‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ hatches staggering $318 million global box office premiere

Universal‘s a champion, and you’re going to hear it roar.

Jurassic World Rebirth opened to an earthshaking $91.5 million at the domestic box office and $318.3 million globally this weekend. The sequel to 2022’s Jurassic World Dominion, fourth Jurassic World film, and seventh in the overall franchise that began with 1990’s Jurassic Park dropped a meteor on its closest competition, Brad Pitt and Joseph Kosinski‘s F1: The Movie, which dropped over 50 percent from its $55.6 million domestic open for a $26 million second-week take.

Laments over the box office’s sluggish pace, which rose to a chorus in the first few months of the year, can officially be put to rest after premieres like this, and that of A Minecraft Movie, Lilo & Stitch, Sinners, and How to Train Your Dragon. Days past 2025’s mid-point, the domestic box office currently stands at a total gross of $4.3 billion, on track to meet or perhaps exceed 2024’s year-end gross of $8.5 billion.

Jurassic World Rebirth has more than recouped its estimated $180 million budget, and in just three days in theaters, holds the distinctions of being the franchise’s second-biggest premiere after 2020’s Jurassic World and Universal’s biggest premiere of the year.

Coming in third, fourth, and fifth on the domestic charts are How to Train Your Dragon, Elio, and 28 Years Later. The live-action remake of the 2010 animated classic grossed $11 million in its fourth week of release for a $224 million domestic gross ($516.9 million globally); Pixar’s extraterrestrial adventure beamed up only $5.7 million in its third week, for a disappointing $55 million domestic gross ($96.7 global); and Danny Boyle and Alex Garland‘s grand return to the blood-spattered horror franchise they began in 2002 scared up $4.6 in its third week, grossing $60.2 million domestically and $125.8 globally against an estimated $60 million budget.

The rest of this weekend’s box office readouts contain several exciting twists for box office prognosticators, including M3GAN 2.0‘s continued failure, against all expectations, to live up to its 2022 predecessor. Blumhouse‘s AI-powered bomb grossed only $3.8 million in its sophomore slump at the box office, making for an $18.5 million domestic gross. At this point in its release history, for comparison, M3GAN had already grossed $56.8 million.

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On the other end of the spectrum, Materialists, Celine Song’s quietly engrossing romantic dramedy starring Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, and Pedro Pascal is still holding firm in the domestic top 10, adding $1.3 million in week four for an impressive $33.5 million domestically. The independently produced film was only budgeted at an estimated $20 million and released into a market that has been trending down on romantic comedies for over a decade.

Next weekend’s slate of new releases contains a diverse array of offerings, from screenlife horror Skillhouse, starring Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, to the political thriller Sovereign, starring Nick Offerman and Jacob Tremblay, and finally, the big kahuna, James Gunn‘s new crack at Superman.

Starring David Corenswet as DC’s new man in tights and Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, Gunn told Entertainment Weekly in June that with Superman, “I wanted to tell the story about someone who was truly good in a world that doesn’t value goodness, in a world that makes fun of basic kindness and basic human values.”