Furious 7 smashes SA box office record like never before

Sandton - Universal Pictures and UIP South Africa announced on Tuesday that Fast & Furious 7 easily sprinted past the records Fifty Shades of Grey set a mere 49 days ago, by clocking an overwhelming R20 971 652 in its four-day Easter run.

The film now holds the South African records for the all-time opening weekend for a non-3D film, the all-time opening weekend for Universal Pictures, the highest opening film for 2015 and the all-time opening weekend of all films released at the local box office.

With an incredible $392.3m worldwide, the seventh installment in Universal’s homegrown franchise takes its place as the fourth-highest global opening of all time behind behemoths such as two films in the Harry Potter franchise and Marvel’s The Avengers. Fast & Furious is the only original franchise to reach results of this magnitude.