With Tyrese Gibson’s frustrations over Dwayne Johnson taking over the Fast And Furious series effectively dismissed, Universal is now free to move forward with the spin-off movie focusing on the characters played by Johnson and Jason Statham—an idea that sounds awesome to literally everyone but Tyrese Gibson. We…
This seems like something no one should ever have to say out loud, but the Fast And The Furious films were never intended as instructional videos for vehicular safety. (There’s a reason it’s Blood On The Asphalt, not Nitrous Button On The Dashboard, after all.) And yet, at least one alleged criminal (and would be…
With everyone reeling from the ongoing attacks on our civil rights and revelations about how shitty Hollywood is, it’s important to take time to celebrate what good there is in the world. Yesterday, some brave soul at Twitter made our dreams come true and temporarily scrubbed Trump’s existence from the platform.…
God bless the Fast And The Furious franchise, a beacon of nitrous-burning hope in a dark and frightening world. When the President of the United States is openly threatening the First Amendment, and all of Hollywood is wrestling with its willingness to turn a blind eye to decades of sexual abuse, these muscly car men…
Earlier today, Tyrese Gibson ushered in a new age of Fast And Furious feuds by blaming Dwayne Johnson (or “Dewayne” Johnson) for butting his head in and forcing Universal to delay Fast And Furious 9. In an Instagram post, he accused Johnson of making the series about himself rather than the whole #FastFamily, which…
Yesterday, Universal announced that it was bumping Fast And Furious 9 (or whatever it will be called) from April of 2019 to April of 2020. At this point, the studio hasn’t confirmed anything about the movie, including who will direct it, other than that Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodgriguez are most likely returning. We…
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…
Wheels within wheels within wheels: The surprise hit of summer 2001 was The Fast And The Furious, a goofy low-stakes B-movie with a not-huge budget and no stars. The movie told the story of a team of mysterious truck hijackers coming from L.A.’s street-racing community and about the undercover cop tasked with taking…
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?…
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…
From its humble beginnings as a Point Break ripoff set on the streets of sweaty, sepia-toned Los Angeles, the Fast And Furious franchise has grown, matured, and upped the stakes so many times it doesn’t even register on the same scale as other movies. In the series’ latest installments, the ever-growing cast of…
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…
Here’s one for anyone who loves watching the Fast & The Furious movies, but hates that there’s no chance a car might suddenly nitro boost itself into the theater, crushing them and everyone they love: Universal has announced that it’s launching an arena tour based on the franchise, bringing its fast cars, hot stunts,…
It’s been 15 years since the original The Fast And The Furious ramped its way into theaters, introducing us all to the world of gravel-throated antihero Dom Toretto and his ludicrous philosophy of doing things one quarter something at a time. (This, despite the first movie in the series being 100 percent…
Variety is reporting that Mad Max: Fury Road star Charlize Theron is in talks to lend her hard-eyed star power to another series known for its patently ridiculous vehicular mayhem: The Fast And The Furious. Reports broke earlier today that the producers of the latest installment in the franchise—dubbed Fast 8, in the…
“We can carry on,” Wayland Smithers once said on The Simpsons. “Michael Eisner’s been dead for five years. Ted Turner’s just a hologram.” That kind of never-give-up spirit was certainly in evidence in Furious 7, the action sequel that was one of the biggest hits of summer 2015 despite the fact that one of its stars,…
It’s conventional wisdom that most film franchises stay fresh for only a few installments; the well of ideas tends to run dry around the time producers have to decide between slapping a “5” on the end of a title or coming up with a subtitle that doesn’t draw too much attention to how far along the series has gotten.…
