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Anticipation for the film has been growing since the tragic death of series original Paul Walker in 2013, and the $147 million debut of the film has shown that the fans just love this franchise.
Whether this is the last movie in the franchise or not remains to be seen, but it's the last film with the original cast and will go on to be the highest grossing of the series.
Falling into second place this week with a $27 million second weekend gross is DreamWorks Home, it's total gross is now $95 million.
Also new in the US this weekend is Helen Mirren in Woman In Gold which lands at 7 with a $2 million opening.
Robert has been a film buff since he first visited the old Palace Cinema in High Wycome when he was young.
After working for Ritz Video Film Hire, later Blockbuster Express, it cemented his interest in film and gave him the drive to go to university with the intention of working in the industy.
6 years of college/university studying film and Culture and he decided to take a different path, so he taught himself to develop websites.
8 years at Amazon, 3 years at eBay, a year at PayPal and 6 years running his own digital marketing agency and here we are writing and developing saltypopcorn.co.uk.