Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/June 7 to 13, 2015

Top 25 Report: Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (June 7 to 13, 2015)

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See Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/June 21 to 27, 2015 for reason this report was delayed. And the main page revision history for full editor credit.

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Rank	Article	Class	Views	Image	Notes
1	Christopher Lee		1,870,432		One of the most iconic villain actors, playing from Count Dracula and Frankenstein's monster to Saruman and Count Dooku, with a booming voice that even lent itself to metal albums, Sir Christopher Lee died at the age of 93, leaving behind a filmography of seven decades.
2	Jurassic World		1,688,210		In this era of duelling gargantuas, when Hollywood risks $200 million budgets on a whim and triple-digit opening weekends are a seasonal event, the financial achievements of the first Jurassic Park seem somewhat pallid. And yet, it was for a time the most successful film ever made, and more importantly, formed the prototype for the modern blockbuster; massive, frontloaded opening weekend, brushfire earnings and supercharged ancillaries. And now, after Furious 7 and Avengers: Age of Ultron made substantial dents in the US GDP, Jurassic World has arrived to show that its ageing franchise is perfectly capable of holding its own in today's hostile environment. Its $208 million opening weekend was the biggest of all time, though at just $1 million above the previous record set by Marvel's The Avengers back in 2012, it wasn't exactly a killing blow. Still, it managed to also claim the highest second weekend gross of all time as well, showing that it may well be on the way to repeating the performance of its ancestor. Today, the Jurassic franchise is just one monster among many, but it has shown that it still has the right to reign.
3	American Pharoah		896,924		The 2015 Preakness Stakes had this horse's victory make him the first to win the Grand Slam of Thoroughbred racing.
4	Stephen Curry		871,042		This record-breaking basketball wunderkind is leading the Golden State Warriors against LeBron James's Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2015 NBA Finals.
5	Sense8		868,242		The new series, directed by the Wachowskis and co-written by Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski, premièred in its entirety on Netflix on June 5. The story, which concerns eight random people from around the world who develop psychic links to one another, hasn't wowed the critics, but audiences seem to have taken to it.
6	Game of Thrones (season 5)		840,159		The Song of Ice and Fire approaches its season finale.
7	2015 Copa América		761,970		South America's quadrennial international soccer competition got underway on June 11.
8	Orange Is the New Black		707,097		The third season of the women-in-prison TV series premièred in its entirety on Netflix on June 11.
9	Caitlyn Jenner		695,111		On June 1, the former track and field star and honorary Kardashian announced that she had completed her transition to womanhood, and was answering to the name Caitlyn. In keeping with the habits of her former family, her transition was accompanied by a full-on media blow-out, including a cover shoot for Vanity Fair. Perhaps surprisingly, America seems to have welcomed her with open arms, though you wouldn't know that from the response of the right-wing press, whose reaction has been, to quote the Washington Post, "apocalyptic".
10	LeBron James		683,635		#4's adversary in the finals, trying to bring his hometown (albeit Curry was also born in the Cleveland suburb of Akron) Cavaliers to their first title after decades suffering.
11	Dusty Rhodes (wrestler)		658,450		A wrestler also known as "The American Dream", father of Dustin Rhodes and Cody Rhodes, died four months short of his 70th birthday.
12	Game of Thrones		653,185		See #6.
13	2015 FIFA Women's World Cup		641,828		Women's football premier championship is currently being held in Canada.
14	List of Game of Thrones episodes		636,267		The finale of the current season (#6) will air on June 14. Afterwards the show must now navigate uncharted territory, as George R. R. Martin's text cannot guide them.
15	Jurassic Park (film)		582,907		The first in the Jurassic series was lifted by the success of Jurassic World.
16	Stan Wawrinka		579,882		One year after his first Grand Slam title, this Swiss got his second one in the French Open, beating Novak Djokovic (and in the round prior, compatriot Roger Federer).
17	Matthew Dellavedova		579,147		This Australian teammate of #10 was crucial in holding down #4 in game 2 of the Finals, and game 3 had him so overworked that he got dehydrated enough for an hospitalization!
18	Mr. T		558,182		Reddit discovered more on the military career on the man who pities fools.
19	Deaths in 2015		556,107		The viewing figures for this article have been remarkably constant; fluctuating week to week between 450 and 600,000, apparently heedless of who actually died.
20	Secretariat (horse)		516,333		#3's ancestor who is also a Triple Crown-winning horse. Wonder if Pharoah will get a movie based on him too.
21	Elon Musk		443,096		The owner of Tesla, Inc. and SpaceX announced a competition to design his planned Hyperloop vactrain.
22	List of Orange Is the New Black episodes		435,087		See #8.
23	Chris Pratt		429,199		The former Parks and Recreation star cemented his rise to Hollywood stardom after making a splash with Guardians of the Galaxy by securing a lead role in Jurassic World.
24	Ahmed Zayat		411,367		#3's name comes from how his stables are owned by this Egyptian American businessman, although "pharaoh" wound up misspelled upon registration.
25	Facebook		399,528		A perennially popular article. #26 was the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (United States) that #3 got.