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Calling all Smokey and the Bandit fans! In this video, we take a nostalgic ride back in time to relive the thrilling chases ...
Universal presents Smokey and the Bandit with a VC-1 encoded transfer that is more than serviceable, but a 35-year-old movie getting its first high-def transfer is only going to look so good.
Join us in this exciting journey as we dive into the iconic partnership of the Snowman and the Bandit! In this video, we ...
“Smokey and the Bandit” is an epic adventure of family, small-town crime, unlikely heroes, legend and legacy. Inspired by the genre of 70s and 80s drive-in double-features, the series will ...
Released on Aug. 15, 1980, the movie continues the adventures of Bo "The Bandit" Darville, introduced in Smokey and the Bandit, which made more money in 1977 than every movie except Star Wars.
I cannot envision the world where a movie like Smokey And The Bandit—an action-comedy about a famed local driver and his trucker friend tasked with retrieving 400 cases of outlawed Coors beer in ...
After “Smokey and the Bandit,” Hollywood began churning out a flood of trucker-centric entertainment, including such movies as “Convoy” and “Every Which Way But Loose,” as well as such ...
The year before Smokey, the GM division sold a healthy 46,701 Trans Ams during 1976. That spiked to 68,745 during ’77, then pumped up again to 93,341 in 1978.
The Smokey and the Bandit series will “focus on a southern epic adventure of family, legend, and legacy, small-town crime, a novel quest, and unlikely heroes and is inspired by the genre of ...
“Smokey and the Bandit” became a huge hit when it hit theaters in 1977, but Burt Reynolds revealed that things could have been completely different without his leading lady Sally Fields.
The Bandit car is gas a meaty 605-horsepower on tap thanks to a LS7 engine coupled with a five-speed transmission, Baer six-piston calipers on 14-inch front and rear rotors and a roll-cage with a ...
The classic 1977 action comedy “Smokey and the Bandit” is getting the TV treatment. UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, and Seth MacFarlane‘s Fuzzy Door are teaming to develop a ...