiming for work somewhere hotter after filming Hustle & Flow, Black Snake Moan, and the upcoming Footloose all below the Mason-Dixon line. The writer-director has let it be ...

Germany’s Constantin Film is swinging into “Tarzan,” launching development of a 3D animated feature. The English-language pic will be produced inhouse by Robert Kulzer and Reinhard Klooss. Constantin ...

Johnny Sheffield, who played Boy in the Tarzan pics, died Oct. 15 in Chula Vista of a heart attack after falling out of a tree in his backyard. He was 79. Sheffield started to play Boy in the Johnny ...

Julian “Bud” Lesser, 90, a television and film producer who was the son of famed “Tarzan” producer Sol Lesser, died Tuesday in Rancho Mirage, Calif. The younger Lesser produced “Massacre River” (1949) ...