The Fourth of July holiday weekend was a monstrous one for the latest movie in the Jurassic franchise. Jurassic World Rebirth, starring Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, Jonathan Bailey, and Rupert Friend, ran away with the No. 1 box office spot with $147.3 million domestically, per Variety. The film is playing in 4,308 theaters across North America and had a budget of $180 million.
The seventh Jurassic movie, over the five-day holiday weekend, exceeded earlier predictions with its total. Ahead of the movie’s release, it was predicted that Rebirth would take in $133.5 million over its debut weekend. The dinosaur adventure movie earned $91.5 million over the traditional three-day weekend, which also exceeded earlier predictions of $85.4 million.
It’s Total Pale in Comparison to Other Franchise Films
Rebirth may have exceeded its box office predictions, but the totals for the seventh installment in the franchise are significantly lower than the three-day starts for the other Jurassic World films. Jurassic World (2015) earned $208 million over its premiere weekend. Its sequels, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) and Jurassic World Dominion (2022), earned $148 million and $145 million during their opening weekends, respectively.
The Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard-led Jurassic World, over its first five days, earned $258 million, while Fallen Kingdom earned $181 million and Dominion $172 million after five days in theaters. The first Jurassic Park movie, released in 1993, would wind up earning more than $1.1 billion worldwide, with $407.1 million coming domestically. That film had a budget of $63 million.
Rebirth has come with some mixed reviews, and has a 51% critic score and a 72% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. The movie takes place five years after the events of Dominion, and comes from director Gareth Edwards and writer David Koepp, who penned the original Jurassic Park.
Are Audiences Tired of Dinosaurs?
In a previous interview with GamesRadar+, Edwards touched on audiences perhaps losing interest in dinosaurs as a whole. “There’s been many dinosaur films in terms of (Jurassic Park movies), and the audience, you’ve got to do something new and fresh to give them a reason to come see the movie,” Edwards began. “And so by acknowledging that at the beginning and saying, ‘Look, audiences aren’t that interested in dinosaurs anymore.’ I thought it was like, ‘Okay, well, this is an honest beginning. Let’s see where we go from here,” he said.
Rebirth follows Zora Bennett (Johansson), paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis (Bailey), and team leader Duncan Kincaid (Ali) as they track down and try to extract DNA from three of the largest dinosaurs to try to create a life-saving drug for humans.
The film’s official synopsis reads: “Along the way, the team meets a family whose boating trip went disastrously wrong. Stranded on a mysterious island, they uncover a chilling secret that’s been hiding from the world for decades.”
Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025)
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Rotten Tomatoes Critic Score |
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score |
IMDb Rating |
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51% |
72% |
6.3/10 |
Rebirth Director Wanted to “Hate” the Script
Edwards had previously confessed he wasn’t always hyped about Rebirth when he read the script for the movie. “I read this screenplay wanting to hate it because I just wanted to have a break. I was all ready for the polite ‘No.’ (But when) I got to the end of the screenplay and was like, ‘It’s good.’ All the characters really popped out. It was just one of those things where I was like, ‘I can’t do this.’ It was just like, ‘Okay, I’m not going to be able to do anything but this,” Edwards said.
Jurassic World: Rebirth is currently playing in movie theaters.
