Fate Of The Furious' Becomes The Second 'Fast And The Furious' Movie To Earn $1 Billion

TheFast and the Furious pedal earned another medal this weekend, with The Fate of the Furious grossing$1 billion.As of Sunday, the eighth Furious installment has earned $192.7 million domestically and a whopping $867.6 million overseas, according to Universal Pictures estimates. Its the 30th movie in history ' and the second in the franchise, after 2015s Furious 7 ' to join the billionaires club.The Fate of the Furious pulled this off after just 17 days in theaters, the same amount it took Furious 7. The years first billion-dollar release, Beauty and the Beast, required almost a month to hit that mark. Fate is also the highest-grossing film directed by an African-American.This news comes as no surprise, given the increasing international fervor surrounding these high-octane movies. Since Fast & Furious, the fourth movie in the series, was released in 2009, each installment has outpaced its predecessor domestically and globally. Universal, which is enjoying a bang-up year at the box office thanks to Fate, Get Out and Split, already has two more Fast and the Furious sequels planned, and studio executives have reportedly discussed a potential spin-off surrounding Dwayne Johnsons and Jason Stathams characters. Plus, as we pointed out a couple of weeks ago, The Fate of the Furious introduces a certain baby who could extend the storys shelf life far beyond its current expiration date.Other franchises with multiple $1 billion earners include Star Wars, The Avengers, Transformers and Pirates of the Caribbean.In other weekend box-office news, How To Be a Latin Lover opened to a decent $12 million, while the big-screen adaptation of Dave Eggers popular cyber-panic novel The Circlecollected $9.1 million, a drowsy figure for a title released on more than 3,000 screens. The weekends big surprise was the Indian fantasy Baahubali 2: The Conclusion, which took in an estimated $10 million despite a mere 425-theater opening.The rest of the Top 10 includes The Boss Baby, Beauty and the Beast, Going in Style, Gifted, Smurfs: The Lost Village and Born in China. -- 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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