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Vin Diesel vowed to save movie theaters back in April, starring in a melodramatic F9 promotional video about the power of movies and how there’s no such thing as sitting in a theater with other people while the lights go out and some hilarious Fast And Furious nonsense starts to happen, eventually based on The idea that “no one will come back like the movies.” It was a lot, to be honest, but also that’s the whole feeling of Vin Diesel, and you know what? The old bastard pulled her. Vin Diesel Saved the Movies.
It might be a little too early to say, sure, but F9 opened for $70 million this weekend (via Variety), more than any other movie it’s earned since the pandemic closed cinemas last year (even if you count the holiday). The long weekend at A Quiet Place Part II). Oh wait, sorry, that’s not true. It’s actually higher than any other movie last year — as in, even before the pandemic closed theaters. Opened higher than Sonic The Hedgehog. Opened top of Bad Boys for Life. Hell, you have to go back to Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker to find a movie that opened higher than F9, and this movie stinks. Likewise, the F9 opened higher than what Hobbs & Shaw did in 2019, which Diesel will likely be particularly happy with (seeing how this movie was about ass candy).
Speaking to Variety at an event for Charlize Theron’s Africa Outreach Project, Diesel said the best part of F9’s mega-opening was that “people are getting back into the theatrical experience” he said “you can’t blame another studio for wanting to stream a movie”, (he’s talking about Warner Bros., probably (since Groot obviously loves working with Disney), respects that “people like Universal are bold enough” to support movie theaters above all. Theron, who was also there, added, of course, that F9 is “a perfect movie to help us get back in.” We don’t know where F9 will ultimately land, in money terms, but it will be interesting to see if the saga’s new status as a movie savior will convince Universal to reconsider its “two more movies and then that’s it” plan.
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