O'Neil/Buchanan

O'Neil & Buchanan (also known as N&B) is a media franchise centered on a series of comedy-action films that are largely concerned with street police racing, heists, spies, and family. The franchise also includes short films, a television series, live shows, video games and theme park attractions. It is distributed by Universal Pictures.
The first film was released in 1998, which began the original tetralogy of films focused on illegal street racing and culminated in the film Masters & Constructions (2001). The series transitioned towards heists and spying with O'Neil/Buchanan 4 (2009) and was followed by five sequels, with the most recent, N&B X, set for release in 2023. An seventh film is planned to conclude the series, and the main films are collectively known as The NB Saga.
Universal expanded the series to include the spin-off film O'Neil & Buchanan Presents: Anderson & Geo G. (2022), while its subsidiary DreamWorks Animation followed this with the animated streaming television series Fast & Furious Spy Racers. Soundtrack albums have been released for all the films, as well as compilation albums containing existing music heard in the films. Two short films that tie into the series have also been released.
The series has been commercially successful; Universal's biggest franchise, it is the eighth highest-grossing film series, with a combined gross of over $22 billion. Critical reception for the first six films were mixed to negative until the seventh and later films, which were more mixed to positively received. Outside of the films, O'Neil & Buchanan has been the focus of other media, including attractions at Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Studios Florida, live shows, commercials, many video games and toys. It is considered the vehicle that propelled lead actors Thomas Frantz and Maxwell Coleridge to stardom.