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Will Ferrell has backed out of a comedy about Ronald Reagan’s struggle with Alzheimer’s disease following outrage from the former president’s family. The 48-year-old comic confirmed Friday that while he had seen the script and considered signing on to star and produce “Reagan”, he was no longer going ahead with the project.

REAGAN takes viewers on a journey through the life of one of the most consequential men in American history, Ronald Wilson Reagan. From his hometown of Dixon, Illinois, to Hollywood where he became an actor and President of the Screen Actors Guild, to Sacramento and on to Washington DC where he led a revolution for the things he believed in, REAGAN follows the life of an ordinary man with extraordinary vision who accomplished extraordinary things. When asked in a recent poll to rate American Presidents, 18% of Americans chose Ronald Wilson Reagan as the best President the nation has ever...

A new film, "In the Face of Evil: Reagan's War in Word and Deed," details how Ronald Reagan won the Cold War. While many political opponents are loath to give the late President much credit for anything, after his death, even John Kerry - who has opposed military improvement programs of every iteration - acknowledged Reagan’s leadership. Historians have demonstrated, albeit grudgingly, that The Gipper's foreign policy was instrumental in the collapse of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: A bastion of aggressive, militaristic communism that, with its demise, signaled the end of the 50-plus-year Cold War. Specifically, Reagan...

Friends of Anton Srdanovic is happy to host two New York City sneak previews of the new film: "In the Face of Evil: Reagan's War in Word & Deed" on October 17th at 12pm and 2pm. "In the Face of Evil" recently premiered at the very first Liberty Film Festival and has finally made its way to New York. Be one of the first New Yorkers to see this amazing documentary about our beloved 40th president, Ronald Reagan. RSVP for location information and ticket reservations at: info@antonforcongress.com Suggested Minimum Donation: $25 Seats are limited! and tickets will be available only...

I spent three hours--two hours and 53 minutes to be exact--on Sunday night watching ''The Reagans'' on Showtime so I could spare you the pain: The movie, originally produced as a two-part mini-series for CBS, was every bit as awful as conservatives feared with a belittling portrayal of Ronald Reagan. The movie delivered a cartoonish Ronald Reagan, played by James Brolin, who read words fed to him by others, seemed capable only of uttering short quips about ''commies'' and ''big government'' and followed the orders of others--mainly an all-controlling Nancy Reagan, played by Judy Davis, who came across every bit...

<p>The oldest rule of Hollywood must be that nothing calls attention to a product quite like controversy. So it's surprising that Reagan loyalists leaned so heavily on CBS to reject "The Reagans" last month, thereby creating much anticipatory ado about an average docudrama that certainly accentuates the negative about the former president and his wife.</p>

If admirers of former President Reagan didn't like a television movie about him after reading leaked snippets of a script, their opinion isn't likely to change after seeing the final product. "The Reagans," which premieres on Showtime on Sunday, depicts the former president as amiable but often confused, controlled to a large extent by his wife, Nancy, and presiding over a dysfunctional family. The movie is being aired on Showtime after CBS refused to show it earlier this month, following a campaign by supporters of the Reagans. Showtime made copies of the film available to journalists Saturday. The Reagans' faults...

(CNSNews.com) - A conservative media critic Tuesday called CBS's cancellation of the miniseries about former President Ronald Reagan "an amazing development" designed to obscure the reality that the movie was "a stinker." Democrats and liberals also decried the network's cancellation, with one website declaring a "Right-Wing Jihad Makes CBS Quiver." Michael Medved, author of the book Hollywood vs. America and a nationally syndicated radio talk show host, said CBS and its parent company Viacom were caught off guard by the overwhelming response by conservative critics, government officials, talk show hosts, special interest groups and other Reagan supporters. "They were probably...

<p>CBS's problems are bigger than "Reagan."</p> <p>Only two days after CBS celebrated its 75th anniversary last Sunday with a slick retrospective, the Tiffany Network had to beat a humiliating retreat. Yesterday it announced that it would move a four-hour biographical movie on Ronald and Nancy Reagan that it had planned to air on Nov. 16 to Showtime, its pay-cable sister network. Advertisers had fled the project as evidence mounted that its politicized producers had done a historical hit-and-run.</p>

Network Pulling Reagan Movie CBS Endures Criticism About Portrayal Of President POSTED: 12:50 p.m. EST November 4, 2003 UPDATED: 4:02 p.m. EST November 4, 2003 CBS will not broadcast a controversial movie about former President Ronald Reagan, according to a statement issued Tuesday by the network. The move comes after a Republican's criticism that the film portrayed Reagan and his wife, Nancy, in an unflattering light, according to a report Monday in the trade paper Variety. The two-part television movie was to have aired Nov. 16 and 18. "This decision is based solely on our reaction to seeing the final...

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