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F9, the latest movie in the Fast & Furious series, has scored the biggest opening weekend at the US box office since the end of 2019. The movie made $70 million in its first three days on release.
Not only is this by far biggest domestic opening weekend of the pandemic era, it’s the highest since Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was released in December 2019. As Box Office Mojo notes, F9 managed to exceed the $60 million opening weekend of the previous film in the series–2018’s spin-off Hobbs and Shaw–with only 80% of the country’s theaters open. The previous highest opening weekend gross of the last 18 months was A Quiet Place: Part II in May, which made $47.5 million.
F9 opened in some international territories last month and has so far $404.8 million worldwide. The movie was originally set for release in May 2020–at the time, it was one of the first movies to be shifted back an entire year to 2021, as opposed to just being moved forward a few months.
Elsewhere in the box office chart, A Quiet Place: Part II remained at No.2, adding another $6.2 million to its $136 million US gross. Worldwide, it has $248.4 million to date. Last week’s No.1, the action sequel The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, dropped to No.3, with Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway at No.4 and Cruella at No.5.
US Box Office June 25-27
(via Box Office Mojo)
F9: The Fast Saga $70.0 millionA Quiet Place Part II $6.2 millionThe Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard $4.8 millionPeter Rabbit 2: The Runaway $4.8 millionCruella $3.7 millionThe Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It $2.9 millionIn the Heights $2.2 millionSpirit Untamed $1.0 millionMighty Orphans $591,000 millionNobody $560,000 million
