Jurassic World sets global box office opening weekend record

Los Angeles

THE fearsome Jurassic Park dinosaurs have done it again, gobbling up the competition to score the biggest worldwide box office opening weekend ever with the latest franchise.

Action-packed Jurassic World, featuring a new and particularly lethal hybrid dino, raked in a whopping US$511 million globally in its debut at cinemas, according to box office tracker Exhibitor Relations on Sunday. That was the largest weekend take in history, eclipsing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (US$483 million in 2011), according to The Hollywood Reporter.