Tyler Perry is perhaps best known for his "Madea" movies, in which he inhabits the role of an overweight and overly aggressive elderly woman with varying degrees of hilarity. But for his next role, Perry is more likely to hunt down the kinds of deranged men who routinely dress up as overweight and overly aggressive elderly women.
According to Deadline, QED has packaged an adaptation of the James Patterson novel "I, Alex Cross" with Perry attached to the title role and Rob Cohen directing.
In signing up for the film, Perry takes over the franchise role of D.C.-based detective and psychologist Alex Cross from Morgan Freeman, who already played the character in two films, "Kiss the Girls" and "Along Came a Spider." Read More...
"Wolfman's got nards." With those three words, a cult legend was born. "
That headline literally called me up and begged to be used. Who am I not to oblige? "xXx" and "The Fast and the Furious" director Rob Cohen is finished working with Vin Diesel for the forseeable future. Cohen, who had been
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'Fast Five' Flashback: Vin Diesel Puts The Pedal To The Medal In 'The Fast And The Furious'
Posted 4/25/11 3:15 pm EST by Chris Arrant in Commentary, old school
There have been a host of car racing movies that came before "The Fast and the Furious," but its debut in 2001 saw the rise of the sub-genre’s biggest and most popular franchise ever. Described as “gritty and gratifying” by Variety, the Rob Cohen-directed film cemented the popularity of Vin Diesel after his role in "Pitch Black" the previous year and used an ensemble cast composed of young Hollywood’s biggest stars of the time. Although American car racing movies had long relied on the horsepower of homegrown ‘muscle’ cars, “The Fast and the Furious” super-charged its debut by relying primarily on vehicles from the Asian import scene that had become staples of car culture since the mid-80s but had never been depicted in a mainstream U.S. film before.
In “The Fast and the Furious,” Domenic Toretto (Diesel) is heading up a street gang that the authorities believe is responsible for a string of high-speed truck hijackings. After putting undercover cop Brian O’Connor (Paul Walker) into the mix to land on Toretto’s crew, he comes to know Toretto’s real story while falling for his younger sister, Mia (Jordana Brewster). Although he eventually breaks his cover, O’Connor comes to the rescue of the Torettos when they're fingered for the crimes of a more reprehensible street gang and their activities.
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