Fast & Furious 7 Already Highest-Grossing Movie Of 2015

It’s not just the hotrods in ‘Fast & Furious 7’ that are breaking speed records – the Vin Diesel actioner is already the highest-grossing movie of 2015 after just two weeks at the box office.

The sequel has made an eye-watering $800 million (£548 million) so far worldwide, nearly $150 million (£102 million) more than the movie in second place, 'Fifty Shades of Grey’ (also from the Universal studio).

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It’s scored $252.5 million (£172 million) in the US, coupled with an increasingly sprawling $548 million (£375 million) overseas.

Even with its sturdy $190 million (£130 million) production budget – and probably the same again for marketing and promotion – it should be ploughing into profit territory with ease.

It means that the movie series has now topped well over $3 billion (£2.05 billion) in all, and it’s the highest-grossing of the lot.

Worldwide figures have been sterling also, with the movie making its debut in China yesterday, and earning a massive $68.8 million (£47 million) in a single day, the biggest one-day gross ever in the second biggest movie-going market in the world.

'Fast & Furious 6’ was the previous series best, earning $789 million (£540 million) in all.

This time around, Vin Diesel’s Dom Toretto is pitted against Jason Statham’s Deckard Shaw, the vengeful brother of Owen Shaw, despatched by the gang in the last movie.

It’s the final performance from Paul Walker, who died in a car wreck while the movie was filming in Los Angeles.

Walker’s brothers Caleb and Cody helped fill in for their brother in scenes which had not yet been filmed.

Cody Walker is now said to be signed up with a Hollywood agency and seeking a career in acting.

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