Check This Out: How Marvel Congratulated ‘Jurassic World’ For Beating ‘Avengers’ Box Office Record
So you’ve probably heard by now,Jurassic WorldbeatThe AvengersU.S. box office opening record. Colin Trevorrow’sJurassic Parksequel grossed $208,806,270 in the opening weekend, just enough to overtake Joss Whedon’sThe Avengers' $207.4 million record from 2012. Marvel Studios has published an image online to congratulate the “new box office king.” Check it out, after the jump.
The illustration featuresChris Pratt’s character Owen riding a T-Rex looking down uponThe Avengers, which includes Thor, Iron Man, Hawkeye, Black Widow, Captain America and The Hulk. Also notice that the T-Rex is holding Thor’s mighty hammer.
The artwork above was created byAndy Park, the world famous artist from Marvel Studios' visual development team who has been very very responsible for the awesome look of the Marvel films. Marvel Studios headKevin Feigeposted the image onhis twitter account. Talk about class.
When Spielberg’sETbroke that same record in the early 1980s, his friend George Lucas took out the ad below to congratulate him:
In 1997, when the Special Edition re-release ofStar WarsbrokeET’s record, Spielberg published another open letter showing ET crowning R2D2.
And in 1998, whenTitanicbeatStar Warsfor the highest grossing movie of all time,George Lucasbought this full-page ad in Variety congratulating James Cameron. The ad features an illustration of theStar Warscast jumping out of the infamous sinking ship and into the ocean, representing second place.
