Box Office Weekend: Jurassic World Avoids Extinction

Audiences still showed up for dinosaurs in droves, delivering a third-week win for Jurassic World. With an estimated $54 million, the film is now the fastest film to earn $500 million domestically and likely to do much better as time goes on. However, though it now sits as the fifth highest earning domestic release of all time, it still has to rely on longevity if it seeks to best the one-two punch of James Cameron and his Avatar and Titanic. Audiences have been very kind to Pixar as well, as Inside Out held onto second place with an estimated $52.1 million and is close to earning $200 million domestically, a task it should handily accomplish by next weekend. However, despite the success of the original film, the world may not have been waiting for Ted 2, which ended up in third place with an estimated $33 million.

While Ted 2 may be suffering financial woes with its rough start, it is doing better than the family-friendly Max. While only two films in the top ten have been willing to release their budgets, the buddy dog/kid action/adventure and its estimated $12.2 million still sound like a flop in the works. Besting both films, Spy (estimated $7.8 million) and San Andreas (estimated $5.3 million) are doing decent business for themselves here while also doing decent numbers overseas.

Of the bottom of the pack, Dope pulled in an estimated $2.9 million, though the critically acclaimed film has only brought in $11.8 million in domestic earnings, eclipsed mightily by the also decently received Insidious: Chapter 3 (estimated $2 million), which has brought in $49.8 million so far and, if the previous films are any judge, far and away exceeded its unreported costs. In ninth, Mad Max: Fury Road will fall short domestically of its $150 million costs, its estimated $1.7 million bringing it within spitting distance, but like tenth-place finisher Avengers: Age of Ultron (estimated $1.6 million), foreign box office can be more than enough, as both films have done much better overseas than they have done here, with Fury Road raking in $356.4 million and Age of Ultron $1.4 billion worldwide.

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When not failing to write novels and screenplays, box-office guru Seth writes humorous comedy tracks for films under the name "The One Man Band" that can be found at Rifftrax.com. Although, he has recently succeeded in writing the novella "Jack Alan and the Case of the Not-Exactly Rocket Scientists," available as an eBook on Amazon. He is also the English voice of Zak in "Zak McKracken: Between Time and Space."

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