'Fate of the Furious' Debuts with Record International and Worldwide Opening Weekend
by Brad Brevet
April 16, 2017
It was close, but just by a hair Universal's
The Fate of the Furious topped $100 million at the domestic box office, leading the Easter weekend charge and becoming the second 2017 release to top the century mark over its three-day opening. More importantly, on top of its North American debut, the film premiered in over 60 international markets where it brought in a record
$432.3 million, resulting in a record
$532.5 million worldwide debut.
With an estimated
$100.2 million,
The Fate of the Furious secured the #1 spot at the domestic box office, delivering on industry expectations.
The film scored an "A" CinemaScore from opening day audiences which were 58% male vs. 42% female. Of that audience, 50% were under the age of 25 and further demographics show the opening weekend audience was made up of 41% Caucasian moviegoers, 26% Hispanic, 19% African American and 11% Asian. This makes for the second time a film in the
Fast and Furious franchise has debuted with over $100 million and there are more to come with
Fast and Furious 9 planned for 2019 and a
tenth installment set for a 2021 release.
Internationally is where the majority of the
Fate of the Furious story will be told as it broke the international opening record, previously held by
Jurassic World with $316.7 million, as it brought in a massive
$432.3 million from 63 international markets. Combined with the $100.2 million domestic opening this gives the film a record
$532.5 million worldwide debut, breaking the previous record of $529 million held by none other than
Star Wars: The Force Awakens. With this weekend's grosses, the
Fast and Furious franchise has now amassed just shy of $4.5 million billion worldwide from all eight of its feature films.
Highlights for the film's international debut begin with the fact it was the #1 film in all 60+ territories where it opened, among which it was the largest opening in 17 of those territories: Argentina, China, Colombia, Egypt, Indonesia, Israel, Lebanon, Malaysia, Middle East, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Portugal, South Africa, U.A.E., Venezuela and Vietnam. The largest of all of this weekend's openings is the estimated
$190 million the film brought in from
China, which is the
largest three-day opening weekend of all-time in China and, of course, the biggest Hollywood opening of all-time. Top grossing territories include:
- China - $190 million
- Mexico - $17.8 million
- U.K. and Ireland - $17 million
- Russia - $14.1 million
- Germany - $13.6 million
- Brazil - $12.8 million
- France - $10.5 million
- Korea - $10.5 million
- India - $10.4 million
- Taiwan - $9.7 million
- Australia - $9.6 million
- Middle East Combined - $9.3 million
- Indonesia - $9 million
- Argentina - $8.3 million
- Malaysia - $6.8 million
- Italy - $6.7 million
- Spain - $6.1 million
- Colombia - $5 million
- Thailand - $4.7 million
- Panama - $4.6 million
The Fate of the Furious has five more territories where it is set to open including today in the Philippines followed by an April 20 opening in Serbia, April 21 in Poland and Romania and an April 28 opening in Japan.