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Business Standard
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Business Standard
List of Hollywood's top 10 highest-grossing actors at the global box office
Stardom may be hard to quantify, but the box office never lies. In the end, a star's real worth is measured by their ability to pull audiences into theatres — and that pull is counted in crores. Which is why the highest-grossing names are often the biggest in the business. One characteristic unites the actors who earn the highest at the global box office: longevity. Over the years, actors like Tom Cruise and Robert Downey Jr. have transformed their careers — evolving from intense, dramatic performers into global box office powerhouses. Meanwhile, stars like Scarlett Johansson and Zoe Saldaña may not have had as long a run, but they've strategically shaped their paths to headline some of the biggest blockbusters of all time. Whether they're suiting up as superheroes, outrunning dinosaurs, pulling off jaw-dropping stunts, or burning rubber in high-octane car chases, these actors have mastered the art of blockbuster entertainment. They've figured out exactly what keeps audiences coming back — and the box office numbers back them up. List of the top 10 highest-grossing actors worldwide 1. Scarlett Johansson — $14.8 billion Johansson has overtaken Samuel L. Jackson as the highest-grossing actor of all time as the face of the recent blockbuster in the "Jurassic Park" franchise, "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom," which made over $300 million worldwide over the Fourth of July weekend. Playing Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow in 2010's "Iron Man 2," Johansson has improved her performance at the box office. 2. Samuel L. Jackson — $14.6 billion Sam Jackson's filmography should serve as a model for success in the contemporary cinema industry. The actor has been a staple of box office successes for decades, from "Star Wars" to the MCU to Pixar's smash hit "The Incredibles," not to mention all the iconic roles he is performed in films directed by Spike Lee and Quentin Tarantino. 3. Robert Downey Jr- $14.3 billion At one point, Hollywood had no interest in working with Robert Downey Jr. Then he received the opportunity that paved the way for his return: the lead in the 2008 film "Iron Man." The profitable Marvel Cinematic Universe, which has made over $31 billion globally to date, made Downey Jr. its face. He has now shown himself to be an essential component of the MCU with the 'Avengers' series. 4. Zoe Saldaña- $14.2 billion This latest Oscar winner has had years of success at the box office. Saldaña's role selections have been flawless amongst her roles as Neytiri in the epic "Avatar" films, Gamora in the "Guardians of the Galaxy" films, and Uhura in the "Star Trek" franchise. 5. Chris Pratt- $14.1 billion As the voice of Mario in "The Super Mario Bros. Movie," the hero in the "Jurassic World" films, a loving Lego figure in the "The Lego Movie" trilogy, and Star-Lord in the "Guardians of the Galaxy" films (as well as some other Marvel releases), Pratt's efforts have paid off. 6. Tom Cruise — $12.6 billion Widely seen as one of the last true movie stars, Tom Cruise was dominating the box office long before many on this list even landed their first role. Now in his 60s, Cruise continues to prove his enduring appeal. His latest — and possibly final — outing as Ethan Hunt in "Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning" is holding strong in theatres, having already grossed over $500 million worldwide. That brings the eight-film franchise's total to nearly $5 billion, cementing its legacy as one of Hollywood's biggest action series. 7. Chris Hemsworth — $12.1 billion Hemsworth has contributed to the Thor franchise's nearly $3 billion global box office total as its face. As a part of the "The Avengers" franchise, he has also contributed to the nearly $8 billion in box office collections for those films. His recent role was in the popular film "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga." 8. Vin Diesel — $11.9 billion Vin Diesel, the hero of all 10 films in, "Fast" franchise, contributes significantly to the almost $7 billion in global box office. As the voice of Groot in the "Guardians of the Galaxy" franchise, Diesel has also achieved great success. 9. Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson — $11.44 billion Following an amazing professional wrestling career at the WWE, Dwayne steadily increased his box office collection in Hollywood in the early 2000s. However, when he joined the "Fast and Furious" franchise, ticket sales grew as large as his biceps. He has produced additional successful films, such as "Moana" and "Jumanji" series, and his 2017 film "The Fate of the Furious" has earned over $1 billion at the global box office. 10. Chris Evans — $11.42 billion Evans is linked to some of the highest-grossing films ever, such as "Avengers: Endgame," which made over $2.7 billion at the global box office in 2019 and is currently the second-highest-grossing film of all time. He has subsequently appeared in box office successes like "Free Guy" and 2024's "Deadpool & Wolverine."
Straits Times
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Straits Times
Jurassic World Rebirth review: 3/5 stars- Johansson and Ali elevate a familiar franchise
Jurassic World Rebirth (PG13) 133 minutes, now showing ★★★☆☆ The story: Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion (2022), dinosaurs are extinct everywhere except for a narrow band around the tropics, because the zone most closely resembles the prehistoric Earth in which they once flourished. Mercenary Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson) leads a team that includes fellow ex-soldier Duncan Kincaid (Mahershala Ali) and palaeontologist Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey). They have been hired to raid an island to collect biological samples from three of the largest dinosaurs. Their mission is interrupted by a distress call from a family, whose sailboat has strayed too close to the danger zone. If the synopsis sounds familiar, that is because it was meant to be – the seventh movie in the franchise is a deliberate return to roots. And this is a welcome return, not because Jurassic World Rebirth itself is good – as nostalgia trips go, it is merely okay. But it was time for the series to shed its bloat. In the fourth to sixth films (Jurassic World, 2015; Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, 2018; Jurassic World Dominion), dinosaurs were normalised as theme-park attractions before becoming widespread all over the world. The creatures were sometimes the danger, but other times, an evil corporation was the baddie. The stories became a sprawling, loosely-connected set of adventures fronted by an action hero, Chris Pratt's velociraptor trainer Owen Grady, a character written to be generically likeable and therefore instantly forgettable. Rebirth reins it all in. The reptilians are now confined to one place because of 'science'. This set-up allows director Gareth Edwards to set up a heist movie - get in, get the goods, get out alive - with a focus on a single group. This he does extremely well, as he showed in previous character-driven action pieces that include the rebooted Godzilla (2014) and space fantasy Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016). Top stories Swipe. Select. Stay informed. Singapore 3 out of 4 in Singapore cannot identify deepfake content: Cyber Security Agency survey Singapore New $7.5m fund to encourage social service agencies to track impact of their programmes Singapore GrabCab, Singapore's newest taxi operator, hits the roads with over 40 cabs to be rolled out in July Life Star Awards 2025: Xiang Yun and Chen Hanwei are the most decorated actors in show's 30-year history World Paramount settles with Trump over '60 Minutes' Harris interview for $20 million Asia Dalai Lama says he will have successor after his death Business Cathay Cineplexes gets demand for $3.4 million in arrears from Jem landlord Singapore Man charged over allegedly receiving scam proceeds of more than $1.5m in his firm's bank accounts Where it all falls apart lies in the film's role as a corporate product that must have sequel potential. This means that main characters wear plot armour that protects them from death or serious injury – this reduces the emotional stakes considerably. Supporting characters with an instantly recognisable feature – an accent, or exaggerated machismo or a distinct headband - are marked for a gruesome death, a fact that becomes as clear as a face tattoo the moment they appear. The monster attack scenes are tension-filled, but weakened considerably by questionable computer graphics and character choices that make no sense, with exhibit No. 1 being the fact that someone would take a tiny sailboat anywhere within a thousand kilometres of a dinosaur island. As the covert operative who is the perfect yin-yang combination of toughness and empathy, Zora is made believable only by Johansson's abilities as an actress. Double Oscar winner Ali is also outstanding as her equally capable teammate; only an actor of his calibre can believably deliver dialogue about grief and heartbreak in one scene, then fight plane-sized raptors in the next. If Rebirth does well at the box office – and there is no reason to think that it would not – viewers are set for at least two more films featuring Johansson and Ali, with Edwards directing. It would be hard to think of three people more capable of carrying the franchise. Hot take: A competently crafted but predictably safe return to form that succeeds mainly through stellar performances, rather than genuine storytelling innovation.
Chicago Tribune
01-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
Review: ‘Jurassic World Rebirth' is tense but a downer, with dinosaur fatigue part of the story
No novel in history has tailored every paragraph and plot point more deliberately for the movies than Michael Crichton's 'Jurassic Park.' There's a reason. Crichton mapped it out as a screenplay first, back in the pre-digital 1980s, when screen dinosaurs looked a little goofy still. The 1993 Steven Spielberg film changed that, building on early '90s breakthroughs in digital effects found in 'Terminator 2' and others. Spielberg oversaw several storyline changes as well, in his commercially canny pursuit of roaring terror and solemn wonder in more evenly alternating currents. The franchise has gone back and forth between those currents ever since. We've had interesting, controversial sequels (J.A. Bayona's 'Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,' especially when it turned into a gothic haunted house suspense affair) and billion-dollar mediocrities ('Jurassic World: Dominion'). So what's the deal with 'Jurassic World Rebirth,' beyond its blatant misspelling of the word in its title that clearly should be 'Reboot'? Mixed, let's say, and that means mixed often within the same scene. More broadly, it's mixed in the early critical reaction, considered a widely well-regarded success in the British press but mostly bleh here in these United States. 'Jurassic World Rebirth' is a genuinely peculiar seesaw, with 'Godzilla' and 'Rogue One' director Gareth Edwards managing some occasionally striking jolts amid a lot of tonal uncertainty. Rarely an exuberant spirit as a filmmaker, Edwards here directs a rather mournful script by veteran pro David Koepp, the primary adapting writer on the '93 franchise-starter. Coming off 'KIMI' and 'Black Bag' with director Steven Soderbergh, Koepp's return to dinosaurs builds its premise on what might be termed the inevitability of franchise fatigue, coded here as dinosaur fatigue in the popular imagination. The world, as this movie depicts it, has plainly had it with the human/dinosaur integration experiment. Dinosaurs are no longer trending. Fleetingly, one poor specimen glimpsed early in 'Jurassic World Rebirth,' under the Brooklyn Bridge, lives with the indignity of graffiti on his aging hide. 'Nobody cares about these animals anymore,' we hear at one point, evoking what may have been the thought balloon floating above Koepp's head as he wrote this seventh 'Jurassic' go-around. Koepp's script imagines a Big Pharma weasel (Rupert Friend, inspired by Paul Reiser's 'Aliens' antagonist every step of the way) hiring globe-trotting mercenaries (Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali), an idealistic museum paleontologist (Jonathan Bailey) and a bloodthirsty hunk ('Game of Thrones' alum Ed Skrein), among others, to harvest precious DNA samples from three different bioengineered dinosaur species — land, air and water dwellers. The illegal but potentially lucrative gig takes them by boat to the forbidden (fictional) Caribbean island of Ile Saint-Hubert, not far from French Guiana. Thailand provided most of the movie's lush exterior locations. En route, the passengers on the Ali character's boat encounter two problems: the mighty and mighty hungry water dweller known as Mosasaurus, followed by a meteorological phenomenon known as the B Plot. Much of 'Jurassic World Rebirth' follows the travails of a sailing family's oceangoing excursion, interrupted by a Mosasaurus attack. Adrift but alive, dad (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), daughter (Luna Blaise), daughter's unpromising boyfriend (David Iacono) and daughter's younger sister (Audrina Miranda) are rescued by the mercenaries' expedition. Then they're separated on the island from their rescuers. Worst vacation ever! The DNA is to be used for life-saving heart disease cures, to the benefit of millions, and with trillions in profits. It's a time-tested setup promising reasonably high stakes. Yet the early dialogue sequences are determinedly casual and easygoing to the point of 'yeah whatever.' Johansson and Ali are both formidable wellsprings of charisma but their roles stick to basics. Most everyone on screen has either suffered or is in the process of suffering, or both. Ali and Johansson's characters carry deep-seeded emotional wounds from the loss of loved ones. The anguish endured by the rescued family, especially by Miranda's traumatized preteen character, render large swaths of 'Jurassic Park Rebirth' more grueling than exciting. Compared to 165 million years for the small-brain dinosaurs, humans will be lucky to last a million years on this climate-changed, nuke-crazy planet, the Bailey character warns at one point. The movie feels more than a little down in the mouth, even with its string of cliffhangers, some visually impressive, tied together with some ill-fitting comic relief. The moments of awe, involving the pleasant, plant-eating dinosaurs, provide callbacks to previous movies (cue the John Williams 'Jurassic Park' theme for another reprise). But the conspicuous newcomer, a bio-engineered mutant misfire called Distortus rex, pushes things into a different breed of monster movie. And yet: There are flashes and occasional whole sequences when Edwards' directorial eye snaps into focus, as in the brutal but superquick demise of one shipmate, seconds after making it to safety on shore, only to learn that safety is relative. The strategic conceals and reveals of the latest predators recall the best of the director's 'Godzilla,' unfashionably sparing in the visual exploitation of its antihero. But the first-rate digital creature designs must contend with an air of weariness. Still, I'd rank 'Rebirth' ahead of two or three previous chapters in a franchise whose sole consistency lies in a simple question: How have humans survived this long, even? 'Jurassic World Rebirth' — 2.5 stars (out of 4) MPA rating: PG-13 (for intense sequences of violence/action, bloody images, some suggestive references, language, and a drug reference) Running time: 2:13 How to watch: Premieres in theaters July 2
Business Times
01-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Business Times
Jurassic World Rebirth reveals a franchise more brain-dead than ever
[NEW YORK] In Jurassic World Rebirth, we are told it's been 32 years since dinosaurs were brought back to life and now all humans are bored with them. Well, the truth is the dinosaurs are not really the problem. This franchise is. The latest entry is a reboot of the reboot that trudges along at a deathly dull pace towards making millions of US dollars at the box office. Even the introduction of a monstrous hybrid dino that looks, hilariously, like a T rex crossed with a bloated xenomorph from Alien cannot make this thing any less sleepy. There's dumb fun-like the best of the last trilogy, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, which puts dinos in the trappings of a haunted house film. And then there's just dumb. This falls into the latter category. It's disappointing because there was reason to be slightly optimistic about this instalment. For one, it brought back original Jurassic Park scribe David Koepp, who's recently been making delightful small-scale genre experiments with Steven Soderbergh such as the sexy spy thriller Black Bag. Gareth Edwards was given director duties, and that guy knows big scaly things, having taken on Godzilla in 2014. And then there's the cast, which includes talented performers such as Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali and Jonathan Bailey looking adorable in tiny little glasses, which indicate that he is, indeed, a nerd and not just a super-handsome movie star. Jurassic World Rebirth was created to be the kind of summer thrill ride that will still draw people into multiplexes, ideally with a 4DX upcharge and viral popcorn bucket. I have no doubt it will be the cash cow it's intended to be. Too bad it's so boring. Why? Well, that's thanks to the plot. Not only have people gotten tired of dinosaurs, the dinosaurs themselves have also failed to adapt to the modern climate. (One of the most evocative images Edwards creates is a sickly brontosaurus collapsing in New York City.) The surviving dinosaurs mostly live in a region near the equator where they can still thrive. No one really goes there, but our intrepid heroes are forced to when pharmaceutical rep Martin Krebs (Rupert Friend) comes a-calling. You see, Martin's employer is looking to make a medication using dino DNA that can cure heart disease, but they need samples from living dinosaurs. As such, he recruits a mercenary named Zora Bennett (Johansson), a scientist named Henry Loomis (Bailey) to help ID the correct species, and a swaggering boat captain, Duncan Kincaid (Ali). There are other people on the journey, but they're not played by particularly famous people and so you know they are going to end up eaten. A NEWSLETTER FOR YOU Friday, 2 pm Lifestyle Our picks of the latest dining, travel and leisure options to treat yourself. Sign Up Sign Up Before we get to the rampaging beasties, Koepp's screenplay gives us tedious sequences of dialogue that emphasise just how sad everyone is. Zora recently lost a colleague (during a comically vague training mission in Yemen) and did not attend her mother's funeral. Duncan's kid died and he split with his wife. Henry is working in a profession no one cares about anymore. Boo. Hoo. These moments are supposed to endear us to the trio, who stand in contrast to the greedy Martin, but the scenes are dramatically inert. Just as the team is about to reach its first reptilian target, they all get some company when they rescue a stranded family whose boat was overturned by a giant, crocodile-like mosasaurus-you know, the dino in the first Jurassic World. Now why was divorced dad Reuben (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo) taking his kids on a trip from Barbados to Cape Town in prehistoric-animal-infested waters? Many people ask that question, but there's no good answer. He might be a terrible dad. Still, the main reasoning for this storyline seems to be that the Jurassic movies must have an adorable tyke in peril, and that role is fulfilled by Audrina Miranda, who plays Reuben's younger daughter, Isabella. She even, eventually, gets a cute, tiny dino sidekick that looks like a mini triceratops, whom she names Dolores. Eventually, all these folks land on an abandoned island that used to be a research facility where the corporation InGen cooked up genetic mashups to lure people to the parks. Naturally, that plan went poorly so now the land is inhabited by supersize baddies in addition to the classics. There are moments of wonder and times when everyone has to flee screaming. We have seen some version of these beats before-and none are ever handled as well as they were in the Spielberg classic. The action is perfunctory. And, while there's at least one clever showdown involving a yellow life raft versus a T rex, largely the stakes feel very small even while the creatures are very big. It quickly becomes clear the movie isn't going to dispatch any of the major characters, and even if it did, they are all so thinly drawn it would be hard to care. So by the time the towering so-called D rex shows up with its balloon-like head, it's hard to get nervous about the terror it's supposed to instill. It mostly just looks seriously goofy. But, alas, there are no camp pleasures to be found in Jurassic World Rebirth, just lacklustre attempts at thrills. You will wish you were extinct. BLOOMBERG
Boston Globe
30-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
‘Jurassic World Rebirth' pits ScarJo against T-Rex in a frustrating franchise entry
Since then, we've been treated to 2018's 'Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom' and 2022's ' Koepp has been quite busy as of late, doing double duty for Steven Soderbergh with last year's ghost story, ' Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up The Quetzalcoatlus in 'Jurassic World Rebirth." Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment Advertisement It's been 32 years since dinosaurs have made their comeback, an opening screen reveals. But now they only exist somewhere at the Equator. People became bored once the creatures were commonplace, causing not only theme park bankruptcies but also the reemergence of dinosaur extinction. In an attempt to juice up interest, a group of scientists tried to reboot dinos by creating a slew of new species. This goes horribly awry, forcing a worldwide ban on visiting the island that currently holds these mutations. In the film's tense opening sequence, an errant Snickers wrapper causes an unlikable scientist working on this project to get devoured. Product placement just isn't what it used to be, though one could argue that this sequence was akin to the candy bar's 'you're not you when you're hungry' ads. Advertisement Scarlett Johansson as skilled covert operations expert Zora Bennett. Jasin Boland/Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment Enter another brand that begins with S, ScarJo. She plays Zora, a mercenary whose latest assignment is to go to the aforementioned off-limits island for a secret mission. A Big Pharma bro named Martin Krebs (Rupert Friend) is willing to pay big bucks for the job, so Zora enlists her most trusted colleague, Duncan Kincaid (Ali), to accompany her. Also on hand is nerdy paleontologist, Dr. Loomis, played by actor du jour, Jonathan Bailey (' Speaking of the Master of Suspense,' 'Jurassic World Rebirth' introduces a MacGuffin so preposterous that even Hitch would find it implausible—and he coined the phrase that describes the ultimately useless thing everyone in the plot is concerned with in a movie. This time it's a heart disease drug that can save millions of people's lives. Krebs wants to be the first to manufacture it, so his company can corner the market. Advertisement That idea doesn't sound far-fetched until you get to the part where the drug ingredients include DNA samples from live dinosaurs, one each from the classes of earth, sea, and air dwellers. The collection device is actually quite clever, and Edwards and Koepp craft more than one effective action sequence involving its use. From left, Xavier Dobbs (David Iacono), Reuben Delgado (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson), Duncan Kincaid (Mahershala Ali) and Dr. Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey) in 'Jurassic World Rebirth." Jasin Boland/Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment Had 'Jurassic Park Rebirth' stayed solely with this team and their impossible mission, it might have worked as a summer action movie. But Koepp introduces a family of stranded boat passengers who are so one-dimensional and obnoxious that the film stops dead whenever they're onscreen. I'm willing to believe that ScarJo and company would risk their lives on the Equator, because they're greedy and it's their job. I do not, for one second, buy that Reuben (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo) would drag his college-age and grammar school-age daughters (Luna Blaise and Audrina Miranda) across the Atlantic in a boat barely bigger than the Orca from 'Jaws.' Nor do I buy that Reuben would do so with his eldest daughter's companion (David Iacono) on board, as he's best described by a word that rhymes with 'buckfoi.' Kincaid saves these characters from their vessel after it's been decimated by an ocean-dwelling dinosaur, saddling us with them for the rest of the movie. Weren't they aware that the area they were sailing in was declared forbidden by every country in the world? Every character in this film is paper-thin, but Koepp gets more mileage from the camaraderie between Zora and Kincaid than Reuben and his kids. We get the obligatory scene where the two mercenaries catch up with one sentence descriptions of their prior individual traumas. Ali does a more convincing job as a hired gun than Johansson, but they're both upstaged by Bailey, who brings a refreshing take on the science geek. Advertisement Jonathan Bailey as paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis in 'Jurassic World Rebirth." Jasin Boland/Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment Bailey's expressions of wonder as he discovers his newfound bravery on this mission are delightful. The film's best scene occurs when he touches a new dinosaur for the first time. Alexandre Desplat's impressive score, which incorporates John Williams's familiar motifs, swells underneath the moment. Believe it or not, Even more surprising, the plot ultimately boils down to a battle between capitalism and socialism. You'll never guess which side wins. The true stars of 'Jurassic World Rebirth,' the dinosaurs, are often left unidentified; we're not sure if they're real or some genetically engineered, made-up monstrosity. The film is so disinterested that it simply throws them onscreen with occasional bits of human beings stuck between their teeth. Rather than chew on disposable characters, those dinosaurs should have eaten their agents instead. ★★ JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH Directed by Gareth Edwards. Written by David Koepp. Starring Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, Mahershala Ali, Rupert Friend, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Luna Blaise, Audrina Miranda, David Iacono. At AMC Boston Common, Landmark Kendall Square, Alamo Drafthouse Seaport, AMC Causeway, suburbs. 134 min. PG-13 (dinosaurs are messy eaters) Odie Henderson is the Boston Globe's film critic.
