Jurassic World Secedes Box Office Crown To Star Wars: The Force Awakens

The Force has awoken at the global box office, with Star Wars Episode VII earning $529 million on its opening weekend, outshining Jurassic World's $524 million from earlier in the year. After some detractors were predicting that Star Wars: The Force Awakens' lack of Chinese box office takings was going to hurt its debut and disallow it from taking the dinosaur's crown, this news only goes to show just how massive the new episode really is. Whilst the difference between the worldwide results is only a matter of $5 million-odd, The Force Awakens' US domestic takings created a much larger margin of around $40 million, clocking in at a $247.9 mil total Stateside. Jurassic World's record was $208.8 million. Frank Marshall - producer extraordinaire on Jurassic World - has conceded defeat in the classiest way possible. Check out his tweet: https://twitter.com/LeDoctor/status/679006177276006400/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Echoing the image Spielberg sent Lucas back in '77 when Star Wars took the crown from Jaws, and Kevin Feige's resurrection of the idea when Jurassic World beat out The Avengers, it's nice to see some gracious acts in the eyes of defeat. Of course, these kinds of records are fairly superfluous as times change and cinema-going habits change with them, but it's a refreshing alternative to the usual inter-studio rivalry that occasionally gets rather sour. In other news, The Force Awakens is also set to break a record held by Spider-Man 2 since 2004; namely, highest gross for a Monday. The Spidey sequel had amassed $27.7 million on that warm day in July, but estimates are showing that JJ's fan fiction (I kid, I kid) is set to surpass $30 million without breaking a sweat. It probably helps that a lot of schoolchildren are now off school for the holidays. Star Wars: The Force Awakens is out now. Apart from in China, apparently.