Summary
- Jurassic Park kickstarted the franchise, earning over $1 billion with groundbreaking CGI and an iconic score.
- Jurassic World marked a successful reboot with Pratt and Howard, earning $1.671 billion worldwide.
- Jurassic World: Dominion ended the trilogy with a decrease in earnings but still crossed $1 billion.
The release of Jurassic World Rebirth marks a fresh start for the Jurassic Park franchise, with Gareth Edwards' sequel featuring Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, and Mahershala Ali promising to deliver exciting dinosaur action of the highest order. Ever since Steven Spielberg launched the franchise with one of cinema's great blockbusters in 1993's Jurassic Park, the series of movies has generated billions of dollars at the box office.
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With six entries in the franchise, soon to be seven, here are the Jurassic Park movies, ranked by their highest worldwide box office gross, to see how the franchise can compete with behemoths such as Mission: Impossible, Star Wars, and the Harry Potter series.
6 Jurassic Park 3
Worldwide Gross: $368.8 Million
Jurassic Park 3
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- July 18, 2001
- Runtime
- 92 minutes
- Director
- Joe Johnston
- Budget
- $93 million
The third entry into the Jurassic Park saga marked the beginning of a differing creative vision as Spielberg stepped away from the director's chair, with such decisions being key factors that led to a significantly lower box office gross than all other movies in the series. Jurassic Park 3 saw the return of Dr. Alan Grant in a story that finds Grant's troubles as a researcher, leading to the dinosaur expert taking the supposedly wealthy couple, the Kirbys, on a tour of Isla Sorna. However, their deception of seeking the tour soon became clear to Grant and his student, Billy Brennan.
Coming in as the shortest movie of the franchise, the intellectual growth of the raptors, amidst the island's mysteries, and the couple's intentions were not enough to recapture the magic of the original Jurassic Park. Although the movie's $368.8 million haul was still enough to turn a profit, it fell short of the original's transformative success.
5 The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Worldwide Gross: $618.6 Million
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
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- May 23, 1997
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- Runtime
- 129 minutes
- Director
- Steven Spielberg
- Budget
- $73 million
The highly anticipated sequel to Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, saw Spielberg return, though the auteur only chose to bring back Jeff Goldblum and Richard Attenborough for the next adventure from the original cast. With Dr. Ian Malcolm taking center stage, The Lost World follows the exploration of Isla Sorna, another island that hosts a wealth of genetically engineered dinosaurs. Due to the new hierarchy at InGen, which aims to bring a Jurassic theme park to San Diego, Malcolm and his group find themselves embroiled in a full-scale conflict while attempting to preserve the ecosystem.
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The Lost World may not have reached the heights of its predecessor in terms of quality and financial success, grossing just over 600 million worldwide at the box office. However, its continuation of the Jurassic Park universe, full of menacing dinosaurs and its introduction of rising stars, including Vince Vaughn and Julianne Moore, saw the sequel still produce heavy profits, demonstrating the intense demand for the franchise.
4 Jurassic World: Dominion
Worldwide Gross: $1.004 Billion
Jurassic World Dominion
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- Release Date
- June 10, 2022
- Runtime
- 147 minutes
- Director
- Colin Trevorrow
The most recent addition to the Jurassic Park universe, Jurassic World: Dominion, concluded the Jurassic World trilogy, grossing a total of $1 billion, marking a decrease in earnings compared to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Dominion follows a world where dinosaurs coexist alongside humans, with the complications of such events soon leading to the Biosyn Corporation threatening to disrupt global food supplies through nefarious plans.
Despite the return of Jurassic Park's famous cast, including Grant, Ellie Sattler, and Malcolm all together alongside Owen Grady and Claire Dearing, Dominion comes in as the lowest-grossing Jurassic World movie. However, considering Dominion managed to generate a billion dollars while garnering poor critical and audience scores, it serves as proof that the immediate interest and action-packed chaos Dominion offers was still enough of a catch to reign in audiences.
3 Jurassic Park
Worldwide Gross: $1.104 Billion
Jurassic Park
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- June 11, 1993
- Runtime
- 127 minutes
- Director
- Steven Spielberg
- Cast
- Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Bob Peck, Martin Ferrero, BD Wong, Joseph Mazzello, Ariana Richards, Samuel L. Jackson, Wayne Knight, Gerald R. Molen, Miguel Sandoval, Cameron Thor, Christopher John Fields, Whit Hertford, Dean Cundey, Jophery C. Brown, Tom Mishler, Greg Burson, Adrian Escober, Richard Kiley
- Producer
- Kathleen Kennedy, Gerald R. Molen
- Budget
- $63 million
Kickstarting the franchise in 1993 was Jurassic Park, an otherworldly cinematic experience unlike anything seen before, with Spielberg's hits in Jaws and E.T. Being dwarfed in comparison to the success of the dinosaur epic. Jurassic Park's premise revolves around the opening of a revolutionary theme park, Jurassic Park, which features an array of cloned dinosaurs. However, a power outage on the island causes mayhem to occur, resulting in dangerous dinosaurs running rampant, as Grant and Sattler work together to try and survive the dire situation.
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Powered by John Williams' triumphant score, the revolutionary CGI of its time, and bona fide movie-star performances by Goldblum, Sam Neill, and Laura Dern, Jurassic Park soared to box office heights, delivering over $1 billion, and was, at one point, the highest-grossing movie of all time. Such an impressive feat saw the influential film go on to have reruns in cinemas over the years, a testament to its supreme quality and blockbuster capabilities that brought out audiences in droves.
2 Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Worldwide Gross: $1.310 Billion
Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom
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- June 6, 2018
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- Runtime
- 129 minutes
- Director
- J. A. Bayona
Fallen Kingdom became a blockbuster hit upon its release, delivering Universal Pictures a billion-dollar film that further strengthened the sci-fi series' hold on pop culture. The second installment of the Chris Pratt-led movies sees Isla Nublar's volcano soon erupt, putting many of the rare dinosaur species in grave danger. The re-teaming of Claire and Owen in their attempts to save the dinosaurs, a race against time, coincides with a nefarious plot to sell the endangered dinosaurs on the black market, adding further stakes for its protagonists.
Fallen Kingdom's variation of dinosaurs, including the introduction of the frightening Indoraptor, brings an epic action adventure that continues to prove the franchise's worth at the box office, with its $1.310 billion haul being an impressive feat despite earning less than its predecessor.
1 Jurassic World
Worldwide Gross: $1.671 Billion
Jurassic World
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- June 12, 2015
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- Cast
- Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Irrfan Khan, Vincent D'Onofrio, Ty Simpkins, Nick Robinson, Jake Johnson, Omar Sy, BD Wong, Judy Greer, Lauren Lapkus, Brian Tee, Katie McGrath, Andy Buckley, Eric Edelstein, Courtney James Clark, Colby Boothman-Shepard, Jimmy Fallon, James DuMont, Matt Burke, Anna Talakkottur, Matthew Cardarople, Michael Papajohn, William Gary Smith, Kelly Washington
- Director
- Colin Trevorrow
- Budget
- $150 million
Jurassic World marked the next chapter of Jurassic Park, 14 years on from the last entry in the notorious franchise, with Pratt's Owen taking up the mantle of steering the next adventure in the universe where modern society meets dinosaurs. In Jurassic World, a theme park populated with dinosaurs soon becomes a war zone when an Indominus rex escapes from its enclosure, prompting a team comprising dinosaur experts and military personnel to attempt to quell the chaos.
To date, Jurassic World has dominated at the box office for the franchise, earning an astounding $1.671 billion and becoming one of the biggest hits in recent memory. The sheer anticipation and hype reached fever pitch at release, as Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard lived up to the charm of the original protagonists. Meanwhile, the modern visuals produced impeccable and lifelike dinosaurs that only added to the engaging cinematic experience.
Source: Box Office Mojo
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