Fast & Furious 9 attracts biggest opening weekend audience since 2019

Chris Pash
By Chris Pash | 22 June 2021
 
Fast & Furious 9

Fast & Furious 9 was watched by the biggest weekend opening release audience since Jumanji: The Next Level on Boxing Day 2019.

The opening of Fast & Furious 9 delivered a four-day audience of 895,000, its biggest non-holiday opening weekend performance since pre-pandemic,

Val Morgan says the blockbuster marks the return of consumer confidence in cinemas.

Guy Burbidge, Val Morgan Cinema managing director: “Fast 9 is just the latest big 2021 title to smash our forecasts and deliver audiences above 2019 numbers.

"These numbers prove that the appetite to get back into the cinema is undiminished and that when content returns so do the audiences”.

“We are heading into the best six months of content we have ever had with a blockbuster Hollywood movie each and every week.

"Our strong audience trend to continue from July all the way to December, with the release Black Widow, Shang Chi Legend of Ten Rings, No Time to Die, Eternals, Top Gun: Maverick, The Boss Baby 2, Venom: Let there be Carnage, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, House of Gucci, Dune, The Matrix 4 and Spider-Man: No Way Home ...t o name just a few”.

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