That sound you hear emanating from Universal City is NBCUniversal executives breathing a massive sigh of relief following the opening of “Jurassic World: Rebirth.” The fourth entry in the “World” iteration of the “Jurassic Park” franchise and the seventh “Jurassic” movie overall opened to a very impressive $147 million over the five-day holiday weekend. Slightly above pre-reelease polling, that total also includes a $26 million Fourth of July tally, the best Independence Day gross since the pandemic.
The Gareth Edwards-directed thriller may have earned mixed reviews and a disconcerting B grade from CinemaScore, but audiences around the world didn’t seem to care. Globally, “Rebirth” has earned a super impressive $318 million. The film has major competition from the debut of James Gunn’s “Superman” on Friday, but Universal Pictures should more than recoup its production budget, which conflicting reports have between $180-225 million. Whether it can match the $1+ billion worldwide grosses that “Jurassic World,” “Jurassic World: Dominion,” and “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” earned remains to be seen. It’s a fantastic start, however.
Dropping 53% against the dino onslaught was “F1” with another $25 million and $109 million over 10 days. That’s probably a slightly worse drop than WB and Apple were expecting, but the global tally is now up to $293 million in just 10 days. Against a $200-300 million production budget (we may not know the true cost for years), the Joseph Kosinski thriller is still looking at making up its production budget, if that budget was $250 million or under (there is word in-film sponsorships helped eliviate $40 million of the film’s cost).
“How To Train Your Dragon” kept its hold on family audiences in the U.S. with another $11 million and $224 million domestic and $516.9 million worldwide after four weeks. “Elio” was right behind it, down 45% for $5.7 million with a new domestic total of $55 million and $96.7 million global.
“28 Years Later” dropped to 5th with $4.6 million for $60 million domestic and $125 million worldwide in just 17 days in theaters.
Sadly, “M3GAN 2.0” had an absolutely terrible second frame, dropping 63% for $3.8 million and $18.5 million domestic and $30 million global. At this point, the well-reviewed sequel has almost no shot at recouping its reported $25 million production budget unless it’s a smash on PVOD.
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