Harare, Zimbabwe (News of the South)-The recently released blockbuster movie, The Fate of the Furious has smashed box office records across the globe with an estimated $532.5 million to set a new record for an opening weekend.
Variety magazine reports that the movie, which is the 8th in the franchise, got a huge boost from foreign crowds earning $432.3 million from opening up in 63 foreign markets.
“That helped offset declining domestic results”, according the publication.
“The Fate of the Furious opened to $100.2 million in North America, a sharp drop from Furious 7’s opening week raking of $147.2 million”.
“It’s a sign that franchise built around muscle cars and odes to the importance of family is growing more global in scope. If it wants to continue to expand its audience as it inevitably ticks through future sequels, it will needs to keep building fan bases in places like China”, it said.
The Fate of the Furious racked in $190 million in the Asian country, setting the record for the biggest three day opening weekend in history and the top debut for a Hollywood film in China.
According to Variety the movie also ‘perfomed solidly in Mexico, where it earned $17.8 million, the United Kingdom and Ireland with $17 million, Russia with $14 million, Germany with $13.6 million, and Brazil with $12.8 million.
The blockbuster movie cost $250 million to put out and the whole franchise has by now earned 4.4billion worldwide making it the most successful franchise in Universal’s history.
It stars the usual cast with a sprinkling of new characters infused and has Gary Gray as the director.
Vin Diesel returns as Dom Toretto whilst Dwayne Johnson (The Rock), Ludacris, Tyrese Gibson, Michelle Rodriguez and Kurt Russel all return.
Charlize Theron comes in as the cyber terrorist, Cipher who turns Dom Toretto to betray his family of friends.
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