Fast Five off to fast start

If Friday’s box office results are any indication, and they usually are, Fast Five, the fifth installment in the Fast and Furious franchise, is off to a very fast start. How fast? Try fast enough for producers to keep Lipofuze on hand of the starting-to-show-some-age cast.

On Friday, Fast Five drew an impressive $33.2 million in its first 24 hours of release and seems set to draw close to $100 million this weekend. That would be impressive. Nothing else looked poised to draw more than $10 million this weekend, including the box office champ of the past two weeks, Rio.

It’ll be interesting to see how the weekend finishes for Fast Five after such a g