International Box Office: 'Fast Five' Sets Universal Record With $86.6 Million
2:00 PM 5/8/2011 by Frank Segers
The action flick marks the studio's biggest international weekend, while Paramount and Marvel Entertainment's "Thor" takes No. 2 with $46 million.
Universal’s
Fast Five zoomed to the top of the foreign theatrical circuit’s box office chart on the weekend, grossing a speedy $86.6 million from 6,979 locations -- for a per-screen average of more than $12,000 -- in 58 overseas territories.
Opening in 44 new markets and almost doubling its $45.9 million gross from the prior stanza,
Fast Five’s take was described by Universal as the biggest international weekend in company history, surpassing the previous weekend record ($84.3 million) grossed by 2005’s
King Kong update.
Fast Five, which has been playing overseas for three rounds, has accumulated $184.8 million offshore, lifting its worldwide total gross to date to $324.7 milllion.
The fifth sequel in the turbo-charged car action franchise, directed by
Justin Lin and costarring
Vin Diesel,
Dwayne Johnson and
Paul Walker, has five territories yet to play. Three open this week including China.
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