The Fate Of The Furious' Just Had The Biggest Global Opening Weekend Of All Time

function onPlayerReadyVidible(e){'undefined'!=typeof HPTrack&&HPTrack.Vid.Vidible_track(e)}!function(e,i){if(e.vdb_Player){if('object'==typeof commercial_video){var a='',o='m.fwsitesection='+commercial_video.site_and_category;if(a+=o,commercial_video['package']){var c='&m.fwkeyvalues=sponsorship%3D'+commercial_video['package'];a+=c}e.setAttribute('vdb_params',a)}i(e.vdb_Player)}else{var t=arguments.callee;setTimeout(function(){t(e,i)},0)}}(document.getElementById('vidible_1'),onPlayerReadyVidible); Thanks in large part to the Chinese market,The Fate of the Furious just had the biggest worldwide opening weekend in Hollywood history.The movie, which was internationally released on Friday, pulled in an estimated$532.5 million globally, Universal Pictures announced. Although the official figures dont come out until Monday morning, The Fate of the Furious appears to be on track to bestStar Wars: The Force Awakens, which currently holds the record at $529 million following its 2015 release. The Fate of the Furious raked in $100.2 million inside the U.S. and $432.3 million aboard' the latter is the most any film has ever made in its international debut weekend. Jurassic World held the previous record with $316 million.That international help was needed, as it appears that the eighth movie in the Fast and the Furious franchise was not able to pull in domestically anything close to what Furious 7 did in the U.S.during its opening weekend two years ago.This is truly a global franchise, Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at ComScore, told Variety. These movies translate perfectly into any culture. Fast cars, outrageous stuntsthats the international language for something everybody loves.There is one note, however: WhenThe Force Awakens opened, China was not part of the initial release. Considering that the Furious franchise pulled in $190 million of its weekend haul in China,the Star Wars franchise might still be the king of the movie kingdom. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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