![]() Then, in the middle of filming Furious 7, the movie’s star Paul Walker died suddenly, and ironically, in a horrible car accident (unrelated to the movie), delaying the seventh installment’s release, directed by James Wan ( Insidious, The Conjuring), for a year. Suddenly, the action franchise had turned more into an Ocean’s 11-like ensemble piece with an impressive cast made up from actors who had appeared in the series so far. with the holiday Monday) and $239 million domestic. Its 2011 follow-up Fast Five brought Dwayne Johnson into the mix, and it did even better by being the first movie to cross $200 million, while its sequel, Fast and Furious 6, was moved to the Memorial Day weekend where it opened with $97.4 million ($117 mil. It also surpassed the gross of the original movie with $155 million. At the last minute, the studio gave the movie a summer release, and though it didn’t fare that well, it ended with a shot of Diesel’s Dom Toretto that got the fans excited for the possibilities.īoth Walker and Diesel indeed returned for 2009’s Fast and the Furious, again with Lin, which effectively relaunched the franchise with a $70 million opening, in early April no less. It opened bigger ($50 million) but didn’t gross as much as its predecessors, and when Universal went to director Justin Lin ( Annapolis) to direct the third installment, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, in Japan a few years later without Walker or Diesel, was done as a straight-to-DVD picture. Vin Diesel and director Rob Cohen left to go make xXx, leaving Paul Walker to work with John Singleton, bringing on rapper Ludacris, for the sequel, 2 Fast 2 Furious. ![]() Its stars Vin Diesel and Paul Walker, who hadn’t really done much of note beforehand, but it came out at a time when street-racing was becoming popular enough that the kids were excited about the prospects of a sexy action movie about the “sport.â€(It didn’t hurt that the Nicolas Cage/Angelina Jolie remake of Gone in 60 Seconds did pretty well a year earlier.) The movie opened with an impressive (for the time) $40 million and grossed $144.5 million. When the original The Fast and the Furious opened in 2001, people weren’t expecting too much from it. None of the family movies currently in theaters should have much effect on it, as they split up any younger Easter weekend business, but anyone between 13 and 30 and older will be at this weekend’s high profile release. It’s Easter weekend and really the only movie that matters is going to be THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS (Universal), the eighth installment of the unstoppable street racing franchise, which continues with its popular ensemble cast, but without the late Paul Walker who had been there since the very beginning.
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