With a bow that doubled what most industry observers had previously predicted, this street car racing-themed movie scored the highest-grossing opening ever for the series, outdrawing the $50.5 million debut tally of "2 Fast 2 Furious". It also shattered "Anger Management" old record in being the biggest April opening ever, and marked Universal Pictures best opening by beating "The Lost World: Jurassic Park"'s $72.1 million earning.
Easily beating "Monsters vs. Aliens"'s $59.3 million debut bow to secure also this year's biggest opening title in the North American market, "Fast and Furious" made impressive debut overseas as well. The Justin Lin-directed movie opened first in most of the international markets, including Germany, Mexico and Spain, and brought in $30.1 million from the 31 international markets.
The second box office slot went to "Monsters vs. Aliens". Though slipping to the runner up position and experienced about 43.5% decline in sales, the 3-D animation movie still had a solid run, raking in an estimated $33.5 million. So far, the DreamWorks Animation SKG film has hauled in a total of $105.7 million.
"The Haunting in Connecticut", in the meantime, dropped two spots to the third position. In its second week of theatrical screening, the supernatural horror movie only managed to earn around $9.6 million. "Knowing" followed in the fourth place with approximately $8.1 million, while "I Love You, Man" was in fifth with about $7.9 million. Additionally, Kristen Stewart's "Adventureland" was pushed to the sixth place, collecting around $6 million.
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