Fast and Furious 8 has dominated the US box office for the second weekend in a row, with The Fate of the Furious earning a whopping $38,682,09 in its second week of release.
It earned over three times the amount the second placed film in the box office table did, while last weekend it outperformed the rest of the top 10 put together.
The film has been so successful that there is even apparently going to be a spin-off starring Jason Statham and Dwayne Johnson, which we'll sure will bringing in even more millions of dollars for the franchise when it inevitably gets the go-ahead.
And there's no sign of the hype stopping there either, with parts 9 and 10 of the franchise already in the works.
Trailing The Fate of the Furious is The Boss Baby, which claimed $12,750,000 over the weekend. The animated comedy from Fox and DreamWorks Animation stars Alec Baldwin as a suit-wearing infant engaged in a secret war with puppies.
The top three is completed by Disney's live action Beauty and the Beast, meaning there has been no change in the top three since last week.
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Beauty and the Beast, starring Emma Watson as Belle and Dan Stevens as the Beast, earned $9,973,000 over the weekend, while Disney continued to make waves with another film in the top 5 this week in the form of new entry Born in China, which grossed $5,147,000 to debut in 4th position.
The DisneyNature documentary follows three animal families in China – the panda, the golden monkey and the snow leopard.
The top five is completed by Going in Style, which stars Morgan Freeman, Alan Arkin and Michael Caine. The crime comedy earned $5,005,000 in earnings over the weekend.
This week's box office bombs come to us courtesy of the Katherine Heigl-starring Unforgettable and Oscar Isaac and Christian Bale's movie about the final years of the Ottoman Empire The Promise, the latter of which made just $4.1 million on a $90 million budget.
But despite The Promise falling short at the box office, the studio's president of marketing, Jonathan Helfgot, added that the film's mission was to raise awareness and not necessarily make money.
"It was about bring the world's attention to this issue," he said (via Variety). "And looking at the amount of conversation … it's undeniable that there's been more focus and attention in the past two weeks than the past hundred years since the atrocity took place."
Here is the weekend's top ten in full, as reported by Box Office Mojo:
1. (1) The Fate of the Furious - $163,578,315
2. (2) The Boss Baby - $136,991,870
3. (3) Beauty and the Beast - $471,097,384
4. (-) Born in China - $5,147,000
5. (5) Going In Style - $31,765,843
6. (4) Smurfs: The Lost Village - $33,387,985
7. (-) Unforgettable - $4,805,000
8. (6) Gifted - $10,714,792
9. (-) The Promise - $4,064,860
10. (28) The Lost City of Z - $2,296,792
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