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Jurassic World smashes global box office record

The fearsome Jurassic Park dinosaurs have done it again, gobbling up the competition to score the biggest worldwide box office opening weekend ever with the latest franchise.

Action-packed Jurassic World, featuring a new and particularly lethal hybrid dino, raked in a whopping $661 million globally in its debut at cinemas, according to box office tracker Exhibitor Relations.

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It is the largest weekend take in history, eclipsing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 ($625 million in 2011), according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The unprecedented haul for Jurassic World – which has had largely good, if not sparkling reviews – was boosted by the $130 million earned in China alone and the blockbuster topped the box office in 66 countries.

In North America, Jurassic World made $264.9 million, just short of the record for an opening weekend in the region, held by Marvel’s The Avengers at $268.5 million in 2012.

Co-produced by Steven Spielberg – who directed the first two of the four films – Jurassic World takes us back to the island theme park where scientists first revived T-Rex and co for paying customers more than two decades ago.

Dinosaurs eat up the competition

Paul Dergarabedian, a media analyst at Rentrak, said Jurassic World 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.

“At the time 1993’s Jurassic Park was released it 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 in grade school.”

Jurassic World dwarfed its rivals at theatres in North America at the weekend, bumping comedy espionage spoof Spy to second place, with a relatively paltry $21 million.

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