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EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures is planning to wrap up its Fast & Furious core film franchise with two final movies that will bring to a close a franchise that has revved its way to become the highest-grossing movie series in the studio’s history. Justin Lin, who is in post-production on F9, is in talks to direct the…

Michelle Rodriguez has been all about horsepower in the Fast & Furious movie franchise. But she’s also about girl power, having lobbied the producers to get a woman added to the series writing staff. Speaking on The Jess Cagle Show on SiriusXM today, Rodriguez said she was “really happy” that the producers were open…

EXCLUSIVE: MTV has teamed up with Universal Pictures to create a terrifying Fast & Furious-themed stunt for its competition format The Challenge. The ViacomCBS-owned network is challenging contestants on the 35th season of the show, titled The Challenge: Total Madness, to do their best impressions of Vin Diesel as…

Whenever Paramount decides to reboot Jack Reacher, they may want to re-consider casting Dwayne Johnson in the lead role. The wrestler-turned-thespian took to Facebook tonight to answer fan’s questions, teasing Universal’s Hobbs & Shaw 2 and talking about the part that got away: the title role in Par’s feature…

EXCLUSIVE: Finn Cole, Anna Sawai and Vinnie Bennett have joined the cast of the ninth chapter in the Fast & Furious saga. Character descriptions for the latest installment are being kept under the hood. Franchise mainstay Justin Lin (Fast & Furious 6) returns to direct and franchise forefather Vin Diesel stars as…

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…