If at any point doubts assail you and you wonder why in Hollywood they continue to rattle around with endless franchises while new IPs and other original ideas are left aside, think of news like the ones I bring you below: the ‘Fast’ saga & Furious’ It has already surpassed the barrier of 7,000 million dollars worldwide.
The power of the family
The profitable premiere of the hilarious ‘Fast & Furious X’, which has already raised 388.3 million dollars in the international market, has allowed the series of eleven feature films —if we include the spinoff ‘Hobbs & Shaw’— to become the fifth franchise in history to break the 7 billion barrierwhat English speakers would say, surpassing ‘Batman’ and the DC Extended Universe.
This is the movie list of the fast and furious with their corresponding collections:
- The Fast & The Furious (At full throttle): 208.1 million.
- Full Throttle 2: 236.3 million
- Full Throttle: Tokyo Race (Full Throttle 3): 158.5 million
- Fast & Furious: Even Faster (Full Throttle 4): 363.3 million
- Fast & Furious 5 (Full throttle 5): 622.9 million
- Fast & Furious 6 (Full throttle 6): 788.6 million
- Fast & Furious 7 (Full throttle 7): 1,520.7 million
- Fast & Furious 8: 1,241.5 million
- Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw: 766.1 million
- Fast & Furious 9: 728.1 million
- Fast & Furious X: 388.3 million
In addition, the decent results of Louis Leterrier’s feature film have allowed Universal, if we include the titles released under the wing of Focus, to become a the first company to break the barrier of 1,000 million dollars in revenue in the US market so far in 2023.
If we add to all this other records like the one recently broken by the John Wick saga, which It has already exceeded 1 billion With its four feature films released to date, it is clear that we have franchised cinema for a while.
Via | Deadline
In Espinof | The 29 best movie sagas in history