That bests the previous highs of Jurassic World's $317m overseas debut (alongside a then-record $208.8m domestic opening) and Star Wars: The Force Awakens' $529m global bow (alongside a record $248m domestic debut weekend). While the film's $100m domestic debut won't make the record books, there is something appropriate about Walt Disney's Star Wars and Universal/Comcast Corp.'s The Fast and the Furious sitting atop the record books. Fate of the Furious debuted on the same day where we got our first teaser for The Last Jedi. Come what may, Star Wars and The Fast and the Furious were movies first. But, relatively speaking, the monstrous successes of Fast and the Furious and Star Wars show the value of still rolling the dice on an original genre offering.

Source: Forbes April 17, 2017 15:00 UTC