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Box Office: 'Fast Five' speeds to first place with $83.6M
Bet you five bucks they are going to announce "Fast and Furious 6" any day now."Fast Five" completely dominated the box office bringing in $83.6 million over the weekend. The number blew away the previous film in the franchise, which brought in $71 million its opening weekend. The franchises' fifth film starring Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson and Paul Walker is Universal's best opening ever ("The Lost World: Jurassic Park" -- $72.1 million).
The weekend's other new releases -- "Hoodwinked Too!" and "Prom" -- didn't fare so well, only bringing in $4.1 million and $5 million.
Last weekend's box office champ "Rio" came in second, but still nowhere near "Fast Five," earning $14.4M. "Madea's Big Family" was third with $10 million. Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson's romance/drama "Water For Elephants" made $9.1 million, bringing its total gross over the $30 million mark.
Here's the weekend's Top 10:
No. 1 -- "Fast Five," $83.6M
No. 2 -- "Rio," $14.4M
No. 3 -- "Madea's Big Family," $10M
No. 4 -- "Water For Elephants," $9.1M
No. 5 -- "Prom," $5M
No. 6 -- "Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil," $4.1M
No. 7 -- "Soul Surfer," $3.3M
No. 8 -- "Insidious," $2.6M
No. 9 -- "Hop," $2.56M
No. 10 -- "Source Code," $2.53M
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Wow thats Awesome for Fast Five. Loved the movie, definitely the best one of the series. i bet the fact that it got good reviews has something to do with the small rise from what studios predicted it would get. but even if it did get bad reviews like the previous four it would prob be around that number, maybe in the 70s like the studios predicted.
Chris Evans and Jason Mornos look as if they've grown women's *******. Very unsexy. That's the trouble with too much weight lifting. Or steroids? Ovaltine
Grats also to Insidious which is STILL in the top 10 and getting great word of mouth. Cost 1.5 million to make and over 50 million made already. So far, its the most profitable movie of 2011. Gonna be a good year for Rose Byrne.
Actually, they announced the 6th movie last week, if you can believe it. So this only cements that.
Fast five is sooooo cool!
I looooooooooooooooooooooove
DWAYNE JOHNSON !!!
DWAYNE JOHNSON rocks!!!