Jurassic World, a huge Box Office success, nets $511m in first weekend

Jurassic World, co-produced by Steven Spielberg, is the latest in the series that took off with Jurassic Park. Its latest version Jurassic World netted $511m in first weekend to overcome all competition and score the biggest worldwide box office opening weekend ever.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 15 June 2015.

It pulled in $511m globally as it opened in cinemas, to send into the shadows Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 which netted $483m in 2011. This is as per box office tracker Exhibitor Relations.
In North America it made $204.6m – slightly short of the record $207m in 2012 for an opening weekend in the region, held by Marvel's The Avengers. The blockbuster movie also earned $100m in China alone apart from topping the box office in 66 countries. The movie has had largely good reviews.
Jurassic Park, the first in the series, was directed by Steven Spielberg released in 1993 and it had opened with over $50m and the audience fell in love with moving dinosaurs that had, till then, been just images in books. The audience was at once repelled and thrilled by its homage to the dinosaurs that everyone had grown up with and had been intrigued by.
The charm of Jurassic Park was that it all appeared to be so real and believable.
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