EXCLUSIVE: After notching what I hear is the best test scores in MGM history, Ron Howard ’s Thai cave rescue movie Thirteen Lives is moving its release date from Easter weekend this year to Friday, November 18 and into the aorta of awards season. The movie, scripted by two-time Oscar-nominated screenwriter William Nicholson, is the type of movie that needs a lot of buzz, and I hear the studio will be screening it plenty come the fall. Thirteen Lives earned a 97 in the top two boxes and an 86 definite recommend. MGM and UAR showed off footage from Thirteen Lives at CinemaCon last August. Thirteen Lives ‘ logline: A rescue mission is assembled in Thailand where a group of young boys and their soccer coach are trapped in a system of underground caves that are flooding. Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell and Joel Edgerton star. Pic is produced by Brian Grazer, Howard, and Karen Lunder of Imagine Entertainment, P.J. van Sandwijk of of Storyteller Productions and … [Read more...] about ‘Thirteen Lives’: Ron Howard MGM Movie Heads To Awards Season After Record Test Scores For Studio