'Furious 8' breaks global box office record by reeling $532million

Fate of the Furious, the eight in the Fast and Furious franchise has broken the global box office record by reeling in $532 million this easter weekend.

This is marginally higher than the $529m (£421.8m) taken by Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

The film opened with $100.2m in the US and $432.3 everywhere else led by $190 million in China.



Its nearest competitor was The Boss Baby, which took a further $15.5m to land second place while Beauty and the Beast pulled $13.6 million over the weekend. Beauty and the Beast also added to its impressive worldwide haul this weekend, bringing in an additional $22 million internationally as its worldwide cume climbs to $1.043 billion, making it the 22nd largest worldwide release of all-time.

The largest of all of this weekend's openings is the estimated $190 million the film brought in from China, which is the largest three-day opening weekend of all-time in China and, of course, the biggest Hollywood opening of all-time. Top grossing territories include:

China - $190 million
Mexico - $17.8 million
U.K. and Ireland - $17 million
Russia - $14.1 million
Germany - $13.6 million
Brazil - $12.8 million
France - $10.5 million
Korea - $10.5 million
India - $10.4 million
Taiwan - $9.7 million
Australia - $9.6 million
Middle East Combined - $9.3 million
Indonesia - $9 million
Argentina - $8.3 million
Malaysia - $6.8 million
Italy - $6.7 million
Spain - $6.1 million
Colombia - $5 million
Thailand - $4.7 million
Panama - $4.6 million

The Fate of the Furious has five more territories where it is set to open including today in the Philippines followed by an April 20 opening in Serbia, April 21 in Poland and Romania and an April 28 opening in Japan.