Marvel Congratulates Jurassic World For Beating Avengers

Matt McGloin / Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - 10:46PM

Jurassic World beat The Avengers for the biggest opening weekend ever coming in at $208.8 million, which was just enough to surpass the Assemblers debut of $207.4 million back in 2012.

Marvel Studios president and producer Kevin Feige tweeted out the following image congratulating Steven Spielberg, Universal Studios, Legendary Entertainment, producer Frank Marshall, director Colin Trevorrow and Chris Pratt, who plays Star-Lord for Marvel in Guardians of the Galaxy.

Jurassic World is currently at almost $550 million worldwide and also holds the record for biggest June opening, best single day gross for Saturday and Sunday, best opening weekend in the Summer and is the first film to score $500 million in a weekend.

Congrats Mr. Spielberg @UniversalPics @Legendary @LeDoctor @colintrevorrow and especially @prattprattpratt pic.twitter.com/5DxlDM8pgK

— Kevin Feige (@Kevfeige) June 16, 2015

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Matt McGloin created, designed and launched Cosmic Book News in 2008, an independent website that covers entertainment news including movies, comics, tv, video games and more. Matt helped Marvel Comics promote 'Guardians of the Galaxy' and 'Nova' and has expanded into movies, TV and more. Matt's scoops include the biggest of them all when he released the 'Avengers: Endgame' title before 'Infinity War.' Recently saw Matt first say Marvel is retooling 'Daredevil: Born Again,' which was confirmed exactly as he said months later by the trades.