Jurassic World Is About to Devour This Massive Movie Record
Dinosaur thriller Jurassic World followed up its record-setting opening with another strong weekend at the box office, leaving the film on the precipice of setting a record for cutting the quickest path to 1 billion in ticket sales. Distributed by Comcast's Universal, Jurassic World last week roared to more than 500 million in global box office gross in its first few days of release  the most ever for a film's opening weekend. The film's domestic gross fell off by more than 50 this past weekend, but that was less than was expected and not enough to knock the thriller from atop the weekend's box-office rankings. As it stands, Jurassic World finished its second weekend with 981 million in global box-office gross in less than two weeks in theaters, according to Box Office Mojo. At that pace, the film will cross the 1 billion threshold on Thursday, after 13 days in theaters, according to Variety. That would break the record for the fastest film to reach 1 billion in ticket sales, surpassing Furious 7s previous record of 17 days, set earlier this year. Whenever it does cross top 1 billion in global ticket sales, Jurassic World would be the 22nd film to ever do so joining 1993's Jurassic Park, among others. Jurassic World now has 398 million in domestic ticket sales, but the majority of the film's box-office gross has come from overseas markets, including 167 million in China. The massive success of films like Jurassic World and Furious 7 have helped set up a Hollywood rebound after the movie industry suffered a down year in 2014, when total gross dipped more than 5 thanks, in part, to a poor summer blockbuster season. Compared to last year at this time, Hollywood's total box-office haul is up by more than 6. And there are more big blockbusters coming down the road that should continue to make money for the industry, including Minions opening next month and the highly-anticipated Star Wars The Force Awakens, which opens in December.