On the last weekend of April, the North American Film Market ushered in a rare spectacle – booming on Fridays, full on Saturdays, and lively on Sundays, with a surging crowd sweeping away the cold haze and presenting a thriving scene.

Movie theaters in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Seattle and other big cities ushered in the first peak of movie-watching this year, sending away the cold of winter and bidding farewell to the cold of spring.

Such a frenzy of movie-watching has triggered a burst of exclamations from the media, and Saturday's news pages have been swept by the grand occasion on the first day of the official premiere of "Fast and Exciting / Love 5", and the "Chicago Tribune" even exclaimed, "The summer box office monster landed early!"

As of now, the North American box office market is in a slump, and the long dark night seems to have no end in sight.

Among the films released this year, the animated film "Rango" released in March has only grossed 110 million so far, while the highest grossing film in its opening weekend is "Rio Adventure", which was released two weeks ago, but the weekend box office figure is only 39 million.

All the data for the same period were the lowest since 2006.

This is also one of the important reasons why the "Opening Battle" has attracted so much attention, industry insiders and film companies are looking forward to this showdown to drive the box office recovery, otherwise the box office prospects of the summer season are not optimistic. Of course, everyone's expectations are placed on "Thor", after all, the first week after Arbor Day is the real summer unveiling.

But now, "Fast and Exciting / Love 5" stepped on the tail of the spring file, taking the lead in setting off a movie-watching boom, just one day on Friday, the major movie theaters ushered in a long-lost crowd, vigorous, bustling, boiling, the turbulent scene amazed the entire North American market, and the long dark night is finally coming to an end.

Before the actual box office data came out, some media predicted that this dark horse series of movies was likely to earn more than 35 million box office in a single day on Friday - "Rio Adventure" only earned 39 million in three days over the weekend, and now "Fast & Thrill 5" is likely to reach such data in one day, how can the media not be excited?

Even the major film companies couldn't help but smile: the haze of the summer file has finally begun to dissipate.

What's even more gratifying is that with the official release of "Fast and Exciting / Love 5", various reviews have been lifted, following the comprehensive evaluation of the media, all the data is red, and all indicators have undoubtedly created the highest in the series - the "Superman Returns"-style tragedy did not happen, on the contrary, the "Iron Man" style explosion seems to be on the way to come!

The mass media on Rotten Tomatoes, more than 150 media outlets published their own comments as soon as possible, and the number of comments continued to rise, and by the end of Sunday, a total of 271 mass media comments were included on Rotten Tomatoes.

Under so many scrutiny, picks and evaluations, the freshness index of "Fast and Thrill/Emotion 5" has broken through 80% and reached 84% excellent reviews, and the score has stabilized at 7.4 points.

Is this a timeless classic? Apparently not, is this a masterpiece worthy of recognition? No doubt about it!

For the "Fast & Thrilling/Emotional" series, this is undoubtedly the moment of "the farmer/slave turns over and sings".

Even if it has a small fan base, even if the series stumbles to the fifth part, even if people put it on the opposite side of the summer seed contestant like "Thor", it has never really been affirmed by film critics, and even failed the comprehensive reviews of the media, just like the "Chainsaw" series, the sequel has been filmed to the seventh part, but the critics never wait to see it.

But this time, "Fast and Thrill/Emotional 5" has successfully gained double affirmation from the professional media and the mass media, conquering this group of vitriolic and critical film critics. For Universal Pictures, for the "Fast & Thrill" series, these are glorious moments that deserve to go down in history.

What's more, this is not the end.

After the critics, the North American audience also gave a round of applause!

The theater score obtained by the statistics of major theaters is generally the most authoritative and intuitive reference data for the box office trend, and a movie with a theater score of only "B" is basically impossible to go to more than twice the box office trend on the opening weekend, and there may even be a cliff-jumping avalanche.

And this time, "Fast and Excitement/Emotion 5" successfully received an "A" evaluation, which is the first time that a series of works has won an "A", which also means that the follow-up box office of the work has a threefold explosive potential. Although not every commercial film with an "A" score can reach three times or more of the premiere box office at the final box office, and there are many influencing factors, at least, "Fast & Thrill/Emotional 5" now has this potential.

On the other hand, on the IMDB, there are only more than 26,000 people participating in the rating, and the score is temporarily settled at 7.9 points!

Everyone knows that as the number of ratings increases, the score is bound to fall, and it is impossible to predict where it will eventually fall, which is the law of popcorn movies, and despite this, people are really amazed -

Seven a.9 o'clock!

In IMDB's scoring system, eight points is the entry threshold for 250 best films, and reaching this score does not necessarily mean that you will be able to enter the list, if the number of ratings does not meet a certain benchmark, but it is the minimum requirement to be on the list. Now, "Fast & Thrill/Emotion 5", a popcorn commercial movie, a simple and crude drag racing movie, and an ordinary movie that has never really achieved box office success, has achieved a score of 7.9 in the evaluation of veteran fans!

This is definitely a great victory!

From the professional media to the mass media, from veteran fans to ordinary fans, everyone has reached a consensus on "Fast and Thrill/Emotional 5", which is an excellent popcorn work. In addition, as a supplementary data, the popcorn index also reached a gratifying 88 percent, which once again confirmed the commercial attributes of the film.

It's not a fairy tale, it's not a media guide, it's a fact, it's a real, real fact that it happened — the rave reviews at the premiere were real, that's true, the media reviews were so popular, that's true, and the opening weekend box office explosion was also true.

Friday, April 29.

"Fast & Thrill/Emotion 5" has a devastating attitude and has a strong box office of 37 million US dollars!

The single-day box office alone is almost comparable to the weekend box office of "Rio Adventure", and such a result, it will be among the top 20 single-day box office charts in film history, and will fall behind "Shrek 3" and occupy the twentieth place, and undoubtedly break the single-day box office record in April in film history, raising the record from 30 million to 37 million in one go, and the previous record holder is "Fast and Thrill/Emotional 4".

Saturday, April 30.

"Fast & Furious 5" continued to remain strong, with a single-day box office drop of only 13%, and once again earned $32 million!

At a time when history has already been made on Friday, Saturday once again handed over such a slight decline, which is undoubtedly the best affirmation of the film. It can be seen that the topic effect of the opening battle detonated the curiosity of the audience, and then the media and the audience's word-of-mouth ushered in a full popularity, further attracting the audience into the theater, so as to create such an outstanding result.

Sunday, May 1.

The momentum of "Fast and Thrill/Emotion 5" has not weakened at all, and the single-day box office drop once again handed over an ultra-low answer of 19%, earning 26 million US dollars!

For the third day in a row, "Speed and Excitement/Love 5" maintained a vigorous movie-watching frenzy, and in the tail of the spring file, it swept through the Eight Desolations, and there was no opponent who could form a confrontation. It was undoubtedly the overlord of April, comfortably grossing $95.3 million at the weekend box office.

Ninety-five million!

Before the release of "Fast & Thrill 5", before the opening battle began, and more accurately, no one could have predicted such a result until the end of April's spring slot, you know, before that, the North American record for the April premiere box office was held by 2009's "Fast & Thrill 4", which detonated an exclamation at the $70 million box office.

For comparison, the 2010 release of "Clash of the Gods" is the second-highest box office record in North America, with $61 million in its opening weekend, and the third-ranked "Anger Management" in 2003, with $42 million in its opening weekend.

After horizontal comparison, it can be seen that the box office pulling ability of the spring stalls is simply sluggish.

But now, "Fast & Excitement 5" not only easily broke the record held by its predecessor and took all the box office records in April to its name, but also earned $95 million at the box office, which is a well-deserved giant even in the summer season, and it is no surprise that it will win the box office title for a week.

The 95 million opening weekend box office temporarily ranks 21st in the North American premiere box office history, followed by "Iron Man" with 98 million, and behind "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" with 94 million.

Records, historical records, a series of historical records, "Fast & Thrill/Emotion 5" announced its own shining debut with an absolutely strong attitude.

From word-of-mouth to the box office, from the media to the audience, "Fast and Exciting / Emotional 5" showed an unstoppable momentum, and in an instant, all eyes converged on "Thor": the victory or defeat of the opening battle is becoming more and more interesting.