Summer is in full swing, and with several big hitters set to land in cinemas over the coming weeks, Jurassic World Rebirth has set the bar with a $318.3 million global opening weekend.
Knocking F1 The Movie from pole position in North America with $91.5 from the Friday-to-Sunday period and an estimated $147.3 million over the five-day July 4th holiday weekend (which includes Wednesday and Thursday takings), the Gareth Edwards-directed Rebirth also added a further $171 million from international markets, giving it the biggest opening of 2025 so far, and the second-best for the Jurassic Park/World franchise after 2020’s Jurassic World.
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Elsewhere, the Brad Pitt-led F1 added $82.4 million to take its global haul to $293.6 million, surpassing Ridley Scott’s Napoleon ($221.3 million) to give Apple its highest-grossing release in just its second weekend, while DreamWorks’ live-action How to Train Your Dragon crossed the $500 million mark and Disney’s live-action Lilo & Stitch continued its march to the billion mark, finishing the weekend on $972.7 million.
Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, the planet’s ecology has proven largely inhospitable to dinosaurs. Those remaining exist in isolated equatorial environments with climates resembling the one in which they once thrived. The three most colossal creatures across land, sea and air within that tropical biosphere hold, in their DNA, the key to a drug that will bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humankind.
Academy Award® nominee Scarlett Johansson plays skilled covert operations expert Zora Bennett, contracted to lead a skilled team on a top-secret mission to secure the genetic material. When Zora’s operation intersects with a civilian family whose boating expedition was capsized by marauding aquatic dinos, they all find themselves stranded on a forbidden island that had once housed an undisclosed research facility for Jurassic Park. There, in a terrain populated by dinosaurs of vastly different species, they come face-to-face with a sinister, shocking discovery that has been hidden from the world for decades.
Mahershala Ali is Duncan Kincaid, Zora’s most trusted team member; Critics Choice and Olivier Award winner Jonathan Bailey (Wicked, Bridgerton) plays paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis; Emmy nominee Rupert Friend (Homeland, Obi-Wan Kenobi) appears as Big Pharma representative Martin Krebs and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (The Lincoln Lawyer, Murder on the Orient Express) plays Reuben Delgado, the father of the shipwrecked civilian family.
The cast includes Luna Blaise (Manifest), David Iacono (The Summer I Turned Pretty) and Audrina Miranda (Lopez vs. Lopez) as Reuben’s family. The film also features, as members of Zora and Krebs’ crews, Philippine Velge (Station Eleven), Bechir Sylvain (BMF) and Ed Skrein (Deadpool).
