Furious 7 becomes fastest movie to hit $1 billion worldwide

Universal's Furious 7 has bagged over $1 billion as anticipated in the worldwide box office, according to the reports. The James Wan directed thriller currently has made $273.7 million in North America in only 15 days and $735.2 million overseas in 17 days.

Nick Carpou, President, Domestic Distribution said, "We are incredibly proud to watch 'Fast & Furious' take its place as the only original live-action franchise to reach these kinds of results at the box office.  Our cast, filmmakers and all of our Universal and Fast family deserve credit for working so hard to make 'Furious 7' a huge success and we look forward to continuing to watch the film grow over the next few weeks.”

Furious 7 is now the fastest film to collect $1 billion mark ever topping ‘The Avengers,’ ‘Avatar’ and ‘Harry Potter: Deathly Hallows: Part 2’ which accomplished it in 19 days.  Overall, the ‘Fast & Furious’ franchise has now grossed a combined $3.392 billion. It's now the 20th movie added to the list of billion-dollar-grossing films, topped by ‘Avatar’ ($2.79 billion) and ‘Titanic’ ($2.19 billion).