In the days following the release of
The Fate of the Furious, the movie picked up millions of dollars – and millions of pirates.
According to
Variety, the film was downloaded 2.1 million times in the week following the debut. Interestingly, it still wasn’t as popular as
Furious 7 among the illegal-downloading set.
That previous film was illegally downloaded a whopping 4.74 million times in the same time frame, according to the news outlet. This difference in demand was also reflected in opening-weekend box office sales in the US.
The Fate of the Furious brought in $100.2 million, whereas
Furious 7 managed to rake in $147.2 million.
Despite the high number of illegal copies distributed,
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Fate of the Furious has still been an enormous financial success.
Variety reports it earned $532.5 million worldwide in the opening weekend, which broke
the old record of $529 million held by
Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
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