After a $15.8M turbo Thursday preview, Friday has gone into overdrive with an expected $67M to $68M gross for Furious 7 which could put it anywhere around $148M. It will break records this weekend as the as biggest April opening ever as well as most likely the second-largest pre-summer bow in history only behind The Hunger Games ($152.5M), which debuted in March of 2012. It is also, to date, the biggest opening of 2015 — a year that is expected to be full of box office records. Furious 7 is also to be the biggest opening weekend of all the Fast and Furious franchise film, surpassing F6‘s opening $97.3M by roughly 43%. This installment received the widest release ever for both the studio (with 4,004 theaters) and on IMAX (with 365).
Furious 7 is hot off the starting line, bringing in $15.8 million in late night showing on Thursday night. That more the doubles the late night earnings of Fast & Furious 6 ($6.5 million).
This makes Furious 7 the largest opening night release so far in 2015, and is significantly stronger showing than 2014’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier (10.2 million)
Universal's Furious 7 continues to build momentum at the Friday box office for a weekend debut in the $135 million-$138 million range, the largest opening in North America since fall 2013.
That includes a projected Friday take of $58 million-$60 million.
After a $15.8M turbo Thursday preview, Friday has gone into overdrive with an expected $67M to $68M gross for Furious 7 which could put it anywhere around $148M. It will break records this weekend as the as biggest April opening ever as well as most likely the second-largest pre-summer bow in history only behind The Hunger Games ($152.5M), which debuted in March of 2012. It is also, to date, the biggest opening of 2015 — a year that is expected to be full of box office records. Furious 7 is also to be the biggest opening weekend of all the Fast and Furious franchise film, surpassing F6‘s opening $97.3M by roughly 43%. This installment received the widest release ever for both the studio (with 4,004 theaters) and on IMAX (with 365).
It'll be interesting to see if Age of Ultron is able to match that.
