Universal has just announced that Fast & Furious 9 (still to be titled) will drive from its Easter weekend April 10, 2020 release date to May 22, 2020, which is Memorial Day weekend. Taking over F&F 9‘s spot is MGM’s Bond 25, which just moved from its Feb. 14, 2020 date to the Wednesday before Easter next year on…

The documentary I Am Paul Walker premiered earlier this year on television, but the Virgil Films docu has released a new trailer to coincide with its on demand debut. The new version, which will be approximately 30 minutes longer, will be released on November 30, the fifth anniversary of Walker’s death. A DVD will be…

More Hobbs and Shaw casting. Idris Elba will be playing the villain in The Fast and The Furious spinoff with Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham. David Leitch directs off franchise scribe and producer Chris Morgan’s script. Before July 4, Vanessa Kirby was announced as part of the film. Original Film’s Neal H. Moritz is…

Whiplash actor Miles Teller is joining Paramount’s Top Gun sequel as the son of ace pilot Goose, who was played by Anthony Edwards in the original 1986 film. His character also will be a protege to Tom Cruise’s Maverick. Production on Top Gun: Maverick already is underway in San Diego. Joe Kosinski, who worked with…

UPDATED, 12:20 PM: Universal has shifted the release date for its Fast & Furious spinoff with Dwayne Johnson’s Luke Hobbs and Jason Statham’s Deckard Shaw characters back by a week to August 2, 2019. The actioner now had its planned July 26 weekend to itself but now will hit the starting line against Paramount’s Dora t…

An animated Fast & Furious series is headed to Netflix. It is the first series in an expansion of an ongoing multi-year deal between Netflix and DreamWorks Animation Television for original animated kids and family programming. The expansion, following Comcast-NBCUniversal's acquisition of the animation studio…

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran Universal executive Jack Ledwith is set to retire at the end of the year. Currently Senior Vice President and Managing Director of International Distribution, Ledwith has been at Universal for 21 years and worked in film distribution for 42. Prior to joining Uni in 1996, he held positions at Avco…

Vin Diesel and other Fast & Furious franchise cast will be on hand at the 2017 MTV Movie & TV Awards to pick up this year’s Generation Award, a trophy that typically goes to an individual performer. The Generation Award has, for 25 years, been handed to an actor for a body of work that “speaks directly to the MTV…

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…

Almost two years after his son’s death in a fiery car crash, the father of Fast & Furious star Paul Walker has followed his granddaughter’s lead and today filed a wrongful death suit against Porsche. Seeking unspecific damages, Paul William Walker III’s lawsuit filed in L.A Superior Court (read it here) claims that…

The luxury car manufacturer claims that the November 30, 2013 crash that killed Fast & Furious star Paul Walker was his "own comparative fault." Seeking to have the wrongful death lawsuit that the actor's teenage daughter filed in late September tossed, Porsche said late last week that the 2005 Porsche Carrera CT…

UPDATE, 10:21 AM: The car was not at fault, the people behind the wheel were, said Porsche a day after Paul Walker's teenage daughter filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the company. "We have not seen the lawsuit and therefore cannot comment on its specifics," said Porsche spokesperson Calvin Kim on Tuesday. "As we…