Let’s face it: No one wants to tangle with a T-rex, genetically modified or not. So when the technically enhanced dinosaurs of Jurassic World started rampaging through multiplexes around the world, we all knew there was going to be some pretty serious carnage left in its wake.
But no one expected anything quite like this.
Jurassic World, headed by the suddenly super-bankable leading man Chris Pratt, gobbled up an estimated $204.6 million in North America—the second-biggest opening weekend ever, just behind The Avengers‘ $207.4 million, which it made back in 2012. In one weekend’s worth of work, World has already become the year’s third highest-grossing movie, behind just Avengers: Age of Ultron ($444.7 million) and Furious 7 ($350.8 million).
And as outlandish as it sounds, those numbers are rather paltry when you cozy them up to what Jurassic World did overseas. The flick stomped and roared its way to a record-crushing $307.2 million, giving it a truly dino-sized worldwide take of around $511.8 million.
Can you blame the rest of the pack for running away?
There were no other new releases: Competing studios apparently didn’t want to take on this behemoth. So without any new blood, Spy finished ignominiously in second place with $16 million—an Archaeopteryx-sized haul to World’s 100-ton Brachiosaurus. Still, it gives Melissa McCarthy’s latest R-rated comedy a total gross of $56.9 million in two short weeks.
San Andreas finished third with $11 million, while Insidious: Chapter 3 and Pitch Perfect 2 closed out the Top 5 with $7.3 million and $6 million, respectively.
Final figures update: 1. Jurassic World, $208.8 million; 2. Spy, $15.6 million; 3. San Andreas, $10.8 million; 4. Insidious Chapter 3, $7.3 million; 5. Pitch Perfect 2, $6.4 million.
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