The bar for the Jurassic World franchise is sky high at the box office, with all three previous Jurassic World movies crossing $1 billion at the worldwide box office. They paved the way for Jurassic World Rebirth this past holiday weekend, the seventh installment in the franchise. The good news for Universal is that Jurassic […]
The bar for the Jurassic World franchise is sky high at the box office, with all three previous Jurassic World movies crossing $1 billion at the worldwide box office. They paved the way for Jurassic World Rebirth this past holiday weekend, the seventh installment in the franchise.
The good news for Universal is that Jurassic World Rebirth has once again proven this franchise is bulletproof, with the back-to-basics film from director Gareth Edwards stomping its way to a massive $318.3 million at the global box office across Fourth of July Weekend. That includes $147.3 million that was made from 4,308 theaters here in the United States.
Internationally, Rebirth scared up $171 million across its opening weekend.
Jurassic World Rebirth was #1 at the domestic box office for the weekend, with the film’s three-day traditional opening weekend hitting $91.5 million in the States. How does that compare to the three previous JW movies? Jurassic World opened to $208 million domestically in 2015, followed by Fallen Kingdom with $148 million and Dominion with $145 million.
That gives Rebirth the lowest domestic opening weekend for the Jurassic World saga to date, though $318.3 million is actually its second best global debut behind the first Jurassic World. The news is all around quite good for Universal, with Rebirth proving that this franchise still has a lot of life left in it. But will it match the billion dollar worldwide total of its predecessors when all is said and done? Keep your eyes peeled for fresh updates in the coming weeks.
The reported production budget for this one was $180 million, with a massive marketing spend of course tacked onto that. At this rate, the film will become profitable in the coming days.
Gareth Edwards (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Godzilla) directs a script by original Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koepp, based on characters created by Michael Crichton.
Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, the planet’s ecology has proven largely inhospitable to dinosaurs. Those remaining exist in isolated equatorial environments with climates resembling the one in which they once thrived.
