May was when the summer moviegoing season started, April titles had the potential to get wiped out by whatever explosion-laden titles dropped in this viable month.
Why was April such a dead zone for movies? Mostly because it was seen as being sandwiched in between more viable months. RELATED: Dwayne Johnson Declines Vin Diesel's Invitation to Return for 'Fast 10': "There Was No Chance" The top ten biggest April openings ever used to include long-forgotten titles like the 2005 Amityville Horror remake and The Interpreter. Counting that feature, only two movies had ever opened to over $40 million domestically this month and only three had managed to bow to over $30 million. Before this blockbuster’s debut, the biggest opening weekend ever in April was for the 2003 Adam Sandler comedy Anger Management. That wouldn’t have been possible if Fast & Furious hadn’t revolutionized what movies could and couldn’t open in April.īefore Fast & Furious dropped the first weekend of April 2009, the fourth month of the year was not a go-to spot for launching big movies in the North American marketplace. This may sound like a strange obscure feat, but just remember how April has become the home for two of the three biggest domestic opening weekends ever in just the last five years. This includes helping to solidify April as a viable launchpad for big movies. But there are other subtler ways that this saga has had a profound impact on the world of cinema. For one thing, it turned Vin Diesel into a movie star while also ensuring that the word “corona” will never be uttered the same way ever again. There are obvious ways that the Fast & Furious franchise has forever shaped the world of cinema.
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