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Fast & Furious
There’s a new number one movie at the box office the week of 4/3/09 – 4/5/09. Fast & Furious raced to number one with over $72 million.
Fast & Furious is the fourth installment of the Fast and the Furious franchise. Fast & Furious reunites four cast members from the original movie. Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, and Jordana Brewster all reprise their roles in this movie. I saw the first two installments, but I didn’t see F&F 3. Maybe I will try and check this one out since some of the original cast members are back for this one. Fast & Furious is now the record holder for biggest debut this year. The previous holder was Monsters vs. Aliens, which as you know from my previous article “Movie Report”, debuted with $59.3 million. Fast & Furious is also the biggest opener for April since 2003s Anger Management, which debuted with $42.2 million.
Last week’s number one movie Monsters vs. Aliens slipped to number two with over $33 million. It made $105.7 million in its 10-day total. That’s not too bad considering what the number one movie made. A couple of weeks ago, the numbers this made would have been the number one movie and not the number two movie. I guess a lot of people wanted to see fast cars and cartoons this weekend. The Haunting In Connecticut was a distant three with over $9 million. Rounding out the top five are: Knowing (over $8 million), and I Love You, Man (over $7 million).
The other new release was Adventureland came in at number six with $6 million. Adventureland is about summer workers at a second rate theme park set in the late 1980s. This isn’t exactly something that I would rush to see and other people must have thought the same way since it didn’t debut that well.
Fast & Furious had a great debut. I wonder if it will hold up for another week. I’m pretty sure that the numbers will drop for it by next weekend. Movies that make this much in the first weekend don’t usually make that much by the next weekend. We’ll see if F&F will follow the same pattern.
Here’s The Top 10 movies for the week:
- Fast & Furious – 72.5 million
- Monsters vs. Aliens – 33.5 million
- The Haunting In Connecticut – 9.6 million
- Knowing – 8.1 million
- I Love You, Man – 7.9 million
- Adventureland – 6 million
- Duplicity – 4.3 million
- Race To Witch Mountain – 3.4 million
- 12 Rounds – 2.3 million
- Sunshine Cleaning – 1.9 million
Another good review on movies. These movies swallowed more than million dollars..WOW!
Hey lovely lady,been a while….I might have to go see it,I haven’t seen a good movie in a while.I have seen the first three…I know i’ve made fun of some of those type of cars in the past,but the movies have been all great.I also enjoyed the fact that they have introduced the world to the muscle car;the harbinger of death when it comes down to true horsepower.I hope you are well.
Thanks for the info. Can wait to watch Fast & Furious.
Great review but probably not one I would watch.
Great review CA!
It’s another remake of the same story and it looks like movie fans are going to be heading for more remakes. Good Job on the movie report.
Always enjoy reading your articles CA!
Blessings.
Sincerely,
-Liane Schmidt.
I want to watch Fast & Furious.. thnx for the top ten list
What I love about your writing is that you have the ability to write from a personal viewpoint, but still remain professional in your approach. I enjoyed reading this article and I do like Fast and Furious. The only thing is it seems to be going on a bit long now and I wonder how many other series of it they will bring out. I don’t really appreciate series that go on and on like James Bond, etc. Great article keep up the hard work!
Thanks for checking out my column, Chan. You’re right about the movies. They do make a lot of money.
Hi Bojack. I’m doing well. I hope you are doing well too. I liked the other two F & F movies, but I never got around to seeing the third one. I haven’t seen the new one yet, but I plan to.
You’re welcome, Yovita. I hope you get a chance to see the new one.
Thanks, Louie. I will most likely check it out because I liked the two I saw.
Than you, BC. I’m glad you liked it.
Thanks, Movie Hunger.
I thought it was the same movie since the name is similar.
Thank you so much, Liane. I always enjoy reading your columns too.
You’re welcome, gazal. Thanks for checking out my column.
Thank you so much for your kind words, Melissa. I’m so happy that you like the way I write. I try to bring my own feelings to my articles because I like to make it more personal. I was taught to write that way by my English professor in college. She said to try and make the articles more personal. I agree that the series is going on for too long. Hopefully they won’t make too many more after this one.
Another review well done and interesting.
Happy, happy birthday Michelle. More power!!!;-)
hmmm.. this is interesting.. i have watched FF1-3 haven’t seen the 4th one yet.. great review! =)
I may not be a fan but if my husband watch it,I’ll watch it.thanks for the review.
Great article! Fast and Furious overtook Monsters vs. Aliens by quite a large margin. i really enjoyed the read.