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And they have no superhero films and the year is not even over yet.

Universal Pictures announced on Wednesday that in just seven months it has made $5.53 billion at the worldwide box office, an industry record.

The new mark eclipsed the previous record holder, 20th Century Fox, which made $5.52 billion in 2014.

It was accomplished with the smashing box office successes of Furious 7 ($1.515 billion), Minions ($875 million), Fifty Shades of Grey ($570 million), Pitch Perfect 2 ($283 million), and of course Jurassic World, which at $1.562 billion is the third highest grossing movie of all time (and Furious 7 is the fifth).

 In mid-July, Universal became the fastest studio in history to reach $5 billion at the box office, and there's still some big films to go for the studio before the year is out. 

Universal films still to open include the N.W.A biopic "Straight Outta Compton" due to be released in August, "Steve Jobs" which is set for October, and the Tina Fey and Amy Poehler comedy, "Sisters" in December.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/05/media/universal-box-office-record/

Woah



Nintendo is selling their IPs to Microsoft and this is true because:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=221391&page=1

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Woah. Universal really did good this year and it's not yet December.

Now invest all money on more theme parks. Thank you.



Ka-pi96 said:
Cinema revenue seems to just keep getting better and better!

since ticket prices get higher and higher!  Also Paul Walker died which made them about 500m at least.



I am Iron Man

Impressive. I cannot for the life of me understand $1.5 Bn for F&F7 or $570M for Fifty Shades. But you can't deny the achievement.



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I wonder how long it will take Disney to beat that.

2017 I guess.



"How Jeb and the GOP Got Trumped" the most popular political article by far now...

This is over.



Protendo said:
"How Jeb and the GOP Got Trumped" the most popular political article by far now...

This is over.

Wrong thread lol



Nintendo is selling their IPs to Microsoft and this is true because:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=221391&page=1

And to think if it wasn't for piracy these studios wouldnt barely me making ends meet



 

 

Robert_Downey_Jr. said:
Ka-pi96 said:
Cinema revenue seems to just keep getting better and better!

since ticket prices get higher and higher!  Also Paul Walker died which made them about 500m at least.


ticket prices have been fairly stagnet since 2009.



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