grim22 Posted May 19, 2023 Share Posted May 19, 2023 31 minutes ago, KGPatt2 said: I mean, they did miss "FasTen Your Seatbelts". That can be the tagline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firepower Posted May 20, 2023 Share Posted May 20, 2023 1 hour ago, Bob Train said: but that's because of the director quitting during production which massively inflated the budget. It didn't inflate the budget to this degree. But big salaries and too many people to pay to did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted May 20, 2023 Share Posted May 20, 2023 22 minutes ago, CJohn said: 27 + 22 + 14 Remember when Fast 6 and Fast 8 opened with 95M+ each? Even Fast 4 opened with 70M+. This is opening below Fast 4! You're 22 years into a franchise. There's no more The Rock, Paul Walker and the family seems to be scattered all over the place. Very few if any franchises can do what Marvel did. Eventually every franchise runs out of steam. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firepower Posted May 20, 2023 Share Posted May 20, 2023 1 hour ago, Jonwo said: The fact the budget for Fast X went up by $125-140m is insane considering that could have paid for another film. I think they just lowballed Fast 9 budget. Universal already lied about Jurassic World sequels budget which was significantly higher than they reported. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spidey Freak Posted May 20, 2023 Share Posted May 20, 2023 2 hours ago, Bob Train said: The films have been bombing domestically since F8. International has come in to save it each time. This one will probably not be profitable but that's because of the director quitting during production which massively inflated the budget. These movies are more marketed to the international crowd anyways, and I think Universal is fine with that. Incredibly OS heavy films aren't anywhere as profitable as their numbers would make you believe because the returns from most international markets are much weaker than those of DOM. Otherwise we'd be on Warcraft VII by now. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie Jatinder Posted May 20, 2023 Share Posted May 20, 2023 (edited) I think Fate of the Furious was the real peak if you remove Paul Walker’s death impact to 7, BO wise. Edited May 20, 2023 by charlie Jatinder 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
budice Posted May 20, 2023 Share Posted May 20, 2023 (edited) Filming around the Pandemic may have messed with the formula. Also the whole apparent need of outdoing the prior ones. Stick to the Street Racing, introduce some new characters and locations. Keep it grounded, Would be just fine. Really doesn't need the ZachSnyder-CGI esque scenes. Also might be losing the edginess of the original few by trying to play to kids more. Edited May 20, 2023 by budice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mulder Posted May 20, 2023 Share Posted May 20, 2023 14 minutes ago, charlie Jatinder said: I think Fate of the Furious was the real peak if you remove Paul Walker’s death impact to 7, BO wise. I mean I guess but you could say that with a lot of other films, while Paul Walker's death definitely helped interest in 7 I also think 7 was just the culmination in audience investment too after both F5 and F6 were pretty well liked. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bordlove Posted May 20, 2023 Share Posted May 20, 2023 3 hours ago, John Marston said: Fast and Furious just feels like the same thing over and over. I can see why there is fatigue Family fatigue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasNicole Posted May 20, 2023 Share Posted May 20, 2023 ~33M would be very good for Guardians Hoping that early FRI is lowballed a bit tho Kinda decent for Fast X as well 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie Jatinder Posted May 20, 2023 Share Posted May 20, 2023 5 minutes ago, Mulder said: I mean I guess but you could say that with a lot of other films, while Paul Walker's death definitely helped interest in 7 I also think 7 was just the culmination in audience investment too after both F5 and F6 were pretty well liked. $1.5B was just too big to not continue. Its not like these films need some story to continue. Now with losses starting to happen, may be they stop making them. but even now $750M+ is big number if they can reduce budget to $150M 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grey ghost Posted May 20, 2023 Share Posted May 20, 2023 People want to complain about a MCU's repetitive formula with afrofuturism, heist movies, sorcery, political thrillers, space opera, horror, John Hughes, etc but what about the Fast and Furious franchise? 3 2 6 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ringedmortality Posted May 20, 2023 Share Posted May 20, 2023 10 minutes ago, grey ghost said: People want to complain about a MCU's repetitive formula with afrofuturism, heist movies, sorcery, political thrillers, space opera, horror, John Hughes, etc but what about the Fast and Furious franchise? You did the meme 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GambitPool Posted May 20, 2023 Share Posted May 20, 2023 (edited) Really can't be understated how essential Paul Walker's everyman was to this series. Brian was a contrast to Vin's increasingly superhero-esque turn and Rock's standard 80's action hero. Now he's gone and every character's a flanderized caricature. He was like an anchor for some sense of realism in an evolving cartoon world lol. Edited May 20, 2023 by GambitPool 8 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poseidon Posted May 20, 2023 Share Posted May 20, 2023 (edited) . Edited May 20, 2023 by Poseidon Wrong topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie Jatinder Posted May 20, 2023 Share Posted May 20, 2023 Universal’s 27 seems about right 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ledmonkey96 Posted May 20, 2023 Share Posted May 20, 2023 29 minutes ago, charlie Jatinder said: Universal’s 27 seems about right so 19.5~ true friday? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattW Posted May 20, 2023 Share Posted May 20, 2023 After 7 my interest in the F&F movies dropped to almost zero. But, my interest in the box office of them is still very much there. To be precise, this weekend last year all we had was downton 2, and with GotG3 legging it out better than DrS2 after opening lower, and mermaid shaping up to open well but not as strong as Top Gun2, I think Fast X might be the tie breaker between last May's total and this month. So for exhibitors it's great, a nice mid-month boost. Should put the weekend overall well over 100m. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavin Feng Posted May 20, 2023 Share Posted May 20, 2023 NEW RELEASES FAST X (2023) 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDude391 Posted May 20, 2023 Share Posted May 20, 2023 2 hours ago, grey ghost said: People want to complain about a MCU's repetitive formula with afrofuturism, heist movies, sorcery, political thrillers, space opera, horror, John Hughes, etc but what about the Fast and Furious franchise? If we got 3-4 Fast films a year (Vin don't get any ideas) then yeah I'd agree with that comparison when people complain about repetitive formula. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
