The latest installment in the Fast and Furious movie franchise, “Furious 7,” is already the franchise’s highest grossing film worldwide after less than three weeks of release. The film, from Comcast Corp.’s (NASDAQ: CMCSA) Universal Studios, crossed the $1 billion mark for global ticket sales in just 17 days, beating a previous record of 19 days to $1 billion shared by “The Avengers” and “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.”
“Furious 7” is also the first Universal film to top $1 billion in ticket sales in its original run, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “Jurassic Park,” first released in 1993, topped that mark following its 2013 release in 3D.
In the United States, “Furious 7” is estimated to have sold $273.7 million in tickets after its first 15 days of release. International sales totaled an estimated $735.2 million after 17 days.
On the all-time worldwide gross receipts ranking at Box Office Mojo, “Furious 7” currently sits in the 20th spot, just $4 million behind “The Dark Knight.” The 10th highest grossing film of all time is last year’s “Transformers: Age of Extinction” with $1.09 billion in gross ticket sales, a mark easily within reach of “Furious 7,” which has already posted an estimated total of nearly $1.01 billion. In fact, reaching the seventh spot all-time to displace 2011’s “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” with gross sales of $1.124 billion is quite likely.
The film’s domestic performance is somewhat less furious. The movie’s $273.7 million in ticket sales ranks it around 68th all-time in the United States, and it trails “American Sniper,” which opened in wide release in 2015 after a limited run in late 2014 and has posted $347.4 million in U.S. ticket sales for 28th place on the all-time list. That total is certainly within reach of “Furious 7.”
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