Jurassic World Weekend Thread | Official Est. 204.6M | 208.8M - Actuals

[Krissykins]

Fantastic start. Seeing this Sunday, hope the film is good.

[K1stpierre]

Dinos > Bats & Supes

[Jandrew]

Imagine if this was 2014!

[AniNate]

Yeah, but on both ends it was mostly based on personal bias. You just happened to be right I laid out my reasons for this doing as good as it is doing quite some time ago. I don't see how it's "personal bias" when I'm not even a fan of the original Jurassic Park.

Ok, but I still think I had solid reasoning for doubting it. I'd seen too many attempted franchise revivals flop before this one

[JohnnyGossamer]

Remember last summer when Trans4mers had to fudge it to get to $100M OW and everything else opened in the 90s. Yeah... I don't either.

 

Furious 7 - $147M

Ultron - $191M

Jurassic World - $175M????

[JennaJ]

This feels so good!

 

Always had faith in this movie, so happy to see it become reality!

[BoxOfficeZ]

Its not that dinosaurs have never been mainstream, I think there just hasn't been a dinosaur movie in awhile for the public to get behind. Jurassic World succeeded in that aspect while being crowdpleasing. 

[PDC1987]

All stuff you can only point to in retrospect. Others would have countered that the franchise was tired and that they expected this movie to suck

LOL, none of that is in retrospect. The trailer didn't get 62 million views last night and we knew the release schedule and marketing months in advance.

 

I predicted $155 OW weeks ago based on that.

[K1stpierre]

Imagine if this was 2014!

It would have made 2014 MUCH more memorable. I forget what came out last summer that was worth remembering.

[CJohn]

Edited June 12, 2015 by CJohn

[#ED]

150M+ isn't a lock yet fellas. Can everyone relax before we somehow turn this weekend into a disappointment?

[Avatree]

I might be seeing this 3 times this weekend... ironically $0 will go to Universal.

[Dipper]

[The Stingray]

I'm sensing a 144m OW.

[Avatree]

Ok, but I still think I had solid reasoning for doubting it. I'd seen too many attempted franchise revivals flop before this one

I'm not saying you shouldn't have doubted it I just think it's unfair to dismiss those who got it right, that's all.

[zackzack]

Remember last summer when Trans4mers had to fudge it to get to $100M OW and everything else opened in the 90s. Yeah... I don't either.

 

Furious 7 - $147M

Ultron - $191M

Jurassic World - $175M????

 

"I shoulda returned..."

[John Marston]

JP 5 and 6 are inevitable! Bring on the dino soldiers.! Hell Bring on talking dinosaurs or aliens

[PDC1987]

Ok, but I still think I had solid reasoning for doubting it. I'd seen too many attempted franchise revivals flop before this one

But those had nothing to do with JW. Like I've said on here countless times, you can't use an unrelated films failure to predict an upcoming film's performance. It's like all the people who said Godzilla would limp past $100 million domestic because that's all PR could do.

[JohnnyGossamer]

Its not that dinosaurs have never been mainstream, I think there just hasn't been a dinosaur movie in awhile for the public to get behind. Jurassic World succeeded in that aspect while being crowdpleasing. 

I'm not so certain dinos are mainstream. But I've always been certain Jurassic Park was... With inflation:

Jurassic Park III - $260M

The Lost World - $405M

Jurassic Park - $700M

[The Panda]

Dang it, Chas overcut my 135m prediction yesterday with 137m, there goes the bonus.