Jurassic World, the latest entry in the long running dinosaur franchise, has swept the globe captivating audiences and dominating the global box office. The film and its cast of deadly predators just bit off a massive $500M take during its opening weekend. That number is the highest worldwide opening in movie history, topping Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. The film is also the second biggest US opening ever, trumped only by Marvel's first Avengers movie. However despite the stratospheric numbers the film has already earned, they come nowhere near the estimated cost of actually opening a real life Jurassic Park.
Fandango's Movieclips did some theory crafting to come up with an estimate of how much money it would cost to set up a dinosaur theme park like the one seen in the film. The final result: just a cool $23, 432, 400, 000. It seems Chris Pratt and company have a long way to go at the box office.
The surprisingly detailed analysis uses lots of real life parallels to come up with the eye popping figure.
The most costly expense would obviously be the two pristine tropical islands required to house the park's facilities and living quarters for the Dinosaur's themselves. The film's fictional islands of Isla Nublar and Isla Sorna are based in Costa Rica. After scouring Costa Rican real estate listings, Movieclips pegged the two islands at around $1Bn.
The park's employees would also run up a hefty wage bill. World class scientists, palaeontologists and animal caretakers aren't cheap after all. The site pegs salaries would about $7.9M.
To figure out the cost of cloning the Beasts, movieclips looked at rates from a company called Bio Arts, which clones people's dogs for $150,000.
There a far more costs included in the official video so check that out.
