Total Recall

It was touted as one of the biggest box office match-ups of the year, but now that the dust has settled, it wasn’t even close. “Fast And Furious 6” more than doubled the weekend take of closest competitor “The Hangover Part III” in a showdown between two sequels we never expected to happen four years ago, when Universal reluctantly re-assembled the pieces for “Fast And Furious” and Warner Bros. gave us the first “Hangover.” For one, success in perpetuity: an immediate sequel to “Fast And Furious 6” is already slated for next summer. But put down your bottles and cans, boys and girls – “The Hangover” ends here. With this weekend, Vin Diesel and the boys might be looking at a three-day global total close to $270 million. “The Fast And The Furious” was never thought to be a potential mega-hit, released as aggressive summer counterprogramming in 2001. Meant to be a flashy expose of underground street racing, it stunned box office prognosticators with $144 million in...

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