Fast & furious 6 is an upcoming 2013 american action film written by chris morgan and directed by justin lin. It is the sixth installment in the fast and the furious film series. Vin diesel, paul walker, dwayne johnson, michelle rodriguez and jordana brewster will star.
I thought the action sequences inFast Five were pretty impressive, but the movie was 125 minutes with 25 minutes of action and 100 minutes of sub-Ocean's 11 heist business and lots of talk about family and loyalty. This installment takes everything that has worked with the previous movies (that I've seen) and fuses them all together. Unfortunately, it keeps the bloated running time and insistence on preaching about family. Seriously, who the fuck made theFast and Furiousfranchise the poet laureate for family values? Remember the good old days when action movies were like minutes? The extra 30 minutes here accounts for more talk about family and loving what you have and a bunch of shit like that, and a protracted double climax that actually fucking rocks, so that's acceptable.
Like, it's expected that at some point in these movies two big slabs of meat will sit down with a cold beer and talk about the values of family. And none of these people are good actors, so why are we giving everyone so much time to have a story? I think he has a tremendous presence and charisma and impeccable comedic timing. He was hysterical in even the limp and uglyPain and Gain.
Ludacris is hilarious and needs to be in way more movies, and the same goes for Tyrese Gibson and Sung Kang. Those three make for a surprisingly successful trio of comedians. Gina Carano, the MMA fighter-turned-actress fromHaywire, plays The Rock's partner and while she is saddled with nearly all the expository dialogue, she acquits herself admirably as an actress. She has a very natural delivery that makes her performance the most strangely believable in the entire movie, as she embodies a no-nonsense, hard bitten cop. I don't think she'll ever be called to the Oscar podium, but she has enough acting talent and natural charm — not to mention two badass fight scenes with Michelle Rodriguez — that she'll comfortably find herself in more roles after this. The characters are what make the movie work, especially considering the plot is total incomprehensible gobbledy gook nonsense.
This is yet another action movie where everyone wants "the chip", this one apparently holding the key to a huge bombing…I think? Cue two hours of awesome car stunts to find this chip…GO! This is the first movie in this series that opens the world up and makes it more of an ensemble piece, which is incredibly satisfying. Now you can spend more time with The Rock cracking skulls and Ludacris and Tyrese cracking jokes than with boring bobo Bradley Cooper and stupid Vin Diesel and his dull romance with hot/dull Michelle Rodriguez. Vin Diesel seems to have absolutely no control over his face, by the way. I believe he must have been suffering tiny strokes during every single take.
Even though Paul Walker's character has been downplayed a bit in this movie, since he is now a father and seeking to settle down with Mia , he is still essential to the movie. In this sense, many of the moments of reflection that Lin has strikes a nerve while watching the film. However, along with the other behind-the-scenes videos on the Blu-ray, Lin's commentary emphasizes how important family was to the series.
This wasn't just for the characters, but for the actors and production crew as well. When Lin talks about the film, there's real love for the people involved, and that's a warm thing to hear. Again, The Rock and Justin Lin help to keep this franchise buoyant. The acting performances by Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, and Chris Bridges are laughable at times and aren't much better from the rest of the cast especially Michelle Rodriguez but the action scenes help keep this score afloat.
The script suffers from what I call "Bad Boys 2 syndrome" whereas the story could wrap up with a little more editing and completion, but chooses to continue on for another minutes instead. Still a vast improvement over the middle installments of the series. The studio will likely continue to buy up the best promising original action movie scripts that they find, changing the characters to match those from this franchise and releasing F&F films. While celebrating Rodriguez's birthday on the set of Fast & Furious 9, her costars shared the first look at the full cast from the newest chapter in the Fast & Furious franchise. Furious 7 remained just as dominant at the international box office this weekend as it did in its opening weekend earning $198.7 million in 66 markets for totals of $550.47 million internationally and $802.0 million worldwide. It became the first film in the franchise and just the 46th film overall to crack the $800 million market worldwide.
This past weekend, the film earned first place in China with $63.24 million in just one day. The film opened on Sunday there, with a record opening day for that market, which was close to its opening day domestic box office. The film opened in first place in Russia with $15.86 million on 1,184 screens. At this pace, the film will top $1 billion over the weekend and I can't imagine the studio won't try to make an eighth installment.More...
As expected, The Fate of the Furious dominated at the domestic box office on Friday, earning $45.6 million. Universal is estimating an opening weekend of $103.8 million. Granted, this film's reviews are 15 points lower than Furious 7's, and that should hurt its legs. On the other hand, both films earned a solid A from CinemaScore.
In fact, every film in the franchise since Fast Five has earned an A from CinemaScore. A drop like this is troubling, but it is more than made up for by the film's international performance…More... The Fate of the Furious is living fast, but plummeting just as fast down 64% to $158.1 million on 19,757 screens in 65 territories for totals of $745.03 million internationally and $908.34 million worldwide. The film is now the biggest hit of 2017 on the international chart and is behind only Beauty and the Beast on the 2017 worldwide chart.
The film's biggest opening of the past weekend came in Poland where it earned $2.7 million on 187 screens, which is the best opening for the Fast and the Furious franchise in that market. Its biggest market overall continues to be China, where it added $55.28 million over the weekend for a two-week total of $321.65 million. The is the second biggest box office for a Hollywood release in China, behind only Furious 7, which earned $390.87 million there.More... Letty spent the majority of the series as Dom's love interest, and they had a chemistry unlike most action-movie onscreen couples.
Like Dom, she's an elite street racer and mechanic — and master thief — but she seems to get it a lot worse than he does. Everyone thought she was dead after a car wreck in the fourth film, but she reappears this time as the second-in-command of an evil criminal organization, which Dom and his crew are hired to take down. It's the Memorial Day long weekend and there are three new films looking to take advantage of the holiday, plus a number of holdovers that will likely still bring in a lot of money. Fast and Furious 6 is leading the way in terms of box office potential and many think it will crack $100 million over four days; some think it will crack $100 million over three days. The Hangover III debuted on Thursday, which will give it a jump on the competition, but soften its weekend numbers.
Finally, there's Epic, a family film that seems like a sure hit, except there is a lot of competition this weekend. Star Trek into Darkness, Iron Man 3, and The Great Gatsby are all still doing well and should provide some competition for the three new releases. All combined, those six films should make as much as the entire box office did last year and 2013 will start to close the gap with 2012.More... Pacific Rim earned first place over the weekend with $53.0 million in 58 markets for a total of $200.4 million internationally and $293.3 million worldwide.
It has made more internationally than it cost to make, but it will still need a lot of help to break even. The film's biggest market over the weekend was China, where it debuted in first place with $45 million. Unfortunately for the film, while studios take about 60% of the box office numbers in the United States they only get about 20% of the box office in China. Or to be more accurate, they will only get about 20% of the box office, once the sales tax dispute is settled.
It's Thanksgiving weekend, which means Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and of course the first installment of our Holiday Gift Guide. This week we will tackle first run releases, as well as franchise box sets. I'm going to try to keep it to a dozen or so releases, as these columns are notorious for getting out of hand. Also, while there were a record number of $1 billion box office hits, there were not as many first run releases that earned stellar reviews this year.More... The Fate of the Furious dominated in the international chart with $433.2 million in 63 markets.
This is the biggest international weekend of all time, beating the previous record holder, Jurassic World, by over $100 million. Interestingly, both of these films were released by Universal. Furthermore, the film has already topped the international totals of all but the two more recent installments in the Fast and the Furious franchise. On the downside, the international opening weekend record isn't the most prestigious record, because it depends a lot of how wide a release a film has.
For instance, The Fate of the Furious opened in all but four markets this past weekend and of the remaining markets, only Japan is a significant market. The film has the number one overall international weekend, but only broke weekend records in 20 of the 63 individual markets and only one of those markets could be considered a major market. Here's Rita Ora's brief appearance in Fast & Furious 6 explained. The original The Fast And The Furious was a modestly budgeted action thriller about a cop who goes undercover in the world of illegal street racing. Thanks to its high-octane setpieces and a charismatic cast of then up and coming actors - including Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Paul Walker and Jordana Brewster - it became a surprise blockbuster. It would be difficult to recreate the franchise's twisted path to becoming one of the biggest movie series in the world, however.
Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson and Michelle Rodriguez lead a cast of returning all-stars as the global blockbuster franchise built on speed delivers the biggest adrenaline rush yet. Hobbs has been tracking an organization of lethally skilled drivers, whose mastermind is aided by the love Dom thought was dead, Letty . The only way to stop the criminal mercenaries from stealing a top secret weapon is to outmatch them at street level, so Hobbs asks for the help of Dom and his elite team. Full pardons for all of them and a chance to make their families whole again. The parkade explosion Shaw lures Dom's team into combined on-set pillars that could be detonated alongside dust mines which could be used as a reference for the digital artists to create the appearance of the structure sinking into itself. The scene was shot over a three-mile stretch of highway in Tenerife lined with holiday resorts that had to be digitally removed to create a desolate appearance.
The segment's finale that sees Roman leap to a nearby car and the tank flip was created digitally. Furious 7 was the first of the franchise to be shown in China and blew up there with a record-setting $390 million take, earning the title as the biggest non-Chinese film in the country at the time. That helped to elevate the worldwide box office past $1.5 billion, with over 76 percent of it coming from international earnings. The Fate of the Furious did even better, breaking its own record as China's top-earning foreign film with $392 million, and the international box office accounted for 81 percent of the worldwide take. Until his accidental death in 2013, Paul Walker played Brian O'Conner, undercover cop-turned-street racer-turned Toretto family member.
Walker starred in six of the Fast franchise's first seven movies, until his character retired from the dangerous life of car heists to be a family man at the end of Furious 7 . But as of November 2019, rumors have surfaced that the film recasts Walker's character. As a franchise, Fast and the Furious appeared burnt out in 2009. Tokyo Drift bombed failing to match its production budget domestically and likely losing a ton worldwide. Fast and Furious saw the return of the original cast, which helped it return to previous heights in terms of box office dollars, but critics eviscerated it.
Then, defying logic, Fast Five became the biggest hit in the franchise and earned the most critical praise. Furious 7 is the latest in the Fast and the Furious franchise. The films started out okay, but critical reception fell quickly. It wasn't until Fast Five when the filmmakers realized they were making, in essence, live-action cartoons that they truly found their voices. This focus helped the box office, so much so that Furious 7 became just the third film to earn more than $1 billion internationally and just the fourth film to earn $1.5 billion worldwide. However, is it at least as entertaining as its box office numbers would indicate?
Nezha remains the top draw in its native China and internationally. This weekend, it pulled in $68.97 million for a total of $512.19 million after nearly four full weeks of release. This doesn't just make the movie the highest-grossing animated film in China, it more than doubles the previous record set by Zootopia. Additionally, it has entered the top five all-time in China, in local currencies, and will soon climb into fourth place over Operation Red Sea.More... The final phase of filming took place in Echo Park, Los Angeles beginning on December 1, 2012.
The shoot returned the series to the filming location of the original The Fast and the Furious , and required the garage setting of that film to be rebuilt by carpenters. By December 17, 2012, it was reported that filming had concluded. Post-production was heavily condensed; by March 2013, Lin was attempting to complete approximately 18 months' worth of post-production in a 12-week period. Lin was aided by five film editors, specialist teams focused on visual effects and color timing, and sound mixers that required two movie-theater-sized stages alone.
Filming began on July 30, 2012, in London, England, and Shepperton Studios in Surrey. The production were given only two minutes every hour to shut down the area for filming. Stunt and car chase scenes began filming on location in Glasgow, Scotland on August 29, 2012, and were scheduled to conclude on September 16, 2012. The shoot took place entirely at night and involved approximately 250 crew, but none of the central cast. Sets were built on site for the scenes including a large car showroom.
Filming was scheduled to take place at the former Royal Air Force base RAF Bentwaters in late August 2012 until early September 2012. Over the course of the Fast and Furious franchise, Dominic Toretto and his ever-expanding crew have taken on all manner of underground kingpins and general ne'er-do-wells. Still, none of the series' long list of baddies have proven quite as bad as Luke Evans' Owen Shaw. If you've seen the last few Furious flicks, you're well acquainted with Shaw's many evil deeds as he's pushed the Toretto clan further than any foe ever has. You also know that his status is currently unknown, and that his family (including Statham's Deckard Shaw) is very much carrying on without him, so it's safe to assume he'll play a role in a Furious film or two moving forward. On the topic of skilled character actors stealing scenes in less-than-vital Fast and Furious roles, you can count Cliff Curtis among them.
Though you may not know Curtis' name, we're willing to bet you recognized the chameleonic performer in the crowd of Samoan faces once the action ofHobbs & Shaw made its way to the shores of South Pacific paradise. If you're still not sure who Curtis is, he played Jonah, one of the initially untrusting brothers to Johnson's Hobbs, who bravely fought beside his family in the film's bonkers Battle of Samoa scene. Still, producers on the Fast & Furious movies have surrounded their stars with a compelling collage of supporting players. Though they may not all be as recognizable as a Charlize Theron or a Kurt Russell , that supporting cast has featured more than a few familiar faces over the years.
Here's why these actors from the Fast and Furious franchise look so familiar. It feels like just yesterday that the late Paul Walker teamed up with Vin Diesel, Tyrese, Ludacris and Jordana Brewster for the first installment in the "Fast and Furious" franchise. In honor of the release of the ninth film in the franchise, "F9," which hit theaters on June 25, 2021, Wonderwall.com is taking a look back at the biggest stars of the series and how they've changed over the years. The Fast Saga's rise has a lot to do with its international appeal, culminating with winning over Chinese audiences. It was under Lin's steady hand that the franchise became a global player.
Adding Han brought Asian representation to an already diverse cast. Tokyo Drift passed an international milestone where the film made more outside of the U.S. in the foreign markets—$33.9 million more. This disparity widened with each successive movie, so by the time Fast & Furious 6 rolled around, the international earnings accounts for nearly 70 percent of the total box office, and the door was open to that lucrative Chinese market. Brian O'Conner is the protagonist of the Fast and Furious series.
He's been one of the most consistent characters in the franchise, appearing in all but one film. O'Conner has gone from LAPD officer to street racer to wanted criminal to FBI agent over the course of the series, and he's expecting a child with his on-screen partner in crime, Dominic Toretto's sister Mia. At the start of Fast 6 his criminal charges prevent him from returning home, and he'll do anything to get his record wiped clean. After a massive $67.3 million on Friday, all eyes were on a $150 million weekend for Furious 7.
