Marvel Studios have taken names so far this year, with Avengers: Age of Ultron grossing $1.36bn worldwide - becoming the fifth highest-grossing film of all time.
But where the second Avengers instalment raked in an outlandish $392.5m in its opening weekend, even Tony Stark and co. must bow down to Jurassic World, which smashed opening weekend records as it grossed $524m from Friday thru Sunday, becoming the first ever film to pass the half-a-billion mark in its first three days and smashing the record previously held by 2012's Avengers Assemble.
In the 1970s, close friends Steven Spielberg and George Lucas famously took out ads in Variety Magazine congratulating each other as they went back and forth with box office record-breakers like Jaws and Star Wars, and it seems Marvel Studios have rolled back their years with their congratulations to the Spielberg-produced Jurassic World:
Congrats Mr. Spielberg @UniversalPics@Legendary@LeDoctor@colintrevorrow and especially @prattprattprattpic.twitter.com/5DxlDM8pgK
— Kevin Feige (@Kevfeige) June 16, 2015
The image tweeted by Marvel president Kevin Feige was created by Marvel's own concept artist Andy Park, and pays particular homage to Chris Pratt, who plays Star Lord in Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy franchise.
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