Only a few months ago Jurassic World broke records by earning $525 million globally in its opening weekend, but Star Wars: The Force Awakens has just beaten that by just $4 million.  But, eager to have the last word, Universal have congratulated Disney on their victory.  Frank Marshall, who produced the film starring Chris Pratt, has tweeted a photo of the famous Jurassic Park T-Rex awarding a medal to BB-8, the cute, spherical new droid from The Force Awakens.  This will appeal to Star Wars fans, as it references the final scene of the original Star Wars film, Episode IV: A New Hope, in which Luke Skywalker and Han Solo are given medals by Princess Leia for destroying the Death Star.  This playfulness between filmmakerswhen it comes to records has 30 years of form, especially in the case of Star Wars. When the first Star Wars film became the highest grossing movie of all time in 1977, beating Jaws, Steven Spielberg took out an advert in Variety magazine to condratulate his film school friend in which R2-D2 can be seen snaring the Jaws great white shark with a fishing rod.  When ET beat Star Wars in film rentals Lucas did the same thing, his advert showing Han Solo and Luke Skywalker holding the beloved alien aloft; when Star Warsfilms took back the top spot, Spielberg published an ad with ET crowning RT. In 1997, when James Cameron's Titanic beat the Star Wars films, Lucas congratulated the newcomer with an illustration of all the Star Wars cast going down with the sinking ship.  Frank Marshall also wrote a warm message to the Disney and subsidiary Lucasfilm team.  "Universal Pictures, Steven, Frank and Colin congratulate Star Wars: The Force Awakens on the biggest opening weekend in galactic history," Marshall said.  This isn’t the only new record Star Wars: The Force Awakens has set. It broke the record for highest grossing domestic opening night with $57 million, $120.5 million for its first day (which also breaks the record for the highest earning single day), and beat the standing box office record for the Sunday of an opening weekend with $61 million.
The producer of Jurassic World has taken Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ victory in good spirits with funny tweet