‘Furious 7′ Speeding to Massive $150 Million Opening

“Furious 7” is speeding past records at the box office this Easter weekend.

The sequel from Universal raced to $67.3 million on Friday in 4,004 U.S. locations as it gears up for a record-breaking opening weekend of $149.5 million.

The sizable figure trumps estimates that had pegged the debut at $115 million, which was bumped up throughout the day on Friday

The film, starring Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson and the late Paul Walker, is on course to become the ninth highest-grossing U.S. opening of all time, stealing the slot from “The Twilight Saga: New Moon,” which launched to $142.8 million in November of 2009. It tails “Spider-Man 3,” which opened to $151.1 million.

“Furious 7” will easily overtake Marvel-Disney’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” as the highest grossing opener of all time in April. “Captain America” launched to $95 million on the same weekend last year. It will also become the biggest film 2015 — a title that another Universal film, »

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Take a Look behind the Insane Stunts of Furious 7

Each new installment of the Fast & Furious franchise has to one-up the previous one in terms of car-related stunts, explosions and just plain insanity and the producers wanted everyone to know that they outperformed themselves once again. 

Physics play no part in the F&F universe since the first movie came out but this takes nothing away from the sheer entertainment the audience extracts from the franchise. In order to keep that massive audience satisfied the producers have gone to great lengths, adopting the craziest and most over-the-top stunts you’ve seen so far. Cars jumping out of planes, cars being thrown out of cliffs, cars being exploded, cars jumping from one skyscraper to another, you get the idea. 

Jack Gill, Stunt Coordinator of the movie, narrates the following video and says: “It has to be so enormous that we want to wow the audience; that’s part of the driving force behind this team, we know we can do it, we just have to keep working harder.”

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Fast & Furious Movie Roasted in Video

It was only a matter of time before popular blockbuster-roasting YouTube channel CinemaSins had a go once again on the Fast & Furious franchise.

It’s no secret that this hugely-successful car-related blockbuster is full of over-the-top stunts and a plot that basically is just there to justify the aforementioned stunts.

Yes, I admit it’s easy and good fun to watch, with all the unbelievable (literally) car chases, the explosions, the ridiculous villains and many more, which is probably why it became the huge franchise it is nowadays.

With the 7th instalment being currently released to the theatres worldwide, CinemaSins rip apart the 2009 “Fast & Furious”- the 4th one- in their own special, cynical way, finding everything that’s wrong with the movie. 

Enjoy the video.

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