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Tag Archives: Vin Diesel

 

Two More ‘Fast & Furious’ Films Are in the Works

Posted by Natalia Buia on December 21st, 2011

For the past decade, Vin Diesel and Paul Walker have gotten paid millions of dollars to act poorly and drive around in a bunch of fancy cars.

It’s hard to imagine a seventh “Fast & Furious” film is already in the works. Vin Diesel just confirmed the news today with The Hollywood Reporter.

“With the success of this last one, and the inclusion of so many characters, and the broadening of scope, when we were sitting down to figure out what would fit into the real estate of number six, we didn’t have enough space,” he tells the Magazine.

It must be really hard to come up with an original storyline after five films have already made. Every “Fast & Furious” film follows the same pattern: Vin and Paul hang out, race some cars, pick up some chicks and fight off the bad guys. Paul and Vin win the fight and get to take the hot chicks home. The end.

Movie goers aren’t bothered by the fact that the last movie, “Fast Five” had a dull storyline and bad acting, because the movie ended up grossing $626 million worldwide.

Diesel doesn’t confirm with The Hollywood Reporter on whether the sixth and seventh films will be played as a two-part film (like Twilight’s Breaking Dawn) or separately. No word on whether or not Eva Mendes will return to the franchise, either. Judging by how buzz-worthy the actress is right now, it’ll probably help with the box-office sales.

 

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Contest: Fast Five DVD (5 Copies)

Posted by andPOP Staff on September 20th, 2011

andPOP is giving you a chance to win 1 of 5 copies of Fast Five on DVD, available Oct 4th.

When Dominic “Dom” Toretto (Vin Diesel) is being transported to Lompoc prison by bus, his sister Mia Toretto (Jordana Brewster) and friend Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker) lead an assault on the bus, causing it to crash, freeing Dom. While authorities search for them, the trio escape to Rio de Janeiro. Dominic and his crew find themselves on the wrong side of the law once again as they try to switch lanes between a ruthless drug lord and a relentless federal agent.

Contest ends Oct 14, 2011. Open to residents of Canada, excluding Quebec. One entry per person.

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‘Fast Five’ Breaks Records At The Box Office

Posted by Christian Allaire on May 1st, 2011

‘Fast Five,’ the fifth installment of the ‘Fast and Furious’ movies, opened up this weekend with a whopping $83.6 million, reports the LA Times.

This is quite a surprise for a sequel film. The film marks the biggest opening weekend for any film this year by far, blowing away ‘Rio’s’ $39.2 debut last month. It’s also the best opening of any film in the ‘Fast and Furious’ franchise, whose fourth film brought in $71 million on its premiere in 2009.

The other two new films that opened in wide release this weekend failed to compare in ticket sales. The cheesy teenfest ‘Prom’ only grossed a weak $5 million, meanwhile the animated sequel “Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil” opened with a soft $4.1 million, far less than the original.

‘Fast Five’ has helped pushed the box office out of its slump as well, with ticket sales up 52% this weekend as compared with the same weekend last year.

The studio spent at least $170 million to produce the movie, according to three people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to discuss the film’s budget. A Universal spokeswoman said the actual cost was $125 million.

The studio made a number of changes to the “Fast” franchise with this film, switching its genre from a pure underground-racing movie to a heist film. Guess it paid off. The movie reunites stars from all four ‘Fast’ movies, including Paul Walker and Vin Diesel, and introduces newcomer Dwayne Johnson. ‘Fast Five’ also has a different international setting, taking place in Rio de Janeiro.

The movie also did well overseas too, opening in 14 foreign markets this weekend and collecting $45.3 million, bringing its international tally to $81.4 million. The film took the No. 1 spot in 10 countries.

Those who saw the film loved it, giving it an average grade of A, according to market research firm CinemaScore.

I honestly thought everyone was over this film, but apparently not, so expect many sequels to come. I stopped watching after the second.

 

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Gamer’s Mind Blog: Infinite Ammo

Posted by Brett Caron on December 19th, 2009

Don't be scared, you won't need all of those.  At once.

Don't be scared, you won't need all of those. At once.

Nerd Games (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love RPGs)

You start work at a new office.  You meet someone on the subway or a streetcar, and conversation starts.  For someone like me (men in their early twenties), mentioning to someone you play video games still has a bit of a nerdy connotation to it.  Although video games have definitely become a mainstream form of entertainment for boys and girls alike and even more significantly men and women, if you ask someone you just met if they’ve played Fallout 3 or Oblivion, you run the risk of sounding like a nerd (not that there’s anything wrong with that).  You may even come across as childish, although  it’s become popular opinion that video games can and are played by men and women of all ages.   All said though, it’s not really too big of a deal.

Now try the exact same situation, but instead of asking your new-found friend if they have played the new Call of Duty or Batman: Arkham Asylum you ask them if they know what Dungeons and Dragons is.  Completely different story.  Telling someone in 2009 that you play Dungeons and Dragons is like telling someone in 1989 that you play video games – or Dungeons and Dragons, for that matter.

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Vin Diesel To Star In Wheelman Movie

Posted by Eva Lam on May 11th, 2009

Wheelman“Fast and Furious” star Vin Diesel is getting ready to break all sorts of road rules again as the star of Paramount Pictures’ “The Wheelman.”

According to Variety, the movie is a live-action adaptation of the Diesel-produced Ubisoft videogame “Wheelman,” which hit store shelves last month.

The game features the voice and visage of Diesel himself as the main character, an expert driver who emerges from retirement to help a woman from his past. His mission takes him to Barcelona, where he gets tangled up in the middle of a gang war.

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Game Review: The Chronicles Of Riddick – Assault On Dark Athena

Posted by Josh Salem on April 28th, 2009

The Chronicles Of RiddickTestosterone, check. Darkness, check. Funky glasses, check. You ARE Vin Diesel. The sequel, Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, released 5 years after Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay puts everyone’s favourite night seeing, space flying protagonist from the motion picture Pitch Black in yet another action packed sci-fi. Yes, that’s right, this IS a movie licensed video game, but wait, don’t leave, don’t click that close button because Dark Athena isn’t all that bad!

Still with me? Good! Dark Athena takes place shortly after Escape from Butcher Bay ends, as such (I don’t want to spoil anything, but the game came out 5 years ago!) you begin with yourself and Johns in stasis on a ship, your stasis short circuited and you woke early. The benefit of this coincidence is that you get to see your ship being reeled in like a trout by one of the scariest looking ships I have ever seen, the Dark Athena. The mercenaries (or space pirates, whatever you want to call them) board your ship with just enough time for you to hide in the darkness (a recurring theme in this game) and watch as they break your ship and capture Johns, who spends a lot of time sleeping throughout the game. It’s up to you, Riddick, Vin Diesel, the only chance of getting the other prisoners off the ship and the only one capable of pulling off the feat, to kick some ass.

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Fast And Furious Shatters Cinematic Records

Posted by Joelle Tomlinson on April 6th, 2009

FastFurious4Fast and Furious sped away from expectations to gross a humongous $72.5 mil, according to early estimates from Media by Numbers. That result is effectively double what most industry observers had predicted for the debut of the fourth feature in Vin Diesel’s car franchise, and it left in the dust a number of notable records:

According to ew.com, these are the records defeated this weekend:

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