Vin Diesel Gossip

SPOILER FREE Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 picks up an indistinct amount of time after the events of the first movie, and one very smart thing writer/director James Gunn does is not bog us down with timeline and other continuity details. He’s freed from the Avengers continuity and doesn’t take his own too seriously, either—you definitely do not have to do “homework” to watch Vol. Full Story

Late last night, TMZ reported that The Rock and Vin Diesel Full Story

Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson star in the eighth installment of the Fast/Furious franchise, a movie which is infuriatingly still not called F8 of the Furious. (They have two scenes together, one in which they’re in separate cars and another in which they never talk or look directly at each other. Full Story

Remember when The Rock was throwing Insta-shade at an “unnamed castmate” while making F8 of the Furious, and it turned out to be about Vin Diesel Full Story

The F8 of the Furious—I refuse to use its proper title—also aired a Super Bowl spot, giving us another look at Vin Diesel and The Rock Full Story

I said in my xXx: Return of Xander Cage review that Vin Diesel is “extremely good at self-promotion” and here is an example of what I am talking about. While promoting Xander Cage, Diesel did an interview with MTV in which he talks up a potential Groot spin-off with Marvel. Full Story

xXx: Return of Xander Cage opened in second place last weekend but is doing better business overseas. It’s the stupidest f*cking movie in the world but sure, let’s review this sucker like it’s a real movie. (This is not a real movie. This is the Vin Diesel Full Story

The eighth Fast/Furious movie has an official title and it is The Fate of the Furious and somehow, miraculously not F8 of the Furious. To whoever chooses the names for these movies—YOU HAD ONE JOB. How do you not name it F8 of the Furious?! It’s RIGHT THERE. You can do 2 Fast 2 Furious but you’re too good for “F8”? Oh, well, look who’s a big fancy man in his big fancy pants, using full words instead of number-word hybrids to title his movie. Full Story

Ang Lee’s $40 million camera test, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, ate it hardcore at the box office this past weekend, which is maybe unfair because the movie isn’t THAT bad. Full Story

Charlize Theron and Matthew McConaughey have an animated movie coming out in a week or so called Kubo And The Two Strings. Full Story