The eighth fighter from the franchise "Fast and the Furious", where the hero of Vin Diesel deals with races and looting, became the absolute record holder for the first weekend in the world box office, having collected around the world 532.5 million dollars.

Thus, the previous record, set by the continuation of another saga - the movie "Star Wars": "Awakening the Force," was beaten to $ 3 million.

Interestingly, the eighth "Forsage" is not so big lucky in the country of production: in the US market, it collected a little more than $ 100 million against 147.3 million dollars, taken in the box office by the previous film from the same series.

In this case, "Fast and Furious 8" in the US left far behind all competitors on the Easter weekend: it accounted for two-thirds of all fees for the weekend. For comparison, the full-length animated film "Boss-Molokosos" placed on the second place of the rolling rating brought creators only $ 15.5 million.

In China, for the first three days of rental action-packed tape raised $ 190 million.

The incessant performer of the main role of the epic about racing, robbery and accompanying crimes, launched in 2001, Vin Diesel stressed that the success of the film made him feel "humble reverence" and gratitude to the audience.

In addition to Diesel, Paul Walker appeared from the very first picture in the saga, but he died while filming the seventh picture of the franchise.

After the death of Paul Walker "Fast and Furious 7" in 2013 was completed with doubles, among which were the brothers Walker.

In "Fast and Furious 8" besides Diesel, also starred Charlize Theron, rapper Ludacris, Dwayne "Rock" Johnson, Jason Statham, Tyrise Gibson, Michelle Rodriguez and Kurt Russell.

On the eighth film, the epic will not stop: the creators plan to release the ninth part of the saga in 2019, and the jubilee tenth - two years later.