VIACA - Latest 'Fast and Furious' film revs to $70M opening raising box-office spirits

There's an audible sigh of relief coming from Hollywood and the cinema industry after F9, the latest film in the lucrative Fast and the Furious franchise, debuted with an expected splash. The film opened to $70M in grosses; not only is that easily the best performance of the pandemic era, it's the best opening since 2019's Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. For the COVID-19 time frame, it easily eclipsed the opening of A Quiet Place Part II, which drew $48.3M on Memorial Day weekend ($57M with the holiday). Combined with a much earlier opening overseas, F9 has now grossed more than $400M globally, a coup for Universal Pictures ([[CMCSA]] -0.6%) in the ongoing debate over whether it was better to push films to streaming or hold them back for an eventual in-cinema splash. And it's become the fifth-highest grossing film franchise of all time, with $6.3B in aggregate receipts. “The

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Latest 'Fast and Furious' film revs to $70M opening, raising box-office spirits