Tag: Vin Diesel

Spider-Man Homecoming, Fast 8, The Leisure Seeker with Helen Mirren, and CBS's MacGuyver reboot are just a few of the movies and TV shows filming in Atlanta right now. Plus, what's going on with the final Divergent movie?

Spider-Man: Homecoming was spotted filming at Grady High School, Fast 8 took Vin Diesel to the burbs, and Georgia reaches a new level of filming dominance.

The latest Fast and the Furious film and Donald Glover’s Atlanta series are just a few of the movies and TV shows filming in town. Plus, did a car crash reveal a Walking Dead spoiler?

Along with yellow pollen piled along Atlanta's sidewalks, spring has ushered in new thickets of yellow production signs along our roads. This busy month has brought us burned out buses, Texas taxicabs, Chicago newspapers, and scenery from the 1930s and 1980s. Productions are shooting in Midtown, downtown, and a lot of OTP locales.

When a trailer for filmed-in-Atlanta “Furious 7” premiered during February’s Super Bowl, one particular stunt stood out: Vin Diesel driving a rare Lykan HyperSport through a skyscraper window as explosions blasted behind him. But diving through sky-high windows is just the tip of the iceberg. We found the craziest scene in each film and ranked them.

Atlanta traffic may be an impediment to high-speed auto theatrics, but you can still “mod out” your wheels Vin Diesel-style. We talked to Eugene Chou—managing partner at Koruworks, a Marietta shop that sells and installs parts to modify performance vehicles—about what it would take to create a street race–worthy ride.

Arriving at Tuesday’s advance screening of Guardians of the Galaxy, the latest superhero summer popcorn movie from Marvel Studios, two-time Oscar nominee Djimon Hounsou didn’t duck out for dinner with studio reps once the lights went down. Instead, Hounsou donned his 3D glasses, and settled into a seat with a large bottle of water and a bag of popcorn to watch the two-hour intergalactic comic book come to life. Hounsou is part of an ensemble cast that includes Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, The Walking Dead’s Michael Rooker, Lee Pace, John C. Reilly, and Glenn Close. Bradley Cooper and Vin Diesel lend their voices to the flick, portraying mutant, mouthy raccoon Rocket, and Groot, a walking, talking tree with a severely limited vocabulary.