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Express Tribune
21-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
'Superman' and 'F1' drive summer 2025 box office as 'Jurassic World Rebirth', 'Demon Slayer' anchor early hits
Superman has reached $406.8M globally in its second weekend, according to studio estimates. The film added around $45.2M from 78 overseas markets, with notable holds in the UK, France, Germany and Australia. The top overseas markets are the UK at $22.2M, followed by Mexico, Brazil, Australia and China. Universal and Amblin's Jurassic World Rebirth has achieved a global total of $648M through Sunday, marking its third weekend in theatres. In China, the film has become the highest-grossing Hollywood release of 2025 with $71.8M so far. Apple Original Films' F1, distributed by Warner Bros, continues to expand its reach with a $460.8M global total, including $307.2M from overseas markets. The film's strong word of mouth has been reflected in stable holds across Asia Pacific and Europe. Korea saw a 28% increase this session, while other markets recorded minor declines. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle opened in Japan with strong results, with reports estimating as high as 5.9 billion yen ($39.7M) across its four-day debut, including a record-breaking $3M Imax opening day. The film is scheduled for domestic release by Sony in September. Meanwhile, Universal's How to Train Your Dragon is approaching the $600M global mark, reaching $589M to date, with $338.2M from international markets. These results come amid a competitive market with several new releases and strong holds for ongoing titles.
Yahoo
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Box Office: ‘Jurassic World Rebirth' Hatches New Era for Dino Franchise With $323M Global Bow
The dinos have a new lease on life. Universal and Amblin's Jurassic World Rebirth came in well ahead of expectations at the Fourth of July box office to hatch a new era for the Steven Spielberg-created franchise. In North America, the holiday tentpole is reporting a five-day domestic opening of $147.8 million, including $92 million for the three-day weekend, according to final numbers. (Estimates had been revised upward every day since the pic hit the big screen midweek on July 2.) More from The Hollywood Reporter Jon M. Chu to Direct 'Hot Wheels' Movie for Warner Bros., Mattel James Gunn Says 'Superman' Is About an "Immigrant That Came From Other Places" 'Jurassic World Rebirth' Star Luna Blaise Is Just Really Excited to Be Here Jurassic World Rebirth, the seventh title in the series, is roaring even louder overseas, where it opened to an estimated $174.8 million from 82 markets. That puts the film's global start at $322.6 million — the second-best launch of the franchise, and the biggest worldwide opening of the year to date for a Hollywood release after passing up A Minecraft Movie. No one saw that coming. Internationally, Rebirth scored the second-best international opening of the year and of the franchise. It even bit off a big number in China, where Hollywood tentpoles can no longer depend upon big grosses. The dino franchise, like the Mission: Impossible films, is an exception. Rebirth debuted to $41.5 million to score the biggest opening of the year so far for a Hollywood title. And it already ranks as the second-biggest Hollywood pic of the year behind Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning. Other top markets included the U.K. ($16.6 million) and Mexico ($14 million). In North America, Rebirth ranks as the fourth-best showing ever for the July Fourth holiday, both in terms of the five-day and three-day numbers. That's no small feat considering July 4 fell on a Friday this year, meaning many moviegoers were distracted by holiday outings on what's normally a critical day for new films. To boot, the latest Jurassic World pic has received decidedly mixed reviews from critics and audiences alike (one example: It earned a meh B CinemaScore from moviegoers). But there's no dismissing the power of the Jurassic brand, or the spectacle of seeing dinosaurs come to life on the big screen. 'It's the definition of a popcorn movie,' is one common refrain making the rounds in Hollywood. Another? 'It's dumb fun.' Heading into the holiday, the pic was eyeing a far more modest domestic opening in the $100 to $120 million range and $260 million globally, considering it was a reboot and the seventh installment in a series more than 30 years old. Following the conclusion of the Jurassic World trilogy directed by Colin Trevorrow, Spielberg, Amblin and Universal, they went back to the drawing board and enlisted filmmaker Gareth Edwards (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) to direct Rebirth from a script by original Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koepp. If all goes well, it will be the first title in another trilogy, according to insiders. The film features an all-new cast anchored by Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali and Jonathan Bailey. The story follows an extraction team that races to an island research facility that factored into the original Jurassic Park (along the way, they discover a shipwrecked family). Now, the island is inhabited by the worst of the worst creatures that were left Friend, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Luna Blaise, David Iacono and Audrina Miranda also star. Producers include longtime franchise stewards Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowley, with Spielberg and Denis Stewart exec producing. The first three Jurassic World pics all grossed north of $1 billion globally, and all opened higher than Rebirth domestically (comparisons are complicated by the fact that those were all three-day, non-holiday openings). In 2015, Jurassic World opened to a franchise-best $208.8 million, followed by $148 million for 2018's Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and $145 million for 2022's Jurassic World: Dominion, not adjusted for inflation. At the same time, the latest film cost less to produce, or a net $180 million before marketing. The first Jurassic Park, directed by Spielberg, opened to $47 million domestically in early June 1993, not adjusted for inflation — a huge sum at the time. Also setting off fireworks at the box office was Brad Pitt's F1: The Movie, which has already earned nearly $300 million globally, including a 10-day domestic tally of $109.2 million. From Apple Original Films in partnership with Warner Bros., F1 came in second over the holiday weekend with an estimated three-day gross of $25.7 million. Overseas, it racked up another $56.3 million for a foreign cume of $184.1 million and $293.3 million globally. The movie, reteaming Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer, is a critical and audience darling and fell just 54 percent in its second outing. The film is enjoying a major boost from having a lock on Imax screens for three weekends. Universal was a double winner at the holiday box office as DreamWorks Animation's live-action How to Train Your Dragon came in third place with an estimated $11 million for a domestic tally of $224 million. Globally, it set off fireworks in clearing the $500 million milestone after amassing a foreign haul of $292.9 million. Pixar and Disney's troubled pic Elio came in fourth with an estimated $5.7 million for a muted domestic tally of $55.1 million. Overseas, it earned another $6.7 million for a foreign tally of $41.7 million and $96.8 million globally. Danny Boyle and Sony's 28 Years Later rounded out the top five domestically with $4.6 million for a domestic haul of $60.2 million. The sequel grossed another $7 million at the international box office for a foreign total of $65.6 million and $125.8 million globally. Blumhouse and Atomic Monster's ill-fated M3GAN 2.0 fell off somewhat less than expected, or 62 percent, in its second weekend to an estimated $3.8 million after bombing in its debut a week ago. The Universal release tied for sixth place with Disney's live-action Lilo & Stitch, which is likewise reporting a three-day gross of $3.8 million. Lilo & Stitch made major headlines in passing up A Minecraft Movie to become the top-earning pic of 2025 at the worldwide box office after finishing Sunday with a global total of $972.7 million. It remains to be seen whether the Memorial Day release can become the first Hollywood title of the year to join the billion-dollar club. Elsewhere on the top 10 chart, fellow Memorial Day release Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning finished Sunday with a global haul of $576.2 million. July 6, 8 a.m.: Updated with revised 7, 10:15: Updated with weekend of The Hollywood Reporter The 40 Best Films About the Immigrant Experience Wes Anderson's Movies Ranked From Worst to Best 13 of Tom Cruise's Most Jaw-Dropping Stunts
Mint
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Mint
‘Jurassic World Rebirth' Box Office Collection: Jonathan Bailey, Scarlett Johansson's film roars to $312.5M
The dinosaurs have returned, and they've brought box office gold with them. 'Jurassic World Rebirth', the latest instalment in the long-running Jurassic franchise, has opened to a thunderous $312.5 million worldwide — far exceeding initial projections of $260 million. The film now ranks as the second-biggest global opening of the year, behind only 'A Minecraft Movie', and ahead of 'Lilo & Stitch'. International markets played a crucial role in the film's success. Overseas ticket sales accounted for $171.3 million of the total, making it the second-best international opening of the year so far — just behind 'Ne Zha 2'. In China, the film claimed the top spot with a dominant $11.4 million on opening day, reaching a total of $33.7 million and capturing a 50% market share. It now holds the biggest opening day of the year for a Hollywood release in China. While it does not top 2015's 'Jurassic World', which earned over $525 million globally in its debut, 'Jurassic World Rebirth' remains one of the franchise's strongest showings and proves that, when it comes to dinosaurs, audiences worldwide are still eager to return to the park. Universal and Amblin appear to have successfully revived the magic — and the menace — of the prehistoric giants once again. Directed by Gareth Edwards and written by David Koepp, 'Jurassic World Rebirth' is a standalone sequel to 2022's 'Jurassic World Dominion' and marks the seventh entry in the Jurassic Park series. The film features a star-studded cast, including Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, Mahershala Ali, Rupert Friend, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, and Ed Skrein. Released in the US and Canada on July 2 by Universal Pictures, the film premiered earlier on June 17 at London's Odeon Luxe Leicester Square. The strong debut cements the Jurassic franchise's continued relevance and popularity, nearly 32 years after Steven Spielberg's original Jurassic Park changed blockbuster cinema forever.
Yahoo
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Jurassic World Rebirth' Review: Scarlett Johansson In Spielbergian Reboot That Is Part ‘Jaws', ‘Skull Island' & ‘Indiana Jones' Mixed With The Pure DNA Of 1993 Original
I am not quite sure why the latest spinoff of Steven Spielberg's enormously popular Jurassic franchise is using the Jurassic World moniker of the past trilogy rather than the Jurassic Park handle of the first trilog. Jurassic World Rebirth looks and feels somewhat retro, like it could have been a direct sequel to one of the earlier films that Spielberg himself directed, rather than simply executive produced, as is the case again with this one. But even with that EP title, make no mistake, Spielberg's fingerprints are all over it. He and his Amblin team including director Gareth Edwards reunited with screenwriter David Koepp, who wrote the first two Jurassic World films, have concocted another winner with all the elements that made this such a blockbuster series in movies and Universal theme parks. Proof of that is just to look at the box office of the past three entries, ending with 2022's Jurassic World Dominion, each one a billion-dollar-plus grosser. No wonder they had to find a way to keep this cash cow going, but I have to say it was a bit inspired to get Koepp (who also wrote Spielberg's untitled film and return to the director's chair that's due for release next summer) back on board as it has the unbridled feel of a rousing adventure, another journey into the unknown of a franchise we think we know all too well. Turns out there's still gold to be mined even in mixing the Jurassic DNA with that of other movies, notably Jaws, Kong: Skull Island, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and I would even add others much older like King Solomon's Mines and The Lost World (not necessarily Spielberg's 1997 The Lost World: Jurassic Park but Irwin Allen's cheesy but primitively fun 1960 movie). More from Deadline Everything We Know About 'Jurassic World: Rebirth' So Far 'Jurassic World Rebirth' Heading To $115 Million-Plus 5-Day Opening Over July 4th Stretch Scarlett Johansson Recalls "A Lot" Of Female Roles Centering "Male Gaze" Early In Her Career RELATED: These filmmakers have found a way to mix the time-honored adventure movie genre with that of horror to satisfy contemporary audiences but also spark some nostalgia for a brand we don't see as often in this Marvel/DC superhero era. In this case, it is five years since the cloned dinosaurs of Dominion were running untethered, and now with climate change and other worldly events we find them headed for extinction once again. They are able to exist only in tropical climates near the equator, basically forgotten by a jaded populace who have moved on to other diversions, and are relegated to a largely deserted island named Ile Saint-Hubert, just a couple of hundred miles off South America. It is completely verboten and forbidden to any human being. This particular jungle setting last was used as an initial research and development location, headquarters still intact, for the first iteration of these cloned dinos. Now man's very greed is going to interrupt the animals' peaceful existence yet again as Big Pharma has discovered that many of the ancient creatures regularly lived to over 100 due to strong hearts. With the idea that a massive drug company could not only revolutionize modern medical science for the world's leading killer, heart disease, but also stand to make billions of dollars, an aggressive executive for one of them, Martin Krebs (a slippery Rupert Friend), enlists the services of a team led by extraction covert operations expert Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson, back in action) to obtain the DNA of some of the worst of the worst of these dinos. Notably they include the avian Quetzalcoatlus, aquatic Mosasaurus, and terresstrial Titanosaurus. Sure, why not? She is driven by a big payday to boot. RELATED: She is joined by devoted paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey), a past student of Sam Neill's Dr. Alan Grant who shares in his enthusiasm for studying and celebrating the majesty of the dinos and is eager to see them in action in person for the first time in his life. Add to the mix the team of the seagoing Essex including skipper and soldier of fortune Duncan Kincaid (Mahershala Ali) and his crew (Ed Skrein, Philippine Velge, Bechir Sylvain) as they travel to this remote island to get the three key DNA samples through special injections. And they have clever ways of doing just that. What Krebs doesn't tell them is this isn't a Disneyland ride; he downplays any risks to the humans involved because the end result and riches for his company are what matters most to him, not job safety. There is a complication, though, when the Essex encounters and rescues a shipwrecked capsized sailing vessel with Reuben Delgado (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), his two daughters (Luna Blaise, Audrina Miranda) and one of their boyfriends (David Iacono), who have barely survived an attack by the roaming underwater Mosasaurus clan. This takes up much of the first half of the picture, and you wouldn't be wrong to think you were suddenly watching Jurassic Jaws as it allows the franchise to hit the open sea for a change and unquestionably resembles that 1975 Spielberg classic for a long while — that is until they all wind up on shore in what has the feel of a kind of Skull Island meets Swiss Family Robinson. RELATED: Edwards, joining the franchise for the first time, clearly gets the idea of where this should go as his past films like Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, 2014's Godzilla and the underpraised but riveting 2023 sci-fi film, The Creator show he is up for the task. Working from Koepp's smart script, the results offer much to chew on — not only for the hungry dinos but also the moviegoers, who will eat this up. The blend works well with lots of action, PG-13 gore and some sensational new dinosaurs to savor, giving this seventh iteration of the idea spun off (and still spinning) from Michael Crichton's bestseller a fresh reboot. One of the best set pieces this time is a river encounter with a sleeping T-Rex awakened to wreak havoc came from Crichton's novel but not feasible to film in 1993. It clearly was now, judging from the results, as modern technology has caught up to it so we get a nice T-Rex cameo as a big bonus. And let's face it, as in every Jurassic pic, the real stars we come for are the dinos, and this current bunch are dino-myte (sorry, so sorry). Credit the effects wizards who worked overtime to deliver, and they do. Unfortunately, some of the humans aren't as compelling, even if their main purpose is to be a potential entrée for our beastly stars. In fact, the attempt to add the Delgado family, supposedly just out for a normal journey in their catamaran on the way to Capetown, is an unnecessary distraction and tends to stretch credibility (if it needed any more stretching) by slowing down the action and the main event to focus on their own family issues, rather than the task at hand. I get that Koepp and Edwards wanted to include some normies to interact with the beastly native population, but this plot device really could have been left on the cutting-room floor and the nifty attack of Mosasaurus gang relegated instead to the Essex. RELATED: Still, the overall effect with well drawn, if clichéd, characters for Johansson, Ali, Friend and particularly Bailey (sandwiching this change of pace in between Wicked installments) makes for one of the better Jurassics; it's no match for the one that started it all 32 years ago but is a cut above standard summertime fare. It also is comforting to see Alexander Desplat niftily merge his stirring score with just the right amount of John Williams' original theme, one of the great themes in movies ever, on a par with what the maestro did with Jaws, Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It might sound like a challenge to believe these humans would sign up to visit a forbidden jungle for guaranteed encounters with truly frightening and gigantic creatures out of another time in order to essentially get blood samples, but if you are game to go with that premise, a good time will be had for all. If there is to be an eighth installment, count me in. Producers are Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowley. RELATED: Title: Jurassic World RebirthDistributor: Universal PicturesRelease Date: July 2, 2025Director: Gareth EdwardsScreenwriter: David KoeppCast: Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, Jonathan Bailey, Rupert Friend, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Ed Skrein, Luna Blaise, David Iacono, Audrina Miranda, Philippine Velge, Bechir Sylvain. Rating: PG-13Running time: 2 hr 13 mins Best of Deadline Everything We Know About 'The Devil Wears Prada 2' 2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery 2025 TV Cancellations: Photo Gallery
Yahoo
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Jurassic World Rebirth' About To Get Loud With $260M Global Opening Over Independence Day Stretch
It's Jurassic World Rebirth all the time, until DC Studios/Warner Bros' Superman opens next week, and the rumbling starts offshore today in Hong Kong and tomorrow in the U.S., UK, China, Germany, Korea, Spain and Italy; the overall global outlook by Sunday being $260M on the high end. Broken out we're seeing $130M+ abroad with the dinos dropping into Australia, Brazil, Mexico and the Netherlands on Thursday. On Friday, they head to France and India, among others. In total, a big footprint of 82 markets overseas with Japan joining in August. More from Deadline 'Jurassic World Rebirth' Review: Scarlett Johansson In Spielbergian Reboot That Is Part 'Jaws', 'Skull Island' & 'Indiana Jones' Mixed With The Pure DNA Of 1993 Original The Movies That Have Made More Than $1 Billion At The Global Box Office Global Summer Box Office Eyes $12.4B, Near Post-Covid Record; Euro Majors Sizzling Into Season - CineEurope The Universal and Amblin theatrical release will hit stateside tomorrow (not tonight) at 4,000 theaters before upping to 4,300 by Friday. The studio doesn't really believe in previews on discount Tuesday and has generally launched hard on Wednesday. The five-day forecast is $120M-$130M. Universal is taking a majority of the PLF screens away from Apple Original Films and Warner Bros' F1 which will hold onto its Imax gas for what's hoped to be a $28M+ second 3-day or better. RELATED: We always have to asterisk the fact that moviegoing can ratchet down due to barbeques, beach, swimming pool and fireworks on the July 4th holiday. If there's heat on a title, then that theory is thrown out the window, however, distributors would love it if Independence Day didn't fall on a Friday. Uni has owned the July 4th stretch for the most part post Covid except for 2023 when Disney had Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Post Covid Independence Day No. 1 opening wins for Uni include 2021's F9 ($70M 3-day), 2022's Minions: The Rise of Gru ($123M 4-day) and last year's Despicable Me 4 ($122.6M 5-day). While Universal restarted the Steven Spielberg-born franchise in 2015 with Jurassic World under the directing watch of Colin Trevorrow with new cast members Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard, that movie is still the biggest opening in the 32-year old franchise at $525.5M worldwide (unadjusted for inflation) and $208.8M domestic, the previous movie, 2022's Jurassic World: Dominion, despite grossing $1 billion including $157M from China, seemed to have run its course story-wise. Rotten Tomatoes critics' rating fell to its lowest across the six-picture franchise at 29%. Despite an A- CinemaScore (the lowest ever for a Jurassic movie was the Joe Johnston-directed 2001 Jurassic Park III with a B-), it was decided then an injection of Viagra and Testosterone was needed for these pre-historic beasts, enter returning scribe David Koepp who adapted the first two Michael Crichton penned novels, Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park, for the big screen (the author co-wrote the first 1993 movie with Koepp). Also, let's not forget a director who knows something about large lizards and genre, Gareth Edwards, who helmed the first Legendary Monsterverse title, 2014's Godzilla, which did just over a half billion worldwide, and the prequel, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which did $1.05 billion. RELATED: Koepp had a way in with a story set five years after Jurassic World Dominion. The Earth's atmosphere has become inhospitable to dinosaurs, hence they are now confined to rainforest areas around the Equator. 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. Scarlett Johansson, a gun for hire (and not any girl with a gun, hello, it's Black Widow herself, Johansson!), leads a bio-research team who has their greedy eye on making that new drug. Two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali plays the Johansson's character's friend with the boat, Rupert Friend is the bad guy, Jonathan Bailey plays a doctor with a sense of decency and they're all in the way of creatures with big claws with a shipwrecked family in town (played by Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Luna Blaise, David Iacono and Audrina Miranda as the Delgado family). What are audiences thinking about this reboot? On U.S. tracking, First Choice is high with men over 25, followed by women over 25. Overall first choice is close to where 2018's Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom was (the fourth film in the series), that pic directed by J.A. Bayona opening to a domestic 3-day of $148M, but behind 2022's Dominion, which debuted to $145M stateside over Friday-Sunday. Despite the heavy over-25 interest, Foreign comps to consider include the previous three entries in the franchise, even though this is a new take on the series. It's also a real thing that heatwaves in Europe are a factor right now. Still, we expect this one to of the most recent trio of movies ultimately went on to gross over $1B-plus globally, led by 2015's huge franchise return, Jurassic World with $1.67 billion, still the tenth highest grossing movie ever. China contributed a sizable chunk to each of those three films, and while Rebirth leads presales through Sunday in that market, times have changed meaning it's a wait-and-see how it delivers. In what's become a rarer move for studios, Universal held a premiere in Shanghai on Sunday with Johansson, Friend, Bailey and Edwards in attendance. Along with China, the recent Jurassics have performed the best in a mix of Mexico, the UK, France, Germany, Australia, Korea and Japan (again, the latter not going this weekend).Universal unveiled extended footage for exhibitors at CineEurope in Barcelona last month, and it was roundly one of the most positively talked about sneak other travel for the Jurassic World Rebirth crew, there was a world premiere in London on June 17, followed by Berlin the next day. A Grand Rex red carpet was held in Paris on June 22 with Edwards and score composer Alexandre Desplat. Best of Deadline Who Is [SPOILER]? The Latest Big Marvel Reveal Explained 2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery 'Poker Face' Season 2 Guest Stars: From Katie Holmes To Simon Hellberg
