Fast & Furious Won The Race This Week

Fast & Furious stepping up the gear, and get the top spot in the box office race this week.

The fourth installment of car-racing action movie series got an awesome figures on its opening weekend, a 72.5 million dollars that is. With that amount, the movie has the best achievement so far this year.

The movie -starred by “original parts”, Vin Diesel and Paul Walker- also beat last week’s champion, Monsters vs. Aliens. The $59.3 million debut for DreamWorks Animation was only reigned for a week. This week, Monsters vs. Aliens slipped to second place with $33.5 million.

According to Universal Studios, the film cost about $85 million to make, but the reunion of Diesel and Walker definitely paid off. Fans apparently excited for the anticipated duo, since their first teamed-up racer in 2001. Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster completed the cast from the original.

The new movie has Diesel as fugitive driver, looking for a revenge… while Walker is an undercover cop who aim the boss of drug cartel. The guys joined forces to get both intentions done, got involved in more illegal races, of course.

Here are this week’s top ten:

1. Fast & Furious, $72.5 million.
2. Monsters vs. Aliens, $33.5 million.
3. The Haunting in Connecticut, $9.6 million.
4. Knowing, $8.1 million.
5. I Love You, Man, $7.9 million.
6. Adventureland, $6 million.
7. Duplicity, $4.3 million.
8. Race to Witch Mountain, $3.4 million.
9. 12 Rounds, $2.3 million.
10. Sunshine Cleaning, $1.9 million.

Go Fast, Go Furious!

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