The opening receipts for the series that began 20 years ago and has collected $6.2 billion in total global box office revenue falls within the range of previous iterations of the car-racing action series - which saw its peak in 2015 when “Furious 7” took in $147 million during its debut weekend, and its nadir in 2006 with “The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift,” which earned only $23.9 million in its opening weekend. Hollywood is hoping so as Universal Pictures reports that the ninth installment of the Fast & Furious franchise, “ F9: The Fast Saga,” is expected to earn $68 million on 4,179 screens - the largest theater count for a single film since the pandemic shuttered the movie theater business in March 2020.
