‘The Fast And The Furious’ Turns 20 Today – Take A Look Back At The Franchise With New Featurettes To quote the great street racer Dominic Toretto: “It don’t matter if you win by an inch or a mile: winning’s winning.” And “winning” is exactly what theFast and Furiousfranchise has done for two decades. Today marks the twentieth anniversary of 2001’sThe Fast and the Furious, the film that launched one of the most unlikely and arguably the most important global franchises in cinematic history, and Universal is celebrating one of its crown jewels with a pair of brand new featurettes....

‘The Imitation Game’ Wins Top Toronto Prize The Toronto International Film Festival is unique in a few respects, but one of the most interesting thing about the fest in relation to other film festivals is that the top prize is decided by audiences. The People’s Choice Award may sound like an also-ran TV awards show, but in reality it’s a big deal. You’ve heard of some of the previous winners:12 Years a Slave,Silver Linings Playbook,The King’s Speech, andSlumdog Millionaire....

‘The Maxx’ Adaptation Coming From Channing Tatum And Producer Roy Lee The Maxx, a popular comic from the early 1990s, is the latest comic book to be adapted for the screen.Channing Tatum(Magic Mike) andRoy Lee(It,The Departed) are teaming up to produce the adaptation, but it’s still too early in the development stage to know whether it will be a film or a TV series. Learn Maxxbelow. According toThe Hollywood Reporter, Tatum will produce a new adaptation of the story with his Free Association partnersReid CarolinandPeter Kiernan, and Lee will produce via his production company, Vertigo Entertainment....

‘The Troop’ Movie Coming From James Wan And E.L. Katz The Troop, Nick Cutter’s ultra-gory horror novel about a Boy Scout troop in a seriously icky situation, is heading to the big screen thanks toJames Wan. Wan and his Atomic Monster production banner will produceThe Troopfilm adaptation, withChannel ZerodirectorE.L. Katzat the helm. The story concerns a group of boys on a camping trip in the Canadian wilderness and the gut-churning experience that follows....

‘Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts’ Will Feature Generation 1 Optimus Prime, Optimus Primal, And A Few Female Robots With eachTransformersmovie, it seems like more and more robots in disguise get introduced, each more tricked out than the last. And the latestTransformersfilm, officially titledTransformers: Rise of the Beasts, will be no different, with a crew of fresh and familiar metal faces set to join forces to save the Earth. But taking his deserved spot as the main character is the franchise’s most familiar face,Optimus Prime....

‘Yellow Rose’ Review: A Timely Tale Of Persecution And Country Music Deep In The Heart Of Texas More than 15 years in the making,Yellow Roseis more than a love letter to country music and the Lone Star State of Texas. It paints a loving portrait of a young undocumented Filipino American Texan living her right to settle in her homeland of Texas and make her own music. Crafted by writer-director Diane Paragas, a Filipino American with lived experiences in Texas,Yellow Rosecan be unsettling due to its imperative responsiveness to the current events where xenophobia exacerbated into institutional human rights abuses – seizures of families, separations of parents and children, and other countess abuses that will reverberate through the incoming decades of America....

2020 Writers Guild Awards Nominees Include ‘Parasite’, ‘1917’, ‘Knives Out’, ‘Little Women’, ‘Joker’, And More The2020 Writers Guild Awardswill be given out just a few days before the Oscars this year, and the full list of nominees has been announced. Some of last year’s best movies are in contention for the top prize: films likeParasite,1917,Knives Out,Little Women, andBooksmart. Check out the full list of nominees below, and find out whyOnce Upon a Time in Hollywoodis not on the list....

5 Things That Bothered Me About ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ After much anticipation,Star Trek Into Darknessis finally out this weekend.Peter and Germain have weighed in with their mostly-positive takes, andyou guys have also chimed in with your thoughts. I personally enjoyed watching the movie from beginning to end, and got a kick out of seeing these characters come to life once more, as played by the immensely talented cast. It’s a non-stop thrill-ride, a riveting experience that may leave you scratching your head at certain points, but never leaves you bored....

Brief ‘Doctor Who’ Season 8 Teaser Keeps Peter Capaldi In Shadow We’ve seen a shot or two ofPeter Capaldiin costumeas the new regeneration of Doctor Who, but we have yet to see any real footage of the new Doctor in action. Now there is aDoctor Whoseason 8 teaser trailer, if a very brief one. “Tease” is the name of the game here, as this footage only gives a silhouetted look at Capaldi’s new Doctor....

Directors, Screenwriters And Actors On Twitter Update:You can read a more updated version of this list here. In March, wepublishedthe first definitive listing of screenwriters, directors and actors on Twitter. But that posting quickly outgrew our original image-based format. With dozens of new additions per week, I thought we’d completely revamp the list. Directors:Judd Apatow– 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Funny PeopleEric Appel– FunnyorDie director: Gobstopper, Bacon’d! Darren Lynn Bousman – Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV, Repo!...

Every Time Jake Lockley Was Hinted At In Moon Knight Surprise! Moon Knight hasanotheralter ego. As if two personalities weren’t enough… Jake Lockleywill be familiar to anyone who’s read the"Moon Knight"comic books, but fans of the TV show may be left scratching their heads. Who is this guy? And where have we seen him before? Marc Spector’sstruggle with dissociative identity disorder drove much of the “Moon Knight” plot, with both Marc andSteven Grantstruggling for control … before eventually coming to terms with the fact that they’re two sides of the same coin....

Exclusive: The ‘Shaft’ Remake Is an Action-Comedy With A Role For A Strong Woman Tim Storywas at Showtime’s Television Critics Association party. He directed the pilot and several episodes of Jay Pharoah’s new half hour seriesWhite Famous. /Film had the opportunity to speak with Story about the feature film remake ofShaft,which he signed on to direct in January. As the director ofRide Along, Barbershopand other comedies, Story confirmed he is not doingShaftas a straight action movie....

Find Out The Shocking Alternate Ending For ‘Homeland’ Season 2 After the first season ofHomeland, many viewers felt the writers could not make the show more intense or surprising. They were proved wrong with season two, which ended with an event and aftermath so outrageous and massive, it set the bar even higher for season three.That third season startsSeptember 29 and could have been quite different if the writers had their way....