Universal Pictures has confirmed the upcoming sixth installment of ‘The Fast and the Furious’ franchise, tentatively titled ‘Fast and Furious 6,’ will be released over the 2013 Memorial Day weekend, on May 24, ComingSoon is reporting. The news comes after the latest installment, ‘Fast Five,’ grossed nearly $600 million at the box office worldwide when it was released in April 2011. The amount contributes to the franchise’s $1.5 billion international gross. There’s no word yet if director Justin Lin, who helmed the previous three movies in the franchise, ‘The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift,’ ‘Fast and Furious’ and ‘Fast Five,’ will return for the fifth sequel. But he’s previously…

Ian McShane has been cast as the first dwarf in Universal Picture’s upcoming ‘Snow White and the Huntsman,’ according to The Hollywood Reporter. The ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’ actor will appear as Caesar, the leader of the dwarfs. The studio is currently casting the rest of the dwarfs. Kristen Stewart will portray a princess who escapes her evil stepmother, to be played by Charlize Theron, in Universal’s adaptation of the Snow White fairy tale. The princess is aided by a huntsman, to be portrayed by Chris Hesworth, who wants to have her killed at first, but eventually decides to train her instead to survive and fight back….

Universal Pictures has asked Roland Emmerich to direct a movie based on the 1979 Atari video game Asteroids, ComingSoon is reporting. The studio, which has been developing the movie with producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura and screenwriter Matt Lopez, looked to the popular director, as he has helmed such disaster-action hits as ‘Independence Day’ and ’2012.’ The movie will detail Earth’s future after the planet is destroyed by aliens. Humans are now living in an asteroid belt with the aliens responsible for the Earth’s destruction. Emmerich has not yet signed onto the project, as he recently said he’s finished with sci-fi-action destruction films. His next movie, ‘Anonymous,’ which presents the theory…

While the Movie News Cheat Sheet is generally geared towards brightening up your work or school week with the best in movie news, this time around, utilizing the info will be that much more fun as you’ve still got a whole day left of the weekend. When your mouth isn’t full with Memorial Day BBQ fare, you’ll have all the latest in film news to keep the conversation flowing. Of course everyone will be talking about the hottest thing in theaters this weekend, The Hangover Part II, but you can take it one step further by learning the stats in the Box Office section of the piece. And how about…

The box office results for the weekend of May 6th- 8th has the mighty blockbusters taking over. “Thor” was able to hammer all the competition in its theatrical debut. In its second week, “Fast Five” held off the rest of the ensemble products that entered the arena. Here are the studio estimates: 1. Thor ($66 million) 2. Fast Five ($32.5 million) 3. Jumping the Broom ($13.7 million) 4. Something Borrowed ($13.1 million) 5. Rio ($8.2 million) 6. Water for Elephants ($5.6 million) 7. Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family ($3.9 million) 8. Prom ($2.4 million) 9. Soul Surfer ($2.1 million) 10. Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil ($1.8 million) Analysis “Thor”…

Title: Fast Five Director: Justin Lin Starring: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges, Dwayne Johnson Many action sequels today fail to captivate their audiences because the studios care more about capitalizing on their successful predecessors, instead of further developing their characters or creating any new, original stunts. However, the new action film ‘Fast Five’ proves it’s unique in the fact that the cast still cares about, and relate to, their characters and their stories. The series’ returning director, Justin Lin, who helmed the previous two installments, also honored the original ‘The Fast and the Furious’ by truly focusing on how the characters interact with each…

Jeremy Renner has been offered the lead role in director Tony Gilroy’s upcoming ‘The Bourne Legacy’ by Universal Pictures, deadline.com is reporting. The twice-nominated Oscar nominee is believed to have been chosen to play a new character in the spin-off film from Matt Damon’s ‘Bourne’ trilogy, instead of replacing Damon as Jason Bourne. Reener’s character will be an operative from a covert government program. The program will be even more dangerous than the Treadstone brainwashing program Bourne was a part of. Universal searched for over two months to cast the lead in the spin-off, which begins production in September. The studio also looked at such actors as Dominic Cooper, Luke…

Taylor Kitsch, Olivia Wilde and Salma Hayek are all in talks to appear in Oliver Stone’s upcoming movie adaptation of the book ‘Savages’, Collider.com is reporting. The ‘Friday Night Lights’ star is now in talks to portray Chon, who grows marijuana in Laguna Beach with Ben, who will be portrayed by Aaron Johnson. The novel follows the two men’s struggles with a Mexican drug cartel who not only tries to take over their business, but also kidnaps their accomplice Ophelia. Academy Award-nominee Jennifer Lawrence was originally in talks to play Orphelia, but had to leave the movie due to her commitment to ‘The Hunger Games.’ Stone is now looking at…

There’s so many projects that make their way in and out of development in Hollywood that sometimes it’s hard to keep track. They slip through the cracks of development and it’s still a sad but common tale that’s been re-occurring in this day and age. The same kind of fate has befallen the project “Dallas Buyer’s Club” for awhile now. The project, based on a true tale, has been hoping in and out of development for years. The production could finally be lifting off the ground with the couple of new additions to the independent project. Actor Matthew McConaughey will be starring in the cast with Jean Marc Valle on…

Sometimes people get a pinch too excited over a bit of news and can’t help but tell everyone what’s going on before they’re supposed to. That’s the case today with “Snow White and the Huntsman” producer Palak Patel who revealed a lot sooner than he should have that actress Kristen Stewart is closing the deal to play the fairest of them all. She was rumored to play Snow White in the latest re-telling of the classic tale, but now this unexpected news further shows that this will become a casting reality. That’s not good news for everyone, since there’s been an online groan over the casting ever since the rumor…