Tony Scott‘s Top Gun was released in 1986 and was the most successful film of that year. It launched Tom Cruise into leading man status (or at least cemented it post-Risky Business), and also featured Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, and a host of young actors like Meg Ryan and Tim Robbins. It was the ultimate example of the Jerry Bruckheimer/Don Simpson vehicle – slick, formulaic, but winning. But does the film has a lasting legacy? We’ll see in 2012 when the film is supposed to be released in 3-D.

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Denzel Washington and Tony Scott join forces again for the fifth time to make an action film that lives up to its title. Unstoppable is the non-stop action ride you’re expecting from the duo, with all the explosions, chase scenes, sexy ladies made to appear as “regular” every day women, with one attractive, new-comer to pull in the young-bloods. I think there’s almost no doubt that this film will in fact be unstoppable at the box office.

That being said, does it live up to all the expectations? Find out now…

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Last week we spoke with Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson and director Tony Scott about their upcoming, non-stop, action-thrill-ride, Unstoppable. This commences the fifth time that Washington and Scott have joined forces to create a movie together. It seems like as long as you have these two together, add a few explosions, a chase scene, a sexy lady (dressed to make her look like a “regular girl” – tip boys, Rosario Dawson will NEVER look average), and you are in fact unstoppable at the box office! Throw in a sexy new-comer and you’ve got it made.

Check out the interview with the cast and director below…

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We thought we were done with this! A couple weeks ago we reported that Top Gun 2 might be in the pipeline for director Tony Scott, producer Jerry Bruckheimer, and star Tom Cruise. What started out as speculation has been confirmed by Scott, who says the sequel is in the works and he’s locked and loaded!

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The first trailer for Tony Scott and Denzel Washington’s umpteenth collaboration has been released and it’s called Man on Fire, we mean The Taking of Pelham 123, no we mean Unstoppable. Yes, it’s Unstoppable and it co-stars Chris Pine. It’s one of those movies where the older, more experienced character has to take the young buck under their wing to show them the way. And in this case, if Pine’s character doesn’t learn quickly he’ll end up dead. Take a look at the trailer…

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A while ago we learned that Shia LaBeouf was set to star in a legal drama in the long running John Grisham films series. The movie is called The Associate, and it’s been a while since we’ve heard anything about it besides the actor’s casting. According to a report from The Los Angeles Times, it may have finally landed a director in the form of Tony Scott.

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Tony Scott has been developing a big screen adaptation of the book Hells Angels for the past few years but it’s taken a back seat to some of his more recent projects like the upcoming action flick, Unstoppable. According to Deadline there’s been some movement on the Angels front that involves the casting of Oscar nominee Mickey Rourke and one of the stars from Transformers.

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Tony Scott, director of films like Top Gun, Days of Thunder, and The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 remake (i.e.: he’s the guy that makes older brother Ridley Scott say, “Dude, what’s wrong with you?”), is setting his sights on his next film, a long-gestating passion project elegantly-titled Potzdamer Platz.

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What in the world does the younger Scott brother have up his sleeve? Earlier this morning we told you about Ridley Scott‘s desire to work on the prequel to the sci-fi classic, Alien. Now we’ve learned via Variety, that his sibling Tony Scott wants to direct a film that centers on Chippendale dancers!

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