As of May 2023, "Furious 7" (2015) was the highest-grossing movie in the Fast & Furious franchise. The seventh installment of the series grossed around 1.5 billion U.S. dollars globally, of which 353 million were generated in the United States and Canada. Fast & Furious: financial factsThe Fast & Furious franchise encompasses ten action movies, various spin-off films, and television shows. The series' first installment, "The Fast and the Furious," which was released in 2001 and starred Vin Diesel and the late Paul Walker, grossed an estimated 206 million U.S. dollars at the global box office. As of 2021, "The Fate of the Furious" (2017) amassed the highest production costs of all Fast & Furious movies. A down to earth franchiseWhat sets the Fast & Furious films apart from many of the world's other top-grossing movie franchises is that they revolve around real people instead of superheroes or other characters with supernatural abilities. While the protagonists sometimes seem to break th...