Fast And Furious 6 Official Synopsis

The Fast And The Furious franchise is getting ready to rev its engine an race back onto the big screen for a sixth time.  Now in addition to boasting an endless parade of supercharged cars and eye candy girls, the film also officially has a plot.  Full details below:

Since Dom (Diesel) and Brian’s (Paul Walker) Rio heist toppled a kingpin’s empire and left their crew with $100 million, our heroes have scattered across the globe. But their inability to return home and living forever on the lam have left their lives incomplete.

Meanwhile, Hobbs (Johnson) has been tracking an organization of lethally skilled mercenary drivers across 12 countries, whose mastermind (Luke Evans) is aided by a ruthless second-in-command revealed to be the love Dom thought was dead, Letty (Michelle Rodriguez). 

The only way to stop the criminal outfit is to outmatch them at street level, so Hobbs asks Dom to assemble his elite team in London. Payment? Full pardons for all of them so they can return home and make their families whole again.

The film will see franchise regulars Jordana Brewster, Gina Carano and Tyrese Gibson return to star alongside Paul Walker’s handsome face and Vin Diesel’s angry baldness. Justin Lin who has directed the last three films in the long running petrol fueled franchise is again taking responsibility for ensuring that Fast  And Furious 6 is up to speed in time for its release in May 2013.

Frank Langella joins Reykjavik cast

Frank Langella has reportedly signed on to star alongside Michael Douglas and Christoph Waltz in Mike Newell’s cold war drama Reykjavik. Set in 1986 the film tells the story of the dramatic peace summit between American President Ronald Regan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev .

Langella is no stranger to political drama, having put in an Oscar nominated turn as disgraced American president Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon alongside Michael Sheen. In Reyjavik, he’ll apparently be playing Regan’s most trusted senior advisor Paul Nitz, the US Secretary of the Navy.

Director Mike Newell told Red Carpet News about the project whilst honouring Helena Bonham Carter at the London Critics’ Circle Film Award in London, check out the video interview below:

Judd Apatow plans This Is 40 sequel

Writer and director Judd Apatow is just about to release his Knocked Up spin-off movie This Is 40 in UK cinemas, but he already has plans for a sequel.

This Is 40 focuses on the dysfunctional married life of Pete and Debbie, two supporting characters  from Apatow’s hit pregnancy comedy Knocked Up played by Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann. Apatow’s real life daughters Maude and Iris play the bickering couples troublesome children and he’s apparently enthusiastic to explore their characters even further in another film. As he explained in a recent interview with Getty Images:

“I like that series Truffaut made where he visited the same character five different times in five different movies, and I think it’s fun to see people grow up. So I’m interested in it with Leslie and Paul, but even more so with Maude and Iris. I think it’s fun that we met Maude when she was eight years old, and she didn’t understand where babies came from, and then we see her five years later, and she’s just cursing and screaming and having teenager problems. And maybe in the next one she’s in college, so, you know.”

Check out This Is 40 interviews below with the all the film’s stars,  Judd Apatow and his daughters:

New Trailer For Vampire Film Byzantium

Interview with the Vampire director Neil Jordan has returned to familiar territory with new film Byzantium. Starring Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan as a vampire mother and daughter, the film has its first official trailer below. It makes it pretty clear that these vampires are much more likely to be True Blood than Twilight fans. The trailer oozes with blood and sex, see for yourself below.

Benedict Cumberbatch Joins The Imitation Game

Benedict Cumberbatch looks set to play British mathematician and computer genius Alan Turing in a new biopic directed by Mortem Tyldum.

The Imitation Game will explore the life and tragic fate of the celebrated code-breaker who was credited with breaking the Nazi’s Enigma Code during World War 2. However despite becoming a national hero for his pivotal role in the Allied war effort Turing faced criminal charges after the war when British authorities discovered that he was secretly gay.

Faced with a horrific choice between prison time and chemical castration, within several years Turing had taken his own life. Leonardo DiCaprio was previously actively chasing the demanding lead role, before he announced his extended break from acting to concentrate on environmentalist campaigning.

It’s now expected that Sherlock star Cumberbatch will officially sign on to play the troubled English genius. At least it should be familiar territory for him…