After taking the top spot at the box office when it was first introduced, the movie “Fast Five” already passed its predecessors when it comes to earnings.

The movie “Fast Five” became one of the most watched movies on the box office gaining the top spot when it was first shown on theaters. Today, Fast Five already lapped its predecessors by earning an amount more than $600 million worldwide.

This weekend, the fifth installment of the Fast and the Furious collected more than $370,000 from foreign markets making their earnings reached a total of $601.6 million based on the estimate produced by Universal Pictures, the distributor of the movie. It is said that the movie’s earnings will still increase until October because the franchise is not yet released in Japan. It will be released on October.

It simply means that “Fast Five” is now the highest grossing film released based on the franchise of the Fast and the Furious. It has more earnings than the previous four films of the Fast and the Furious. In 2009, the fourth installment of the film gained a total grossed income record of more than $363 million worldwide. It is holding the record of the highest grossed film of the franchise before Fast Five was introduced.

Because of the success of the latest film, Universal Pictures already plans to produce another franchise of the film. The studio already announced that they have plans to produce the sixth installment of the film for Memorial Day 2013.

According to Legendary Pictures, it is trying to mimic the success of the movie Fast Five by creating an edgier movie based on the well-known toy line of Mattel, the Hot Wheels.

Way back in 2003, Columbia Pictures purchased the rights to produce a live-action feature movie of Hot Wheels with Joseph McGrinty Nichol, which is also known as McG, joined to direct. After three years, the director decided that he was only interested to produce the movie.

The movie project never grown much energy after that and in 2009, Warner Bros. lifted up the rights and they brought on board Joel Silver to produce the movie. As premature as the previous year, Alex Heineman, a producer from Silver Pictures, was still discussing the movie and saying how Hot Wheels will be a marked departure not only from movies which is a toy-based, but also same theme franchise movies, such as The Fast and the Furious.

Spark forward to Fast Five making more than $587 million all over the world and there is abruptly a very distinct attitude. Furthermore, Silver Pictures is no longer concerned with Hot Wheels, but Legendary Pictures is now in premature cooperation to take over the movie project.

Variety said that the movie will not be targeted at toddlers. Instead, it will be an edgier picture next to the lines of the Universal Pictures’ box-office hit movie, the Fast Five. Hot Wheels is still a toddlers’ first and leading toy, but the last ten years has observed a considerable upsurge in the number of adult collectors.

In addition, there are several websites connected to displaying, selling and buying these collections, and Mattel is very attentive of the impact this has had on their own sales. in spite of one of the challenges in making an jittery Hot Wheels film, it is going to be compelling an overall viewers that it is not a kid fare.

Aficionados of the movie Fast Five will only have one more week to register and win the last fan package of the movie in cooperation of AutoTraderClassic.com and Universal Pictures.

The AutoTraderClassic.com partnered with the studio in a contest to give an all expenses paid trip for two in Hollywood in one lucky winner to experience the newest installment of the movie franchise, The Fast and the Furious.

Moreover, this joint venture will reveal over one million readers of the website to the upcoming action-thriller. Fast Five stars Paul Walker and Vin Diesel lead a get-together of returning all-stars from each chapter of the explosive film franachise built on speed, which released in theater last April 29 and surpassed summer film records of box office with $86.3 million in sales.

Participants who want to join the contest may visit http://www.facebook.com/AutoTraderClassics and click on the icon of Fast Five Sweeptakes in the section page of Contests, situated at the middle right of the page. In addition, participants may then Like the website and have a chance to win the fan package Fast Five getaway.

Furthermore, the contest is open to both new and current aficionados of the Facebook page of AutoTraderClassics.com. The details of the prize include two-round ticket airfare to Los Angeles, a three nights stay at Universal City Hotel, two tickets of Front of the Line to Universal Studios Hollywood to see the cars of The Fast and the Furious series, a movie prize pack, $500 in cash for expenses and Hollywood style transportation to and from LA International Airport.

The website released the contest in support for the movie last April 1 and t will continue until May 31 at 11:59 p.m. EDT. The lucky winner will be chosen at random by AutoTraderClassics.com and will be informed shortly after the contest ends.

The movie Fast Five continued to lead the box office hit abroad gaining $70.2 million in 42 countries.

In addition, an internationally cast and a beautiful backdrop in Brazil have made this action heist drama a most wanted movie all over the world, with a worldwide gross worth $323.7 million so far. On the other hand, the film Thor, which fell on the second place, keeps hammering away at the international box-office chart.

Thor had a firm third weekend and gained $36.7 million in 45 countries while topping the chart in North America during the same weekend. The super hero movie from Marvel Comics has proven its worldwide appeal with $256.6 million in global income to date. The movie Priest, which debuted globally in sixth place, is a sci-fi adventure film with $5.6 million and is set for its debut in North America this Friday.

Playing sturdily in five international countries, the visually-beautiful movie has clear appeal to global viewers looking for vampires and priests combining it up on the big screen. The top 5 films at international theaters last weekend were Fast Five with international gross of $70,239,630 for the weekend in 8,919 locations and 42 countries with a total 0f $323,670,728 global gross to date.

It was followed by Thor with international gross of $36,832,992 in 7,551 locations and debuted in 45 countries with a total global gross worth $265,629,657 to date. This movie was also on its third week like Fast Five. Rio fell on the third place with $12,832,992 in 7,551 locations and in 46 countries. This film earned $408,722,977 on global gross and is now on theaters for five weeks.

Water For Elephants got the fourth place with $9,955,284 international gross in 5,378 locations and played in 35 countries. This movie gained $66,179,443 global gross and it is no win theaters for four weeks. The fifth place was the movie Source Code with $6,032,662 international gross in 1,625 locations. It has been played in 20 countries with a total global gross of $91,259,401 for six weeks.

The movie Fast Five from Universal Pictures rocketed to the top in the International Box Office Chart and earned a whopping $85.1 million from 7,325 locations in 58 territories abroad.

Opening in 44 latest markets and nearly doubling its gross worth $45.9 million from the prior stanza, the movie’s take was illustrated by the studio as the largest international weekend in the history of the company, overtaking the earlier weekend log worth $84.3 million grossed by the movie King Kong last 2005.

In addition, Fast Five, which has been playing abroad for three rounds, has collected $183.9 million offshore, rising its total gross worldwide to $323.6 million to date. The Mexico opening of the movie, with $9 million from 509 locations, was a market log for a Universal title. The movie was also number one in Brazil with $5 million collected from 310 locations.

Moreover, market opening records for Universal Pictures were also set in Uruguay, Trinidad, Peru, Panama, Colombia, Chile and Argentina. This movie was also ranked in number one in Austria and Germany as well in France with $9 million from 483 locations and in Italy with $7.4 million at 420 play dates.

The fifth franchise of this movie in the turbo-charged sequel directed by Justin Lin and starring Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel, have five regions yet to play with three opening this week including China. On the other hand, the release of Marvel Entertainment’s Thor from Paramount, topped number one title last weekend on the foreign circuit, ended on the second place this time with $44.6 million drawn from 12,476 sites in 60 offshore markets. That was an approximately 50 percent decline from the $87 million gross marked the prior round.

This weekend, the action movie Fast Five top the box office hit, earning $83.6 million in North America and raising the hopes of movie studios for a lucrative summer after a dull spring.

This movie was the fifth installment of the series Fast and the Furious released by the Universal Pictures. It also showed the drawing authority a movie franchise can maintain keep even after several installments.

The opening of Fast Five effortlessly claimed the title for the largest movie of the year and outpacing the debut animated film of Twentieth Century Fox entitled Rio, which earned $39.2 million on its first weekend, two weeks ago.

In addition, Fast Five, which according to Universal cost $125 million after other incentives and tax rebates, beat the $71 million opening of the Fast & Furious last 2009. The studio also said that it has already a sixth follow-up in the works.

Adam Fogelson, the Chairman of Universal Pictures said in a telephone interview on Sunday that the film is evidence that Hollywood can make films that can assure viewers and be distinguished by critics. He also said that he has been hearing about individuals that are suffering from franchise fatigue that viewers are sick of movie franchises, but still, doing a great one can still attract them to watch this kind of films.

Furthermore, the success opening of Fast Five promises well not only for Universal Pictures, but for the competitors of the studio as well. In spite of the robust performance of Fast Five, the revenue for domestic box office for this year stays down for 14 percent, compared with the same period last year. Before this weekend, the comparison gets even worse, with box-office down to 17 percent.

First “Fast Five” trailer premiered online on Tuesday, as former stars from previous prequels reunite.

Like the first four prequels of “The Fast and the Furious,” Fast five will be as lively and action-packed as its previous films. Then on December 14, the movie’s first teaser trailer premiered on the Internet.

In this film, former stars Vin Diesel, who will play as Dom Toretto, and Paul Walker as Brian O’Conner reunites. The two, together with Jordana Brewster as Mia Toretto, will across numerous borders as they evade authorities.

As they arrive in Rio de Janeiro, they are required to pull one last job for them to regain their freedom. To make this possible, Dom will call his elite group of racers. This is their only way to get out in dealing with a corrupt businessman who wants them dead. Unfortunately, even police authorities are after Dom’s group.

Federal agent Luke Hobbs, played by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, is ordered to capture Dom and Brian. However, Hobbs learns that he cannot tell the good guys from the bas as they purse Dom’s group in Brazil. In order for him to accomplish his mission, he must now rely on his own instinct before someone else’s track Dom’s group.

The film Fast Five features Tyrese Gibson, Matt Schulze, Gal Gabot, Ludacris, Sung Kang, Tego calderon, and Don Omar. According to them, this movie is way bigger that the previous films. Justin Lin, who directed two prequels: “The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift” – 2006 and “Fast and Furious” – 2009, was once again assigned to produce another epic. The film is expected to hit the theaters in the United States by April 29, 2011.