Summary
The film Jurassic World broke the record for the biggest opening weekend taking $511m. It’s a record that has been broken once already this year and most of the top ten films with the biggest opening weekends were released in the last five years. So in an age where the competition is fierce for cinemas why are these films doing so well?
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| 0:11.0 | Hello and welcome to more or less. broadcasts. Chances are you'll see a dinosaur there. Something's wrong. |
| 0:23.0 | They're communicating. |
| 0:25.0 | We're talking about an animal here. |
| 0:27.0 | A highly intelligent animal. |
| 0:32.0 | Jurassic world has... A highly intelligent animal. |
| 0:38.0 | Jurassic World has been breaking box office records all over the globe. Within 14 days it had taken $1 billion, |
| 0:42.0 | the fastest a film has ever reached that mark and more than half |
| 0:45.9 | of that came in its opening weekend alone another record. |
| 0:49.8 | In fact it's been a phenomenal six months for Blockbusters, with Avengers Age of Ultron and Fast and Furious |
| 0:56.2 | 7 also breaking the billion dollar barrier, a rare achievement. |
| 1:01.6 | But while Hollywood likes to roar about these gigantosauric numbers, |
| 1:06.0 | here it more or less, we think it's important to take a more measured, long-term view, more like, |
| 1:12.0 | well like a fossil, I suppose you could say. And listener |
| 1:15.8 | Sam Grimston knows this he emailed more or less at BBC.co. UK to ask |
| 1:22.0 | How much of the record-breaking is due to inflation? Can you come up with |
| 1:26.1 | a weighted biggest opening weekend? We can and we have. Well a friend of us has, Bruce Nash who's the founder of The Numbers, a friend of us has, Bruce Nash, who's the founder of The Numbers, a website that crunches the data on films. |
| 1:37.0 | At number three, it's Jurassic World taking $511 million. |
| 1:47.0 | The fourth of the Jurassic film sees Chris Pratt as a velociraptor trainer |
| 1:51.0 | fighting to save the world from a genetically modified dinosaur. |
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