The Fast and Furious franchise has always been varying in financial success: the first three films (The Fast and the Furious, 2 Fast 2 Furious, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift) achieved B-movie levels of success and a cult following on around $150 million to $250 million. The series then exploded into success with Fast & Furious ($360 million), Fast Five ($630 million) and Fast & Furious 6 ($790 million). The seventh instalment is now getting its delayed release, after the tragic death of star Paul Walker, under the new direction of James Wan (The Conjuring). Last week, we predicted it’d take top spot but its surprisingly become a bigger that then we’d imagined.
US:
- Fast & Furious 7 – James Wan – $147.2 million
- Home – Tim Johnson – $27 million
- Get Hard – Etan Cohen – $13.1 million
- Cinderella – Kenneth Branagh – $10.2 million
- Insurgent – Robert Schwentke – $10.1 million
UK:
- Fast & Furious 7 – James Wan – £12.8 million
- Cinderella – Kenneth Branagh – £3 million
- Home – Tim Johnson – £2.4 million
- The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water – Paul Tibbitt – £1.1 million
- Get Hard – Etan Cohen – £0.8 million
Hopefully this debut is a pre-cursor to upcoming commercial greatness in 2015’s box office. Furious 7’s opening weekend has already outdone that of Guardians of the Galaxy ($95 million), Transformers: Age of Extinction ($100 million), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay ($120 million), Fifty Shades of Grey ($85 million), X-Men: Days of Future Past ($95 million), Godzilla ($95 million), The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ($90 million) and Captain America: The Winter Soldier ($95 million) as well as predecessors Fast Five ($85 million) and Six ($97 million). We’d have to stretch back to 2013 or 2012 to find this kind of box-office smashing with the likes of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire ($155 million), Man of Steel ($115 million), The Dark Knight Rises ($160 million), Iron Man 3 ($175 million) and The Avengers ($210 million). This week I’ve scored 5/10.
US:
- Fast & Furious 7 – James Wan
- Home – Tim Johnson
- Ex Machina – Alex Garland
- Get Hard – Etan Cohen
- Cinderella – Kenneth Branagh
UK:
- Furious 7 – James Wan
- Cinderella – Kenneth Branagh
- John Wick – Chad Stahelski, David Leitch
- Home – Tim Johnson
- The Duff – Ari Sandel
Paul Walker, Vin Diesel and Nathalie Emmanuel in Fast & Furious 7, this week’s US and UK number one.
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