That kind of narrative doesn't work for Chinese moviegoers anymore than it does for North American ones," he explains about the poor word-of-mouth the movie received in China. "The next two chapters hopefully won’t be so obsessed with Saw-like 'Here's what really happened!' revelations. While this resulted in a huge $136 million debut, it has gone on to take 'only' $216 million, marking a drop of around 45% on the previous two movies (although slightly better than Hobbs & Shaw's $201 million).Īs Scott Mendelson points out on Forbes, that'd be a decent result for other Hollywood movies (including Marvel outings) but for F9, it's an "underwhelming" result in comparison to the previous two instalments in the main series. It's because of this that F9 was released in China five weeks ahead of the US and most other major markets. China has become the go-to-market with $390 million results for both Fast & Furious 7 and Fast & Furious 8, compared to the US hauls of $353 million and $226 million, respectively. US cinemas are slowly getting back on their feet and to pre-pandemic levels (as in most countries), so a $160 million result isn't the worst outcome for the movie, even if Black Widow is expected to surpass whatever 'pandemic era' records it will have set.īut in recent outings of the series, the US box office has never been where the biggest chunk of its money has been taken. After a 67% second weekend drop, it'll probably end up around the $160 million mark by the end of its run. Even though it's only two weekends into its US run, F9 will soon face stiff competition from Black Widow and, historically, Fast & Furious movies are front-loaded at the box office.
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