This WEEK’S TOP STORYVIN DIESEL TO STAR IN NEW RIDDICK SEQUEL FURYA(Photo by ©Universal Pictures courtesy Everett Collection)Just hours after the first trailer for Fast X (5/19/2023) dropped, we got word that star Vin Diesel will be returning to another franchise, one whose last installment came out a decade ago. In a press release distributed late Friday afternoon, it was announced that Diesel will reunite with writer-director David Twohy for a fourth chapter in the Riddick franchise, Riddick: Furya. A sequel to 2016’s Zootopia (Certified Fresh at 98%) has long been speculated, potentially focusing on other neighborhoods and other animals not featured in the first film. Girl from the North Country is being produced by Blueprint Pictures, the same company that in recent years has delivered two multi-Academy Award-nominated films, both from director Martin McDonagh: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Certified Fresh at 90%) and The Banshees of Inisherin (Certified Fresh at 96%). 42.6 Years will be directed by Craig Gillespie, whose filmography includes both I, Tonya (Certified Fresh at 90%) and the 101 Dalmatians prequel Cruella (Certified Fresh at 75%).
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