Pratt & Co. Deliver Unexpected Opening, Challenge All-Time Record

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BOX OFFICE REPORT 

June 12-14, 2015(estimates from BoxOfficeMojo.com)

TOP 51. Jurassic World (204.6 million)2. Spy ($16.0 million)3. San Andreas ($11.0 million)4. Insidious: Chapter 3 ($7.3 million)5. Pitch Perfect 2 ($6.0 million)

Jurassic World didn't just take a big bite out of the competition; it took the biggest bite the world has ever seen. It earned an estimated $204.6 million in North America since opening late Thursday. That's good for No. 2 all-time here, behind The Avengers. But worldwide? It's already made more than half a billion dollars, which is truly unheard of. It made more than Jurassic Park III did in its entire run, and will make more than The Lost World well before next weekend. No one expected this.

Everything else just had to get out of the way. Spy fell only 45 percent, the smallest second weekend drop of any No. 1 movie so far this summer. $100 million certainly seems doable, but this is hardly the comedy hit Fox was hoping for. Ted 2 and Trainwreck will likely be duking it out to see which is going to be the biggest comedy of the summer.

San Andreas still proved a formidable hit, passing $100 million. Insidious Chapter 3 hit the big snag all horror movies hit in Weekend Two, dropping nearly 70 percent. But at least it's doing better than Entourage, which couldn't even beat the fifth weekend of Pitch Perfect 2 in its second weekend. See ya later, bros.

Outside the top 5: - This Weekend's Indie Champ: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, the biggest hit at Sundance, made its mark. The dramedy averaged $14,000 on only 15 screens. 

- There may be no tomorrow for Tomorrowland. Despite opening at No. 1, the super-expensive sci-fi fantasy won't even cross $100 million domestically. But don't feel bad for Disney. Feel bad for all the writers and directors who won't get the chance to make movies not based on "sure things" in the future.

- Furious 7, the biggest movie of the year until Avengers and Jurassic World showed up, became one of only 30 movies to make more than $350 million domestically.

Next week: Pixar is back for the first time since 2013 with Inside Out, which might be their best film yet. Based on Jurassic World's historic run, I think the dinos repeat at No. 1, with Inside Out scoring the largest No. 2 debut of all time with $70 million.

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About Kip Mooney

Kip Mooney
Like many film critics born during and after the 1980s, my hero is Roger Ebert. The man was already the best critic in the nation when he won the Pulitzer in 1975, but his indomitable spirit during and after his recent battle with cancer keeps me coming back to read not only his reviews but his insightful commentary on the everyday. But enough about a guy you know a lot about. I knew I was going to be a film critic—some would say a snob—in middle school, when I had to voraciously defend my position that The Royal Tenenbaums was only a million times better than Adam Sandler’s remake of Mr. Deeds. From then on, I would seek out Wes Anderson’s films and avoid Sandler’s like the plague. Still, I like to think of myself as a populist, and I’ll be just as likely to see the next superhero movie as the next Sundance sensation. The thing I most deplore in a movie is laziness. I’d much rather see movies with big ambitions try and fail than movies with no ambitions succeed at simply existing. I’m also a big advocate of fun-bad movies like The Room and most of Nicolas Cage’s work. In the past, I’ve written for The Dallas Morning News and the North Texas Daily, which I edited for a semester. I also contributed to Dallas-based Pegasus News, which in the circle of life, is now part of The Dallas Morning News, where I got my big break in 2007. Eventually, I’d love to write and talk about film full-time, but until that’s a viable career option, I work as an auditor for Wells Fargo. I hope to one day meet my hero, go to the Toronto International Film Festival, and compete on Jeopardy. Until then, I’m excited to share my love of film with you.

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