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With the original movie's star recently expressing her interest in a sequel, Thomas Lennon recalls the original scrapped plans for Taxi 2. Lennon and his creative partner, Robert Ben Garant, were brought on to rewrite the script for the remake of Luc Besson's hit action comedy of the same name, with the American version centering on skilled taxi driver Belle partnering with hapless NYPD detective Andy Washburn to stop a series of bank robberies carried out by skilled getaway drivers. Led by Jimmy Fallon and Queen Latifah, Taxi was a solid box office success in spite of its critical panning.

During a recent interview with Screen Rant for his role in the upcoming romantic comedy Chosen Family, Lennon was asked about Latifah's recent comments, in which she expressed her interest in making Taxi 2 with Fallon. The original movie's co-writer recalled that he and Garant were actually previously...

Christopher Lloyd has efficiently maintained perfection while delivering his portrayals over the years, and his outstanding performances have landed him major awards as well. Renowned for his Back to the Future film series, he has never once hesitated to leave his audiences baffled with his star-studded talent. And yet, he isn’t one without regrets either.

Christopher Lloyd. | Credits: Gage Skidmore/Cca-Sa-2.0/Wikimedia Commons.

As the actor admitted, he greatly regrets the attitude he had for the very role that launched him to extraordinary heights of success during the early stages of his career by landing him 2 brilliant Emmy wins. This project was his iconic sitcom Taxi from 1978, for which he was originally called for only one episode but went on to become a major part of the show later on.

Christopher Lloyd Isn’t Proud of His Attitude for His Taxi Role

Shortly after making his big screen...

Queen Latifah expresses openness to making a sequel to the 2004 movie Taxi, which she starred in alongside Jimmy Fallon. Despite receiving poor reviews, Taxi was a commercial success, grossing $71.2 million against its $25 million budget. The possibility of Taxi 2 likely depends on Jimmy Fallon's schedule, as he has largely stepped away from scripted performances in recent years.

Queen Latifah has shared that she would consider making a Taxi sequel. The 2004 action-comedy movie starred Latifah as taxi driver Belle Williams, who gets mixed up in a high-octane adventure when she picks up Detective Andrew Washburn (Jimmy Fallon) and ends up helping him solve bank robberies. The movie was critically panned and currently stands at 9% on Rotten Tomatoes and 27 out of 100 on Metacritic.

Queen Latifah recently appeared on an episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. During their conversation, the topic of Taxi came up and the The Equalizer star marveled...

French actor Marion Cotillard will receive San Sebastian’s 2021 Donostia Award, a lifetime achievement honor, at this year’s festival.

The French star will receive her honor at San Sebastian’s opening gala on Sept. 17.

Cotillard, whose first on-screen role was in Philippe Harel’s L’histoire du garçon qui voulait qu’on l’embrasse in 1994, has been a box office draw in her home country since Luc Besson-produced, Gérard Pirès-directed 1998 action-comedy hit Taxi, where she played Lilly Bertineau, a role she reprised in two sequels: Taxi 2 (2000) and Taxi 3 (2003). Her international breakthrough came as Édith Piaf in Olivier Dahan’s biopic La ...

French actor Marion Cotillard will receive San Sebastian’s 2021 Donostia Award, a lifetime achievement honor, at this year’s festival.

The French star will receive her honor at San Sebastian’s opening gala on Sept. 17.

Cotillard, whose first on-screen role was in Philippe Harel’s L’histoire du garçon qui voulait qu’on l’embrasse in 1994, has been a box office draw in her home country since Luc Besson-produced, Gérard Pirès-directed 1998 action-comedy hit Taxi, where she played Lilly Bertineau, a role she reprised in two sequels: Taxi 2 (2000) and Taxi 3 (2003). Her international breakthrough came as Édith Piaf in Olivier Dahan’s biopic La ...

Rémy Julienne, the prolific stuntman and coordinator who amassed hundreds of credits over a six-decade-strong career, has died at the age of 90 after contracting Covid-19.

French newswires said the France native had been in intensive care in a hospital in the central town of Montargis since early January.

Julienne began as a French motocross champion before breaking into films in the 1960s, initially as a double for actor Jean Marais in a motorcycle scene in the movie Fantomas. He went on to perform and coordinate stunts on multiple entries in the James Bond franchise, and also worked as a stunt double for famed actors such as Michael Caine in The Italian Job.

He also coordinated the attraction Moteurs… Action! Stunt Show Spectacular at Walt Disney Studios Park in Paris and set up a specialist school for stunt drivers in France.

His career hit difficulties in 1999 when a stunt went wrong...

Netflix has partnered with a whole bunch of Singapore creators and companies to bring a motherload of Singapore-made content to the streaming platform (*on certain parts of Asia), including several by director Eric Khoo that we have featured in our #TheEricKhooProject, the titles of which you can see in the following image:

Eric Khoo movies coming up to Netflix

A total of 106 classic and nostalgic TV shows and movies that will be coming to Netflix include Growing Up, Phua Chu Kang Pte Ltd, Under One Roof, The Unbeatables, The Golden Pillow, Return Of The Condor Heroes, Ilo Ilo, 881, 12 Storeys, and I Not Stupid.

Three seasons of ’90s drama Growing Up are coming to Netflix beginning from 8 August 2020

Besides English and Chinese content, there will also be Malay titles such as Bunga Tanjong and Aduh Bibikku, and Tamil titles Vettai and Gurushetram – 24 Hours of Anger.

These shows, to be released in...

Neeraj Pandey and Akshay Kumar are fast emerging as the new hit Jodi in B-town. After Special 26 that garnered much critical acclaim and commercial success in 2013, the duo has teamed up again for their next film –Baby!

When there is Akshay Kumar it’s surely understood that there would be tons of real, raw action to watch out for.

Well, what we hear is that, Ciril Raffaelli, who has directed action for over 120 films, including some of the top action films in Hollywood including The Transporter series, Taxi 2, Die Hard, Hulk 2 and many others, will be making his debut in Bollywood with Bhushan Kumar’s Baby.

Ciril who is working with the Indian Khiladi, says that Akshay Kumar is as good as Bruce Willis in action and that he does not need a body double because he is better than the body double also! He also said that...

A 1999 demo promoting the ruinously expensive Shenmue (called “What’s Shenmue?”) featured an exclusive scene in which then company president Yukawa-san could be seen slumped at his desk, head in hands, surrounded by piles of unsold consoles (above). Deep down, Sega must have known the Dreamcast didn’t stand a chance even before they axed it two years later.

Even though the Sega Dreamcast enjoyed a relatively short lifespan (officially somewhere between its 1998 Japanese launch and late 2002 termination) and wasn’t supported at all by the most powerful publisher of the day (Electronic Arts) the well-loved machine still boasts an impressive library of titles.

Even extending this “best of” list, from the originally planned 10 to a whopping 30 games, has seen me leave out such gems as cult top-down shooter Ikaruga, well-regarded sports sim NHL 2K2, online deathmatch game Outtrigger, stylish BioWare-made shooter MDK2 and Street Fighter III: Double Impact (to...

Because you don't actually need an excuse to have Brian Williams and Jimmy Fallon charm an audience for 90 minutes, the Paley Center for Media in New York last night hosted a chat between the two NBC stalwarts. And while their conversation was filled with fun factoids about the Late Night host's showbiz career -- and some sad revelations, like that Fallon has no plans to make any more movies; whither Taxi 2 -- the most exciting part might have been Fallon's answer to an audience question about what television reunion he plans on beating the drum for next. For the uninitiated, Fallon famously tried to get the cast of Saved By the Bell together -- he didn't succeed -- and later turned the trick with the much less popular California Dreams. So who does he have in mind now?...

EuropaCorp's Little White Lies aka Les Petits Mouchoirs by Guillaume Canet from France is on the Tipped for Cannes list.. meanwhile The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec, which had its world premiere at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival on April 9, received an extraordinary review from Screen .

And EuropaCorp is currently featured in Nikke Finke's Deadline Hollywood as it seeks to take its film I I Love You Phillip Morris away from Consolidated Pictures Group for North American distribution and put it into the hands of Newmarket. Read it for news of a good fight. The comments are especially telling.

Luc Besson's EuropaCorp is known in the Us for its big films with 20th Century Fox, Sony, Disney and Lionsgate, films like Clash of the Titans or The Incredible Hulk. However movie buffs and the older acquisitions executives will remember the buzz around Luc Besson's early film in...

French director Luc Besson has been forced to pay $140,000 (£93,330) via his production company after a Paris appeals court found executives responsible for the death of a cameraman on the set of Taxi 2.

Alain Dutartre, 41, died after he was struck by a car when a stunt went tragically wrong in 1999.

Bosses at Besson's firm EuropaCorp were initially cleared of all charges when Dutartre's family took them to trial in 2007. Instead, stuntman Remy Julienne, was held solely responsible for the botched scene and handed a suspended 18-month prison sentence.

But the Paris court of appeal reversed the ruling on Monday and found EuropaCorp heads guilty of manslaughter. Julienne's punishment was reduced to six months, and his fine was slashed by $15,460 (£10,300) to just $2,810 (£1,870).

EuropaCorp producers were criticised for rejecting Julienne's offers to trial the car scene in question for a price, which the stuntman claims would have prevented the tragedy.

A Paris appeals court has fined French filmmaker Luc Besson's movie company $140,000 over the death of a cameraman who was hit by a car during a 1999 stunt shoot. The court also handed stunt director Remy Julienne, 79, a six-month suspended prison sentence. A lower court had originally acquitted Besson's company, Europacorp, of wrongdoing in the case and had given Julienne an 18-month suspended sentence. The appeals court convicted Europacorp of manslaughter. In addition, the company and Julienne were ordered to jointly pay each of the cameraman's parents and to each of his two brothers. Alain Dutartre, a 41-year-old cameraman, was hit during the August 1999 shooting of Taxi 2, a French car chase film, written/produced by Besson. EuropaCorp was created by Besson, with the intention of it being a French alternative to Hollywood, located on properties in Normandy and Paris owned by Besson. Productions are financed through reinvestment of box...

PARIS -- A film about a band of trashy, loud-mouthed 50-something characters on vacation has captured the imagination of French filmgoers, smashing a series of boxoffice records in France, and raking in €39 million ($46.4 million) from 950 screens nationwide in the two weeks since its Feb. 1 opening. Les Bronzes 3: Amis Pour La Vie has had a phenomenal take-off, with opening week tally of 3.9 million tickets sold surpassing previous French opening-week toppers Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (3.7 million), Taxi: 2 (3.5 million) and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (3.1 million). But this is no ordinary sequel -- the six raucous characters featured in Amis have become French cultural icons since they starred in their debut film Les Bronzes (The Suntanned Ones) in 1978. Set at a Club Med resort on the Ivory Coast, the first film parodied the pettiness of brash young French tourists in the 1970s, who equated vacations with sexual conquests.

On the basis of what were said to be figures gathered so far, 20th Century Fox indicated Wednesday that the French debut of Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith set an opening-day admissions record nationwide for an American film and an all-time mark for all films in Paris and its suburbs. "As of midnight (Wednesday) in Paris, we were still calling theaters," a Fox spokesman in Los Angeles said. Fox was not prepared to issue any figures late Wednesday. But boxoffice stats show that the French opening-day record belongs to the homegrown action comedy Taxi 2, which picked up 801,922 admissions from theaters throughout the country in 2001. At an average admission price of about $7, that would come to an estimated $5.6 million. Sith is said to have beaten Taxi 2's opening-day take in the Paris metropolitan area. The sixth and final episode of George Lucas' epic sci-fi series kicked off in France with what Fox hails as the biggest overseas day-and-date release ever. By the end of this weekend, Sith will have opened in 113 markets in 104 countries, excluding the U.S. and Canada.

The French debut of Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith set an opening-day admissions record nationwide for an American film and an all-time best for all films in Paris. 20th Century Fox said Wednesday that 641,799 tickets were sold for 938 prints Wednesday, qualifying as the best opening-day figure this year and the second best of all time. The French opening-day record belongs to the homegrown action comedy Taxi 2, which picked up 801,922 admissions from theaters throughout the country in 2001. At an average admission price of about $7, that would come to an estimated $5.6 million.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets sold a record 631,400 tickets on its first day, premieres included, making it the best opening for a U.S. picture in French boxoffice history, Warner Bros said Thursday. The opening day figure, which included 240,451 admissions to premiere screenings, is equivalent to a gross of around $3.35 million. The movie was released on a French record 1007 screens. The second Harry Potter is now the second biggest opening of all time in France after the Luc Besson-produced car action movie Taxi 2, which drew 801,922 admissions on what nowadays seems a modest 831 screens. That movie benefited from five daily screenings, whereas the 2 hour 40 minute Harry Potter picture can only squeeze in three per day. With the consensus among French critics being that the second episode is more fun than the first, Chamber of Secrets has clocked a 25% increase in day-one figures compared to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, which went on to accumulate nearly 9.4 million admissions in France. The previous record opening for a U.S. movie in France was Men in Black II, which sold 580,978 tickets on its first day including premieres.