Though the official final weekend numbers won’t come out until tomorrow, Fast Five (AKA The Fast and the Furious V) will set the biggest opening box office in Universal Pictures’ history.
Vin Diesel (Fast Five)
The film is projected to make $80 million this weekend beating Universal’s previous opening box office holder Lost World: Jurassic Park, which opened to a $72 million opening weekend tally, and the previous Fast and Furious movie, which made $71 million on it’s opening weekend. You just can’t beat fast cars, hot women in bikinis, and testosterone overload to bring people into the theater. (Though that titanic fight in the film between Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson has some serious homoerotic overtones. Who knows? It may have brought even more people into the theaters)
No doubt this is good news to theater owners still trying to regain their footing
