“Fast & Furious 6” Makes $34.5 Million, Kicks Ass Again

By Douglas A. McIntyre Published Jun 2, 1:47PM EDT

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Will Smith was crushed in his new debut movie and “Fast & Furious 6” brought in $34.5 million in North American box office and reached a 10 day total of $170.4 million and a global total of $480.6 million.

The Smith vehicle, After Earth, from Sony, hit $27 million

From Hollywood.com

Top Movies for Weekend of May 31 – June 2 (Estimates)
Rank    Movie    Gross    Theaters    Avg.Per    YTD    Distributor
01    Fast & Furious 6    $34.5M    3,686    $9,370    $170.4M    Universal
02    Now You See Me    $28.05M    2,925    $9,590    $28.05M    Lionsgate
03    After Earth    $27.0M    3,401    $7,939    $27.0M    Sony
04    Epic    $16.4M    3,894    $4,212    $65.2M    Fox
05    Star Trek: Into Darkness    $16.4M    3,585    $4,575    $181.1M    Paramount
06    The Hangover Part III    $15.9M    3,565    $4,468    $88.0M    Warner Bros.
07    Iron Man 3    $8.0M    2,895    $2,765    $384.7M    Disney

Star Trek did not last long near the top, perhaps because of the absence of William Shatner. On the other hand, Robert Downey, Jr’s success almost certainly guarantees an “Iron Man 4”

Sequels, by the way, made up four of the top 10

About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.