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A dozen years have passed since the first installment of the Fast and the Furious franchise, also known as Vin Diesel and Paul Walker's annuity plan. The budget grew from $38 million for the first film to $125 million for Fast Five ten years later. The cars have progressed quite a bit and so has the supporting cast, but so much more has changed in the real world in the decade-plus since June 2001 when The Fast and the Furious debuted. 1. A gallon of gas cost $1.46, postage stamp 34 cents and a dozen eggs sold for 90 cents. 2. George W. Bush had only been in office four months and his administration wouldn't find weapons of mass destruction for another two years. 3. Wikipedia was only six ...
Usually when you think of iconic movies, you think of classically trained actors delivering professional performances. Clearly that wasn't always the case. These rare photos of legendary actors and directors screwing around between scenes are very enjoyable. Keep clicking to see a rare side of legendary stars like James Dean, Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson and more. Boris Karloff from Frankenstein, 1931. H/T Reddit, via Imgur ...
We owe a lot to the gangster movie: The careers of guys named Scorsese and DeNiro, some of the most quotable dialogue of all time, every single episode of MTV Cribs – so we’re glad that Warner Bros. has given us an excuse to pay tribute to the genre. With their “Ultimate Gangsters Collection” sets (“Classic,” which features the Blu-ray debuts of “The Public Enemy,” “White Heat,” “Little Caesar,” and “The Petrified Forest”; and “Contemporary,” which includes “Goodfellas,” “The Departed,” “Mean ...
When Hollywood makes a biopic, you already know what the character should look like, setting impossibly high standards for whichever actor is cast in that famous role. Well these side-by-side comparisons of famous actors and the famous person they played show that in general, Hollywood does a pretty good job of casting legendary newsmakers. Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network. All pics via Imgur ...
Ewan McGregor, Gary Oldman, Helena Bonham Carter, Hugo Weaving, Jason Statham, Meryl Streep and Rhys Ifans have all had many different and distinct roles in their careers. When you put them all up next to each other, it's pretty crazy to think that all of these characters were played by the same people. Via WamWan ...