'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
“Fast & Furious 6” takes everything that “Fast Five” did right, and then does it more: It’s louder, it’s funnier, it’s bigger — more exciting, more over the top, and more delightfully absurd. In every way, it is a movie that is truly faster and, yes, furiouser than any of its predecessors.
Highlights of Hollywood's 2013 schedule (release dates are subject to change):
Actor Paul Walker is in New Orleans for the filming of the suspense drama "Hours," about a father struggling to keep his newborn daughter alive in a New Orleans hospital ravaged during Hurricane Katrina.
Actor Paul Walker is shifting gears in New Orleans, where he is playing a father struggling to keep his newborn daughter alive in a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina.
"Fast Five" has left the competition in the dust with an $83.6 million debut to grab the No. 1 spot at the weekend box office, according to studio estimates Sunday.
With "Fast Five," the "Fast and the Furious" franchise has undergone a full-body overhaul: What started as a series about illegal street racing has been taken to the shop and rebuilt as a team-based heist flick.
Capsule reviews of films opening this week:
The fright flick "The Last Exorcism" and the heist thriller "Takers" were in a photo finish for the top spot at the weekend box office, according to studio estimates Sunday.
"This father is doing everything he can to just keep things going, keep electricity going, to keep this little baby going," Walker said. "My little girl means the whole world to me. I really want to believe that if I was placed in the same situation that I would rise above, that I would be able to see it through the end and do what it would take to make sure my baby came out on top."
Walker, who has a 13-year-old daughter, said the premise of a father fighting to keep his child alive is what drew him in.
