Universal Pictures, with $5.53-billion take, sets global box-office record
Film studio Universal Pictures movies have grossed $5.53 billion in global ticket sales in 2015, breaking in just seven months the record for highest yearly gross. Propelled by hits such as "Jurassic World" and "Furious 7," the Los Angeles studio's worldwide total edged past the high point marked by 20th Century Fox last year. In 2014, Fox scored $5.52 billion in box-office receipts thanks largely to "X-Men: Days of Future Past" and "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes." Before th