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Going Fast and Furious through a Gigantic Adventure - Behind the Scenes #18

Posted by grip on Thursday, April 02, 2009

Hey movie fans! Welcome to the third iteration of Behind the Scenes this week. This week your hosts Eric and Shaun are going to take a look at the movies “Adventureland“, “Fast and Furious 4” and “Gigantic“. If you like what you see don’t forget to check the movie sitelets for more content.  On to the show!

First off Vin Diesel and Paul Walker reteam for the ultimate chapter of the franchise built on speed – “Fast and Furious.” Heading back to the streets where it all began, they rejoin Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster to blast muscle, tuner and exotic cars across Los Angeles and floor through the Mexican desert in the new high-octane action-thriller. When a crime brings them back to L.A., fugitive ex-con Dom Toretto (Diesel) reignites his feud with agent Brian O’Conner (Walker). But as they are forced to confront a shared enemy, Dom and Brian must give in to an uncertain new trust if they hope to outmanuever him.

Then we discuss the new movie “Adventureland“. Starring Jesse Einsenburg and the beautiful Kristen Stewart its a comedy set in the summer of 1987 and centered around a recent college grad (Eisenberg) who takes a nowhere job at his local amusement park, only to find it’s the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world.

Finally we want to tell you about the movie Gigantic. Brian Weathersby (PAUL DANO) is a 28 year-old salesman at a high-end Swedish mattress company. The afterthought child to elderly parents (ED ASNER, JANE ALEXANDER), and the youngest son in a trio of successful brothers, a shady oil man (IAN ROBERTS), a surgeon (ROBERT STANTON), Brian is searching for his place in the world. Unfulfilled by his work he spends a good portion of his day pursuing his goal of someday adopting a baby from China. He gets swept up in a romance with the lovely but misguided Harriet Lolly (ZOOEY DESCHANEL) when she comes in to his store one day and falls asleep on one of the beds.

Make sure to tune in tomorrow for more Behind the Scenes

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Going Fast and Furious through a Gigantic Adventure - Behind the Scenes #18

Posted by Mike on Thursday, April 02, 2009

Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Michelle Rodriguez are reprising their roles in the fourth film of the franchise simply titled… wait for it… Fast & Furious which is set for wide release on April 3, 2009.

Here’s the synopsis:

Heading back to the streets where it all began, two men rejoin two women to blast muscle, tuner and exotic cars across Los Angeles and floor through the Mexican desert. When a crime brings them back to L.A., fugitive ex-con Dom Toretto reignites his feud with agent Brian O’Connor. But as they are forced to confront a shared enemy, Dom and Brian must give in to an uncertain new trust if they hope to outmaneuver him. And from convoy heists to precision tunnel crawls across international lines, two men will find the best way to get revenge: push the limits of what’s possible behind the wheel.

VIN DIESEL as fugitive ex-con Dom Toretto in the ultimate chapter of the franchise built on speed—Fast & Furious. Photo credit: Jaimie Trueblood

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Going Fast and Furious through a Gigantic Adventure - Behind the Scenes #18

Posted by admin on Thursday, April 02, 2009

The latest movie starring the gravel-voiced Vin Diesel is set to open this Friday and the picture’s director is going on the record about how bad it is. Babylon AD was directed by Mathieu Kassovitz told the AMC blog that his latest work is a mess due to unnecessary creative decision making by the studio, 20th Century Fox. “I’m very unhappy with the film,” Kassovitz told the site. “I never had a chance to do one scene the way it was written or the way I wanted it to be. The script wasn’t respected. Bad producers, bad partners, it was a terrible
experience.”

If Babylon AD tanks at the box office it will be the final, savage swordstroke on what’s proven to be a disasterous summer season for Fox. The second X-Files movie tanked, barely able to squeak past $10 million dollars in ticket sales on its opening weekend. Eddie Murphy’s Meet Dave met with even worse results, making only a million more in its entire theatrical run than X-Files 2 did on its first three days of release. The horror film Mirrors and Rainn Wilson’s comedy The Rocker have also proven to be financial disappointments for the company. Babylon AD is Fox’s last gasp at having a winner for the summer of ‘08, but let’s face it: movie studios don’t release their top prospects on the weekend just before kids head back to school.

Comparing parts of his movie to “a bad episode of 24,”, Kassovitz was clear about where he may have gone wrong. “I should have chosen a studio that has guts,” the French filmmaker said, not holding back. “Fox was just trying to get a PG-13 movie. I’m ready to go to war against them, but I can’t because they don’t give a s–t.”

When AMC contacted Fox to respond to Kassovitz’s comments they never received a reply.

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