{"id":98705,"date":"2017-04-17T22:06:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T02:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=98705"},"modified":"2017-04-17T22:06:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T02:06:39","slug":"fate-of-the-furious-races-to-100-2-million-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/17\/fate-of-the-furious-races-to-100-2-million-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Fate of the Furious&#8217; races to $100.2 million opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_98706\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98706\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17951486_1036648476465789_5367111139550233201_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98706\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17951486_1036648476465789_5367111139550233201_n.jpg\" alt=\"The eighth installment in the \u201cFast and the Furious\u201d had the roads to itself and inched past the $100 million benchmark in the final moments. (Photo: Fast And Furious 8\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17951486_1036648476465789_5367111139550233201_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17951486_1036648476465789_5367111139550233201_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17951486_1036648476465789_5367111139550233201_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17951486_1036648476465789_5367111139550233201_n-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-98706\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The eighth installment in the \u201cFast and the Furious\u201d had the roads to itself and inched past the $100 million benchmark in the final moments. (Photo:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FastNFurious8vik\/photos\/a.454934064637236.1073741828.454898007974175\/1036648476465789\/?type=3&amp;theater\"> Fast And Furious 8\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 The eighth installment in the \u201cFast and the Furious\u201d had the roads to itself and inched past the $100 million benchmark in the final moments.<\/p>\n<p>Studio estimates on Sunday say \u201cThe Fate of the Furious\u201d earned a chart topping $100.2 million over the holiday weekend.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s well below the $147.2 million opening of \u201cFurious 7\u201d in 2015, but still a second-best for the series.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurious 7\u201d had a groundswell of additional interest due to the death of actor Paul Walker.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cFast and the Furious\u201d is a global juggernaut for Universal Pictures. The franchise has earned over $3.9 billion to date and at least two additional films are planned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Boss Baby\u201d took second with $15.5 million, while \u201cBeauty and the Beast\u201d held on to third place with $13.6 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 The eighth installment in the \u201cFast and the Furious\u201d had the roads to itself and inched past &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":98706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[18046,18047],"class_list":["post-98705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-fast-and-the-furious","tag-fate-of-the-furious","mauthors-lindsey-bahr","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}