{"id":21503,"date":"2013-05-23T14:57:37","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T18:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=21503"},"modified":"2013-05-23T14:57:59","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T18:57:59","slug":"fast-furious-6-race-into-theaters-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=21503","title":{"rendered":"Fast &amp; Furious 6 Races Into Theaters Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fast cars, guns, girls in bikinis and men with six-packs;<em> The Fast and the Furious<\/em> franchise has never been the most sophisticated series out there. But it sure knows its audience. Which is why, from 2001&#8217;s inaugural <em>The Fast and the Furious<\/em> onwards, its five films to date have grossed US $1.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The last film, Fast Five (2011), which saw the welcome addition of <strong>Dwayne &#8220;The Rock&#8221; Johnson<\/strong> to the cast, took $626m worldwide, some $260m more than its nearest rival, 2009&#8217;s fourth installment <em>Fast &amp; Furious<\/em>. In other words, they must be doing something right.<\/p>\n<p>Refusing to remain in neutral, as so many filmmakers behind sequels do, the director<strong> Justin Lin <\/strong>and the producer\/star <strong>Vin Diesel<\/strong>, who plays the gang leader <strong>Dom Torretto<\/strong>, have turned what started out as a cult tale of illegal street racers into a sprawling, continent-crossing crime saga. Now comes the first of the series to be set in Europe. Primarily roaring through the streets of London.<\/p>\n<p><em>Fast &amp; Furious 6<\/em>\u00a0speeds into theaters today (Friday).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fast cars, guns, girls in bikinis and men with six-packs; The Fast and the Furious franchise has never been the most sophisticated series out there. But it sure knows its audience. Which is why, from 2001&#8217;s inaugural The Fast and the Furious onwards, its five films to date have grossed US $1.5 billion. The last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}