One of our Outposters hated it, Hawkzino enjoyed it. Your mileage may vary, but nobody can argue that Jurassic World: Rebirth isn’t finding an audience. Universal Pictures will be very happy with these box office results, and the longevity of various theme park attractions is extended for another decade. These numbers just keep going up.
Jurassic World: Rebirth has taken $147 million domestic, and an even bigger overseas haul leaves it at $318 million after just one weekend. This is more than $50 million over the top end of projections.
In context, it is the second biggest global opening of the year behind A Minecraft Movie, and the second-biggest opening of the franchise behind the first Jurassic World reboot movie. It took in nearly $25 million on July 4th, making it the best post-COVID performer of that holiday weekend.
Elsewhere at the box office, Brad Pitt’s F1 took second spot with another $26.1 million. It is now North of $100 million domestic and climbing towards $300 million globally. The drop off was also quite small, comparatively, showing it may have some legs as a more mature movie, as summer blockbusters open around it. Word on the street remains that the sound and racing sequences are “must-see” on a big screen.
How To Train Your Dragon was third with another $11 million into the pot, taking its worldwide gross well over half a billion.
Fourth place was filled by Disney Pixar’s Elio with $5.6 million, taking it to $55 million domestic and still to break the $100 million mark globally, adding more fuel to our developing theory that Pixar movies are kinda over and the audience has grown out of them.
28 Years Later was in fifth place with $4.6 million, pushing the worldwide total to $125 million. A hard-R, British-centric horror sequel being over 25% higher than a Disney Pixar release in a summer holiday season is emblematic of the struggles Pixar currently faces.
