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Brand new Riddick synopsis unveils the Furyan's new rogues gallery

Meredith Woerner — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:14:17 PST

A brand new official synopsis has been released, revealing tons of details about the brand new Riddick picture. Check it out: More »

The Riddick movie has been saved!

Meredith Woerner — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:53:56 PST

A few months ago we were worried that Vin Diesel's latest Riddick movie was going to need to start a Kickstarter page to get the funds is needed to resume production. But some good news is finally floating the Furyan's way. TMZ is reporting that the silver-eyed devil had received the funds he needed to resume filming on December 28th. Alas, there are reportedly many more people that still need their Riddick cash — so fingers crossed this film actually gets completed. More »

Would you contribute to a Kickstarter campaign to get the new Riddick movie back in production?

Meredith Woerner — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:36:45 PDT

The Riddick cast and crew have been locked out of their Montreal studio over unpaid bills — and meanwhile Katee Sackhoff has reportedly been offered the role of a Riddick-tailing bounty hunter. So what's really going on with the silver-eyed Furyan? More »

Karl Urban brings the Necromonger awesomeness to the new Riddick sequel?

Meredith Woerner — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 09:30:00 PDT

Vin Diesel and David Twohy's new Riddick sequel just got some great news! Rumor has it Karl Urban is ready to reprise his role as the power-hungry Necromonger Vaako, from The Chronicles of Riddick . Hell to the yes. More »

Tons of Riddick 3 character details reveal new link to Pitch Black

Meredith Woerner — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 07:20:00 PDT

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Good news, Furyan fans — David Twohy and Vin Diesel's third Riddick movie has started casting, and new details are leaking out all over! Find out who's coming back from the Underverse right now. More »

Meet Vin Diesel's vicious space hound, in new Riddick 3 concept art

Meredith Woerner — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 06:30:00 PDT

Looks like the new Riddick movie is still a go. Vin Diesel has released this stark piece of concept art for his next collaboration with The Chronicles of Riddick director David Twohy. More »

Does this new Riddick concept art blame the apocalypse on our favorite Furian?

Meredith Woerner — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 06:30:00 PDT

More news about a potential third Riddick movie: Writer/director David Twohy shared his thoughts, as well as some excellent concept art. Does this mean we're closer to Vin Diesel agreeing to a pay cut so the movie can go forward? More »

Vin Diesel may be willing to take a huge pay cut to play Riddick again

Meredith Woerner — Wed, 25 May 2011 13:30:00 PDT

Our favorite Furian shared some good news and some bad news about the new Riddick movie. The good news is, it might start filming this summer. The bad news, Diesel's salary woes may halt the project completely. More »

Man and Superman: The Riddick DVD Collection

Richard Kadrey — Thu, 05 May 2011 11:36:52 PDT

We first met Richard B. Riddick back in 2000 in an excellent little SF action movie, Pitch Black. He was introduced to us as a ruthless killer and the most badass criminal alive. But he was a lot more than that. Riddick was a man who through intelligence and sheer force of will had made himself into as dangerous a human being as ever stomped across the screen. More »

New Riddick movie will feature alien seduction

Meredith Woerner — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 14:42:18 PST

The director of The Chronicles of Riddick, who is also directing the new Riddick film, took to the internet to answer the fans questions. The good news: it'll be more like Pitch Black, the first film. More »

Stop the mumbling! Why can't we understand what people are saying in movies any more?

Charlie Jane Anders — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:30:00 PDT

Did you understand what Vin Diesel was saying half the time in Pitch Black? Or the new B.A. Baracus in The A-Team? And good luck understanding Ken Watanabe in Inception. DenOfGeek declares war on muddy sound mixes and mumbling actors. More »

New concept art, details and creature designs spill Riddick's next movie details

Meredith Woerner — Mon, 24 May 2010 16:00:00 PDT

New concept art gives us some precious glimpses of the new creatures in the third Riddick movie, and there's some more news about the film. Which, last we heard, might be called The Furian... Left For Dead... More »

First Concept Art From The Third Riddick Movie: Left For Dead On A Monster Planet!

Charlie Jane Anders — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:08:33 PDT

Vin Diesel just posted this long-awaited concept art from the new Riddick movie. It's a frame from a "2-D motion choreography study," and it's called "The Furian... Left For Dead..." (But we all know, you should never count Riddick out!) More »

Riddick 3 Will Be A Return To Pitch Black's Creature Feature

Meredith Woerner — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:00:00 PST

Now that Riddick 3 is being made at Universal, there's one important question to ask. Will the third film be a continuation of the Necromonger-focused Chronicles story line, or a return to the Pitch Black-style action? Rumors say the latter. More »

Location Scouting For The Next Riddick Has Begun

Meredith Woerner — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:24:46 PST

The newest news about the greatest Furyan boosts our hope that the next Chronicles Of Riddick project will be made. The team is scouting new Riddick locations in New Zealand. More »

The Next Riddick Movie Aims For R-Rated Gold

Meredith Woerner — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:00:00 PDT

Riddick director David Twohy gave the world an update on the eagerly anticipated third Riddick movie. The good news is, both Twohy and Vin aren't settling for any PG-13 nonsense, and the new film will be closer to Pitch Black. More »

Vin Diesel's Biggest Supporter Pulls Out Of xXx 3. Poor Xander.

Meredith Woerner — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:00:00 PDT

Rob Cohen, director of Vin Diesel classics xXx and Fast And The Furious, is leaving the xXx threequel he's been championing for some time now. This is not a good sign for xXx 3 : The return of Xander Cage. More »

5 Bad Guys To Help Vin Diesel Get Faster And More Furious

Graeme McMillan — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:30:00 PDT

Now that Fast and Furious has has a record-breaking opening weekend, perhaps studios should take star Vin Diesel's desire to play a supervillain more seriously. Here're some roles executives should be offering him. More »

Riddick 3 Details Reveal What's Next For Our Furyan

Meredith Woerner — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:30:00 PDT

Last we saw of the silver-eyed Riddick he was ruling the Necromonger clan, because you keep what you kill. But in his next movie, where will we find our beloved anti-hero? Spoilers below. More »

Riddick Coming Back To The Big Screen

Meredith Woerner — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:30:46 PDT

Soon enough, both Vin Diesel and Twohy wil be explaining to you exactly what a Necromonger is. Your favorite silver-eyed psychopath, Riddick, is coming back. More »

4 Minutes Of New Riddick Video Game Footage

Meredith Woerner — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:00:00 PST

That's My Furyan! Riddick is back in his latest video game The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena. View the opening scene, and find out where our anti-hero has been all these years. More »

Riddick Is Your Zen Buddhist Philosopher Of Space Murder

Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:30:00 PST

As soon as I got done labeling Chronicles Of Riddick a dead franchise, this awesome trailer for the new Riddick video game, Assault On Dark Athena, popped up. It has everything: sleep pods, moody narration, spaceships, a mixture of range and melee combat, first-person shooterhood, and multiplayer modes. Plus it comes bundled with the acclaimed Riddick game Escape From Butcher Bay. It's out next June. [VE3D] More »

Vin Diesel To Make Another xXx Movie

Meredith Woerner — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:30:00 PDT

Does Vin Diesel play different characters, I mean really?. Collider says Vin Diesel is going to make another xXx movie, I say be it Xander Cage, Riddick or Dominic Toretto the man is still playing Vin Diesel. Eventually his movies will all just be retitled to "The Diesels" chapters 1 through 55. It's like Tom Cruise acting, but either way I always enjoy a good Dieseling so bring it on (I'm partial to the Riddick look which has goggles). Word on the street is the xXx team is meeting with writers, a producer attached is attached and they're hoping to screen the second xXx movie by the summer of 2010. [Collider] More »

More xXx Explosions For You Vin Diesel Lovers

Meredith Woerner — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:29:29 PDT

There's going to be plenty more smash 'em up action coming your way from Vin Diesel. Everyone's favorite overly tribal tattooed action hero Xander Cage is back in yet another xXx film. All I can say is THANK GOD. I was getting sick and tired of these namby pamby Will Smith heroes. I want my action in your face, Diesel style. Sony is in talks to bring back xXx with original director Rob Cohen the title, xXx: The Return of Xander Cage. [Variety] More »

Vin Diesel's Underground Website Still Rocks Our World

Annalee Newitz — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:10:56 PDT

Even the wreck of Babylon A.D. hasn't dampened our enthusiasm for Vin Diesel, whose performance in near-future 2002 spy flick xXx still just plain rules. He plays Xander, a guy whose politically-subversive Jackass-style stunts have made him a hit on "underground websites." This scene, from early in the film, shows Diesel in full action-geek mode, talking to his webcams about why he's about to total this car he stole because it belongs to a politician who is trying to ban videogames. I love the party he throws after his successful stunt, where some chick tries to get him to "sell out" to the videogame industry, and another one exclaims, "I have an underground website to run!" xXx is a seriously fun and awesome flick, with the NSA kidnapping web subversive Diesel to get some kind of USB device from the bad guys. [xXx via IMDB] More »

Vin Diesel Wants To Be A Supervillain Too

Meredith Woerner — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:00:00 PDT

Vin Diesel is done playing the unlikely hero. Now he wants to be a part of the bad guy squad at Marvel. In an interview with MTV, Diesel explained, "I'm waiting to do a film where the protagonist is the villain." Who do you think it is? Diesel drops more clues in the interview. More »

Riddick's Low-Gravity Death-Orgy... In A Ball Of Foam

Charlie Jane Anders — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:05:00 PDT

We feel bad that our jokey headline the other day annoyed the fans of Vin Diesel and the Chronicles of Riddick, because we totally love Riddick and Vin too. So we decided to break out our DVDs of the animated Riddick spin-off, Dark Fury. It bridges the gap between Pitch Black and Chronicles, Animatrix-style. And it includes this fantastic sequence where Riddick lunges out of a giant ball of foam, in low gravity, and kills a small army of mercenaries. Then he meets his hugest fan in the universe, a cyber-crazy lady who collects psychopaths. More »

Director Of Babylon AD Calls Movie "Terrible Experience"

Meredith Woerner — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:30:00 PDT

French director Mathieu Kassovitz, who cradled and loved his Babylon AD project for 5 years, is mad as hell at Fox. Citing terrible management, budget shenanigans, bad producers and partners, Kassovitz says making the futuristic tale starring Vin Diesel was a hideous ordeal. What went so wrong with Babylon AD that its own director and star call it "terrible"? More »

Vin Diesel Versus A Rocket With His Name On It

Charlie Jane Anders — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:20:00 PDT

How smart is Vin Diesel in Babylon A.D., the dystopian thriller about genetic engineering and religion and the evils of science? He might just be smart enough to outthink a smart missile. This clip which IGN posted is most notable for reminding everyone that Michelle Yeoh is actually in this movie along with Vin. Babylon A.D., about Diesel's mercenary character teaming up with Yeoh's killer nun to transport a special girl (Melanie Thierry) across a post-apocalyptic wasteland, opens on Friday. [IGN] More »

Vin Diesel Beats Up Everyone In Science Fiction

Meredith Woerner — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:06:00 PDT

If there was ever any doubt as to who would win in a duel between all three Hulks and Vin Diesel , I think this cartoon pretty much clears them up. Vinny is a scifi darling, and this new Babylon AD cartoon, "I'm Vin Diesel, Don't F&%# With Me" pits his futuristic reluctant hero Toorop against every character in the scifi world, plus those broads from Sex and the City. More »

Michelle Yeoh Is A Kickboxing Nanny In Babylon AD

Meredith Woerner — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:20:00 PDT

New Babylon AD clips from French Premiere Magazine show the inner workings of Vin Diesel's soul. Diesel plays a mercenary named Toorop who prays, punches and lectures the hot young psychic girl who's chased by a doomsday cult. Toorop has to transport the girl across a post-apocalyptic landscape, with the help of super-boxing nanny Michelle Yeoh. The spoilery new clips show how refugees of the future get from place to place, and showcase the new jumpy fighting style that Vin has been reduced to. Babylon AD comes out August 28. More »

Vin Diesel Shows His Softer Side With His Reluctance To Kill An Annoying Blonde

Meredith Woerner — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:40:00 PDT

Thoorop (Vin Diesel) shares some face time with Aurora (Mélanie Thierry) in the new American Babylon A.D. trailer. Will the budding romance interfere with their cross country dash, escaping from motorcycle assassins and people who wear their sunglasses at night? Click through for more big time spoiler questions and answers from the new trailer. More »

Finally, A Dystopia Grim Enough For Vin Diesel

Charlie Jane Anders — Thu, 01 May 2008 12:00:00 PDT

Here's the first teaser trailer for August's Babylon A.D., the troubled Vin Diesel future dystopia movie based on a French graphic novel. It looks as pretty as you'd expect from director Matthieu Kassovitz (Gothika), and the scenes of Russia and China sliding into chaos look alarmingly lifelike. Plus, Vin Diesel is still mostly bald and charmingly thuggish, and we finally get to see Michelle Yeoh. I'm still cautiously optimistic. Click through for a gallery of new stills. More »

Help Build Ozymandias' Empire, In Watchmen

Charlie Jane Anders — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:30:00 PDT

You can help to flesh out the dark alternate 1985 in next year's Watchmen movie, by becoming the ad agency for psychotic ex-superhero Adrian Veidt, aka Ozymandias. Director Zack Snyder says he realized there were a lot of TV screens in the background during the film, which needed to be filled with images. So he's launching a contest for you to create your own ads for Veidt Enterprises' products, including perfumes, shoes and air travel. (He provides logos and animated product images, plus a couple of sample ads like the one above.) But Watchmen isn't the first dark scifi movie to have a contest for user-generated video. More »

160-Minute European Cut of Babylon A.D. "Never Existed" Say Filmmakers

Annalee Newitz — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:30:00 PDT

Much hue and cry has been raised over the rumor that Vin Diesel future-world flick Babylon A.D. would have a 160-minute European version, but only a 90-minute U.S. version. Now the producers have taken the time to quash this rumor in the most believable way possible, by posting on MySpace. Here's what they said: "Babylon AD has never had a 2h40min cut. This rumor came from a joke Mathieu [Kassovitz] did in front of some journalists last September. Apparently some of them didn't understand it. ... The approximate length of the film is 1h40min, and this is what has been delivered to our partner, FOX. So I can reassure you, FOX is not chopping up the film and cutting 70 [minutes], like I read on Rotten Tomatoes! :-)" Yup, sounds true. Especially with that smiley icon at the end. [SciFi Wire] More »

They Tore Down Babylon!

Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:10:00 PDT

We reported a while back that U.S. audiences will see a drastically shorter cut of Babylon A.D. than Europeans this August — but apparently it's worse than we'd feared. The dystopian action movie, directed by Matthieu Kassovitz (Gothika) and starring Vin Diesel, will run roughly 160 minutes in most of Europe. But the U.S. and British cut will only be a quick-and-dirty 90 minutes, or slightly more than half as long. What's worse, the 90-minute version just got the British equivalent of a PG-13 rating in England, which means all of Kassovitz's trademark violence is gone. More »

All The Nastiest Parts Of Pitch Black

charliejane — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:20:23 PST

Pitch Black, starring Vin Diesel, is a slow boil that gets awesome at the end. For the first hour and a half, our heroes are trapped on a mysterious planet that has like 5,000 suns, and then all the suns are eclipsed and it's permanent night. It takes a while to get to scenes like this one, where the foppish antique dealer ignites his own booze breath and discovers he's surrounded by spiky bat creatures. Then we watch the creatures dismember him and fight over his corpse, thanks to Diesel's altered night vision. Two more bizarre Pitch clips, after the jump. More »

15 Movies To Watch (Or Avoid) This Year

charliejane — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:00:34 PST

Some movies radiate their awesomeness backwards in time as well as forwards. You practically have memories of enjoying films that haven't come out yet, the anticipation is so great. Other movies are so horrible, the pain travels back in time and becomes your childhood trauma. Here are the 2008 movies that are already thrilling and horrifying us: More »

You Could Play Megaman's Robot Girlfriend

charliejane — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:00:07 PST

Casting notices just went up for a fan-made movie about Megaman, the Japanese videogame character. Director Eddie Lebron (who's already made a Ghostbusters fan-movie) is willing to pay non-union actors to star in his Megaman epic. The storyline sounds pretty close to established lore: Dr. Light develops super-robots (including two friendly robots named Rock and Roll) but his colleague Dr. Wily steals some robots and tries to take over the world. So Rock volunteers to receive a "battle upgrade" and becomes Megaman. Fans seem desperate for a Hollywood Megaman movie, judging from the fan films already online and the fake Vin Diesel poster above. [Free Casting Call] More »

Ultimate Spoilers For Hulk, Jumper and Babylon

charliejane — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 06:00:07 PST

Since today is Boxing Day, it makes all kinds of sense to give some deep-down dirt on upcoming action movies. Click through for forbidden knowledge on Jumper, Incredible Hulk and Babylon A.D. More »