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“Furious 7” Races to Top of Box Office

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040215 FF7?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1428264736765Universal(NEW YORK) — Vin Diesel’s Dom Toretto may see no difference in winning by an inch or a mile, but his latest foray into the Fast and Furious series definitely ran away with the weekend box office.

Toretto may live his life a quarter-mile at a time, but the series isn’t slowing down at all. That’s readily apparent by the fact that Furious 7 finished leagues ahead of the pack, bringing in nearly $150 million. Animated feature Home finished a distant second at just over $27,000.

The seventh iteration of the action-packed series features Vin Diesel, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Jason Statham and and Ludacris, among others. Fast & Furious 6 opened up in 2013 with a $122.2 million gross revenue in its opening weekend.

Family has long been central to the series, but it took on an even stronger meaning for Furious 7 after the death of star Paul Walker in 2013.

Here are the top ten films of the weekend according to boxofficemojo.com:

1. Furious 7: $143.623 million
2. Home (2015): $27.4 million
3. Get Hard: $12.925 million
4. Cinderella (2015): $10.289 million
5. The Divergent Series: Insurgent: $10 million
6. It Follows: $2.465 million
7. Woman in Gold: $2.004 million
8. Kingsman: The Secret Service: $1.7 million
9. Do You Believe?: $1.5 million
10. The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: $1 million


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