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		<title>Vroom to Grow: How The Fast and the Furious Became Hollywood&#8217;s Greatest Action-Movie Franchise</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 19:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Dodds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The unqualified success of Fast and Furious 6 — which was the top-earning movie in its second week of release, outperforming even a new film from Will Smith — cemented what many industry insiders had been saying for some time: this high-octane series is poised to become Hollywood&#8217;s next great franchise. Here&#8217;s how it happened: The Fast and the Furious opened in theaters on June 22, 2001. Based on a magazine article about New York City’s underground car culture, the movie was about an undercover cop assigned to infiltrate a group of outlaw street racers suspected in a string of robberies. It starred Vin Diesel (fresh off his career-making turn in Pitch Black) as Dominic Toretto, the leader of the gang, and Paul Walker as Brian O&#8217;Connor, the LAPD officer sent to bring him down. Opening without a big-name star (and to middling reviews), the film earned a more-than-respectable $40 million on its opening weekend — and was parked among the top 10 earners for another six weeks. (MORE: Richard Corliss&#8217;s Latest Box-Office Report) Universal Studios released a sequel, 2 Fast 2 Furious, in June 2003, but without Diesel. The movie — which relocated O&#8217;Connor to Miami and teamed him with childhood pal/ex-convict Roman Pearce (Tyrese Gibson) to take down an Argentinian drug lord — debuted No. 1 at the box office with an impressive $50 million haul, but faded quickly because of generally poor reviews and stiff competition from blockbusters like Finding Nemo and Pirates of the Caribbean. The franchise was on wobbly ground: any new installment in the series without the reteaming of Diesel and Walker seemed unlikely. Instead, Universal blew the whole thing up. The studio brought on the screenwriter-director team of Chris Morgan and Justin Lin (Annapolis, Better Luck Tomorrow) and replaced the entire cast, bringing in Lucas Black, Bow Wow, and Sung Kang (who would end up shaping the franchise in ways Morgan and Lin themselves likely couldn&#8217;t have imagined at the time). Universal Pictures &#8216;Tokyo Drift&#8217; Perhaps it was these changes that kept audiences away: The Fast and the Furious:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=entertainment.time.com&#038;blog=24659518&#038;post=3541837&#038;subd=timeentertainment&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>20 Things We Learned About The Sandlot After Talking With Scotty Smalls</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Dodds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At this point, it&#8217;s safe to say that the early 1990s marked the dawning of the Golden Age for pop-culture nostalgia. You&#8217;ve got your pogs, your Saved by the Bell, your JNCOs (more on those later). But there were also those children&#8217;s sports movies—you know, those ones with the characters whose names you still recognize two decades later: Rookie of the Year, Little Giants, The Mighty Ducks trilogy, Little Big League, Angels in the Outfield (which, as we must all never forget, starred Adrien Brody, Matthew McConaughey and Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and many others. But perhaps none left a more indelible mark on the psyche of &#8217;80s babies than The Sandlot. Set in early-1960s southern California, it eschewed the traditional sports movie paradigm. You know the one: a bunch of rag-tag misfits band together and beat their far more talented, far more mean-spirited rivals at the movie&#8217;s climax. Though predictable, many of the those early nineties sports movies managed to find their own unique spin on the tried-and-true formula (including, most notably, Little Big League, which pulled off an ambitious 180 on the traditional conclusion). The Sandlot, however, ditched that classic plot structure entirely. More than anything else, it was a story about friendship and fitting in. It was about how two kids—Scotty Smalls (Tom Guiry) and Benny &#8220;The Jet&#8221; Rodriguez (Mike Vitar)—at two opposite ends of the athletic spectrum can form a life-long bond over the course of one summer spent playing baseball. The duo and the rest of the sandlot group—who at first are reluctant to accept Smalls onto the team due to his utter lack of athletic talent or knowledge— spend the entire film getting into and out of a host of shenanigans. There&#8217;s no coach teaching life lessons and no big climactic game (Benny, Smalls and the rest of the team trounce the snooty varsity jacket bike gang halfway through the film). Just a bunch of kids trading insults, lusting after the local lifeguard and avoiding an enormous dog nicknamed &#8220;The Beast.&#8221; Today, April 9, 2013, marks<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=entertainment.time.com&#038;blog=24659518&#038;post=3536390&#038;subd=timeentertainment&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>12 Hours Watching John McClane: The Diary of a Die Hard Marathoner</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Dodds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is February 14, Valentine&#8217;s Day. But more importantly, today marks the release of the fifth film in the Die Hard quintilogy, A Good Day to Die Hard. To commemorate the occasion, Regal Cinemas showed all five films back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back over the course of twelve hours at nearly 100 theaters across the country. I was there for all of it—the good, the bad, and the McClane. Here&#8217;s what went down&#8230; 11:00 AM (EST): An endeavor such as this naturally required the use of a go-bag. Unfortunately, mine was mostly filled with Lunchables and expired Regal Crown Club cards. I would not be a good action hero. (There may have also been a sandwich and banana in there, but that&#8217;s beside the point.) 11:30: I don&#8217;t know why, but I half-expected to see a massive crowd gathered outside the theater—maybe even John McClane (Bruce Willis) himself—to greet us. But no, pretty much just your average 11:30 on a Wednesday morning crowd in the lobby, which is to say nobody. 11:50: Apparently there wasn&#8217;t much competition for my chosen seat—all the way in the top/back corner of the stadium seating theater, which I figured would allow me to live-tweet and write notes under my jacket without bothering anyone. Not having anyone in my row helped too. 11:55: And here we go! Theater is about one-third filled and people do not seem to be especially excited to be there, but that might just be an energy-saving tactic. Following a brief on-screen message from John McClane himself, we&#8217;re off. 12:00 PM EST: Die Hard PLOT: New York City police officer John McClane goes to visit his wife at Los Angeles&#8217; Nakatomi Plaza on the day before Christmas. Terrorists hold the building&#8217;s occupants hostage and it&#8217;s up to McClane to save the day (that last part will become something of a pattern throughout the marathon). 12:05: Die Hard&#8216;s first scene reminds me that I&#8217;ve never really tried the post-flight &#8220;make-fists-with-your-toes-and-run-them-along-a-rug&#8221; technique that McClane&#8217;s seatmate on the flight from New York to L.A. recommends. Do people still do<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=entertainment.time.com&#038;blog=24659518&#038;post=3530687&#038;subd=timeentertainment&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Good Day to Watch Die Hard: A Marathon Preview</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Dodds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday morning, I woke up to an email from Regal Cinemas with the subject line “Die Hard Marathon” (and a bunch of other words I didn’t bother reading). Die. Hard. Marathon. If those three words don’t excite your innermost &#8220;yippee-ki-yay&#8221;-yelling parts of your soul, well, then I really can’t help you. If there’s any quintilogy deserving of its own in-theater marathon, it’s the Die Hard saga (or the soon-to-be sextilogy, Fast and Furious). Since the original film was released in the summer of 1988, Die Hard has grown from its roots as the perfect &#8217;80s action movie into an enduring staple of the entire genre. And the legend of the film’s protagonist, Detective John McClane (Bruce Willis) has grown in equal measure, establishing him as the quintessential modern American cowboy. But before sitting down to watch all five films, I thought it might be a good idea to take stock of my Die Hard fandom, which I’d classify as enthusiastic, stopping just short of fanatical. I’ve seen the first film more times than I can count, but have only seen the second and third ones (Die Hard 2 and Die Hard with a Vengeance) a few times each, and can’t remember re-watching the most recent iteration (Live Free or Die Hard) since it made the rounds on cable in the 18 months after it was released in 2007. If pressed to rank all four, I’d put the original first (naturally), then the sequel (swap out Nakatomi Plaza for D.C.&#8217;s Dulles International Airport), followed closely by Live Free (hamstrung by its PG-13 rating, the only one in the series’ history), with Vengeance (salvaged by the always-welcome presence of Samuel L. Jackson) bringing up the rear. The fifth and latest installment, A Good Day to Die Hard, hits theaters tomorrow. And for the first time, places our hero on foreign soil (Russia, if that matters).  He’ll have the help of his son, Jack (Jai Courtney), who hasn’t been seen since he was a young kid in the first film.  At 97 minutes,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=entertainment.time.com&#038;blog=24659518&#038;post=3530545&#038;subd=timeentertainment&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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