It’s never easy losing an actor, but the harsh reality is that such a loss has a deeper impact on the production of a film, with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake. Paul Walker’s untimely demise has left the Fast and the Furious franchise in such a predicament, as the actor still had plenty of filming to do …
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Solemn news to start off this week, as reports came in early yesterday morning that Paul Walker, best known for playing the role of Brian O’Conner in six out of seven Fast & Furious films, has died in a car crash at age 40. Last Updated: December 2, 2013
Contrary to popular belief, and box-office returns, Paul Walker can actually be more than just that kind of goofy white guy that hangs out with Vin Diesel in those movies about the fast cars. Walker has ventured out of the safety of the Fast & Furious franchise with mixed results in the past (good: Running Scared, not so good: Timeline), and …
Welcome to The Extras! A daily dose of all the smaller movie related news, clips and just plain cool stuff that you might have missed! Last Updated: September 17, 2013
It’s a long weekend in South Africa, with the National Women’s Day public holiday tomorrow. As a result, the week’s new movies are all releasing today, Thursday. Here’s what you catch in local cinemas now. Last Updated: August 8, 2013
Ever wonder what kind of movie Guy Ritchie would make if instead of an English youth, he grew up as a hillbilly in the American south? No? Well, neither did I, but that’s clearly just because I didn’t consume enough recreational pharmaceuticals. Clearly, though director Wayne Kramer (Running Scared, The Cooler) and writer Adam Minarovich have done all of the above, …
Who would ever have thought that when Vin Diesel’s Dom Toretto first educated us about the similarities between inches and miles that we’d still be here, 5 sequels and just under $2 billion later? Somewhere along the line though, the Fast and Furious franchise stopped being about just hot cars and hotter women, and we got ourselves a bona fide action thriller …
Every archive has that one photograph that stops you mid-scroll: a crowded market square …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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