Box Office: How ‘F9’ Sped to Record $70M U.S. Opening
BY PAMELA MCCLINTOCK | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT The ninth installment in the 'Fast and Furious' franchise scored the biggest launch yet of the pandemic era. Waiting to rev up the engines was worth the wait for F9. When the COVID-19 crisis struck in the U.S., Universal decided to push back the ninth installment in the Fast and Furious franchise by a full year, versus taking a chance on the latter half of 2020 as other tentpoles did (unsuccessfully). As it turned out, many theaters didn’t begin reopening until late spring 2021. Over the weekend, F9 sped to a record $70 million in its North American…
