However, The Italian Job, Be Cool, and Law Abiding Citizen collectively returned $398 million from combined costs of $166 million, while Friday, Set It Off, and Straight Outta Compton went one step further by achieving critical notoriety as well as excelling at the box office.
It’s not surprising that F. Gary Gray has achieved such success with The Fate Of The Furious, as his eclectic career is full of films that have thrived financially.
In fact, while they cost just $62.5 million to make all together they grossed over $270.1 million.
Out of the nine films that he has overseen only 1998’s The Negotiator failed to match its budget, while A Man Apart was deemed a disappointment as it grossed just $44 million from its $36 million production costs.