Jurassic World smashes box office expectations 

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Jurassic Park 4 already has over half a billion dollars banked - after just one weekend...

Coming into 2015, Universal was a studio that had never had a $100m opening weekend at the US box office, and had never had a movie cross $1bn either. Both of these situations have been remedied, and there\'s still the small matter of

to come. The studio\'s Christmas party is not going to be short of Pringles.

earlier this year, Universal may have just gone one better with

, which has taken a staggering $511m in its opening weekend across the world. The new movie, directed by Colin Trevorrow, had been expected to open somewhere around $125m in the US alone, which in itself would have been very strong. Yet the US number has come back at $204.6m in three days, far beyond what any analyst had been expected.

the second biggest opening film of all time in the US, behind Marvel\'s original

Furthermore, the signs are positive that the money will keep on coming. Reaction to the film has been strong, and word of mouth is likely to keep the ticket sales coming. Furthermore, just under half of the takings in America came from 3D screenings, a higher proportion than for many recent releases.

to break the $1bn mark at the global box office in the next two weeks at this rate. And expect Universal and Amblin to put the wheels in motion for another film not long after that...

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