Fast & Furious 7's gross of $1.32 billion now puts it ahead of Frozen - and it's closing in fast on the final Harry Potter film too...
NewsThe staggering growth of the Fast & Furious movies has continued in spectacular style these past few weeks. Fast & Furious 7 has now topped the US box office for four weeks in a row, and the movie has - by some distance - become the most successful of the franchise to date. Fast & Furious 6, for instance, grossed $788 million worldwide, and that in turn was a significant jump from Fast & Furious 5.
Neither, though, can hold a box office torch to Fast & Furious 7. The film has now taken $320 million in the US alone, but even more than that, it's taken $1 billion elsewhere in the world. Its current combined take - and it's a long way from running out of (ahem) gas - is $1.32 billionn.
That means it's now jumped to become the fifth biggest film of all time at the global box office (not inflation adjusted), having overtaken Frozen this past weekend. By the end of its run, it'll also have usurped Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2, and it's got a good shot at The Avengers' $1.51 billion. If it beats that, then Fast & Furious 7 could be cinema's third biggest film of all time (although Avengers: Age Of Ultron may do similarly massive numbers). If someone had offered you that bet after Tokyo Drift grossed $158 million worldwide in 2006, you might just have thought them 'ambitious.'
Fast & Furious 8 will have some job to surmount the seventh film's take. We'll see how it manages it when it's released in April 2017...
