Vin Diesel

Paul Walker appearing on LA radio’s Valentine in The Morning on Friday and announced The Fast and the Furious franchise is gearing up for a fifth installment after the fourth film dominated last week’s box office, earning $71 million. 

“This was supposed to be it,” The Ding said. “Without question, the way that thing’s opened up, Vin [Diesel] and I will be coming back. We’re making a fifth one and we’re going to Brazil. That’s it!”

Really? Because last week it was Europe.

Paul Walker has confirmed producers want to see The Fast and the Furious franchise go another round.

He says, “It’s beyond rumors at this point. I’ve spoken with executives at Universal and they’re pretty serious about it. They’re developing it. They know where they want it to take place. They want to do it in Europe.”

We never say "no" to The Ding but this is getting ridiculous.

Pretty soon it’ll be The Fast and the Furious 36: Shuffle Board Drift.

We do!

We do!

Vin Diesel and Paul Walker, along with the rest of the cast of Fast and Furious, were snapped at the European premiere of the film yesterday in Bochum, Germany.

Seriously?

They’re not even important enough to premiere in Berlin?

We love the little children peeking out from behind the backdrop. Are those their illegitimate German babies?

We’d have their bastard child any day! They could Octo-Mom us up with Walker and Diesel babies and we’d be pleased as punch. 

—Sasha Perl-Raver

Forget the Fast or the Furious, we’ve got the Smokin’ and the Studly.

Last night the cast of Fast and Furious arrived at the film’s premiere at the Gibson Amphitheater at Universal City Walk in LA.

Once upon a time, this cast as the hottest group in Hollywood. But that was in 2001.

We were invited (thank you, Than) to attend Monday night’s American Cinematheque Honors as they bestowed their 23rd annual prize on Samuel L. Jackson at the Beverly Hilton.

The show, which will be broadcast on AMC December 9th, offered the usual: speeches filled with platitudes followed by far more engaging montages of Jackson’s work (though it was noticeably heavy on Pulp Fiction and The Man). But here’s a peek at some of the more interesting events of Monday’s taping, most of which will have to be heavily bleeped when it airs.

Sex and the City scribe Candace Bushnell is going to eke out every last imaginable dollar she can. She’s the literary Vin Diesel.

Vin Diesel is all about milking every last drop of potential from his successful movies.

While we anxiously await next year’s Fast and Furious (tagline: “New Model, Old Parts!” Holla!), Vin has signed on for a third installment of XXX. We love Vin and there’s nothing like a heavy dose of Scott Speedman but come on! XXX: State of the Union was one of the dumbest movies ever made.

Vin Diesel makes his way back to his New York hotel after appearing on MTV’s TRL to promote his new film Babylon A.D.

The film is about a war hero-turned-mercenary Thoorop (Diesel) who is escorting a woman from Russia to America only to discover she’s host to an organism a cult wants to harvest in order to produce a genetically modified Messiah.

Ooookay.

Vin Diesel, 40, and his girlfriend, model Paloma Jimenez, quietly became parents of a baby girl, their first child, on April 2nd.

We hope this puts the “Vin Diesel is gay” rumors to rest.  

Diesel is currently shooting and producing Fast and Furious (with the entire original cast including super smokeshow Paul Walker) due out June 2009. It will be the fourth film in the Furious franchise.