Universal Pictures has made history Wednesday, becoming the first studio film that exceeds the 5.53 billion dollars of the proceeds in a single year, setting a new record this occasion global box office, informs Reuters.
Taking full advantage of the success of films like home "Jurassic World" and "Furious 7" Universal studio, owned by Comcast group, exceeded the threshold Wednesday in seven months, breaking the previous world record of 5.52 billion established dollars in box office worldwide studio 20th Century Fox in 2014.
"This outstanding success is the result of an ongoing strategy in the decisions taken by our teams production, marketing and distribution, along with excellent choices to data release our films," said Jeff Shell, president of Universal Filmed Entertainment Group.
Earlier this year, Universal Pictures has set another record, becoming the first studio film that has exceeded $ 1 billion in worldwide box office. Then he became the first studio to receipts exceeded $ 5 billion in releases of its films.
"Jurassic World", a film that relaunched franchise science fiction adventure "Jurassic Park", created by Steven Spielberg, recorded the most profitable weekend of history, both in box office in North America and in the box office World CPC in June. A continuation of this film will be released to theaters in June 2018.
Until dissemination of this information, the studio Universal has released five movies that have topped the box office in North America this year: the erotic thriller "Fifty Shades of Grey" (launched in February), the action movie "Furious 7 "(released in April), the comedy" Pitch Perfect 2 "(released in May), SF" Jurassic World "(released in June) and the animated film" Minions "(released in July).
Among the films that studio Universal will launch this year is horror feature film "The Visitor", directed by M. Night Shyamalan drama "Everest" biopic "Steve Jobs" directed by Danny Boyle from a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin, and "Crimson Peak", a horror film directed by Gothic accents Guillermo del Toro.