{"id":416060,"date":"2011-05-03T08:22:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T08:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/03\/vin-diesel-movie-scores-big-in-us\/"},"modified":"2011-05-03T08:22:01","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T08:22:01","slug":"vin-diesel-movie-scores-big-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/03\/vin-diesel-movie-scores-big-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Vin Diesel movie scores big in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"67.0662358643\"><span><span>3 May 2011<\/span> <span>Last updated at<\/span> <span>04:22 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Vin Diesel film Fast Five has taken $86.2m (\u00a351.9m) in its first three days, the biggest North American box office opener of the year so far.<\/p>\n<p>The fifth movie in the street racing franchise pulled in bigger takings than early estimates, which had stood at $83.6m (\u00a350.3m).<\/p>\n<p>It easily beat the previous best opening set two weeks ago by animation Rio, which took $39.2m (\u00a323.6m).<\/p>\n<p>The film, featuring the voice of Anne Hathaway was at two this week.<\/p>\n<p>It has now taken $103.6m (\u00a365.2m) in its thee weeks since release.<\/p>\n<p>The latest comedy offering from Tyler Perry, the critically-panned Madea&#8217;s Big Happy Family, fell one place to three, taking $9.9m (\u00a36m) million in its second weekend.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-13264284#story_continues_2\">Continue reading the main story<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>NORTH AMERICAN BOX OFFICE<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>1. Fast Five &#8211; $86.2m<\/li>\n<li>2. Rio &#8211; $39.2m<\/li>\n<li>3. Madea&#8217;s Big Happy Family &#8211; $9.9m<\/li>\n<li>4. Water For Elephants &#8211; $9.3m<\/li>\n<li>5. Prom &#8211; $4.7m<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Source: Hollywood.com<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Depression-era romance Water for Elephants, starring Robert Pattinson and Oscar-winner Reese Witherspoon, also dropped one spot to four.<\/p>\n<p>Other new releases failed to perform at the box office.<\/p>\n<p>Disney&#8217;s coming-of-age comedy drama Prom, starring a largely unknown group of actors as teenagers preparing for their high school prom, debuted at five.<\/p>\n<p>Animated sequel Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil featuring the voices of Haydn Panettiere and Glenn Close opened at six with $4.1m.<\/p>\n<p>Overall revenues stood at $155m (\u00a393.5m), up 52% from the same weekend last year, when A Nightmare on Elm Street topped the chart, according to box office analyst Hollywood.com.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>See the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/entertainment-arts-13264284\" title=\"Vin Diesel movie scores big in US\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vin Diesel movie scores big in US<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 3 May 2011 Last updated at 04:22 ET Vin Diesel film Fast Five has taken $86.2m (\u00a351.9m) in its first three days, the biggest North American box office opener of the year so far. The fifth movie in the street racing franchise pulled in bigger takings than early estimates, which had stood at $83.6m (\u00a350.3m). It easily beat the previous best opening set two weeks ago by animation Rio, which took $39.2m (\u00a323.6m)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":415853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-416060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Vin Diesel movie scores big in US - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/03\/vin-diesel-movie-scores-big-in-us\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Vin Diesel movie scores big in US - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"3 May 2011 Last updated at 04:22 ET Vin Diesel film Fast Five has taken $86.2m (\u00a351.9m) in its first three days, the biggest North American box office opener of the year so far. 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