Universals Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw has secured an August 23 release date in China. Fast & Furious is a huge property in China 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 market in 2017 and remains the No. 8 film ever there, and the 2nd best Hollywood offering. In 2015, Furious 7 was the No. 1 movie of the year with $391M.
Bucking a mini-trend this summer, Hobbs & Shaw will go to the Middle Kingdom three weeks after domestic and the rest of international rollout begins.
It also will see the Fast & Furious spinoff as possibly the last Hollywood film before China cordons off screens for local movies in September, ahead of the October 1 celebration of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Peoples Republic.
This summer has been flipped upside down in the Middle Kingdom with several local titles shelved amid censorship and production woes. Rather than the typical July blackout, the month is open to studio pictures with Sonys Spider-Man: Far From Home bowing last weekend and Disneys The Lion King teed up for July 12; both of those films slotted in a week prior to their domestic releases.
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