Fast & Furious takes in 72.5 million in opening weekend
In what is being said to be the best opening weekend for a movie in all of 2009 car racing movie ‘Fast & Furious’ has raked in a cool 72.5 million USD in it’s opening weekend. Another record set by the movie is for the best ever April debut previously set by “Anger Management” which recorded $42.2 million in 2003.
The 1st week of April is usually not the time for big releases as summer time releases in April starts with Memorial Day through Labor Day which falls on May 1. But Hollywood movie bosses are trying to extend the period hoping that they can beat some of the recession effects if not all of it.
This is the fourth installment of the street racing franchise and this time the cast is that of those who featured in the original released in 2001. Everyone from Paul Walker and Vin Diesel to Jordana Brewster and Michelle Rodriguez.
If a movie on street car racing and banging cars all over the streets of Detroit helps simulate the economy then I’m all for such movies but on the other hand it also promotes gas guzzling cars fitted with added boosters to achieve enormous speed. People would want such cars also to replicate stuff on streets.
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