Opening later this month is director Justin Lin’s Fast & Furious 6.  The adrenaline-fueled high-octane action franchise continues in this installment that sees Dom Toretto’s crew teamed up with Agent Hobbs in order to bring down an international criminal with military training.  We’ve got over 40 hi-res images from the film to share with you after the jump!

Starring Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Jordana Brewster, Michelle Rodriguez, Ludacris, Tyrese Gibson, Joe Taslim, Sung Kang, Gina Carano and Luke Evans, Fast & Furious 6 opens May 24th.  Hit the jump to check out the images.

Tonight’s the night for high-adrenaline TV spots.  We just posted a new glimpse at footage from Iron Man 3 and now a new action-packed teaser for Justin Lin’s Fast & Furious 6 is now available.  There are so many military vehicles and a jacked up Dwayne Johnson that I thought this was G.I. Joe: Retaliation for a second, but the presence of Vin Diesel (and a massive tank) set me back on course.

Also starring Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Sung Kang, Gal Gadot, Chris Bridges, Elsa Pataky, Michelle Rodriguez and Gina Carano,  Fast & Furious 6 opens May 24th.  Hit the jump to watch the new TV spot.

Fast and Furious 6 is currently filming in Tenerife, Spain, and photos and video have leaked from the set .  There’s nothing too revelatory about these images other than a tank will be involved at some point.  Tanks are not known for being fast, so clearly, the title no longer makes sense.  This does not bode well for the tight, cohesive plots we’ve come to expect from the films.  As for the video, it shows a behemoth of a vehicle that I don’t even know how to begin to describe.  It would almost look futuristic if it weren’t in drab, military green.

Hit the jump to check out the photos and images.  The film stars Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Michelle Rodriguez, Joe Taslim, and Luke Evans.  Fast and Furious 6 opens May 24, 2013.

[Update: We've updated the article with a few more videos from the set.]

It looks like Universal Pictures is planning to firm up its film slate by focusing on franchises and animation over the next few years.  One of the most successful franchises to date started with The Fast and the Furious, which continues to hold strong (Fast Six is due May 24th, 2013).  Universal also plans on going ahead with sequels to this summer’s The Bourne Legacy, which starred Jeremy Renner and Rachel Weisz, as well as a follow-up to Seth MacFarlane’s Ted, with Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis. They’re also getting ambitious on the animated front by expecting to crank out two films a year, versus their current rate of two every three years.  Hit the jump for more.

In this unprecedented era of social media, we’re privy to behind-the-scenes looks of in-production movies like Fast Six thanks to fan-favorites like Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson.  The two stars are known for always dishing a little extra media out to fans, whether they’re in costume, posing next to their hot rods or even inadvertently destroying movie sets, like this batch of images shows.

Director Justin Lin’s Fast Six, also starring Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Michelle Rodriguez, Joe Taslim, and Luke Evans,  is slated to open May 24, 2013.  Hit the jump to check out the new images.

Less than a week ago, we posted this photo of Dwayne Johnson and Gina Cararno posing like the badasses they are on the set of Fast and Furious 6.  Not to be outdone, stars Vin Diesel and Paul Walker posed for another image, along with director Justin Lin.  All we really know so far is that production has started and the plot of the film appears to center around dueling heist teams.

The movie also stars Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Michelle Rodriguez, Joe Taslim, and Luke Evans.  The film is slated to open May 24, 2013.  Hit the jump to check out the new image.

Universal Pictures has announced a 25-film Blu-ray collection to commemorate the studio’s 100th anniversary, and it’s a genuinely great box set.  The “Universal 100th Anniversary Collection” includes 25 of the studio’s finest films, a 15-track music CD chock full of iconic film scores, a “100 Years of Universal” 72-page collector’s book and more.  Though the inclusion of HD versions of films like Dracula, Jurassic Park, The Sting, Back to the Future, Jaws, Do the Right Thing, and To Kill a Mockingbird alone would have been worth the purchase, the box set includes a number of vintage cartoons and shorts as well as a collection of featurettes covering the studio’s entire history.

The 25-disc Blu-ray set and 26-disc DVD collection (Schindler’s List is included in the DVD set only) will be available for a limited time starting November 6th.  A price has yet to be announced, but I don’t expect it’ll be cheap.  Hit the jump to read the full rundown of films and special features.

Dwayne Johnson loves tweeting information to his fans, like set photos from his movies or hinting that Osama Bin Laden is dead.  Today, he has tweeted the first image from his upcoming film, Fast Six.  The image doesn’t show anything major.  It’s just Johnson and co-star Gina Carano (Haywire) standing around and being bad-asses.  If you wanted to see a blend of friendliness and the ability to beat the life out of you, this is the picture for you.

Hit the jump to check out the full image.  The movie also stars Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Michelle Rodriguez, Joe Taslim, and Luke Evans.  Not much is known about the film other than it involves dueling heist teams.  Fast Six opens May 24, 2013.

Peter Segal (Get Smart) is reportedly in talks to direct Vin Diesel (The Fast and the Furious) in the action film, The Machine for MGM.  At the moment, Segal is currently attached to Warner Bros. pictures Grudge Match and the adaptation of the manga, Bleach, so this more than likely won’t be his next feature.  Segal is producing Bleach and may end up directing the picture, while he is attached to direct the Grudge Match, about a boxing rematch between aging fighters. Diesel, meanwhile, is currently in post-production on The Untitled Chronicles of Riddick Sequel, which we can expect to see sometime early next year.  Hit the jump for more information on his involvement in The Machine, as well as the picture’s plot synopsis.

After Jason Statham turned down a role in The Fast and the Furious 6, could the opportunity have fallen to fellow Brit, Luke Evans?  Recent reports suggest that Evans, who is currently filming for Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit movies, has been tapped as the villain in the sixth installment of The Fast and the Furious franchise.  The role in Justin Lin’s follow up to the wildly successful Fast Five was previously turned down by Statham when he was surprisingly unable to reach a deal with Universal.  It’s also possible that Rihanna is still circling a villainous role in some capacity, though nothing has been clarified on that front.  It has been confirmed, however, that Michelle Rodriguez will be returning for the sixth run.  Hit the jump to sort out what else we know.

Following the (surprising) critical and (not so surprising) commercial success of Fast Five, director Justin Lin has been mentioned among many director shortlists for some of Hollywood’s biggest projects, and recently found himself attached to the next film in the Terminator franchise. While one might surmise that Lin would strike while the iron’s hot and move on to another high profile franchise, looks as though the director’s follow-up to Fast Five will actually be the sixth installment in the Fast & Furious franchise (which just recently got a release date of May 2013).

Terminator fans need not fret though, as Lin is still working on Arnold Schwarzenegger-starred film. In fact, the director just recently met with  Schwarzenegger and James Cameron to talk a bit about the franchise. Hit the jump for more details, including why Lin turned down the directing job of Die Hard 5.

The Fast and the Furious series is one of the major gaps in my male cinematic knowledge.  I am too effeminate, too pretentious.  However, I have much respect for the continued success of the franchise after the 2009 surge to a series-best $353 million worldwide box office with Fast & Furious.  Fast Five opens this Friday, and the smart money is on “Major Hit.”  The producers wisely tapped into the core appeal of the films and secured virtually every major player in the series — including Vin Diesel, Paul Walker,  Jordana Brewster, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Tyrese Gibson, Sung Kang — and upped the ante by casting potential action god Dwayne Johnson.

Pretend you’re a studio executive for a second.  At this point, you wouldn’t reinvent the market’s premier car movie brand to cater to someone like this silly writer, right?  And yet, Universal chairman Adam Fogelson is discussing just such a shift.

Chris Morgan — screenwriter on Tokyo Drift, Fast & Furious, and Fast Five — was previously hired to start work on a sixth film.  Deadline reports the sequel is set up to revolve around a robbery: “Universal’s intent is to transform this street racing franchise into a series of heist films.”  More after the jump.

Vin Diesel and director Rob Cohen will return to the xXx franchise and shoot the third installment with 3D cameras.  Diesel and Cohen launched what was supposed to be a star vehicle franchise for the actor in 2002, but Diesel dropped out for the sequel and Cohen only served as executive producer  Deadline reports that Columbia Pictures is in talks with Paramount to take over the franchise, finance production and distribute the film in late 2011 or early 2012.  Here’s the “plot”:

Xander Cage (Diesel) is left for dead, but returns to execute a very difficult assignment that only he can pull off.

No word if that mission requires out-running an avalanche on a snowboard or awkwardly making out with Asia Argento.  The film will be set mostly in Europe and Samuel L. Jackson will return as Cage’s handler, Agent Augustus Gibbons.  Diesel plans to begin shooting on the new xXx after he wraps on Fast Five, the 5th installment in the Fast and Furious franchise.  Meanwhile, Cohen is shooting Coke’s first 3D commercial, which is great because what stopped me from buying Coca-Cola  was that their ads were only in 2D.

For those who need a brief refresher on the character, hit the jump.

The world offered by the Fast and the Furious movies is so rich and layered that it demands sequels to allow audiences to further explore the complexities of testosterone-laden relationships and expensive, tricked-out cars they’ll never own.  Oh, and the latest entry, Fast & Furious, was Universal’s highest grossing film of last year, so that may also be why they’re making a sequel. Variety reports that lead actors Vin Diesel and Paul Walker will re-team for the fifth installment in the series, entitled Fast Five.  I have no idea if that has an alternate meaning or if they decided they just couldn’t get away with a title like F & F.

Chris Morgan and Justin Lin will return to write and direct, respectively.  This time around, Dom (Diesel) and Brian (Walker) are fugitives being pursued by “legendary lawmen.”  So does that mean the ghost of Elliot Ness is going to team up with Lefors from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and they’ll ride modified Nissan Altimas to hunt down the fugitive duo?  Or will it be attractive people in fast cars chasing other attractive people in fast cars?  I’m gonna choose to think positive and say it’s the former.

Filming is scheduled to begin later this year for a 2011 release.