STACK Aug #154

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1. Filming in Cuba for F8 was partially done in a helicopter, marking the first time an American helicopter, piloted by Fred North, has flown in Cuban national airspace. 2. Iceland's reportedly largest explosion occurred during filming for F8. 3. Nathalie Emmanuel (Ramsey) and Kristopher Hivju (Rhodes) both star in Game of Thrones. 4. Charlize Theron's Cipher is the first female antagonist in the Fast franchise.

5. F8 is the first film since Tokyo Drift not to star Paul Walker. 6. The film featured close to 700 vehicles . 7. Mr Nobody's 'Toy Shop' hosts over $17 million worth of cars and other vehicles. 8. The 'Zombie' scene where cars fall out of a multi- storey carpark included 30 real cars.

F ollowing his breakout role as the rumbustious Steve Stifler in American Pie (1999), Sean William Scott was the go-to guy for comedies requiring a doofus or hellraiser. His most prolific period was during the early '00s, appearing in two American Pie sequels, Road Trip , Dude, Where's My Car? , Old School and The Dukes of Hazzard in rapid succession. However, once the AP franchise wrapped in 2012, Scott disappeared along with it, although he could still be heard as the voice of Crash in the Ice Age sequels. Scott also starred in an ice hockey comedy called Goon (2011) – as a Stifler-like bouncer who becomes an enforcer for a minor league team. Which brings us to a spooky coincidence that occurred while we were pondering what had happened to the Stiffmeister... True story: As this piece was being prepared, a screener disc for an upcoming DVD release arrived on the editor's desk. Nothing strange about that, but the film was Goon: Last of the Enforcers – a sequel to the aforementioned film, starring guess who?! So it would seem Sean William Scott is indeed still working, and is making the transition to serious roles in his next film – the coming- of-age road movie Green Dolphin , in which he plays an abusive foster parent and drug dealer. That's a long way from Steve Stifler. Seann William Scott Whatever Happened to...

Bryce Dallas Howard @BryceDHoward Day #60 and that's a wrap! Honestly, I ugly cried. Bye, Hawaii! #JurassicWorldFallenKingdom In production W hen was the last time 'The Final Chapter' in a franchise was actually that? The latest series to return (after having supposedly wrapped up in 2010) is Saw – the horror franchise created by James Wan and Leigh Whannel. Now old Jigsaw and his diabolical death traps are returning with another pair of Aussies behind the camera. Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig

( Daybreakers, Predestination ) are putting the final touches on the eighth installment, titled Jigsaw , with Tobin Bell returning as the eponymous psychopath. Expect gore galore – and plenty of buzz – when Jigsaw opens in cinemas this Halloween.

• Goon: Last of the Enforcers is out on DVD & Blu-ray on Sept 13

"The digital world has completely reinvented filmmaking, and I love it! I was one of the first to embrace the digital world, going right back to The Getaway [1994] – I edited that digitally. And then The Bank Job [2008] was one of the first film I shot digitally. I'm a stills photographer, too, so I explored digital right back when the very first cameras came out and saw the potential of it and sort of embraced it, understood it, and wasn't intimidated by it. The digital world is obviously where it's at now – film is dead!"

– ROGER DONALDSON, director of Cocktail, Species, The World's Fastest Indian , and McLaren

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