Paul Walker May Be Cast in 'Terminator 5'

To be honest, not much can be said about Terminator 5 at this point.  With the hiatus Arnold Schwarzenegger is taking to straighten out his life, everything about this film and the developments surrounding it are speculative.  However, I feel a responsibility to report new rumors about casting so take this with a grain of salt, but it seems that producer Megan Ellison is hinting the project may just move forward with out him.  As she moves forward, she's looking to cast some of the major roles.

It's rumored that Paul Walker will play Kyle Reese who is John Conner's father.

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'Fast (and Furious) Five' Trailer

I have a love-hate relationship with The Fast and the Furious franchise.  I guess it's more of a hate-love thing, because I hate that I love these movies.  I can't help but watch the first film in its entirety anytime it's on TV, 2 Fast 2 Furious is one of my guilty pleasures, and I was pleasantly surprised with Justin Lin's gritty take in the 4th installment.

That being said, it's really hard to be upset with the overkill that is the franchise's fifth film, Fast Five (alliteration, yo!).  Today we got the film's first trailer, and it's not half bad.

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'The Fast and the Furious 5' aka 'Fast Five' Plot Revealed

The picture starring Vin Diesel, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Paul Walker, Ludacris, and Tyrese Gibson got a bit more clearer today as Universal Pictures released the official synopsis for the film which is slated to release on June 10th 2011.

 

"Vin Diesel and Paul Walker lead a reunion of returning all-stars from every chapter of the explosive franchise built on speed in Fast Five.

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Box Office - 'Last Exorcism' Leads Surprising 'Takers'

What? Really? Takers is on pace to generate about $20 million in business this weekend, and in fact, if it were in as many theaters as the more aggressive (and more heavily advertised and better-reviewed) The Last Exorcism, Takers might have been the number one movie this weekend. What? Really?

On Thursday, I didn't give the movie a chance in hell, and even in just over 2,000 theaters - not a huge number by any means but still technically a wide release - Takers made $7.5 million on Friday. That's a bold beginning for a film that features what could be the poorest construction ever for a major studio movie poster. As for The Last Exorcism, it started with just under $10 million, and that should taper off quickly if other horror movies are our guide. Maybe it won't, though; the reviews have been fairly solid, and if critics like a horror film, odds are audiences will, too, because critics generally hate horror for some reason. I don't think this one leapfrogs $30 million, but it should land comfortably around $25 million or so.

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Dwayne Johnson Signs Up for 'Fast Five'

Man, I had higher hopes for Dwayne Johnson than this. I thought he really could have become a bigger factor in the action movie world, but two things conspired against him. 1) He made a bushel of average-to-bad family movies, and 2) The era of the musclebound monolithic action hero is dead.

So The Rock will instead join a crew of guys stuck in the same boat, signing up for Fast Five, the fifth Fast and Furious movie from Universal. The word comes from Tyrese Gibson, who I guess Tweeted the news this week: “Major shouts to Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, & Dewayne [sic] “Rock” Johnson!! “Fast & Furious Five” Let’s get em again!!”

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