Furious 7 Continues To Dominate At The Box Office!!

Furious 7 is unstoppable!! For the third weekend in a row, the action film took the top spot at the box office, taking in $29M!! Overall, the latest installment in the Fast & Furious franchise has grossed $1.153B, including what it’s made overseas. According to Deadline.con:

“Universal is smiling today as, by all expectations this morning, its franchise film Furious 7 should end the weekend with right around $29M for a cume a of $294.4M. This is the first picture to make $1B picture in its first run in the studio’s 103-year history and passed that milestone on Friday in only 17 days, the fastest ever.”

Welp, that pretty much guarantees there will be a Furious 8, and probably 9 and 10!! Furious 7 stars the late Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Tyrese Gibson, Jason Statham, and others.

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CANNES: Summit Grabs Rights To Dwayne Johnson-Starring Thriller ‘Snitch’

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Summit Entertainment has secured U.S. rights to Snitch, a drama based on a true story that stars Dwayne Johnson and is directed by Ric Roman Waugh. The script, by Justin Haythe and Waugh, is inspired by the Frontline documentary Snitch, which follows a suburban dad (Johnson) whose teen son is sentenced to 10 years under mandatory minimum drug laws. To reduce the sentence, the father goes undercover to catch a senior drug dealer. Exclusive Media is producing with Johnson and his producing partner Dany Garcia, as well as with Frontline‘s David Fanning. The film is being co-financed by Exclusive, Participant Media and Imagenation Abu Dhabi; Exclusive Film International is handing global sales at the Cannes market. Alliance Films already has taken rights in Canada, the UK and Spain.

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