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Fate Furiously Foisted to First

A herd of cinematic newcomers stampeded into theaters this weekend, hoping to rumble their way into moviegoers hearts.

Alas for them, said moviegoers were conspicuously unmoved by all this new cinematic sound and fury and decided to watch The Fate of the Furious again.

For the second straight week, Furious punched the gas and roared to the win, banking an estimated $38.7 million en route. Its domestic gross now stands at a quite respectable $163.6 million, and that number is dwarfed by what Furious is doing overseas. In fact, the Vin Diesel-helmed flick has now banked $744.8 million outside North America, giving it a grand total of $908.4 million. Yep, sometimes a lead foot can turn into pure gold.

Two other long-in-the-tooth movies followed Furious in this weekend’s box office standings. The Boss Baby, despite having aged nearly a month in theaters, crawled to second place and stuffed another $12.8 million into its cute little mouth. Beauty and the Beast finished third with $10 million in newfound cash, even though the Disney flick’s six-week run makes it positively geriatric by Hollywood standards. You know how much six weeks is in Beast years? A lot, let me tell you.

Speaking of beasts, and Disney, Disneynature’s beautifully shot nature doc Born in China finished fourth, making it the weekend’s highest-performing new movie. The G-rated flick banked about $5.1 million, which makes it Disneynature’s highest-earning premiere since 2010’s Chimpanzee. Leave it to a giant panda or two to draw a little attention.

Going in Style, another holdover, closed out the Top Five with $5 million, shaking its cane at all the first-weekend whippersnappers below and telling them to get off its lawn.

Unforgettable was the best of the rest of those newcomers, closing out its first weekend of work with a $4.8 million seventh-place finish. The Promise, an expensive, Christian-tinged drama focusing on the Armenian Genocide circa 1915, landed in ninth place with $4.1 mil. And Phoenix Forgotten, a found-footage horror flick, collected $2 million for 11th place. Perhaps it will be retroactively renamed, for posterity’s sake, Film Forgotten.

Still, all these flicks did better than Free Fire, the feature-long gunfight that blasted its way to just $1 million and 17th place. Not all lead turns to gold, of course. Some of it just stays lead, no matter how many bullets you make of it.