‘F9’ Opens Fast With Furious $30M Friday
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MIAMI, FLORIDA – JANUARY 31: (L-R) Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Nathalie Emmanuel, Tyrese Gibson and Vin Diesel attend Universal Pictures Presents The Road To F9 Concert and Trailer Drop on January 31, 2020 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Universal Pictures)
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In August of 2020, Chris Nolan’s Tenet opened overseas in a kind of test run for the viability of conventional theatrical releases amid a still-festering pandemic. The film nabbed $53 million in its overseas launch, including $29.5 million in China. The $200 million sci-fi fantasy would earn a halfway decent $306 million outside of North America, including a business-as-usual $66 million in China. Considering the reviews, buzz and general plot-over-character construction of the John David Washington actioner, that was probably around 75% of what its overseas cume might have been in normal times. However, with New York and most of California