‘F9’ Propels Box Office to Biggest Weekend Since Pandemic
- Car-chase movie generates $70 million in weekend sales
- Overall box office more than doubles from last weekend’s
Vin Diesel attends Universal Pictures "F9" World Premiere in Hollywood.
Photographer: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images
“F9,” the latest installment of the Fast & Furious franchise, turbocharged the domestic box office this weekend, drawing audiences back into theaters at a pace not seen since early 2020.
The feature from Comcast Corp.’s Universal Pictures generated $70 million in weekend ticket sales, according to researcher Comscore Inc., higher than the industry estimate of $67 million, walloping the current largest film debut during pandemic times. The result amounts to an average opening weekend for a movie in the Fast & Furious series, but still thrills theater owners and studios, which have been starved of new big-budget films for 15 months.