Sunday, June 24 update:
The studio’s official press release:
25 years after Steven Spielberg’s masterpiece ushered in a new generation of the summer blockbuster, Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdomcontinued the franchise legacy by opening No. 1 at the North American box office with an estimated $150 million.
Also topping the international box office for the third weekend in a row with $106.7 million—including a second weekend atop the China box office where it crossed $200 million—Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom has now grossed an estimated $561.5 million overseas bringing the worldwide total to $711.5 million and counting.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom has opened No. 1 in 67 international markets to date and has pushed the franchise past $4.4 billion.
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INTERNATIONAL
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is dominating the international market for the third weekend in a row with an estimated $106.7 million and opened No.1 in 16 new markets, including major markets Mexico ($12.3 million), Brazil ($9.2 million) and Australia ($7.9 million). The current international total is $561.5 million, with $202.6 million coming from China.
Some highlights include:
- Opening bigger than Jurassic World in Brazil, Central America, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Boliva, Paraguay, Czech Republic and Slovakia.
- China held the No.1 spot in its second weekend against the opening of Incredibles 2, grossing an estimated weekend of $32.4 million.
The final market to release will be Japan in July.
Sunday, June 17 update:
The studio’s official press release:
Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom stomped into an additional three markets this weekend, including China, where it has an estimated opening weekend of $111.9 million (RMB 715 million) for the three-day.
Including holdovers from 48 markets, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom will gross an estimated $173.6 million for the weekend bringing the estimated International total through Sunday to $370 million. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom has now opened No. 1 in all 51 territories where it’s released prior to its North American opening.
With this weekend’s results, the Jurassic Park franchise will cross $4 billion worldwide and breaks into the top 10 franchises of all time, counting only five films.
Some highlights out of China include:
- Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom had an opening day of $33.5 million (RMB 215 million) which is the seventh-highest-grossing opening day for an imported film. It was Universal’s third-biggest opening day ever in China behind Furious 7 (RMB 347 million) and The Fate Of The Furious (RMB 392 million) and more than double the opening day of Jurassic World (RMB 101 million).
- China’s estimated opening weekend of $111.9 million (RMB 715 million) is the eighth-biggest three-day opening of all-time in that market, the fourth biggest three-day opening of all-time for an import film behind The Fate of the Furious (RMB 1.3B),Avengers: Infinity War (RMB 1.2B) and Transformers: The Last Knight (RMB 795 million).
- For comparison, Jurassic World opened in China with a three-day total of $67 million (RMB 417 million) but it also had two full days of previews for a total weekend of $97.5 million (RMB 604 million).
- China’s IMAX box office scared up a weekend gross of $10 million on 520 IMAX screens, a best for the franchise in the Middle Kingdom. Holdover markets delivered another $3 million bringing the global IMAX cume for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom to $23 million.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom opens in North America and 17 additional markets next week, including Australia, Brazil and Mexico.
The studio’s official press release:
Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom opened in an additional three markets this weekend, including China, where it has an estimated opening weekend of $125.3 million (RMB 815 million).
Including holdovers from 48 markets, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom will gross an estimated $184.7 million for the weekend bringing the estimated International total through Sunday to $381 million. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom has now opened No. 1 in all 51 territories where it’s released prior to its North American opening.
With this weekend’s results, the Jurassic Park franchise will cross $4 billion worldwide and breaks into the top 10 franchises of all time, counting only five films.
Some highlights out of China include:
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom had an opening day of $33.5 million (RMB 215 million) which is the seventh-highest-grossing opening day for an imported film. It was Universal’s third-biggest opening day ever in China behind Furious 7 (RMB 347 million) and The Fate Of The Furious (RMB 392 million) and more than double the opening day of Jurassic World (RMB 101 million).
China’s estimated opening weekend of $125.3 million (RMB 815 million) is the sixth-biggest three-day opening of all-time in that market, the third biggest three-day opening of all-time for an import film behind The Fate of the Furious (RMB 1.3B) and Avengers: Infinity War (RMB 1.2B).
For comparison, Jurassic World opened in China with a three-day total of $67 million (RMB 417 million) but it also had two full days of previews for a total weekend of $97.5 million (RMB 604 million).
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom opens in North America and 17 additional markets next week, including Australia, Brazil and Latin America.
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