By Honestly, I nearly forgot about doing the box office roundup for this past weekend. Maybe with the recent release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, people stayed away from theaters since they were glued to their Switch consoles. I’m not sure, but I saw almost no significant outlets covering the box office and assumed everything just bombed. Surprisingly, Fast X opened to an okay domestic release with $67.5 million.
Internationally speaking, Fast X did much better. Somehow, the 10th (though technically 11th) Fast and the Furious film pulled $251.4 million overseas. In China, specifically, the film saw even bigger returns than in the US and managed a $78.3 million opener. With a reported budget of around $340 million, the film is already on track to make its money back. Whether or not this first part of a potential trilogy closer will become profitable is still up in the air.
As for the other films, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 took second place with a solid third-week haul of $31.9 million. That’s only 48% down from the previous week and it propels the film’s domestic gross to $266.5 million. If I’m not mistaken, it is the second highest-grossing film of the year behind The Super Mario Bros. Movie. Speaking of Mario and Luigi, they took third with an extra $9.8 million and brought the domestic gross to $549 million. Internationally, the film sits at $1.2 billion, which is just ludicrous.
Here are the top 10 films for the past weekend (all totals domestic):
- Fast X – $67.5 million
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 – $31.9 million
- The Super Mario Bros. Movie – $9.8 million
- Book Club: The Next Chapter – $3 million
- Evil Dead Rise – $2.3 million
- John Wick: Chapter 4 – $1.3 million
- Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret – $1.3 million
- Hypnotic – $825,000
- Love Again – $400,000
- Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves – $385,000
