'Fifty Shades Freed' Earns $5.6M in Thursday Previews | THR News - video Dailymotion

Universal's 'Fifty Shades Freed' earned a sizzling $5.6 million in Thursday evening previews.

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00:00I'm taking you away for the weekend.

00:02I just can't believe this is my life, that I get to live with you.

00:06Universal's Fifty Shades Freed is off to a sizzling start, earning $5.6 million in

00:11Thursday evening previews. The threequel wraps up the film franchise based on the BDSM

00:15leaning novels by E.L. James. Dakota Johnson once again stars as Anastasia Steele,

00:20while Jamie Dornan reprises the role of Christian Grey. The steamy movie looks set to win

00:25the weekend with a debut of $32 million or more.

00:28Fifty Shades of Grey earned $8.7 million in Thursday previews, while the sequel,

00:32Fifty Shades Darker, took in $5.8 million. With the opening of Fifty Shades Freed,

00:37the movie series will soar past the $1 billion mark at the global box office.

00:40Overseas, the film is set to debut in most markets including France, Australia, Brazil,

00:45Germany, Mexico, Japan and the UK. The movie has already taken in $9.1 million

00:50internationally. The weekend's other two nationwide releases are the family film

00:54Peter Rabbit and Clint Eastwood's terrorist drama, The 1517 to Paris.

00:58Will you be heading to theaters this weekend to check out the final installment of the

01:02Fifty Shades trilogy? Or have you seen it already? If so, what did you think?

01:06Let us know in the comments.

01:07For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.