Summary
- Jurassic World Rebirth is making massive money at the box office, raking in over $300 million worldwide in less than a week.
- The film series has had diminishing returns over time, making it uncertain if it will reach the monumental success of its predecessors.
- Despite mediocre reviews, the film's impressive box office performance leaves room for potential success in the long run.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the latest Jurassic World film is bringing in a Tyrannosaurus rex-sized amount of money at the worldwide box office. It's doing all of it with some pretty mediocre reviews and lackluster audience scores as well.
Steven Spielberg unleashed Jurassic Park on the world in 1993 and turned every single '80s and '90s kid into dinosaur nuts overnight. It wasn't just American kids falling face-first into all the dino-hype as Jurassic Park became the highest-grossing film of all time when it was released. Sure, it's lost that title over time, but there simply is no way to overstate just how big of a deal the original Jurassic Park film was upon release. That original film has spun out into a full-blown franchise with sequels, television series, books, video games, theme park rides, and pretty much anything else you can think of. The latest entry into the film series, Jurassic World Rebirth, is meant to be the first in a brand new trilogy, and people are clearly gobbling it up.
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, the latest Jurassic World film is on track to rake in $312 million worldwide by the end of the weekend. You read that correctly. Jurassic World Rebirth is almost one-third of the way to a billion dollars, and it hasn't even been out for an entire week yet. The question is, will Jurassic World Rebirth have the legs to rake in that kind of money, as every single Jurassic World film has to date? Or will this fourth Jurassic World film (the seventh Jurassic Park film in total) fail to bring in the kind of money that Universal Pictures is looking for?
Jurassic World Rebirth Is Bringing In All Kinds Of Money At The Box Office
The Jurassic World franchise has been suffering from diminishing returns for a while now. After all, the only reason we got a fourteen-year gap between 2001's Jurassic Park III and 2015's Jurassic World is because the former grossed significantly less than both Jurassic Park and its sequel, The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Then, after Jurassic World raked in $1.6 billion worldwide, both Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and Jurassic World Dominion subsequently brought in less money than the film before it.
So, what are film fans supposed to make of Jurassic World Rebirth's big opening? Both Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and Jurassic World Dominion did about the same numbers as Rebirth during their opening windows, but word-of-mouth failed to take them to the heights the original Jurassic World reached. Given that Jurassic World Rebirth has a middling "B" CinemaScore and an unflattering Rotten Tomatoes audience score of 51%, it is hard to see the latest dinosaur epic having the legs to set box office records both at home and abroad.
Granted, weirder things have happened. There is no doubt that Universal is delighted with Jurassic World Rebirth's opening take, and time will tell if things continue to go well for the film.
- Release Date
- July 2, 2025
- Runtime
- 134 minutes
- Director
- Gareth Edwards
- Writers
- David Koepp
- Producers
- Frank Marshall, Patrick Crowley
- Prequel(s)
- Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park 3, Jurassic World, Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom, Jurassic World: Dominion
- Franchise(s)
- Jurassic Park
Cast
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Scarlett JohanssonZora Bennett -
Jonathan BaileyDr. Henry Loomis
WHERE TO WATCH
Source: THR