"Fate of the Furious" is projected for a $110 million opening in North America this weekend, according to industry analysts. Now, other blockbusters are opening at times beyond the traditional summer and holiday schedule.Īnd despite its B movie stigma, "Furious" has brought in A Movie money, making nearly $4 billion worldwide over seven movies, according to comScore ( SCOR). Moritz noted that the movies' April release window was a bit improvised, a result of their lacking the heft to scare away other big franchises from opening opposite them. Related: 'The Fate of the Furious' review The B Movie stigma of "Fast and the Furious" has helped it become so crazy and over the top that it's become good pop art. Some of the concessions that the "Furious" team made to its reality as a B movie draw have, because of the franchise's surprise success, actually influenced the rest of the industry. Honestly, we always have something to prove, and I think that's good." "I don't think we got any respect probably until maybe and then something happened where the studios and people in town had to take us seriously. "We never got any respect," Neal Mortiz, a producer on all eight of the "Furious" films, told CNN in a recent interview.
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