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Universal's Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw has shot past the $700M mark worldwide, rocking a $700.53M gross through Thursday. The split on the Dwayne Johnson-Jason Statham action spinoff currently sits at $160.53M domestic and $540M at the international box office. A $725M-$750M finish is expected globally. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal's Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw zoomed into Korea on Wednesday, scoring the biggest opening day for the franchise, and through Thursday surpassed 1M admissions. Korea is the last market to release before China welcomes the spinoff next Friday, August 23. Through Thursday, the international…

SUNDAY UPDATE, writethru: Landing in line with Saturday's projections, Universal's Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw got off the starting block with an estimated $120M at the international box office. When including domestic, the global cume through Sunday is $180.8M. Across 63 offshore opening markets, the Dwayne…

5th Writethru Sunday AM after Saturday update: Universal’s Hobbs & Shaw saw a solid Saturday with an estimated $20.6M, which kept the pic on track toward its $60.8M opening this weekend. This is exactly where Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout opened a year ago, which carried us into August, and we can expect…

Universal's Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw has secured an August 23 release date in China. Fast & Furious is a huge property in the market where Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham also both excel individually. The last F&F movie, The Fate Of The Furious, did about $393M in the Middle Kingdom in 2017 and remains…

It’s a wrap on Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw. Dwayne Johnson shared the news Friday on Instagram, saying production just ended on the “most challenging film” he’s ever done. “HOBBS & SHAW is officially wrapped,” Johnson wrote. “Easily the most challenging film I've ever produced and starred in, however based…

The first weekend of August hasn’t seen any life at the box office since 2016’s The Suicide Squad opened to a record $133.6 million, but that’s about to change this year when Universal opens Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw on August 2. The studio just dropped the pic’s trailer for its Dwayne Johnson-Jason Statham…

Eiza Gonzalez has been set to co-star with Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham in the David Leitch-directed Fast and Furious spinoff Hobbs and Shaw. Chris Morgan wrote the script and the film is produced by Johnson with his Seven Bucks Productions partners, Dany Garcia and Hiram Garcia, along with Statham, and Morgan…

"We either gonna get along or we gonna get it on," says Dwayne Johnson. Johnson shared a first-look photo of himself and Jason Statham in an on-screen staredown in Fast & Furious spinoff Hobbs & Shaw on his Instagram account. "Great first week of shooting our Fast & Furious spin-off, 'HOBBS & SHAW' with my ace…

SATURDAY AM UPDATE: With 42 overseas markets open through Friday, Warner Bros' prehistoric shark The Meg has chomped down on $34.5M at the international box office. That includes a $16.2M Friday in China, but not Saturday's fish flash of another $16.1M there. All told, the Chinese co-production is now looking at a…

UPDATED, 12:20 PM: Universal has shifted the release date for its Fast & Furious spinoff with Dwayne Johnson’s Luke Hobbs and Jason Statham’s Deckard Shaw characters back by a week to August 2, 2019. The actioner now had its planned July 26 weekend to itself but now will hit the starting line against Paramount’s Dora t…

Warner Bros has dropped the first trailer for summer shark pic The Meg. The Jason Statham-starrer is a sci-fi thriller about a prehistoric 75-foot-long predator, the Megalodon, who threatens the lives of a research team trapped underwater — and, yes, the fate of the ocean itself. As far as summer popcorn fare, the…