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"Fast & Furious 6" races past "The Hangover Part III" at weekend box office

It's a box office blowout -- "Fast & Furious 6" is revving past "The Hangover Part III" in the No. 1 position at the Memorial Day holiday weekend box office.

The sixth installment in Universal Pictures' muscle car franchise, featuring Vin Diesel and Paul Walker, debuted with $98.5 million domestically from Friday to Sunday, according to studio estimates Sunday.

Meanwhile, the final film in the raunchy Warner Bros. comedy trilogy starring Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper and Ed Helms opened with $42.1 million in the No. 2 spot.

Universal estimates that by the end of the four-day holiday weekend Monday, "Fast & Furious 6" will have pulled in $122.2 million domestically and $275.5 million worldwide. That would give it the second-biggest opening of the year behind "Iron Man 3."

Paramount Pictures' science-fiction sequel"Star Trek: Into Darkness" earned $38 million at No. 3 in its second weekend at the box office, while the Fox animated film"Epic," with a voice cast including Amanda Seyfried, Colin Farrell, Jason Sudeikis and Beyonce, opened at No. 4 with $34.2 million.

Overall domestic receipts for the four-day Memorial Day weekend are expected to come in ahead of 2011's record-breaking $276 million.

Paul Dergarabedian, an analyst for box-office tracker Hollywood.com, estimated that four-day revenues this time will total $323 million, about 15 percent above Memorial Day weekend in 2011, when "The Hangover Part II" delivered a $103.4 million debut.

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