Universal Pictures has announced that they are going to move up the release date for James Wan's "Fast and Furious 7" 

At first the production delay after Paul Walker 's death last November caused Universal to announce that they would be moving "Fast and Furious 7" from July 11, 2014 to April 10, 2015, Now news has come down from The Hollywood Reporter that they are shifting the movie up again. Instead of being released on April 10, 2015, it will now instead come out a week earlier on April 3, 2015.

This gives "Fast & Furious 7" a full month between it and the release of Joss Whedon's "The Avengers: Age of Ultron" which will be a huge draw away from "Fast and Furious 7"

Also set to come out in late April 2015 is the nature documentary "Monkey Kingdom" from Disney, "Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 "from Sony, and the sci-fi thriller "Selfless" from Focus Features, none of which are much competition for  "Fast and Furious 7" could wind up driving all over those. 

" Fast and the Furious 7" will Directed by James Wan, his first in the franchise. The movie will be written by Chris Morgan.

Production on the sequel wrapped yesterday and Dwayne Johnson made sure that the rest of crew, including director James Wan received some love. Sharing a behind-the-scenes pic on Instagram, the pro wrestler turned actor wrote,

"My last day. I'm truly touched by the farewell love my film crew has shown me. It's been an honour to work with such an incredibly hard working and brilliant crew. They may not be household names, but they'll ALWAYS be stars in my book. With great love and respect to all of you... see ya down the yellow brick road. Another place. Another time.#ThankUForAllYourWork."

"Fast and Furious 7" finds Dom and his crew finally back in Los Angeles, but dealing with the vengeful Ian Shaw, who wants revenge for the death of his brother which happened in "Fast and Furious 6" 

The ever-growing ensemble will include Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, Lucas Black, Jason Statham, Kurt Russell, Tony Jaa, Ronda Rousey and Djimon Hounsou.