Oh, wow! Erm, yes, Fast and Furious - again! XP

[katikat]

Box Office Report: Fast & Furious shatters records with $72.5 mil weekend:

In the first truly shocking box office result of the year, Fast & Furious sped away from expectations to gross a humongous $72.5 mil, according to early estimates from Media by Numbers. That result is effectively double what most industry observers had predicted for the debut of the fourth feature in Vin Diesel's car franchise, and it left in the dust a number of notable records:

* Best April opening ever, beating Anger Management's $42.2 mil
* Best Universal Pictures opening ever (three-day), beating The Lost World: Jurassic Park's $72.1 mil
* Best F&F franchise opening ever, beating 2 Fast 2 Furious' $50.5 mil
* Best opening yet in 2009, easily beating the bows of the more-buzzed-about Monsters vs. Aliens ($59.3 mil) and Watchmen ($55.2 mil)
* Best opening ever for stars Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, and Jordana Brewster, as well as for director Justin Lin

ETA: Overseas, Fast and Furious grossed $30.1 million, bringing its estimated worldwide haul to $102.6 million, Universal said.

Oh, wow! Maybe there's a hope for a 5th movie, then? *crosses fingers*

Comments

[creedcascade.livejournal.com]

If there was another, I would die a happy woman. I think it would be awesome to see Brian as a "black hat" working with Dome.

[katikat.livejournal.com]

It would be really great - if they didn't try to make a movie without Vin or Paul or both, that is. If that was the case, I would prefer if they didn't make another movie.

And I just had to make a F&F icon. I mean, I've been talking a lot about the film so it deserves an icon *nods*

[kristen999.livejournal.com]

This makes me a very happy Diesel fan :D

[katikat.livejournal.com]

Me too! I'm just so glad that it was so super successful. I hated all the doom-sayers predicting gloom and failure :P