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"Fast and Furious" Speeds to No. 1
The gangland street-race saga screamed in with $40.1 million, making road kill of Dr. Dolittle 2's talking critters, which earned $25 million in second place.
The Fast and the Furious, Universal's PG-13 rated actioner starring Vin Diesel as leader of a group of hotrod daredevils, averaged $15,300 at 2,628 screens, according to final studio figures Monday. Budgeted at a relatively modest $39 million, the high-energy crime flick, which received mixed reviews, scored bigger than even its studio executives anticipated, attracting a multiethnic audience that was 55 percent male and 76 percent under 25.
Meanwhile, Eddie Murphy's second go-round as the animal-speaking vet, didn't register nearly as expected. Most pundits predicted Fox's PG family-friendly flick would rule the weekend, but its haul was lower than the $29 million earned by the original Dolittle comedy in 1998 and was way down from the big fat $42.5 million opening last year for Murphy's other franchise sequel, Nutty Professor II: The Klumps. Dr.2 averaged $8,200 per its 3,649 screens.
The combined impact of the two box-office newbies took the legs out from under last week's number one, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, which tumbled 59 percent to third place with $19.8 million.
According to box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations, Shrek had the smallest dropoff from last week--just 21 percent. Although down from third to fifth place, the grumpy-ogre fable, which passed the giant $200 million gross midweek, earned $10.4 million over the three-day weekend and has now grossed more than $215 million.
For those few still interested in the fate of Pearl Harbor, Disney's heavily hyped megabuck epic sank another two places to seventh with $6.8 million, bringing its five-week total to $172 million.
In limited release, the German romantic drama The Princess and the Warrior registered a seat-filling $54,000 opening at just three screens.
The surprise big business for The Fast and the Furious gave the overall box-office a big boost. Grosses for the top 12 movies were $135 million, up 5 percent from last weekend and a major 39 percent gain from this time last year.
Here are the final top 10 weekend movies as compiled by Exhibitor Relations from studio tallies:
1. The Fast and the Furious, $40.1 million
2. Dr. Dolittle 2, $25 million
3. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, $19.8 million
4. Atlantis: The Lost Empire, $12.6 million
5. Shrek, $10.4 million
6. Swordfish, $7.7 million
7. Pearl Harbor, $6.8 million
8. Moulin Rouge, $3.9 million
9. Evolution, $3.6 million
10. The Animal, $2.9 million
(originally posted 06/24/01 at 1:45 p.m. PT)
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