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One Race Global Film Foundation

January 22, 2010

OPERATION BABY FORMULA

The One Race Global Film Foundation is working to protect babies who are dying in orphanages in Haiti due to lack of proper food distribution by the Red Cross and UN. Based on our assessment on the ground, the quickest way to get formula to them is through an underground delivery system we have created.

For $150 (a 30% discount) we can buy a case of 24 canisters of baby formula direct from the distributor Mead Johnson in the Dominican Republic, which our students can drive across the border and personally guarantee gets delivered to orphanages. We have already shipped 100 cases that have arrived safely.

If you would like to help, you can donate through our donations page. All donations during this time period will get diverted to this cause.

eta 01/30: If you check out the donations page, you’ll find VX listed as one of the donators. We had a check from the Google Ads coming in and thought it’d be a good idea to share the money with the Baby Formula project. We are, after all, moms, and it breaks our hearts to know that elsewhere babies are suffering from a lack of nourishment.

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IMPORTANT PLEASE NOTE:

If you would like your donation to go towards OPERATION BABY FORMULA, please specify this in the “Add a Special Message” section of the payment page.

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[TCOR] The Woman and the Warrior [NC-17]

March 2010 Story of the Month by Persephone Bellydancer

pic c/o Vinbook

Post TCoR – Riddick has been captured by Toombs and his crew.
Does Juliet hold the key to his freedom?

Join us on the skiff to find out!
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via comingsoon.net

Fast Five, MacGruber and Ga’Hoole Updates

Source:ComingSoon.net March 1, 2010

Universal Pictures today announced that Fast Five, the fifth film in the “Fast and Furious” franchise, will hit theaters on June 10, 2011. There are no other films scheduled for that date yet. Director Justin Lin, Vin Diesel and Paul Walker are returning for the action pic, in which Dom (Diesel) and Brian (Walker) are fugitives being pursued by relentless lawmen.
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Today, we received the following message from the One Race Foundation:

Operation Baby Formula – Update from the One Race Foundation

Thanks to your generous donation and contributions made at the Have a Heart for Haiti fundraiser, hosted by Zoe Saldana, Michelle Rodriguez and Emile Hirsch, Vin Diesel’s One Race Foundation has shipped 438 cases of formula directly to orphanages in Haiti. That’s over 10,000 canisters of baby formula that will help to ensure that these children will get proper nutrition on a daily basis, develop a robust immune system and have a chance to grow-up strong and healthy.

Deliveries were made to the following crisis centers on February 4th, 12th and 19th:

* Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (temporary distribution site)
* Quisqueya Christian School (temporary distribution site)
* Love a Child Orphanage in Fond Perisian (Oprhanage)
* Foyer Des Enfants Demunis de Haiti (Orphanage)
* La Caravelle des Petits (School and Orphanage)
* The Children’s Foundation of Haiti (Orphanage)

Due to the outrageous demand and the success of the program, we have extended Operation Baby Formula and will continue to deliver formula for as long as there is need. In the coming weeks, we’ll be sharing more photos, videos and on the ground reporting from our network of aid workers. In the meantime, please forward our message so that we can continue to grow this program.

Together, we can change the world one child at a time. Thank you once again.

- One Race Foundation –

www.oneracefoundation.org

The One Race Foundation also updated their donor and supporters list, if you want to take a look at this really impressive list, please go here.

Random Bits and Pieces

• Check out some more pics of Vin in Berlin
• Since Vin seems to have a habit of editing his Facebook messages for a couple of times after he’s posted them, feel free to review all the previous drafts of his Vinbook posts here.
• And lastly, in not so pleasant news, our hearts go out to Walter Koenig (you might know him as “Chekov” from Star Trek TOS) whose son Andrew has been found dead in Vancouver. Our thoughts are with Andrew’s family and friends!

from hollywoodreporter.com

‘Riddick’ heats up European Film Market

Third film in sci-fi series was one of most sought-after at EFM

By Borys Kit and Kirill Galetski

Feb 16, 2010, 02:21 PM ET
BERLIN — “Riddick,” the third entry in the sci-fi series that began with 2000’s Vin Diesel starrer “Pitch Black” and one of the most sought-after titles at EFM, has been picked by Central Partnership for Russia.

Lionsgate is handling international sales, and the asking price for Russia was $2.2 million. But reflecting how in demand the title is and a reawakening of the presales market, a bidding war erupted among Russia’s major distributors, with the final price going above $2.5 million.

The project was unveiled to buyers at a nighttime presentation Saturday with Diesel present.

While some buyers have noted the prices for “Riddick” are high, it feels tailor-made for the Russian market, which is big on high-flying action and sci-fi epics.

“Riddick” delivers on both counts.

Though billed as a back-to-basics approach to the character popularized by Diesel, the script features the character — the most wanted man in the galaxy — left for dead on a barren alien planet, dealing with “trisons” (three-legged bisons) and “mud demons.” He must then contend with two squads of bounty hunters, one of which ride rockets called jetcycles.

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Seems Vin is spending his Valentine’s Day in Berlin, joining the crowds around the Berlinale film festival.

More info and pics over at our message board!
Thanks Tine for the pic links!

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To celebrate this wonderful day our Virtual Pleasures team has a special story for you!

My Valentine [NC-17]

by Jack

Valentines Day is the day that single people often dread. That’s the way it goes but every once in a while, it goes the other way too.

Enjoy this wonderful story at VinXperience!

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Also the Picture This! forum holds the first chapter of a new story by Pamela you shouldn’t miss!

[Original] Valentine’s Day [PG]

An animal shelter is visited by a very special guest at Valentine’s Day…

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via variety.com

Vin Diesel signs up for another ‘Riddick’

Thesp will also produce third installment for Universal

By TATIANA SIEGEL

Vin Diesel is going back to the future to topline and produce a third chapter in the “Chronicles of Riddick” franchise.

Universal will handle domestic distribution on the sci-fi film, which is titled “Riddick.” Lionsgate is selling international rights at the Berlin Film Festival.

David Twohy — who wrote and directed the first two films in the series, “Pitch Black” and “The Chronicles of Riddick” — will helm from a screenplay he penned.

Plot details are being kept under wraps. But insiders say the third outing will hew closer in tone to the cult hit “Pitch Black” and will focus on the character of Riddick as opposed to the universe he inhabits, which was the case with the critically panned “Chronicles of Riddick.” Still, “Chronicles of Riddick” earned $116 million worldwide and spawned a successful vidgame series.

Dates are being worked out for “Riddick” so as not to overlap with Universal’s fifth installment of “Fast and Furious,” which will shoot sometime this year with Diesel onboard to star and produce.

Diesel and Samantha Vincent are producing “Riddick” through their One Race Films banner. Radar Films’ Ted Fields is also producing.

Twohy most recently wrote and directed “A Perfect Getaway.”

Thanks Tracy!

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pic c/o Vin Diesel @ Facebook

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from collider.com

Vin Diesel and Paul Walker Reunite for FAST FIVE

the 5th Installment in the FAST AND THE FURIOUS Franchise
by Matt Goldberg Posted:February 3rd, 2010 at 9:27 pm
The world offered by the Fast and the Furious movies is so rich and layered that it demands sequels to allow audiences to further explore the complexities of testosterone-laden relationships and expensive, tricked-out cars they’ll never own. Oh, and the latest entry, Fast & Furious, was Universal’s highest grossing film of last year, so that may also be why they’re making a sequel. Variety reports that lead actors Vin Diesel and Paul Walker will re-team for the fifth installment in the series, entitled Fast Five. I have no idea if that has an alternate meaning or if they decided they just couldn’t get away with a title like F & F.

Chris Morgan and Justin Lin will return to write and direct, respectively. This time around, Dom (Diesel) and Brian (Walker) are fugitives being pursued by “legendary lawmen.” So does that mean the ghost of Elliot Ness is going to team up with Lefors from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and they’ll ride modified Nissan Altimas to hunt down the fugitive duo? Or will it be attractive people in fast cars chasing other attractive people in fast cars? I’m gonna choose to think positive and say it’s the former.

Filming is scheduled to begin later this year for a 2011 release.

see also variety.com