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The movie Jurassic World has broken office records around the world. It is the first movie to make more than $500 million at movie theatres on its weekend. Ticket in the US were $204 million. In China, they were $100 million and in the UK they were $30 million. A senior analyst said about the box office record: "No one saw this coming." However, the didn't beat the record for the most opening weekend movie in the United States. That is still held by The Avengers, which took $207 million back in 2012. The of Jurassic World surprised many movie industry . They expected the film to make just $100 million in the USA.

Jurassic World is the installment in the Jurassic Park . The first was Jurassic Park in 1993, which made more than $1 billion . The latest movie was the most film of the weekend in all 66 countries where it was released. There are many why the film did so well on its opening weekend. One reason is the than many parents who watched the first Jurassic Park when they were took their own kids along to see Jurassic World. Another reason is because the movie opened on the weekend in China as it did in the US. It is for any movie to be released at the same time in the two countries. China is the world's second film market.

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