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‘The Great Gatsby’ Starts With $5.4M … This is the latest Riddick pic after 2000’s Pitch Black and 2004’s The Chronicles Of Riddick and reunites the latter’s writer-director David Twohy and star Vin Diesel, who plays the escaped convict antihero for a third time. Universal is releasing Riddick on September 6.
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CinemaCon: Universal’s Sequel Machine Pays Off With Exhibitors
It was Universal Pictures’ turn in the spotlight this morning as Chairman Adam Fogelson served up a look at the
studio’s sequel-packed summer slate and a summary of the studio’s 2012 hits and even big miss Battleship. He announced sequels in … Read More »
‘Fast And Furious 7′ Gets July 11, 2014 Release Date
BREAKING: Star Vin Diesel just announced at CinemaCon that Universal‘s The Fast And The Furious 7 will be released July 11, 2014 with the entire cast — including Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson … Read More »
MGM Setting Adam Shankman To Helm Vin Diesel-Starrer ‘The Machine’
EXCLUSIVE: MGM is in talks with Adam Shankman to direct The Machine, the action comedy that will star Vin Diesel and was scripted by the Night At The Museum team of Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben … Read More »
Hot Teaser Trailer: ‘Riddick’
Vin Diesel has posted this teaser on Facebook for the third movie featuring his Pitch Black character. Like that first film, it’s written and directed by David Twohy. It also stars Karl Urban and Katee Sackhoff as a mercenary who’s tracking Riddick. The Universal release is slated to open … Read More »
Breck Eisner To Helm ‘The Witch Hunter’ For Summit/Emmett/Furla; Vin Diesel Circling Title Role
EXCLUSIVE: Breck Eisner has been set to direct The Last Witch Hunter, and Vin Diesel is in early talks to star. The film is being co-financed by Summit Entertainment and Emmett/Furla Films. In the Cory Goodman-scripted … Read More »
Super Bowl Spot: ‘Fast & Furious 6′
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Vin Diesel, Paul Walker & Co. are back behind the wheel in Universal’s Fast & Furious 6, which opens May 24:
Universal Sets ‘Skyfall’ Scribes Purvis & Wade To Script ‘Kojak’ For Vin Diesel
EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures is getting serious about Kojak, hiring the scribe team of Neal Purvis & Robert Wade to script a movie around the tough-talking, smooth scalped cop … Read More »
Paul Walker On The Mend After ‘Fast And Furious 6′ Mishap
Will Paul Walker have to drive an automatic after suffering an ACL injury on Fast And Furious 6? The answer is no, but Walker has been limping since getting hurt doing some stunt work earlier today on the … Read More »
Katee Sackhoff To Co-Star In ‘Riddick’
EXCLUSIVE: Katee Sackhoff is in final negotiations to play the female lead opposite Vin Diesel in the untitled Chronicles Of Riddick sequel. In the movie, written and directed by David Twohy, the Battlestar Galactica alumna will play Dahl, a Nordic … Read More »
FX Gambling On Vin Diesel-Fueled Drama Series ‘Raising Blind’
EXCLUSIVE: FX has acquired Raising Blind, and the network will develop a potential series set in the world of underground gambling. The pilot will be written by Ben Younger and Jay Longino, based on a story by Josh Marchette, Longino … Read More »
Robert Ben Garant To Adapt Japanese Graphic Novel ‘Tuxedo Gin’ For Disney
EXCLUSIVE: Night At The Museum co-writer Robert Ben Garant has just been set by Disney to write Tux, an adaptation of the Japanese graphic novel Tuxedo Gin. The film will be produced by Principato-Young’s Paul Young and Peter Principato, VIZ Media’s Jason Hoffs, and Shogakukan’s Ichiro Takase. The rights to the Tokihiko Matsuura-created Japanese property, which were controlled by Shogakukan in Japan and VIZ Media in the US, took almost two years to close. The talks actually started before Rich Ross and Sean Bailey took over the studio.
Ross and Bailey have been veering away from talking animal films but made an exception here. The graphic novel has that element, but there is also a gritty storyline. The protagonist is a young street fighter who falls into a coma and learns that he has lived his life so selfishly that he only has enough karma points to be reincarnated as an animal 15 pounds or less. Trapped in the body of a chin-strap penguin, he tries to overcome the humiliation and rack up enough good deeds to get his old body back and save the girl he loves. Read More »
New MGM Seals First Project In Vin Diesel-Starrer ‘The Machine’
In what will be the first new production for the reconstituted MGM, the studio has set Vin Diesel to star in and produce The Machine. The action-comedy is being produced by Diesel’s One Race Films along with Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant. They wrote the script. MGM will next set a director and start production in the fall.
Diesel will play a human-like machine created in secrecy by the Pentagon to be the world’s first ultimate weapon. Some 20 years after the machine was decommissioned and buried, The Machine is discovered, reactivated and befriended by a kid. When the government learns that The Machine is back in operation, the ultimate weapon’s mission becomes to protect the family that is harboring him. Lennon and Garant’s scripts include the Night at the Museum franchise and The Pacifier, the latter of which starred Diesel and was made by Spyglass. Since Spyglass’s Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber and Jonathan Glickman are calling the shots at MGM, it is a re-team across the board. I’m told the tone of the movie is somewhat similar to Iron Giant, the animated film with a protagonist that was voiced by Diesel. The hope is to create a franchise. Read More »
‘Fast Five’ Will Transition Franchise From Street Racing To Future Full Of Heist Action
EXCLUSIVE: No one’s been harder on Universal than me for all its recent years of misses and no hits (if you don’t count Illumination Entertainment’s Despicable Me and Hop). So I’m relieved that the studio has a big fat blockbuster overseas in … Read More »
‘Fast Five’ Already Opens #1 Down Under
In Australia, films traditionally open on a Thursday, but Universal opened its latest in the street-racing franchise, Fast Five, last night on a Wednesday. Studio estimates show that it grossed $2.4 million (U.S. dollars) for opening day, making it No. 1 … Read More »
Hot Trailer: ‘Fast Five’
Universal Pictures has released its second trailer for Fast Five, a film that brings back the stars of the previous four films including original duo Vin Diesel and Paul Walker, and adds Dwayne Johnson for good measure. The film bows April 29.
Sundance: HBO Closes Remake Deal For Irish Brawl Doc ‘Knuckle’ With Rough House Partners
EXCLUSIVE: HBO is closing a remake rights deal for Knuckle, the Ian Palmer-directed documentary at Sundance about two Irish families that settle a longstanding dispute by periodically engaging in bare knuckle bouts. Rough House Pictures partners Danny McBride, Jody Hill … Read More »
Hot Teaser: ‘Fast Five’
If you didn’t catch it on Vin Diesel’s Facebook page, here is Universal’s teaser trailer for Fast Five.
Facebook Gets Vin Diesel ‘Fast Five’ Trailer
Here’s a first. While studios choose different venues to launch movie trailers online, Universal’s teaser trailer for Fast Five will make its debut on the Facebook page of the film’s star, Vin Diesel. Diesel has developed a following of … Read More »
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