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Monday, April 06, 2009   

 Fast & Furious kills the competition  
 

USA Today reports that the opening weekend of Fast & Furious 4 achieved the biggest spring debut of all time, generating $72.5 million. This is for any film ever made - and it also set a record for the highest opening of the first 4 months of the year.

This was around $30M more than industry analysts had predicted.  And it's also more in it's first weekend than Fast & Furious 3 (Tokyo Drift) made during it's entire run.

We stand on what we've said about this not being a car enthusiast's movie. Judging from the print reviews, it opened at about $70M than the reviewers thought it was worth. We contributed our $9.00 to that grand total.

So it's pretty clear that while a decision hasn't yet been made on a Fast & Furious 5, the studio execs and franchise owners will decide to make another one very soon. Lets hope it's a better film than this thing was.  


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