Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jon M. Chu is going from singing witches to toy cars. The "Wicked" director is set to helm a live-action Hot Wheels film, Mattel ...

Mattel Films Executive Producer Robbie Brenner shares more about the film. Brenner notes, “As the global leader in car culture, Hot Wheels has been igniting the challenger spirit in auto enthusiasts ...

Following the blockbuster success of Barbie, toy giant Mattel decided that the best course of action would be to greenlight a volley of films based on its various toy properties. Some of these ...

Hot Wheels is the latest toy brand to make the leap to the big screen, and Mattel has added a powerhouse name to the creative team. JJ Abrams and his Bad Robot team have come on board to help Warner ...

"In the 1960s, Elliot Handler, a co-founder of Mattel, Inc., envisioned a die-cast car to surpass the popular English Matchbox brand. He wanted a line of toy cars to dominate Mattel's boys' division ...

For generations Hot Wheels have probably been both the most recognizable and probably most under-appreciated toy line on the market, but it’s about to get pushed back to the forefront of the world ...

The live-action Hot Wheelsfeature film based on Mattel's timeless toy car is revving up, as the highly anticipated project has now found a director to put in the driver's seat. Jon M. Chu, the ...

Shane Romanchick is a TV and Movie News author for Collider. He also runs his own blog Entershanement Reviews where he writes about and reviews the latest movies. He graduated from Regis College in ...

Jon M. Chu is set to direct a live-action Hot Wheels movie. The 45-year-old filmmaker has been hired to direct the live-action movie for Mattel and Warner Bros. Pictures. Robbie Brenner, the president ...

Jon M. Chu; a Hot Wheels car. Chu will direct the live-action adaptation of a movie based on the iconic toy Jon M. Chu is getting into the fast lane. "Hot Wheels has always been about more than speed ...