Summary
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the latestJurassic Worldfilm 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 unleashedJurassic Parkon 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 asJurassic Parkbecame thehighest-grossing film of all timewhen 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 originalJurassic Parkfilm 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.
According toThe Hollywood Reporter, the latestJurassic Worldfilm is on track to rake in $312 million worldwide by the end of the weekend. You read that correctly.Jurassic World Rebirthis 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, willJurassic World Rebirthhave the legsto rake in that kind of money, as every singleJurassic Worldfilm has to date? Or will this fourthJurassic Worldfilm (the seventhJurassic Parkfilm in total) fail to bring in the kind of money that Universal Pictures is looking for?
Jurassic World RebirthIs Bringing In All Kinds Of Money At The Box Office
TheJurassic Worldfranchise has been suffering from diminishing returns for a while now. After all, the only reason we got a fourteen-year gap between 2001’sJurassic Park IIIand 2015’sJurassic Worldis because the former grossed significantly less than bothJurassic Parkand its sequel,The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Then, afterJurassic Worldraked in $1.6 billion worldwide, bothJurassic World: Fallen KingdomandJurassic World Dominionsubsequentlybrought in less money than the film before it.
So, what are film fans supposed to make ofJurassic World Rebirth’s big opening? BothJurassic World: Fallen KingdomandJurassic World Dominiondid about the same numbers asRebirthduring their opening windows, but word-of-mouth failed to take them to the heights the originalJurassic Worldreached. Given thatJurassic World Rebirthhas 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 withJurassic World Rebirth’s opening take, and time will tell if things continue to go well for the film.
