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Universal Pictures' Fast & Furious franchise will see the production of at least two more films:
Universal surprised the CinemaCon audience by debuting The Fate of the Furious, the eighth installment in Universal's hit franchise, in full Wednesday. Star-producer Vin Diesel took the stage to talk about the franchise, which he's been a part of since the beginning. "One of the things we're so proud of with this chapter is how much we defied expectations," said Diesel.
A ninth and tenth installment have also already been announced.
"As the world sees this movie, they'll see how its the beginning of a new trilogy," Diesel said, adding that certain characters were brought in for this new trilogy.
The late star Paul Walker, who died in a car crash before the seventh film was released, was on the mind of Diesel as he took the stage. "Part of Paul's legacy lives through every frame that we shoot," Diesel said. "There's something beautiful about that."
(Score: 2) by Lagg on Sunday April 02 2017, @12:05AM (1 child)
Not even joking. And frankly on a strictly artless, soulless, bitter, horrible, terrible level of business they'd be kind of dumb not to make another 2 trilogies at minimum until this growth stops.
2011: Fast Five, $125 million budget, $629 million worldwide box office
2013: Fast Six, $160 million, $790 million
2015: Furious Seven, $190 million, $1.5 goddamn billion
That's a money train that isn't going to stop rolling right there.
Also teehee I made a Vin Diesel reference in the subject
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by butthurt on Sunday April 02 2017, @04:06AM
If they want to make serious money, the content creators ought to adapt this story to the stage. As of 2014, more than $6.2 billion in tickets had been sold to the theatrical version of The Lion King.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/1050ff927d15435d8ab25e7f1b1b5ebe/apnewsbreak-lion-king-makes-history [ap.org]