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Universal Pictures has revealed the name of the eighth film in the Fast & Furious franchise: the pic will be titled The Fate of the Furious, and it will bow globally April 14 as previously announced. The first teaser also dropped today ahead of a trailer launch Sunday. The movie returns Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson…

Helen Mirren has joined the cast of Fast 8, the latest in Universal’s fast-moving franchise that F. Gary Gray is directing. That makes two Oscar Best Actress winners on the pic, joining Charlize Theron who also is playing a new character. Mirren confirmed the deal to join the movie in an interview with Elle, saying “I…

Is the Fast & Furious series getting a spinoff? Maybe, maybe not but the possibility has been bandied about ever since Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s breakout character DSS Agent Luke Hobbs was introduced in 2011’s Fast 5. Now Johnson has obliquely weighed in on the possibility himself in a post to his Instagram feed…

The Fast and the Furious, the film that started it all, will receive a limited release in about 1,500 theaters to celebrate the pic’s 15th anniversary on Wednesday, June 22. That’s the date when the Rob Cohen-directed movie opened in 2001. Universal made the news official this morning just as tickets are hitting the…

Charlize Theron is at the Cannes Film Festival now for tonight’s premiere of her film The Last Face, but meanwhile, the first shot of her in Universal’s Fast 8 dropped on the pic’s social pages this morning. Mike Fleming Jr. broke the news about Theron boarding the franchise as a new character back in April. Fast…

Fast & Furious 8 aka Fast 8 has the distinction of being the second film and the first big budget movie given the green light to shoot in Cuba since the start of improved relations between the island nation and the United States. The next installment of Universal’s guaranteed money-printing franchise is currently…

Universal in Fast 8 is introducing an exciting new character played by Scott Eastwood, the son of Clint Eastwood. This just went down, and he will join another newcomer to the franchise in Charlize Theron, the Mad Max: Fury Road heroine who made her deal last week. The Fast & Furious team has excelled in adding juicy…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has closed Charlize Theron to star in Fast 8, which director F. Gary Gray and producer Neal Moritz move into production next month for release on April 14, 2017. Theron, who’s coming off a memorable action turn in Mad Max: Fury Road, will play a new character in the blockbuster franchise…

EXCLUSIVE: In a time when females are stepping into superhero roles and Ghostbusters was remade with a cast of women, now comes word that the eighth installment of the Fast And Furious franchise will have a sole female villain. The script is not even done, but sources tell Deadline that newly minted Fast 8 director F…

Well racing fans, the talk over the last year or so hasn’t just been idle chit chat, and Universal’s second most successful franchise will indeed be 10-films long. As is customary for the series, the news comes courtesy of star Vin Diesel’s Instagram account, where tonight he revealed the release dates for the next…

Clear your calendars, people — the eighth installment of the Fast And Furious series hits theaters in April 2017 with the official title of Fast 8. That news comes courtesy of Vin Diesel’s Instagram page, where the face of the franchise posted the first official poster over the weekend: No official plot synopsis has…