'Fast & Furious' wins Friday b.o. race with $30M
Franck Tabouring
"Fast & Furious" raced to the top of the North American box office Friday with a whopping $30.1 million in ticket sales.
The fourth installment in the popular series easily beat the $9.7 million opening day gross of its predecessor, "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift." In the Justin Lin-directed film, Vin Diesel and Paul Walker team up to infiltrate the operations of a drug lord.
Things didn't go so well for "Adventureland," this week's second wide release. The Greg Mottola-directed comedy starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart finished in sixth place and only pulled in $2.1 million. The movie follows a recent college grad who takes on a crappy job at an amusement park.
At No. 2, DreamWorks Animation's "Monsters vs. Aliens" took home another $8.9 million, lifting its total gross to $81.9 million. Following in thid place with $3.6 million was "The Haunting in Connecticut," which brought its domestic total to $31.3 million.
Meanwhile, "I Love You, Man" collected $2.7 million at No. 4, reaching a cumulative gross of $44.1 million. Nicholas Cage's latest thriller "Knowing" took home $2.6 million for a total of $52.7 million.
Source: Box Office Mojo (www.boxofficemojo.com)
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