Success For Jurassic World!

The Jurassic World made a global box office record in its opening few days, raking in $511m.

12:26 16 June 2015

The Jurassic World, the fourth installment of the series that began with Jurassic Park, has scored the biggest worldwide box office opening weekend ever, raking $511million, as confirmed by box office tracker Exhibitor Relations, beating Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 which made $483million in 2011. 

 

The movie made $100million in China and $204.6million in North America. 

 

Paul Dergarabedian, a media analyst, said the film benefited from something of "a perfect box-office storm".

 

"Nostalgia, legacy, pedigree: Three things that can make a newly updated franchise a monster," he said.

 

"There are many reasons Jurassic World is eating box office records like a hungry Indominus Rex: the original Jurassic Park was the second coming of Jaws and was for many the film that defined in the psyche their personal definition of the summer movie experience.

 

"At the time 1993's Jurassic Park was released it was the first film to ever open with over $50m and as such was seen and loved by a massive audience that were at once repelled and thrilled by its science-run-amok premise, its homage to the dinosaurs that everyone grew up learning about and were intrigued by.

 

"And not least of all, the collective movie theatre popcorn experience that the iconic superstar director Steven Spielberg delivered."