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Just days after the news Justin Lin was exiting as director of the next Fast and Furious installment Fast X, sources tell Deadline that Louis Leterrier is the front-runner to step in to helm the Universal film. Sources add that while Leterrier is the studio’s top choice, scheduling still has to be worked out with some…

With two more Fast and Furious films on the horizon, Vin Diesel is hoping to bury the hatchet with franchise co-star Dwayne Johnson, with whom he fell out while collaborating on The Fate of the Furious. Diesel shared a message for Johnson via Instagram on Sunday, extending an olive branch with the hopes of securing…

Fuel-injecting some mega-muscle into the international box office landscape, Universal's F9 has been set for a May 21 release date in China, a full five weeks before it is due to speed out domestically on June 25. But China won't be the only overseas market to release early, as I hear several other key hubs are also…

In the just-released trailer (above) for Fast & Furious: Spy Racers from Universal and DreamWorks Animation the wildly successful feature film brand shifts gears in an animated bid to find a younger audience.The show, which premieres on Netflix on Dec. 26, features high-octane adventures with a new premise, young…

Eddie Marsan, the British actor of Showtime’s Ray Donovan and Studio 8/Sony’s White Boy Rick, has joined the cast of the Fast & Furious’ spin-off Hobbs and Shaw starring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham. The project reteams Marsan with his Deadpool 2 and Atomic Blonde helmer David Leitch.  On Ray Donovan Eddie…

EXCLUSIVE: Talk about dropping a trailer into fifth gear. Universal’s Sunday launch of The Fate of the Furious trailer became the largest debut ever, setting a global record with 139M views in its first 24 hours and zooming past the 127.6M first-day views recently posted by Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. A perfect…

The car manufacturer's attempt to get out of the wrongful death lawsuit from Paul Walker's daughter has been stopped in its tracks by a L.A. Superior judge. Meadow Rain Walker's legal pursuit of Porsche can go forward said Judge Stephen Pfahler in a final ruling Tuesday, rejecting the company's motion to quash the…

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…