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World Box Office Weekend Report 21st - 23rd May 2021: Fast 9 makes its global debut at the top with a strong Chinese box office showing

World Box Office Weekend Report 21st - 23rd May 2021:  Fast 9 makes its global debut at the top with a strong Chinese box office showing
Fast and Furious 9
The much delayed Fast & Furios 9 made its debut in China this weekend and not only topped the box office there but was the biggest film of the weekend globally.

Also making a very strong first weekend on the box office is Love Will Tear Us Apart which makes its debut at number 2 this week.

Global box office QuickView

  • Number 1 - Fast & Furious 9 (1st Weekend)
  • Highest debut - Fast & Furious 9 (@1)
  • Longest run - Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (9 weeks)
  • Highest total gross - Cliff Walkers ($164.7 Million)

Global box office top 5 breakdown 21st - 23rd May 2021

Fast and Furious 9

Fast & Furious 9

As with most movies at the moment this is over a year late coming to cinemas, but as expected the latest episode in the Fast series makes a fantastic debut.

The movie takes a very impressive $162.3 Million over its debut weekend from just 8 countries.

Love Will Tear Us Apart

Also making its debut on the global box office is Chinese director Mo Sha's latest movie which takes $14.8 Million over the weekend from just 1 country.

The movie got a mid week release and has taken $30.3 Million since its debut.

Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway

As cinemas start to open the sequel movie to Peter Rabbit has gone into more and countries and hence has been around for 9 weeks.

This week the movie is at 3 with $8.4 Million from 11 countries, a 70% increase from last weekend, and it has taken a global total of $30.2 Million.

Spiral: From the Book of Saw

Spiral: From the Book of Saw

The horror franchise movie has been on the global box office for 2 weeks now and falls to 4 with $7.2 Million from 22 countries, down 40% from last weekend.

To date the movie has taken $22.5 Million globally.

Wrath of Man

Falling to number 2 this week is Guy Ritchies latest movie which takes $6.3 Million this weekend from 30 countries, 60% down, for a $65.7 Million total from 5 weeks.

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