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...this rush of car-thrill movies? First, because they can make money. The 2001 Fast and the Furious, in which Walker teamed with Vin Diesel, earned $144 million at the domestic box office on a $38 million budget. Second, because they're enjoyable to assemble. Says John Singleton, director of 2F2F: "Early in my career, I said I would never do a car-chase movie because I wanted to be taken seriously as a filmmaker. Now that I'm in my early 30s, I figured I've done that. I just wanted to have fun." Car movies also touch...
...AUTO-MOTION PICTURES ALSO REFLECT newer media. Car films are today's video games. And vice versa. Virtual rides like the Grand Theft Auto games (including Vice City) and the Gran Turismo series have sat on best-of lists. They're also helpful aids to directorial research. John Singleton says he played hours of Turismo while preparing 2 Fast 2 Furious. He put the Nissan Skyline (which isn't sold in the U.S. and had to be imported from Japan) and the Mitsubishi Evo VII in the movie because they're in Turismo. "We wanted to get the cars that...
Following about an hour of oral arguments, Cambridge District Court Judge Severlin B. Singleton III ordered that Alexander Pring-Wilson, a student at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian studies, remain in jail pending trial for murder...
After reading 60 letters submitted on Pring-Wilson’s behalf by professors, friends and family, Singleton said he was “struck by the fact that [Pring-Wilson] seems to be an extraordinary individual” with “a bright future or maybe a bright future...
...However, these facts do not outweigh the severity of this offense,” Singleton said...