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September of 2009

 

Rate Scheduled work crew

Original at Newsday external link    Mon, Sep 14

Four more days until the movie hits theaters and Fast and Furious Week continues here at Pet Rock with this clip from The Tonight Show between Vin Diesel ... and more »

Rate AB Flying in and out for Bigg Boss 3!

Original at Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Technology Blog external link    Mon, Sep 7

May 3rd, 2009 Vin Diesel and Paul Walker starrer Fast and Furious 4 premiere was held at Fame BIG cinemas at Andheri, Mumbai on Thursday April 2nd late ... and more »

Rate Television movies for the week of Sept. 6

Original at Pittsburgh Post Gazette external link    Sat, Sep 5

12:20 PM (CC) • The Chronicles of Riddick '04. Vin Diesel. On the run from mercenaries, a fugitive lands on a planet endangered by an invading ruler and his ...

Rate Boiler Room (2000) (Blu-Ray) [Blu-ray]

Original at Calcutta Tube external link    Sat, Sep 5

Trained by the company's top young turks, Chris (Vin Diesel) and Greg (Nicky Katt), Seth takes quickly to his new job's instant riches and fast-life ... and more »

August of 2009

 

Rate Hollywood Notes: Hancock 2, Wolverine, Deadpool, Magneto

Original at So Hood external link    Thu, Aug 27

Now that he's successfully rebooted the 'Fast and Furious' series, Vin Diesel is primed to reinvigorate another one of his old franchises. ... and more »

Rate Daily guide to television and radio

Original at Boston Globe external link    Wed, Aug 19

NR (2003) The Pacifier 8 pm (USA) Infantile comedy about a Navy SEAL (Vin Diesel) protecting a family. PG (2005) Penitentiary II 8 pm (FLIX) Sequel about a ...

Rate A PERFECT GETAWAY

Original at Tahoe World external link    Fri, Aug 14

Twohy is best known for 2000's “Pitch Black,” a science-fiction/horror that became a minor blockbuster starring Vin Diesel as an escaped convict Riddick. ... and more »

Rate Another Riddick Movie a Matter of Rating

Original at ReelzChannel.com external link    Thu, Aug 13

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Despite the critical drubbing of Chronicles of Riddick, neither star Vin Diesel nor writer/director David Twohy have given up on making another Riddick ... A Perfect Getaway: A Masterful ThrillerFree Times Vin Diesel on "Riddick" SequelsWorstPreviews.com

Rate Twohy Refuses PG-13 For Riddick 3

Original at Cinema Blend external link    Sun, Aug 2

Vin Diesel franchise's future remains hazy and inconsistent.

Rate Babylon AD FeaturetteVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at espanol.video.yahoo.com external link    Fri, Jul 31

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Hard-hitting action superstar Vin Diesel (The Fast and the Furious, The Chronicles of Riddick), stars as Toorop, a ... espanol.video.yahoo.com

Year 2009

 

Rate Opinion: Vin Diesel Doing It Backwards With 'Wheelman'

Original at Actress Archives external link    Sun, May 10

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One of the best examples of this was no-doubt Diesel's "The Chronicles of Riddick," the 2004 sci-fi box office hit which went on to become of the most popular game titles of the year. Announced this weekend, however, Vin has plans to do things a little ... Diesel the WHEELMAN Mania

Rate Fast and Furious Movie Review

Original at MoviesOnline external link    Wed, May 6

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 Canada It's been a big year for Vin Diesel. What with two games with his face plastered all over them, already released this year it seems you can't even take a walk down to your local newsagents without having Vin Diesel blasted out of every direction ...

Rate Review: 'Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena' gives you ...

Original at Inside Bay Area external link    Thu, Apr 30

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Gamers are looking for the biggest bang for their buck, and thankfully Atari's "Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena" offers this in spades. Starbreeze Studios managed to fit both of its Vin Diesel-inspired titles on one disc. ...

Rate The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena for Xbox 360

Original at Geek.com external link    Tue, Apr 28

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Starbreeze, if you're listening, you're better than Vin Diesel. Keep it smart next time. (Note: The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena was played on Xbox 360 for this review. The game is also available for the PlayStation 3 and Windows PCs. ...

Rate Opinion: ‘Riddick' game full of bugs, bad dialogue

Original at ASU Web Devil external link    Fri, Apr 24

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If “The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena” leaves any impression on the player, it'sa newfound respect for Vin Diesel. But not much else. “Dark Athena” is an adventure that starts where “Escape from Butcher Bay” left off. ...

Rate Opinion: Wheelman: Equal parts absurd and exciting - Fox 13 Now

Original at fox13now.com external link    Wed, Apr 22

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It's only fitting that Vin Diesel plays a videogame character in an actual videogame this time around. (He also stars in next month's "The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena.") Burik/Diesel occupies the cliched stranger-in-a-strange-town ...

Rate The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena review

Original at Telegraph.co.uk external link    Tue, Apr 21

Vin Diesel returns as Riddick in game that's both a re-packaged classic and an all-new adventure. By Tom Hoggins When convicted murderer Richard B. Riddick stands as a beacon of moral righteousness, it suggests that all is not well with the galaxy. ...

Rate Vin Diesel-powered excitement: Wheelman video game review

Original at Creative Loafing Tampa external link    Thu, Apr 16

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 FL On balance, I'd recommend Wheelman as a good time, certainly more of a good time than Fast and Furious. But we didn't even talk about the third Vin Diesel game that game out this month, Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena. ... The Wheelman Review: A Nightmare in Barcelona Game Guru

Rate Vin Diesel Xbox 360, PS3 titles price cut at retailer

Original at Punch Jump external link    Thu, Apr 16

Vin Diesel beefs up new 'Riddick' video game adventures The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com Video Game Review: Fast, Furious ‘Wheelman’ With Vin Diesel is ... HollywoodChicago.com The Chronicles Of Riddick: Assault On Dark Athena Launch Trailer (HD) ComputerGames.ro

Rate The Wheelman Review: A Nightmare in Barcelona

Original at Game Guru external link    Thu, Apr 16

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 India Tigon and Midway games come to the rescue of this vortex by releasing The Wheelman on the PS3, PC and Xbox 360, which not only marks the return of the pixilated Vin Diesel last seen in Chronicles of Riddick, but also manages to cerate the most ...

Rate Opinion: Vin Diesel beefs up new 'Riddick' video game adventures - The Times-Picayune

Original at The Times-Picayune external link    Tue, Apr 14

And Diesel knows how to variously elongate or staccato his phrasings to achieve a heroic yet menacing effect in The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, one of the best games of 2009, so far. Diesel plays his movie character, Riddick. ...

Rate Wheelman (PC) Review

Original at Jonny Guru external link    Mon, Apr 13

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It seems to be a prime time for Vin Diesel with several computer games including Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena released recently. Today we are taking a look at Wheelman, a game much closer to what you would expect from the musclebound ...

Rate Opinion: GAME DORK: Vin Diesel beefs up new 'Riddick' adventures

Original at Beaumont Enterprise external link    Thu, Apr 9

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And Diesel knows how to variously elongate or staccato his phrasings to achieve a heroic yet menacing effect in "The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena," one of the best games of 2009, so far. Diesel plays his movie character, Riddick. ...

Rate Review: The Fast and the Furious Version 2.5

Original at Chattanooga Pulse external link    Wed, Apr 8

  USA Apparently the movie actually required the acting gravitas of Michelle Rodriguez to prop up Vin Diesel who morphs into The Dark Knight’s raspy grumbly Christian Bale without her. After her unexpected and pointless death, Diesel is supplied with the ...

Rate The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena - Review

Original at Planet Xbox 360 external link    Tue, Apr 7

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Well, it has to be the revival of The Chronicles of Riddick franchise. Does the next installment in this thrilling saga have what it takes to bring fans back? The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena is one of the best packages to release on ...

Rate Opinion: Shut up and drive

Original at Channel News Asia external link    Tue, Apr 7

 Singapore Vin Diesel, that is. Put the master of B-list but hugely popular, thoroughly profitable franchises (think XXX and The Chronicles of Riddick) back in the driving seat and continue the saga that your in-built fanbase has been waiting for years to see ...

Rate Vin Diesel stars in Wheelman, Riddick sequel

Original at San Francisco Chronicle external link    Mon, Apr 6

  USA The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena: First-person shooter. (Developers: Starbreeze Studios, Tigon Studios. Publisher: Atari. $49.99-59.99 for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. ESRB Rating: Mature.) No, Wheelman isn't the tie-in to "Fast & Furious," ...

Rate Blu-Ray Review: Vin Diesel’s Riddick Flicks Hit HD in Time For New ...

Original at HollywoodChicago.com external link    Mon, Apr 6    7 related articles

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The official synopsis of “The Chronicles of Riddick” from the Blu-Ray case - “Vin Diesel stars in this electrifying, special-effects-fueled action spectacular! After years of outrunning ruthless bounty hunters, escaped convict Riddick suddenly finds ...

Rate 2008

Original at Los Angeles Times external link    Thu, Apr 2

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 CA Stalled Vin Diesel: Diesel got to do what he sometimes does best -- save the world -- in "Babylon AD" Worldwide, the film made a decent-but-not-great $71 million. Stalled Michelle Rodriguez: Rodriguez had a small part in "Gardens of the Night," ... 2005 Los Angeles Times

Rate Opinion: Jamie Trueblood/Universal Pictures

Original at New York Times external link    Fri, Mar 27

 NY Vin Diesel in “Babylon AD” (2008). “Fast & Furious,” his starring return to a franchise that gave him fame, opens Friday. “You sure you still want to do this?” asks Mr. Diesel’s character, an outlaw named Dominic Toretto. “A lot has changed,” replies ...

Rate Vin Diesel and Tigon Talk Gaming and the Return of Riddick!

Original at FEARnet.com external link    Mon, Mar 23

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Vin Diesel on "Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena ... Toon Zone The Chronicles of Riddick on Blu-ray Disc : Review By Rachel Cericola Bigpicturebigsound.com Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena' (ALL) - New ... WorthPlaying.com

Rate The Chronicles of Riddick - Blu-ray Disc Review

Original at HighDefDiscNews.com external link    Sat, Mar 14

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“The Chronicles of Riddick” takes place about five years after the events of “Pitch Black“. Richard B. Riddick (Vin Diesel) continues to fight for his life on Crematoria (what a name), a planet whose sun is so blazingly hot that every 15 minutes it ...

Rate MOVIE REVIEW: Race to Witch Mountain, Good clean fun. Michelle’s Take.

Original at Eclipse Magazine external link    Fri, Mar 13

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E! Online  CA A move many muscle bound stars like Stalone, Vin Diesel and Arnold have tried and failed at in the past. Diesel destroyed his career by doing The Pacifier – a movie I kind of liked, but then I’ma sucker for the Disney family movie. ...

Rate Universal's Fast and Furious Super Bowl TV SpotVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at First Showing external link    Sat, Jan 31

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By Alex Billington Fast & Furious is directed by up-and-coming Taiwanese filmmaker Justin Lin, of Better Luck Tomorrow, Annapolis, and of course, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. The screenplay was written by Chris Morgan, of Cellular, Tokyo Drift, and Wanted. Fast and Furious races into theate...

Rate The cast of The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena

Original at Xbox 360 external link    Fri, Jan 23

By Glenn M. Dacher - Lance Henriksen Hendricksen is a versatile character actor with a filmography with the size and quality of any Hollywood superstar. Some of his best performances were in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Terminator, and Alien vs. Predator.

Rate Two Words to Get Excited About

Original at KyleSmithOnline.com external link    Wed, Jan 7

By kyle I’m not so sure about “Fast and Furious” (April 3), which brings back Paul Walker, Vin Diesel and Jordana Brewster in what sounds like the most premature remake ever (made possible by the fact that all of the leads’ careers have stalled after they expected to be doing much better things by n...

Rate Opinion: Babylon AD

Original at DVD Talk external link    Tue, Jan 6

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Monsters and Critics.com  OR - Maybe Vin Diesel has worn out his seemingly short shelf life as an action hero lead. It could be that director Mathieu Kassovitz was out of his league when ... DVDs: 'Babylon AD' Seattle Post Intelligencer

Rate The Chronicles of Riddick

Original at Movielink external link    Tue, Dec 9

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Vin Diesel reprises his star-making "Pitch Black" role of enigmatic anti-hero Richard B. Riddick in the new science fiction action-adventure epic, "The Chronicles of Riddick." Riddick has spent the last five years on the move among the forgotten worlds on the outskirts of the galaxy, el...

Rate The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena Impressions

Original at 1up.com external link    Wed, Dec 3

By Thierry Nguyen Seeing that phrase emblazoned in large letters in, well, the courtyard of a space prison officially changed my thinking from "This Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay game seems pretty cool" to "Oh, damn, this Riddick game's so awesome."

Rate Wheelman Spins Out In February [Release Date]

Original at Kotaku external link    Wed, Nov 19

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By Mike Fahey “We’re designing Wheelman to play like a Hollywood blockbuster,” said Vin Diesel, Wheelman star and executive producer, Tigon Studios. “Playing this game will be just like taking control of the greatest car chases from feature films, except this time you’re in the driver’s seat.”

Rate DVD Review: The Stone Angel

Original at peopletellmeilooklikehansolo (Blogspot) external link    Fri, Oct 24

By Justin his for years in the small roles he’s had in larger movies (he’s great as the shady bounty hunter butting heads with Vin Diesel in the sci-fi/horror flick Pitch Black, the first – and best – entry in Diesel’s aborted Riddick saga, ...

Rate Babylon A.D.

Original at MovieJuice external link    Thu, Oct 2

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By Mark Ramsey I'm talkin' about Babylon A.D., a movie that didn't go direct to DVD, frankly, because DVD wouldn't have it. Oh well," said Vin, as the lights came up and the crickets sang their lonely song, "there's always my moving company: '2 guys and Vin Diesel will move you.'"

Rate Vin Diesel Reveals Daughter's Name

Original at Celebrity Baby Blog external link    Tue, Sep 30

By Angela R. Getty Images Vin Diesel is known for being an extremely private person, so when he and his girlfriend -- model Paloma Jimenez -- welcomed a daughter on April 2nd, it was no surprise that the couple didn't release the name of their little girl. The 41-year-old actor has now revealed... Getty Ima...

Rate Babylon AD review

Original at Hollywood News external link    Sat, Sep 6

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In this futuristic tale, Vin Diesel plays Toorop, a tough, burned out loner whose given the daunting task of escorting a woman named Aurora from her closed ... Diesel disappoints in 'Babylon AD' Independent Collegian (subscription)

Rate Babylon A.D. Theatrical Review Review

Original at FlickDirect external link    Mon, Sep 1

I like Vin Diesel--he's got screen presence. He's got charisma. I liked him in Pitch Black and I enjoyed them not overusing him in The Fast and the Furious. In order to see him in a good movie I may need to check out The Pacifier. That's a shame. Bab...

Rate Opinion: Vin Diesel props up Babylon AD

Original at Metro Cafe external link    Fri, Aug 29

The Sun  UK - A sci-fi actioner that sees bald hero Vin Diesel (The Chronicles Of Riddick) back stomping around the future like a small, gun-toting penis. ... Babylon AD: Another Diesel-fuelled flop for Vin ordinaire Daily Mail Review: Babylon AD Sunday Mirror The Sneak: Babylon AD The Sun

Rate DVD Review: Strays

Original at Blogger News Network external link    Tue, Jan 8

By Zach Freeman Vin’s own performance here is a revelation the likes of which he sought to recapture in the unexciting Sidney Lumet courtroom drama Find Me Guilty. Though he’s gone on to capture stardom as a stoic action hero, Vin Diesel’s roots as an ...

Year 2007

 

Rate Podcast for 05-28-07 | Vin Kratos

Original at The Weekly Geek external link    Mon, May 28

By frodo@weeklygeekshow.com Movies and Video Game commentary galore on this week's podcast featuring Chris Furniss, The Geek and White Mage (Colette couldn't make it this week because of head explosions). Listen! As The Geek and White Mage discuss their love of Pirates! Marvel! As Chris yet again alienates the diff...

Rate Sierra Revives Riddick With New Features For Xbox 360/PS3

Original at Cinema Blend external link    Wed, May 23

The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, is the latest in Riddick games where players will once again step into the dangerously charismatic role of Vin Diesel’s alter ego, Riddick. Sierra promises more features, more interactivity, new environments to explore and most impor...

Year 2006

 

Rate Vin Diesel On Chasing Elephants, Running From Rumors, And Dating In Europe

Original at Defamer external link    Wed, Mar 15

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By Mark I was like, How could you say that? Why would you say that? says Diesel, the smooth space between his brown eyes wrinkling up in a neat W. I m not gonna put it out there on a magazine cover like some other actors. I come from the Harrison Ford, Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino code of silence....

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