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'Jurassic World' Set to Bite Off $125M-Plus in U.S. Debut
Yahoo News ^ | June 9, 2015 | The Hollywood Reporter - Yahoo

Posted on 06/12/2015 1:42:57 PM PDT by ETL

The dinosaurs are back, and they're looking more bad-ass than ever.

Jurassic World — opening 22 years after Steven Spielberg's first Jurassic Park stomped into theaters — is tracking to open to $125 million or higher in its three-day North American debut, one of the best showings in recent times. It begins rolling out Thursday night before landing in a total of 4,273 theaters on Friday, the widest release in Universal's history.

Overseas, the tentpole opens in 66 markets, including China. And it's getting the widest-ever day-and-date release in Imax houses, or more than 800 locations. In North America, even a $100 million would be a rousing victory for Universal. And globally, it should open well north of $300 million.

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Set two decades after the events in Jurassic Park, Jurassic World features a fully operational dinosaur theme park on the island of Isla Nublar. Pratt plays a skilled dinosaur trainer, while Howard plays the operations manager whose niece and nephew come to visit just as a new hybrid dinosaur, Indominus rex, is unleashed.

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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: cretaceous; june122015; jurassicpark; jurassicpark4; jurassicworld; pachycephalosaurus
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1 posted on 06/12/2015 1:42:58 PM PDT by ETL
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To: ETL

Mosasaur ping! About time the marine reptiles of the Mesozoic get some air time. :)


2 posted on 06/12/2015 1:44:55 PM PDT by C19fan
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I average about one theater movie a year. My daughters are taking me to see this one on Fathers Day.
3 posted on 06/12/2015 1:49:43 PM PDT by 4yearlurker (No tagline today.)
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Yes. Most people think all of the large reptiles back then were dinosaurs. Besides dinos there were marine reptiles and flying reptiles.

“Pterodactyl is the common term for the winged reptiles properly called pterosaurs, which belong to the taxonomic order Pterosauria. Scientists typically avoid using the term and concentrate on individual genera, such as Pterodactylus and Pteranodon.

There are at least 130 valid pterosaur genera, according to David Hone, a paleontologist at Queen Mary University of London. They were widespread and lived in numerous locations across the globe, from China to Germany to the Americas.

Pterosaurs first appeared in the late Triassic period and roamed the skies until the end of the Cretaceous (228 to 66 million years ago), according to an article published in 2008 in the German scientific journal Zitteliana. Pterosaurs lived among the dinosaurs and became extinct around the same time, but they were not dinosaurs. Rather, pterosaurs were flying reptiles.”

http://www.livescience.com/24071-pterodactyl-pteranodon-flying-dinosaurs.html


4 posted on 06/12/2015 1:50:13 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: ETL
Joe Morgenstern of the WSJ reviewed this movie and simply stated that it is "critic proofed", that is it will be hugely successful regardless of what the critics state.

He went on to thoroughly bash the movie. Lol, stated that it is avialable in 3D, that he saw it in 2-D and suggested it should be seen in zero D. Lol.

5 posted on 06/12/2015 1:52:39 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: ETL

Is it in 3-D?..........................


6 posted on 06/12/2015 1:53:25 PM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: ETL

Looking forward to it on a giant IMAX screen.


7 posted on 06/12/2015 1:53:51 PM PDT by bramps
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

I usually ignore the critics. Most of them come across as know-nothings and/or fruitcakes, IMO.


8 posted on 06/12/2015 1:55:25 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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All I know is that I’m damn tired of past Jurasic Park flicks taking up space on my cable.


9 posted on 06/12/2015 1:57:09 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: ETL

If those two brats aren’t eaten by something; it’s a waste of my time and my money.


10 posted on 06/12/2015 1:57:55 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: cripplecreek

Well, they do rerun them an awful lot.


11 posted on 06/12/2015 1:59:19 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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All I know is that I’m damn tired of past Jurassic Park flicks taking up space on my cable.

Then again, with all the absolute JUNK that's on TV today, reruns of the Jurassic Park films is the last of my concerns.

12 posted on 06/12/2015 2:01:07 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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I usually ignore the critics. Most of them come across as know-nothings and/or fruitcakes, IMO.

You should review movies. lol

13 posted on 06/12/2015 2:01:15 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: bramps

I would love to see it on that humongous screen myself. Will it be out on IMAX? Pardon my ignorance, but I can’t remember the last time I went to a movie theater. Might actually have been for JP-3! Lol!


14 posted on 06/12/2015 2:04:32 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: ETL

2 hour Season Premier of “Defiance” tonight so there is that to look forward to.

Last season was pretty weak but ended strong so it gets another chance from me.


15 posted on 06/12/2015 2:06:42 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

Sorry, didn’t mean to offend you. Are you one of those know-nothing fruitcake film critics?


16 posted on 06/12/2015 2:07:37 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

Probably because there’s no fags or Catholic priest pedos...


17 posted on 06/12/2015 2:11:55 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: ETL

I put movie critics and political pundits on the same level.


18 posted on 06/12/2015 2:15:04 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: ETL

**Pratt plays a skilled dinosaur trainer**

Is that like a dinosaur whisperer?


19 posted on 06/12/2015 2:17:11 PM PDT by Gamecock (Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once, and He volunteered. R.C. Sproul)
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To: EEGator

Let’s not forget. Chris Pratt was recently “caught” teaching his son to say the pledge of allegiance (God included)


20 posted on 06/12/2015 2:20:42 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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