It looks like the next installment in the Fast And Furious series needs some more tinkering, as Universal has bumped it back from a tentative release date of April 19, 2019 to April 10, 2020. Even though it’s a year later, that will once again put the movie at the Easter weekend, where the series generally makes a ton…
Over the course of the Fast & The Furious franchise’s evolution from a drag-racing crime drama to the most over-the-top display of mechanical excess this side of the Transformers movies, Michelle Rodriguez’s Letty Ortiz has remained a constant. First introduced in The Fast And The Furious as main man Dom’s (Vin…
These days, when it comes to American blockbusters, you have to look past America. The real measure of a film’s box-office supremacy is how it does on a global scale, which is why Captain America movies often open in Europe a week before they open in America, why Chinese and Hong Kong actors often nab supporting roles…
Three weeks in, The Fate Of The Furious continues to steamroll its competition, like a tank bursting out the back of a truck and plowing down the interstate, much to Ludicrous’ consternation. But that was probably always going to happen—in terms of wide releases, April has been more like an endless tarmac runway, with…
Like a tricked-out Nissan with its nitrous button taped down—except with more comments about women ruining their “down there” region with lots of sex—Fast And Furious actor Tyrese Gibson let his mouth get away from him this week. Gibson gave a much-derided interview to BET on Monday, in which he delivered “a message…
You may or may not be surprised to learn that the best-paid Hollywood actor last year was Dwayne Johnson, a.k.a. The Rock, taking in a whopping $64.5 million. Maybe it’s not that hard to understand: After all, he’s now a key component of the Fast And The Furious franchise, which just released its …
If someone were thawed today after being cryogenically frozen in late 2001, the only thing that would surprise them more than smartphones and President Donald Trump would be the existence of an eighth Fast and the Furious movie. “Wait, it’s an action movie now?” they’d ask. “Why is there no consistency in the titles?…
The Fate Of The Furious, the eighth entry in the infinite (The) Fast And (The) Furious film series, is nominally fun. It has jet packs, snowmobiles, angry bearded Russians, exotic cars swerving around a fissuring sheet of ice, a submarine, and Jason Statham shooting his way through tight quarters while toting a…
The Fate Of The Furious comes out on Friday, and along with it comes the latest soundtrack in the long-running series, featuring undoubtedly bass-heavy cuts by a murderers’ row of talent—Migos, Kevin Gates, Jeremih, Young Thug, 2 Chainz, and a whole bunch more. In advance of that release, series star Ludacris has…
Vin Diesel and his team of writers have gotten a surprising amount of mileage out of the Fast And The Furious’ central premise of “people doing things in really fast cars.” Sometimes, those things are part of a criminal enterprise; other times, they just make up what it means to be a family (at least, in Diesel’s…
There are a lot of questions circling, like an endlessly drifting Nissan, around the upcoming eighth Fast And The Furious movie, The Fate Of The Furious. What turned Dom Toretto against his friends? Where’d they get the submarine? How many times can people say the word “family,” before it gets totally drowned out by…
The Fast And The Furious series built its reputation by having cars do what cars usually don’t: flying through the air, firing harpoons, and exploding pretty much all of the time. Now, someone has tallied up all the damage those exploding flying harpoon cars have done over the franchise’s first seven installments, and…
Without a doubt, the single biggest news story of 2016 was when Dwayne Johnson called out one of his Fate Of The Furious co-stars for being a “candy-ass.” We later realized the candy-ass was Vin Diesel, then Johnson said that nobody was really a candy-ass, then we discovered that maybe Vin Diesel really was the…
The reveal that Vin Diesel’s Dominic Toretto would be betraying his Fast And Furious family in Fate Of The Furious was shocking, but this new trailer for the film reveals an even more terrifying and unexpected villain: actual cars. The one thing this crew has been able to count on across all of these movies have been…
There are new reports that it’ll be a while before we learn The Fate Of The Furious. No, the April 14 release date—which Vin Diesel took care of announcing in addition to a ton of other production news, because he’s vying with Dwayne Johnson to become a one-man studio—hasn’t been pushed back or anything. But …
Ever since we learned that Helen Mirren is ride or die for the Fast And The Furious franchise—so much so that she’s starring in the upcoming Fate Of The Furious—we’ve wondered what part she would play in the family-first franchise. Mirren’s done the assassin thing alongside Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman in the Red …
