Tag: Fast and Furious
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Box Office: ‘F9’ Speeding to Pandemic-Era Record With Estimated $68 Million Debut
“F9,” the ninth installment in the “Fast and Furious” franchise, is on its way to breaking a pandemic-era domestic box office record with an estimated $68 million debut.The action film, starring Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez, raked in $30 million on Friday alone from 4,179 theaters. If its sales to continue to progress at a…
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Fast & Furious 9 review – Vin Diesel and crew kick Isaac Newton’s ass
The gang are back for another bout of deafening and magnificently silly, gravity-defying action, leaving plot logic in the dust and driving their cars into spaceAfter nine films, the gigantic steroidal humungousness of the Fast and Furious franchise has finally rolled over me like a tank. This deafening fantasia of internal and external combustion delivers…
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Will Audiences Return to Movie Theaters? Yes! But It’s Now a Culture War Issue (Column)
Last weekend, the season finale of “Saturday Night Live” featured a satirical promotional spot for AMC Theatres that became a delectable skewering of what’s left of the megaplex experience. It featured Vin Diesel, played by Beck Bennett with a SoCal-by-way-of-Brooklyn stupido Toretto growl, hawking the latest “Fast and Furious” film by welcoming everyone back to…
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China Box Office: ‘F9’ Clocks up $137 Million in its Opening Lap
“F9” roared into the lead at the China box office, where the “Fast and Furious” franchise has repeatedly lapped faster than in North America.On its first weekend in China the film grossed $137 million, according to data from consultancy Artisan Gateway.That gave it an 83% share of the China weekend box office, a market share…
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Box Office: ‘Demon Slayer’ Overtakes ‘Mortal Kombat’
After narrowly losing first place in its opening weekend, “Demon Slayer: Mugen Train” has surged ahead of “Mortal Kombat” on U.S. box office charts.The anime action adventure “Demon Slayer” is expected to end the weekend with $6.4 million in ticket sales, while “Mortal Kombat” trails closely behind with $6.2 million between Friday and Sunday. Both…
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‘F9’ Trailer: Still Fast, Still Furious, Still Family
It’s been a long road back to the big screen for F9, the latest adrenaline-packed installment in the Fast and Furious series, but finally, after many a coronavirus delay, the family is back together. In more ways than one. Justice will finally be served for Han (Sung Kang), who makes […]The post ‘F9’ Trailer: Still…
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‘F9’ Trailer: Vin Diesel and Crew Go to War with John Cena in Ninth ‘Fast and Furious’ Film
Universal Pictures has released the second official trailer for “F9” — the ninth installment in the popular “Fast and Furious” saga. Discounting the summer 2019 spinoff “Hobbs & Shaw”, “F9″ is the sequel to 2017’s “The Fate of the Furious” and the ninth film in the street-racing franchise. Worldwide, the “Fast” films have grossed more…
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‘Venom’ sequel moves from June to September in US
The change for the Sony sequel follows move by Universal’s F9.Even as cinemas in Los Angeles and New York were re-opening this week, Sony Pictures has pushed the theatrical release of comic book sequel Venom: Let There Be Carnage back from June 25 to September 17.The move follows Universal Pictures’ decision to reschedule the release…
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As Bond Vacates 2020, Universal Offers Theaters Short Windows on ‘The Croods’ and ‘Freaky’
Adding to the Friday-afternoon dump of movie delays, Universal announced that “F9,” the latest entry in the “Fast and Furious” franchise, will move from April 2 to May 28, 2021. That means it will no longer compete with James Bond film “No Time to Die,” which, as of October 2, MGM also moved to April…
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Marlon Wayans to Star in ‘Ride or Die,’ aka ‘When Harry Met Sally’ with Guns
When Harry Met Sally… with guns. That’s the gist of the pitch for a new Marlon Wayans movie Ride or Die, an action-packed romantic comedy that Neal H. Moritz (Fast and Furious) will produce under his Original Film banner. Wayans teamed with Rick Alvarez to write the script, which follows a straight-laced robbery detective (Wayans)…