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 Added on May 3, 2011  Alan Smithee   , , , ,

Fast Five Slaughters the Box Office

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Who would have thought that the fifth movie in The Fast and the Furious saga would do so well?

Besides guys like me who were connoisseurs of all things Vin Diesel and Paul Walker involving fast cars and lots of vroom noises, I didn’t think that Fast Five would have killed the way it did this past weekend at the box office.

For starters, the movie grossed $83.6 million in debut domestic sales according to studio estimates for just this weekend. Abroad, Fast Five brought in another $81.4 million…making the opening weekend for the movie a huge success for Universal Picture at $165 million.

To put this into perspective, Rio from Fox has been out for 3 weeks now and it has only grossed $103.6 over the entire span.

For even more comparison, the previous Fast & Furious only brought in $71 million over it’s life in the theaters. Crazy eh?

Considering Thor is coming out here in the states this upcoming weekend on the 6th (released already overseas with a $93 million rake so far) April seems to be the new month of the blockbuster.

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Alan Smithee

by Alan Smithee

I sit upon my throne as the owner/shogun of this site, WatchPlayRead. But it wasn't always so. I too have had blogspots, I've done other community blogs, I've even written professionally for other sites out there...yet none of them provided the content I had a real passion for. It is then that I became tired of being a small cog in a big machine, and of writing about nothing but game news after game news article and the periphery that comes from such schlock, like knowing who Michael Pachter and Bobby Kotick are. I decided to start MediaWhoreNetwork.com and ran up my post count there for about 2 years, commenting about any and everything that I wanted to. I even started a weekly podcast that I feel has come into its own. It wasn't until earlier this year that I realized that having the word "whore" in your URL might be a bit limiting to my potential audience. I then made the website and its branding move over to WatchPlayRead.com.

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