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0Ron Howard's Rush gears up to relive Lauda/Hunt showdown 1314284280
We know the feeling. You watch a great movie, and then you want more. That's how trilogies are born. Unfortunately, that won't be possible with Asif Kapadia's celebrated documentary Senna, but that doesn't mean we can't have some more racing flicks in the pipeline. One of the most promising is a ...
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Report: Ron Howard signs on to direct Lauda biopic Rush 1309300140
Le Mans. Grand Prix. Senna. Even Days of Thunder. Legendary racing films all, but our list is preparing to grow by one more epic saga played out on the silver screen. That project, as we reported last month, is set to focus on the battle between Niki Lauda and James Hunt in the 1978 Formula 1 ...
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Video: Planes trailer previews Disney tail-spinning off Cars franchise 1308234540
Cars weren't actually the only machines with smiles in Cars. The Disney/Pixar animated feature that's about to spawn its second installment also included trucks, trains, combine harvesters and even helicopters with anthropomorphic faces. But now Disney is planning on taking things one step ...
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Report: Niki Lauda lines up on the grid for his own biopic 1304548320
With the Senna biopic now streaming to television sets everywhere, reports are coming in that another film is undergoing production that focuses on Niki Lauda. The Austrian driver is a three-time Formula One World Champion and rated as one of the best of all time. His career spanned over the ...
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Report: The Hurt Locker's Jeremy Renner working on Steve McQueen biopic 1304346060
Fresh from his back-to-back Oscar nominations for The Hurt Locker and The Town, actor Jeremy Renner (pictured at right at the Spirit Awards) has got his plate full with an endless stream of new projects. He's just finished filming the fourth Mission: Impossible movie, is currently filming a Hansel ...
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VIDEO: Movie cars are strange - VW Bug-powered R34 Skyline from F&F 1253559600
GTR-bodied buggy from Fast & Furious -- Click above to watch videoAmong the numerous cobbled-together blue GT-Rs used in Fast & Furious for Paul Walker's character, the strangest one in real life could be this one: a tube-framed buggy with a VW engine. So instead of an RB engine up ... -
Lights, camera, throttle: Movie camera cars 1222387260
Click above for a gallery of the cars that make the movies about carsWe dig the cars in car flicks -- but what about the cars that make the flicks about cars? Looking less like Transformers and more like space junk peddled by the sand people, it's hard to imagine what it takes to turn a regular ... -
Cars of Death Race revealed 1212850860
No, these are not more spy shots of the 2010 Ford Mustang -- this is the 2006 Mustang GT that you'll soon see on the silver screen in the movie Death Race. A perusal of the film's automotive gems makes it look like Cars for post-apocalyptic and seriously angry adults. But if it were the 2010 ...
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New Clint Eastwood vehicle titled Gran Torino 1206118980
While he's shown a certain flair for historical pieces, we sincerely doubt that Clint Eastwood would forego his formidable film-crafting talent to make a documentary about a mid 1970's Ford that can be had for a dollar per pound. Details are scant, but Warner Brothers has targeted December 2008 as ...
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Spy Video: BMW Progressive Activity Sedan 1199664240
Back in September, BMW CEO Norbert Reithofer announced an ambitious plan to increase production to 1.8 million vehicles by 2012 and to 2 million units by 2020. To reach those goals, BMW is planning several new niche models, including what it referred to as a "Progressive Activity Sedan". But while ...

