Vin Diesel Reviews, Interviews & More

The first full-length trailer for the upcoming Riddick (the sequel to Pitch Black, The Chronicles of Riddick, and The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury) plays like fan-candy to anyone who enjoys the franchise’s focus on Vin Diesel being monosyllabic, seeing things in the dark, and fighting lots of people and aliens against...

Thanks to surprising success of Fast Five in 2011, it will likely be a long time before Hollywood stops churning out films in the Fast and Furious franchise, in which two big bald guys (Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson) play games of cat and mouse while driving shiny cars really fast so man-children in the audience can feel cool when driving...

When The Fast and the Furious was released in 2001, it was a harmless (and brainless) rip-off of Point Break featuring cars being driven really fast.  Somehow, that film’s success has been parlayed into several sequels, with Fast & Furious 6 being released on May 24th this year.  That six movies, gang, about muscle-y mid-level actors driving cars a lot...

When watching a new Riddick film, you know what you’re going to get—moderately budgeted films set in a distant future in which a big bald anti-hero with glowing eyes growls at things in burly monotone so difficult to suss out it reaches Schwarzeneggerian levels of unintelligibility.  But hey, the franchise is a passion project of Vin Diesel’s, so here were are again, with the...

After that great Super Bowl spot and recent trailer we're revved up for Fast and Furious 6, which can't get here soon enough. Universal knows they've got a powerhouse franchise so they're already plotting a sixth sequel, and word around the campfire is that they've already shot the set up for the next movie. But first, check out the film's official theatrical...

After some middling entries, it was a pleasant surprise that Fast Five was one of the most entertaining summer movies in forever. In its way it was a minor miracle. It had a director who hadn't done anything that good before, and assembled all the players from the other film in a way that made it feel like a real team was brought together. Can they top themselves?...

Once the credits rolled on Fast Five, the latest installment in The Fast & the Furious franchise, many of us wanted another movie right away. If it can be as action-packed, and slightly goofy, as the latest movie, we'll be happy. Thankfully Vin Diesel has answered our prayers and shown us not only a brand new image but when we might be seeing the first...

Kojak—originally a popular 1970s detective procedure starring Telly Savalas as the lollipop-loving NYPD detective Theo Kojak, is also one of the few popular American television programs of the 1970s that has yet to be cannibalized for its name.  Until now, that is.  Because he is bald, just like Telly Savalas, Vin Diesel will be starring in a new...

One of this summer’s most talked about and discussed films hits Blu-ray this week, as does one of it’s biggest misfires, and Warner Brothers unloads some classic movies on to Blu-ray. And, of course, one of the most beloved and successful films of all time joins the Blu-ray ranks on its 30th anniversary. All this and more…

OK—The Avengers 2 officially has a writer/director (Joss Whedon is coming back), and even an official release date, so it’s now time begin our official three-year campaign of baseless speculation and irresponsible rumor-mongering concerning the making of the highly anticipated sequel.  First up: Vin Diesel may star as the Avenger known as Vision.  Let that one sink in for a...

Vin Diesel took to his Facebook page recently and shared a new still from the upcoming film Riddick, the third film in the live action Riddick series (following 2000’s Pitch Black and 2004’s The Chronicles of Riddick).  Further, he discussed watching the first cut of the film in the editing bay, and proceeding to make strange...

Two sneak peaks of the upcoming science fiction films Dredd (that's the Judge Dredd reboot) and the new Riddick sequel (starring Vin Diesel) were released in the form of new promo photos this week.  It's something of a treat for fans of sci-fi dystopias featuring brooding and musclebound anti-heros, man-hating prostitutes of the future, and...

Tim Burton's Dark Shadows is hitting theaters May 11, which means we should be seeing a trailer here any day now. For the time being there's a new still of Johnny Depp in the film, and it suggests that his character is in line with many Burton protagonists of the past. He looks like a man-child, though that could be just in this still. We should know more when the...

Though the sixth film already has a release date, Vin Diesel confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that it won't be the last go around for the crew. A script for the seventh film in the Fast and Furious franchise is being written alongside the sixth film, as Diesel says they've already got too many ideas and characters for just one film. As Fast...

Studios - like Ain't-it-Cool-News Talkbackers - love calling "First!" And with studio tentpole titles, they like to have breathing room. The weekends for big releases are now being called years ahead of time, with films that often have no scripts and no casts. Maybe they have some contractual agreements with the stars - stars often have to sign on for a number of films if the studio thinks...

Summer movie season usually starts the first week of May, but this year Fast Five is kicking things off a week early. Returning vets of the series Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Jordana Brewster and Tyrese Gibson are joined by newcomer Dwayne Johnson for a car chase and heist movie that manages to be the fifth film in a franchise that somehow revitalized itself after a...

Did you really think we were done with the excessive Super Bowl promotions? Nope! There's more where that came from. Another movie that got some prime ad time during last night's big game was Fast Five. The fifth installment in the long running Fast and the Furious franchise. It was 30 seconds of high octane action that featured a very angry Dwayne...

It seems that Vin Diesel is hell bent on reprising all the roles that made him famous, including his character from Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick. The actor is set to appear in a third film in the series simply titled Riddick that will illustrate the character in a way that we've never seen him...

It's the battle of the bulk in the first photo from The Fast and the Furious sequel, Fast Five. It features franchise star Vin Diesel and the new kid on the block Dwayne Johnson. But don't worry, judging from this picture he has no problem holding his own against Diesel. Check out what happens when these two come face to face.

The fifth installment of the Fast and the Furious franchise entitled Fast Five has us royally confused. We recently learned that Dwayne Johnson joined the cast and Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, and Sung Kang are set to reprise their roles in the sequel. Over at Collider, they've posted a few on set photos that...