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Just some fast cars, faster women, a bank vault dragged through the streets of Rio de Janeiro, more wasting of fuel than in the BP oil spill and two bald giants — Vin Diesel and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson — kicking the crap out of each other. _Fast Five_, fifth in the _Fast and the Furious_ series of car-crazy action thrillers, blasted into the stratosphere this weekend with $83.6 million at North American theaters, according to early studio estimates. “Summer starts Apr. 29,” read the ads from Universal Pictures, underlining that the blockbuster movie season was starting a week early this year. Hollywood dearly hopes _Fast Five_‘s muscular opening means that the industry’s winter of discontent, with the box office down by nearly 20%, is vanishing in Diesel’s rear-view mirror. \[**MONDAY UPDATE:** According to final box-office totals released today, _Fast Five_ actually earned $86.2 million, or 3% above the Sunday estimate. The real weekend figures for _Rio_ and _Water for Elephants_ also exceeded yesterday’s guesses, whereas _Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family_ and _Prom_ finished lower.\] _Fast Five_ creamed the competition, siphoning off more than half of the money spent on movie tickets this weekend. It earned nearly six times the take of the No. 2 film, _Rio_ (making this the third consecutive week that the winning movie was set in the Brazilian resort town); and it left two kid-targeted comedies, _Prom_ and _Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil,_ choking in their own pixie dust. _Prom_, which Disney hoped would jump-start a _High School Musical_\-type franchise, earned only $5 million; and the 3-D cartoon _Hoodwinked_, yet another gloss on the Red Riding Hood fable, settled for $4.1 million. Over in the micro-world of indie films, the doc _Cave of Forgotten Dreams_, [Werner Herzog’s visit](https://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2068664,00.html) to the site of the oldest known works of art, opened to a sterling $127,000 in five theaters. Its $25,400 per-screen average managed to beat _Fast Five_‘s $22,950 — though, we grant, the car movie was playing in 3,639 more venues than the cave movie. It was gargantuan apples vs. miniature oranges. [(See Richard Corliss’s review of the action-packed _Fast Five_.)](https://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2068115,00.html) Per-screen is the only race _Fast Five_ lost. It opened to more than twice the gross of any other film this year; no previous picture had premiered to as much as $40 million. Indeed, _Fast Five_‘s Friday revenue — $34.5 million — was larger than the full weekend grosses of all but four 2011 movies (_Rango, Battle Los Angeles, Hop_ and _Rio_). Targeting the young males who’ve been conspicuously AWOL in the recent movie recession, another Universal ad promised, “If you’ve been waiting for a reason to go to the movies, we’ve got _five_.” The strategy worked: 56% of the audience was male, 52% under 25\. _Fast Five_ pulled a CinemaScore grade of A from exiting moviegoers, including an A-plus from those under 25\. The critics liked it too, with the Rotten Tomatoes aggregate-review site [giving the film](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fast%5Ffive/) a 79% rating. In the U.S. and Canada, _Fast Five_ enjoyed the biggest opening weekend for the series, in both current and real dollars. (The others, with the year of release, the first-weekend gross at the time and the numbers adjusted for inflation: _The Fast and the Furious_, 2001, $40 million / $56.8 million; _2 Fast 2 Furious_, 2003, $50.5 million / $67 million; _The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift_, 2006, $24 million / $29.3 million; and [_Fast & Furious_](https://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1889382,00.html), 2009, $71 million / $75.8 million.) Disdaining 3-D as a crutch for wimpy films, _Fast Five_ instead broke into 243 IMAX auditoriums, earning $8.3 million there. The figures were also robust in a limited number of foreign countries: $45.3 million this weekend, for a 10-day total of $81.4 million. [(See American muscle cars in the movies.)](https://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1887238,00.html) The secret to this success: rebranding. The audience for movies glorifying car thieves is limited; the audience for a large-scale heist movie, enormous. With the George Clooney _Ocean’s_ franchise dormant since 2007, and no James Bond movie since 2008, the _Fast/Furious_ brain trust determined that moviegoers were avid for a caper-thriller, set in an international fun spot — another reliable formula for extending a movie series. Danny Ocean’s gang fleeced Europe in _Twelve_; the ladies of _Sex and the City_ looked for love in Abu Dhabi; Indiana Jones found thugs in India; the _Hangover_ guys are headed to Thailand; the Simpsons went to Japan, Australia and (in the 2007 feature-film version) Alaska. _Fast Five_ took the _Ocean’s_ concept, adjusted its class level from upper to working, brought back a dozen actors from earlier episodes, added an appropriate brand-name star (The Rock) and lavished a reported $170-million on the production. The gamble paid off: _Fast Five_ carjacked the box office and put it in Universal’s vault. One more record: _Fast Five_, topping its own fourth installment, landed the best April opening ever. But that trophy is mostly due to a fluke of the calendar. Though it’s true that the movies’ “summer” usually begins in early May, there’s really no difference in holiday Mondays or school vacations between the first weekend of May and the last weekend of April. (And in case you haven’t noticed, today is May 1.) By that measure, _Fast Five_‘s opening was just O.K. Two years ago, _X-Men Origins: Wolverine_ opened May 1 and earned $85.1 million in its first three days; in 2008, _Iron Man_ had a May 2 debut and grossed $98.6 million that weekend. Last year’s early-May biggie, _Iron Man 2_, opened to $128.1 million. _Fast Five_ just took advantage of a nice spring weekend to start its engine early. [(See Richard Corliss’s review of the high-flying _Rio_.)](https://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2065282,00.html) Next weekend, we’ll see if Marvel’s mystico-comix action film _Thor_ can beat _Fast Five_‘s $80-plus million opening — or if it will lose its way in a cloud of Vin Diesel fumes. Here are the Sunday estimates of this weekend’s top-grossing pictures in North American theaters, as reported by Box Office Mojo: 1\. _Fast Five_, $83.6 million, first weekend 2\. _Rio_, $14.4 million; $103.6 million, third week 3\. _Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family_, $10.05 million; $41.1 million, second week 4\. _Water for Elephants_, $9.1 million; $32.3 million, second week 5\. _Prom_, $5 million, first weekend 6\. _Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil_, $4.1 million, first weekend 7\. _Soul Surfer_, $3.3 million; $33.8 million, fourth week 8\. _Insidious_, $2.7 million; $48.3 million, fifth week 9\. _Hop_, $2.58 million; $105.3 million, fifth week 10\. _Source Code_, $2.53 million; $48.9 million, fifth week [See the world’s most influential people in the 2011 TIME 100.](https://www.time.com/time100) [See TIME’s 140 best Twitter feeds.](https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,2058946,00.html) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6911550/fast-five-carjacks-the-box-office-with-a-furious-83-6-million/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6911550/fast-five-carjacks-the-box-office-with-a-furious-83-6-million/"},"headline":"Fast Five Carjacks the Box Office with a Furious $83.6 Million","datePublished":"2011-05-01T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-22T16:28:54.015Z","description":"What did it take to wake up the Rip Van Winkle box office, asleep for the past 20 or more weeks? 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