Fast and Furious for Easter!

You’ll be smelling burning motor oil a little earlier than expected next year.

Universal has upped the release of “Fast and Furious” from June 12 to April 3rd. The move came about as a result of the studio pushing back two of its major release – “Nottingham” and “The Wolfman”.

Horror franchise hopeful “The Wolfman”, starring Tony Hopkins and Benicio Del Toro, has moved from April 3 to Nov. 6 and Ridley Scott’s “Nottingham”, starring Russell Crowe as Robin Hood, has been moved out of 2009 entirely.

Universal says they decided to move “Fast and Furious”, the fourth installment of the popular fast cars/boys/gals/editing series, to April because its finished.

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