If anybody ever doubted how fast the Fast & Furious franchise could go, think again. Fast & Furious 6 grabbed $98.5 million from its first weekend in North America, best of the franchise, about $13 million more than the opening weekend earnings of Fast Five. The sixth movie of a franchise does not usually set the bar, but this movie has simply upped the tempo in style; this is the second highest opening for a sixth movie in a franchise after of course the earnings of the sixth in the Star Wars saga. While Fast & Furious is running on full throttle, The Hangover has seen its demise with the third movie grossing the weakest opening weekend earnings of the franchise. It was nice to see Star Trek Into Darkness report a dip of only 48% in its second weekend earnings (anything less than 50% is what I consider pretty good!) posting $38 million in North America. New release, Epic, finished fourth with a pretty solid but not overtly impressive $34.2 million in its first weekend (about $10 million less than The Croods).
So how good really is the opening of Fast & Furious 6? It's the second best of the year so far, and while there are a few movies lined up which would be aiming to topple this opening, notably Man of Steel, it's really going to take a Superman to do better than this. This is how the weekend earnings of Fast & Furious 6 compares with the opening figures of other big movies released in the year so far.
No wonder, Universal Pictures is all eager to get the seventh movie zooming to theatres next year itself. How bigger can the franchise get? Or have we seen it peak? Movie business is such where you think you know answers to these questions, but you never really do. So till Vin Diesel and his crew return for the next movie in 2014, here's the video that was played in the opening credits with the lovely rap song We Own It in the background. Enjoy!
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