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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…

Universal’s biggest juggernaut franchise may soon get bigger, as the studio is in early talks with star Vin Diesel to make prequels and spinoff films set in the Fast and Furious universe. The spinoffs and prequels under discussion would build out the series in a manner similar to the Marvel Cinematic Universe…

After becoming the third-highest grossing film of all-time with $1.6B worldwide, Jurassic World is poised to roll over home entertainment records, becoming not only Universal Pictures Home Entertainment’s biggest release ever, but the highest-selling Blu-ray and DVD title of 2015 as well as the industry’s biggest…

It shouldn’t come as a shock considering how fans pretty much crashed several movie ticket websites trying to secure seats for the December premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but people have watched the hell out of the final trailer. Debuting last night during Monday Night Football, the trailer is notable not…

For a city that has already been proclaimed as belonging to the future, Dubai sure is seeing the love from the crew of the USS Enterprise. Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and Idris Elba tub-thumped for the glitzy Emirate on Wednesday to announce the commencement of photography of Star Trek Beyond on location there. “We…

Universal’s Furious 7 isn’t out of gas. Though the film has finished its theatrical run, becoming the fifth highest grossing film worldwide at $1.5 billion, Universal is reporting that the domestic home entertainment spend for the seventh-quel is at $52.5M across both physical and digital formats.  To date that figure…

It took 58 days, but China’s local summer blockbuster, Monster Hunt, has now overtaken Universal’s Furious 7 to become the highest-grossing film ever at the Middle Kingdom box office. Furious 7‘s milestone was set with a run that lasted only 30 days. State news agency Xinhua, citing industry watchdog SAPPRFT, today…

Warner Bros is reportedly in talks with China Media Capital to launch a local language joint venture that will produce films for the Chinese market. The possible development comes as China experiences its worst economic crisis in generations. China’s Shanghai Composite index continued to fall precipitously on Tuesday…

If Monster Hunt has its sights set on all-time Middle Kingdom box office champ, Furious 7, it will need to put another $62.6M in the tank. While that Universal title is still several laps ahead, the local-language juggernaut has been on a tear, steadily rounding up records during its 25-day run thus far. Rentrak puts M…

China’s media authority, SAPPRFT, has been relatively quiet during the past blackout month at the box office, but piped up over the weekend to tout the monster returns of smash hit Monster Hunt. The CGI/live-action fantasy adventure film has led the international box office for two frames in a row, beating out comers…

With China in the throes of an unofficial blackout period, when studio movies sit on the sidelines, multiplexes have been frontloaded with homegrown pics over the past month. In the past five frames, a Chinese film has landed in the Top 10 at the international box office with each performing north of $50M during their…

EXCLUSIVE: Cody Walker, who helped Universal Pictures get Furious 7 back on the road following the tragic death of his brother Paul Walker, has landed his first significant feature film role as an actor. Cody Walker, who looks very much like his sibling and stood in for him in F7, has landed a major supporting role in…