Vin Diesel: ‘Cinema is back!’ as ‘F9’ sets pandemic box office record

“Black Widow” at home, audiences went to the movie theater in pandemic record numbers this weekend to catch the first Marvel movie released in two years.The Walt Disney Co. said Sunday the superhero pic generated an estimated $80 million in ticket sales in North America.

Black Widow has smashed US box office records in the pandemic era, earning $80million in cinemas and $60million on Disney+.Starring Scarlett Johansson and Florence Pugh, Black Widow is the first film in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe to be released since the pandemic began in March last year.

Marvel movie released in two years.The Walt Disney Co. said Sunday the superhero pic generated an estimated $80 million in ticket sales in North America.

Black Widow is huge!

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to be a major loophole for India to move on from an extremely tragic 2020 as the lockdown era refuses to extinguish. While we venture outside the confines of our homes with grave hesitancy, most of us miss going out without being obliged to wear a mask.

Art imitating life. Meadow Walker, daughter of the late Paul Walker, has relied on her godfather, Vin Diesel, as a major source of support since her father’s death, a source reveals exclusively in the new issue of Us Weekly.

Fast and Furious alum Tyrese Gibson recently got candid about his 2017 feud with co-star Dwayne Johnson. Gibson, 42, appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on to chat with guest host Tiffany Haddish and shared that he considers the latest Fast & Furious movie the most “vulnerable” yet and addressed his past feud with his co-star Dwayne Johnson. “We’ve been on the phone every other day.

Hollywood legend Helen Mirren recently returned as Magdalene Shaw aka Queenie in a cameo part in Fast and Furious 9. After fans loved her in her debut role, now Helen is opening up on the possibility of being a part of future films of the franchise.

Any other year, it wouldn’t be a massive surprise that a ‘Fast & Furious’ film debuted with a huge box office total. But after a year of basically no theatrical releases and no major blockbusters, the fact that “F9” debuted with a $70 million estimated opening weekend is noteworthy.

Fast & Furious 9.Walker, who passed away in 2013, was an original star of the franchise, appearing as Brian O’Conner up until 2015’s Furious 7.Speaking to NME, Diesel opened up about casting wrestler Cena in the most recent film, admitting: “I’m a multi-cultural actor, you could’ve picked anybody to be my brother.“So there was a great moment of anxiety when it came time to think about who you would cast to be Jakob.

As “F9: The Fast Saga” is about to break a pandemic era box office record this weekend, Vin Diesel might already attempt to push Universal Pictures to new and strange places with the “Fast & Furious” franchise.

Not only does that top the $47.5 million 3-day opening of “A Quiet Place — Part II” and the $60 million opening of the “Fast & Furious” spinoff “Hobbs & Shaw,” but it also tops the openings of all the 2020 films that became hits before the pandemic, including the $62.5 million start for “Bad Boys for Life.” The $5.5 million grossed by “F9” on IMAX screens is the highest domestic weekend total for the format since “Bad Boys for Life” launched in January 2020.

Fast & Furious 9 is set to break the pandemic-era box office record in the United States after a huge opening this weekend.The latest film in the record-breaking franchise hit cinemas worldwide this week, coming out in the UK on Thursday (June 24) and in the States the following day.According to Variety, the Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez-starring movie made $30million (£21.6m) across over 4,000 cinemas on its opening day, and is currently heading for an intake of $68m (£49m) on opening

Ellise Shafer administratorThe ninth installment in the “Fast and Furious” franchise is on its way to breaking a pandemic-era domestic box office record with an estimated $68 million debut.The action film, starring Vin Diesel and John Cena, raked in $30 million on Friday alone from 4,179 theaters.

franchise continues to get faster and more furious with every installment, there are always potential surprises in store for the future.

Nine films later (10 if you count the ‘Hobbs & Shaw’ spinoff), it appears the ‘Fast & Furious’ Saga is entering its final quarter-mile stretch. And even though the film series is expected to end with a two-part finale, it appears that Vin Diesel, the godfather of all things fast and all things furious, already has the final scene in mind that will cap off the journey that began more than 20 years ago.

Vin Diesel is sharing his candid thoughts on the "magical" feeling he encountered which led to John Cena being cast as Dom's brother Jakob Torreto, also the main antagonist, in F9. During a recent appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show, Kelly Clarkson asked the 53-year-old actor how John ended up being a part of Fast & Furious 9."Obviously I'm multicultural.

Vin Diesel thinks a lot of his co-star, John Cena. In , the brother of Diesel's character, Dominic Toretto, is introduced as Jakob and is portrayed by Cena. While the former WWE star now seems like an obvious choice, Diesel admits on Wednesday's episode of that he experienced some «anxiety» about casting the role of his sibling. «Obviously I'm multicultural.