It is not a stretch to suggest that in a matter of a few weeks, Jurassic World will join them.

Furious 7В has now grossed $1.5 billion Avengers: Age of Ultron is right behind it with $1.35 billion. It will be about an entire business.Д¬onsider this: If Jurassic World follows recent box office patterns - and with a warm reaction from first-weekend audiences, thereвЂ™s no reason to think it wonвЂ™t - a swift ascent to a billion-dollar worldwide gross is a foregone conclusion, and a substantially bigger number than that is well within reach. ItвЂ™s a measure of how much the movie business has changed in the last decade that this weekвЂ™s conversation between the studio and the filmвЂ™s producers will probably not be about a sequel, or even about a franchise. Ten years ago, if that Jurassic sequel had opened and killed at the box office, the victory-lap Monday discussions at Universal would, in all likelihood, have been about how quickly and efficiently Jurassic Park VВ could be put into production. At this time last week, there was no such thing as a half-billion-dollar opening. The combined total has actually changed the vocabulary of how we talk about box office records. from its Thursday previews through Sunday, it grossed $208.8 million to edge the first Avengers movie - and overseas, where it took in another $315.3 million, also a historic high. There is no circumstance, however, in which any 2005 iteration of Jurassic Park would have done what Jurassic World did this weekend, which was break the all-time opening record both in the U.S. How Hollywood Tinkers With Evolution to Grow New Spielbergs in a Lab.Rex вЂ™nвЂ™ FX: The Charming вЂJurassic WorldвЂ™.вЂThat ThingвЂ™s Part Raptor!': Why вЂJurassic WorldвЂ™ Worked.If all had gone according to plan, Jurassic Park IV would have opened about 10В years ago this weekend, and it likely would have followed one of two familiar patterns: Either it would have demonstrated, as movies from Batman & Robin to Superman IV: The Quest for Peace to Shrek Forever After have done, that a fourth movie is usually one too many, or it would have done what, say, Fast & Furious did in 2009, which was begin to turn around a flagging brand.

Those numbers made a fourth installment conceivable, but the trend line made it unpromising, and that version of this movie was never made. And 2001вЂ™s Jurassic Park III (not directed by Spielberg) grossed $369 million. 1В The second, The Lost World: Jurassic Park (also directed by Spielberg) took in $619 million in 1997.

The original, released in 1993, had grossed about $900 million worldwide. But the films also represented a case of rapidly diminishing returns. UniversalвЂ™s Jurassic franchise had been huge since its launch nine years earlier.В Aside from the three movies, it had also yielded toys, profitable video games, and theme park water rides. This was not earthshaking news, but it was not inevitable either. On November 7, 2002, The Hollywood Reporter ran a story revealing that William Monahan had been hired to write a fourth Jurassic Park movie based on a story by Steven Spielberg.

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