Jurassic World's Roaring Success At Box Office

Jurassic World, the fourth film in the series that began with Jurassic Park, has gobbled up the competition to score the biggest worldwide box office opening weekend ever.

It pulled in $511m (£329m) globally as it opened in cinemas, according to box office tracker

Exhibitor Relations - eclipsing Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 ($483m in 2011).

The unprecedented haul for the blockbuster, which has had largely good reviews, was boosted by the $100m earned in China alone and it topped the box office in 66 countries.

In North America, the film made $204.6m, just short of the record for an opening weekend in the region, held by Marvel's The Avengers ($207m in 2012).

Co-produced by Steven Spielberg, who directed the first two of the four films, Jurassic World returns to the island theme park where scientists first revived T-Rex and other dinosaurs for paying customers over 20 years ago.

Story and source: Sky News