Scarlett Johansson becomes highest-grossing lead actor EVER after Jurassic Park Rebirth opens with $318M
The 40-year-old actress accomplished this impressive feat over the 4th of July holiday weekend, with the monstrous debut of her new film Jurassic Park Rebirth.
The seventh installment of the Jurassic Park franchise took in a whopping $147.3 million at the domestic box office since opening last Wednesday, and $318.3 million worldwide.
Those figures bring Johanssen's worldwide total for leading roles up to $14.61 billion, just surpassing Samuel L. Jackson ($14.60 billion) and Robert Downey Jr. ($14.3 billion), according to The Numbers.
What's perhaps even more impressive than that is Johansson managed to surpass her MCU peers in just 36 movies with leading roles, compared to Jackson's 71 films and Downey Jr.'s 45 films, coming after recent comments about how she fought her way out of being cast in movies as a 'sex symbol.'
She also has her male MCU co-stars beat in in average gross for her movies, with Johansson's average worldwide gross at $405.9 million, far ahead of Jackson ($205.7 million) and Downey Jr. ($318.1 million).
However, both Jackson and Downey Jr. have her beat as the top stars for the domestic box office.
Jackson - who also starred in the Star Wars prequel trilogy as Mace Windu - leads the way with $5.8 billion, ahead of Downey Jr. ($5.47 billion) and Johansson ($5.41 billion).
Of course, not all films are counted in these grosses, including Oppenheimer, which Downey Jr. won a Supporting Actor Oscar for, so its $976 million worldwide gross is not counted for his tally.
The tallies for each actor includes both traditional lead roles or 'lead ensemble' roles, which means all of the Marvel movies Johansson, Jackson and Downey Jr. starred in will count towards their grosses in this regard.
With Downey returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Doctor Doom in Avengers: Doomsday next year and in Avengers: Secret Wars in 2027, it's possible he could pass both Jackson and Johansson in the years to come.
As for Jurassic World Rebirth - the only new release in theaters over the long holiday weekend - it took in an estimated $91.5 million from the traditional Friday-Sunday weekend, with a domestic tally since Wednesday of $147.3 million.
It also took in $171 million from foreign markets for a worldwide debut of $317.8 million at the global box office.
It has already nearly doubled its reported budget of $180 million in one weekend, and could be making a run at the two biggest movies of the year.
As for Jurassic World Rebirth - the only new release in theaters over the long holiday weekend - it took in an estimated $91.5 million from the traditional Friday-Sunday weekend, with a domestic tally since Wednesday of $147.3 million.
The top 5 was rounded out by Warner Bros.' F1 ($26 million, $109.5 million domestic), Universal's How to Train Your Dragon ($11 million, $224 million domestic), Disney's Elio ($5.7 million, $55 million domestic) and Sony's 28 Years Later ($4.6 million, $60.2 million domestic).
Warner Bros.' A Minecraft Movie ($423.9 million) and Disney's Lilo & Stitch live-action remake ($408.5 million) are currently the top domestic films of 2025, though only one film has passed $1 billion this year - the Chinese-language film Ne Zha 2, which has earned a whopping $1.89 billion almost entirely from the Middle Kingdom.
Jurassic World Rebirth will be facing some very stiff competition in the coming weeks, with Warner Bros.' Superman debuting this weekend, which is currently tracking to open somewhere between $130 million and $170 million at the domestic box office.
Paramount's Smurfs and Sony's I Know What You Did Last Summer open on July 18 with Marvel/Disney's Fantastic Four: First Steps arriving on July 25.
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