Furious 7 may yet pass the first Avengers for the No 3 spot in the worldwide all-time list; it needs just under another $100m to hit $1.5bn, so it's going to be close.
The speculation now is how much more Furious 7 has left in the tank before Avengers: Age of Ultron clanks in on the penultimate April weekend; if the US holds well next time, and Japan kicks in strongly on 17 April, some people believe it could go as high as no 4 on the worldwide all-time chart, unseating the final Harry Potter.
Although in the intervening years the film had lost some of its rankings in the lists of highest-grossing films, the 3D re-release returned it to the worldwide all-time top ten for several months.
"We are grateful for the extraordinary work of Michael Bay and his film-making team, executive producer Steven Spielberg, and everyone at Paramount around the globe who played a part in helping make this latest 'Transformers' one of the 10 highest grossing films worldwide of all time".
It was written by a French composer and recorded by a Scottish group, and was one of the highest-selling singles worldwide of all time.
Of course, it went on to become Pixar's third biggest hit and one of the 50 biggest hits worldwide of all time.
Unadjusted for inflation, The Lord of the Rings film series is the highest grossing film trilogy worldwide of all time, higher even than other film franchises such as the original Star Wars trilogy and The Godfather trilogy.
The film grossed worldwide, surpassing Hrithik's Dhoom 2 in the worldwide gross, becoming the ninth highest worldwide grosser of all time for a Bollywood film, as of October 2011.
The website continued to grow worldwide, hitting an all-time high of 687 million users, according to data from the tracking company Inside Facebook, which uses Facebook's own advertising tools to determine the number of people using the site every month.
It has been surpassed by multiple 21st century films since, and currently holds the 43rd highest worldwide gross of all-time for a film.
Fast Five has grossed over $625 million worldwide, making it number 66 on the all-time worldwide list of highest-grossing films, in unadjusted dollars, and the seventh-highest-grossing film of 2011.
