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“Jurassic World” $204.6 Mil Weekend Is Second on All Time List

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Estimates this morning put “Jurassic World” at $204.6 million for the weekend making it the second biggest opening weekend of all time. And biggest opening of all time for a director no one had ever heard of (Trevorrow) replicating the work of the most famous director of all time (Spielberg). The audiences obviously loved “Jurassic World” even with its flaws because its flaws didn’t matter. It was literally a popcorn hit, huge fun, and hit all the right notes. No one cared about Bryce Dallas Howard’s high heels, or whether the dinosaurs were anatomically correct.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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