Hobbs Shaw Has Worst Fast Furious Box Office Opening Since 2009
Hobbs and Shaw won the box office this weekend, but still ended up with the worst Fast and Furious opening since 2009. After a handful of installments that had moderate success both domestically and internationally, Universal’s prized franchise emerged as one of the decade’s leading film properties in 2011. That year, Fast Five was released and it exceeded expectations by grossing $626.1 million worldwide. Since then, Fast and Furious has been a very reliable cash cow for the studio, with the two latest entries hitting the $1 billion mark....