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USA Today
27 minutes ago
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Does Jurassic World Rebirth have a post-credit scene?
The Jurassic franchise has officially unleashed its latest installment, Jurassic World Rebirth, in theaters nationwide. We said of the new film, starring Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey and Mahershala Ali, in our review: "Shedding most all of the world-building established in the previous Jurassic World films, Rebirth feels like a genuine rebirth." However, does the new Jurassic film have a post-credit scene? Do you need to stick around after the film ends? Not this time around. The film ends as soon as the closing credits begin, so you are good to gather your belongings and head to the door... just watch out for dinosaurs on your way out.
Gizmodo
39 minutes ago
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
‘Hot Spring Shark Attack' Is Goofy and It Knows It
If you're looking for adventure horror filled with toothy creatures and slick special effects, buy a ticket for Jurassic World Rebirth. On a much smaller scale, however, there's another new movie whose title says it all: Hot Spring Shark Attack. How does a shark big enough to chomp on a person find its way into a hot spring? And how does a town dependent on tourism deal with this extremely inconvenient new threat? All is revealed in the goofiest ways. Hot Spring Shark Attack being released so close to Jurassic World Rebirth is probably a coincidence; its proximity to the Jaws 50th anniversary hype likely is not. Writer-director Morihito Inoue is clearly a fan of Steven Spielberg's first Hollywood smash, as evidenced by the seaside setting, the main characters (mayor, chief of police, shark scientist), the incorporation of one of Jaws' most famous lines, the distinctly John Williams-esque score, and even some Amity Island flavor baked into the production design. But Hot Spring Shark Attack is also very much its own kooky flavor. It takes place in the coastal Japanese hamlet of Atsumi, aka 'the Monaco of the East,' where the economy revolves around onsens, or hot springs. The ambitious young mayor has bankrolled an ostentatious hotel he's crafting with accelerated speed thanks to a giant 3D printer—something we learn about in one of the film's many cutaways to breathless news reports. It also makes frequent use of social media-style clips; the mayor shoots his own promo videos, and one of his marketing strategies is to lure influencers to town in the hopes that they'll hype his new resort. But if you can picture the cast of Jaws using TikTok, you can imagine the PR disaster that unfolds when bodies start washing up on the beach. The local police chief, who is dearly anticipating his imminent retirement, realizes the number of mutilated corpses exactly corresponds with the number of missing tourists reported in the area. Things don't add up, though, because all the victims were bathing in spa pools, not the nearby ocean. An eager marine biologist from a nearby university is called in, and it's not until she identifies the type of shark in their midst that this perplexing mystery is solved. (Let's just say the fact that shark skeletons are made of cartilage, not bone, is something Hot Spring Shark Attack takes, runs with, and exploits the hell out of.) Chaos continues to ensue—to the point you might suspect Inoue is as big a fan of Sharknado (and possibly Birdemic) as he is of Jaws—until a trio of characters sets out on a hunting mission piloting a specially designed submersible named, what else, the Orca. If the plot sounds fun but familiar, it is, but the wacky execution and off-kilter choices are Hot Spring Shark Attack's true selling points. Special effects are achieved with what look like toys and vintage computer graphics, the editing shamelessly aims for yuks, and the performances are extremely cartoonish—and that includes the sharks, whose powers are so advanced they're actually able to vocalize. That said, they only seem to know one word, and it comes out as a satisfied hiss: 'SHHHHHHHARK!' Hot Spring Shark Attack is written and directed by Morihito Inoue in his feature debut. The ensemble cast includes a couple of (sort of) recognizable faces—Takuya Fujimura from One Cut of the Dead and Daniel Aguilar from Shin Godzilla—as well as Shôichirô Akaboshi, Masaki Naito, Koichi Makigami, Kiyobumi Kaneko, and Mio Takaki. You can catch Hot Spring Shark Attack at some Alamo Drafthouse and Cinemark locations July 9; it hits more theaters July 11, when you can also find it on cable VOD and digital HD. Take a bath first, and turn your brain off (complimentary) while you're at it. Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what's next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.
Spectator
an hour ago
- Entertainment
- Spectator
Jurassic Park Rebirth is the dumbest yet
Midway through Jurassic World Rebirth the scientist character played by Jonathan Bailey, whom we can all immediately spot as a scientist (he wears glasses), tells us that intelligence is not especially useful for a species. Look at dinosaurs, he continues, 'who are dumb but survived for 165 million years'. These Jurassic films have been going for 32 years so intelligence may not be necessary for the long-term survival of a movie franchise either. More worryingly, as each of these films is dumber than the last it could go on for ever. I say all this as a fan of the first film who has been perpetually disappointed ever since. This is the seventh film and after the especially pitiful fifth and sixth ones we were promised a rebirth. It's in the title. Written by David Koep and directed by Gareth Edwards, this film, we were told, would be a new start with a new cast and new characters with some 'call backs' to the 1993 original. That was directed by Steven Spielberg who had, you could say, already made his definitive dinosaur movie, at least in spirit. (Jaws.) I was hopeful of a return to form right up until the moment the film opened. Where are we? A secret research laboratory. What are they up to? Creating mutant dinosaurs. Might one escape? New cast, new characters, same old story. We spool forward 17 years to meet a smarmy fella (Rupert Friend) whose business is big pharma. He hires Scarlett Johansson, who is a 'situational security expert' (nope, not a clue), to take him to the island where dinosaurs have been contained. As some can fly and others are aquatic, can this count as containment? Somehow he has discovered that the cure for human heart disease lies in extracting the DNA of living dinosaurs and if he can effect a cure he'll make trillions. It is illegal for any human to travel to the island but needs must. They talk Dr Henry Loomis (Bailey) into accompanying them. They hire a boat and a mercenary (Mahershala Ali) and there are other crew who are not named and thus have 'lunch' written all over them. Their first encounter is with a colossal Mosasaurus. It proceeds to terrorise the boat in scenes that are so derivative of Jaws we'll save any embarrassment by calling it an homage. The Mosasaurus also terrorises another boat at sea. This belongs to a father and his family. There's a little girl on board whose name I can't remember but she might as well be called: 'Child in Danger'. Their boat is capsized and how they managed to radio a 'mayday' alert while straddled on an upturned hull without any equipment is anyone's guess, They're rescued by the bigger boat and make it to the lush tropical island where various dinosaurs try to pick them off. A Spinosaurus, a Pterodactyl, a Tyrannosaurus rex with its silly little arms. As there is no suspense it's the sort of jeopardy that becomes tiringly repetitive while you'll have to suspend your disbelief quite significantly. The Bailey character falls 300ft into a 2ft deep creek and not only emerges unscathed but with glasses on? I guess that without glasses we wouldn't know he was a scientist: he could be a chicken farmer or cheesemonger or anything. Finally, the 'mutant' dinosaur arrives. Given how bland and generic the characters are I was praying it would triumph. However, on the plus side there's the John Williams score (reworked) and the CGI is spectacular. It's always astonishing to think that these beasts did once roam the Earth and it was this thought that stopped me slipping into sleep. Meanwhile, I forgot to say why the lab was creating mutant dinosaurs. It was because the general public had become bored of what they had and wanted to see something more exciting. I know exactly how they felt.
Metro
an hour ago
- Entertainment
- Metro
Hollywood star admits Jurassic World Rebirth was 'unlike anything he'd done'
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Just seconds into this interview and someone's already vocalising John Williams' classic earworm of a theme for Jurassic Park. 'That music still gives me chills because it's so evocative of that first film and the feelings that I had when I saw it, which was sort of awe and wonder and spectacle and adventure all rolled into one,' reminisces actor Rupert Friend, who's part of the cast for new dino-stuffed adventure Jurassic World Rebirth. For his co-star Mahershala Ali, his first impression of the eminently popular film series is also audio-based, remembering how you would hear dinosaurs 'before you would see them' and how it added to the impression of their size. 'And just that feeling – I had never felt or heard that in a theatre before.' While Jurassic World Rebirth might be the seventh film in the long-running franchise of over 30 years, it still provided unique opportunities to its actors. ' With [my character] Duncan [Kincaid], I liked that he was active and decisive, and that the story required him to be, and so therefore it felt very different from anything that I have gotten to do up until this point,' Ali, 51, shares. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video This comes after a career that's already encompassed two Oscar wins and films ranging from Moonlight and The Place Beyond the Pines to Alita: Battle Angel, Hidden Figures and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay. 'But I also feel like the character had something that had happened to him or something that he had experienced that was very grounding – so there was something pulling him externally and something grounding him internally. That felt like a nice balance,' he adds. On Friend's part, he was drawn to the 'moral ambiguity' of pharmaceutical rep Martin Krebs, who recruits covert opps expert Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson) to help with a top-secret mission to retrieve samples from dinosaurs on their forbidden home island near the equator for a groundbreaking heart disease drug. 'That you're sort of ostensibly looking for a drug that will help people and save lives, but you're also interested in making billions of dollars – a slightly conflicting thing!' The mission also includes Jonathan Bailey's conflicted palaeontologist Dr Henry Loomis and Ali's Kincaid, the tough team leader. We muse on the franchise's classic lesson of foolish humans meddling and never seemingly learning from their mistakes, and humanity's hubris. 'That's right on, the idea that we can just with impunity enter a landscape and an environment that we have no real place being,' agrees Friend. 'I think Jonathan's character says something like, we're going into their world, we're entering their space, and to not respect that is always the beginning of the end. It's the pride before a fall, the hubris.' I point out that Rupert also has an excellent line in Jurassic World Rebirth: 'I'm too smart to die'. That not everybody is going to be alive still by the end credits is one of the hallmarks of these films. People are going to get picked off, and often in grisly and shocking fashion (let us not forget Jurassic Park's Donald and his demise on a toilet at the claws – well, jaws – of a T-Rex). In the newest film, returning screenwriter David Koepp, who penned both the 1993 original and 1997's follow-up The Lost World: Jurassic Park, and director Gareth Edwards have certainly provided some gruesome and 'fun' new deaths – which brings it back to the franchise's roots as a suspenseful horror-influenced film. 'Seeing it, I was really satisfied with how propulsive the film felt,' shares Ali. 'Shooting something over the course of four months, and the way you have to do it – in bits and across multiple countries – it's very hard to tell how the film was going to move. What the energy is that it's going to carry? Because you're just, in the most disciplined fashion possible, trying to make sure your moments connect from day to day, scene to scene.' But he needn't have worried. 'I was relieved and so excited that it fit together the way it did to tell the type of story we were trying to tell.' It's understandable that the cast wouldn't be entirely across the final product given that, thanks to further advances in CG since '93, we're now almost entirely beyond the era of practical dinosaurs like Stan Winston's remarkable full-size T-Rex animatronic for Jurassic Park. The first thought that Ali now has when someone mentions any of the films is 'a stick and a tennis ball that you're screaming at!'. However, there was still one animatronic dinosaur they could interact with on set – fan favourite Dolores, the Aquilops. 'I think it's augmented by visual effects in the finished thing, but it was an incredible puppet with three – if not four – guys controlling the various things. And it would walk around and sit on people's shoulders, and it could eat,' recalls Friend. 'And we would see renderings of things after we shot something from time to time of that and be like, 'Oh, okay, that's how big it is!'' chimes in Ali. 'But there wasn't anything physical really to respond to other than a tennis ball and a stick.' However, the actors still got to enjoy real-life locations as diverse as Thailand, Malta and the UK, at the insistence of filmmaker Edwards, who didn't want to be overly reliant on green screens. And the levels of practical, physical prep for that were quite astounding, Friend tells me when we catch up on the red carpet at the film's world premiere in London's Leicester Square. More Trending 'In Thailand, they cleared a field and replanted it with a crop that we could then walk through after two months of that crop growing. There were levels of prep that were agricultural, not just cinematic, that I had never heard of before – how to make a rock face safe for abseiling down, how to make a waterfall for Johnny [Bailey] to jump into and come out of that wouldn't kill him!' And for those who were wondering, yes, self-confessed nerd Friend went back to watch the previous films before the shoot, having also been a fan of Michael Crichton's original books growing up. 'The evolution of it is fascinating. It's a franchise that we've had with us for 30 years, and it's really interesting to see how much love there still is for this world.' Jurassic World Rebirth is in cinemas from today. Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: Pirates of the Caribbean and Leatherface actor Bob Elmore dies aged 65 MORE: How David Attenborough inspired the 'awe and wonder' in Jurassic World Rebirth MORE: Tom Cruise's 'breathtaking' 00s sci-fi hit quietly arrives on Netflix
Elle
2 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Elle
‘Jurassic World Rebirth' Is a Love Letter to the Original—Here's When You Can Stream It
Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. The dinosaurs are back. Over three decades (and several sequels) after Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park first roared onto screens, Jurassic World Rebirth arrives as a bold new chapter in the beloved franchise. Directed by Gareth Edwards (Rogue One, Godzilla), the film revisits the chaos of dino resurrection through a standalone story that honors the original while introducing a new generation of characters—and creatures. The film premieres in theaters today. Set five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, Rebirth opens in a world where most dinosaurs have been pushed into isolated zones along the equator. Among them are three genetically modified giants whose DNA may hold the key to a revolutionary new drug. That premise sends a team of operatives, led by Scarlett Johansson's Zora Bennett, on a high-stakes mission to a remote island once home to InGen's most secretive lab. 'I saw Jurassic Park when I was 10 years old in the theater,' Johansson said in an interview with Today. 'It was so impactful—I was completely transfixed, mesmerized, carried away, terrified, all of that stuff, and it's part of the formative part of my childhood.' For Johansson, the role is a longtime dream fulfilled. 'It turns out that if you harass Frank Marshall enough, you could get a job,' she joked, referencing the longtime franchise producer. The cast also includes Jonathan Bailey as museum paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis, Mahershala Ali as government operative Duncan Kincaid, and Luna Blaise as Teresa, a girl whose family vacation gets interrupted by the prehistoric beasts. 'It's a whole new band of characters that nobody's seen before,' Blaise told ELLE of the film. 'It's a new story and a new chapter.' She added of her co-star Johansson, 'Seeing Scarlett man the troops and be the captain of our ship was awesome.' Edwards, who grew up admiring Spielberg, leaned into the original film's feel. 'Jurassic Park is perfect pure cinema,' he told NBC. 'I never thought I could beat what Steven did. But I do hope we've made a film that's worthy of it.' Rebirth was shot on 35mm film and filmed on location in Thailand and Malta. 'Thailand had some pretty serious creature critters,' Johansson noted to Today, recalling a jungle shoot interrupted by cockroaches and scorpions. But the film's real monsters are the new hybrid giants. Among them: the Distortus Rex, or D-Rex, a terrifying blend of T-Rex DNA with influences from other movie monsters. 'There's a little bit of the Rancor from Star Wars, and some of H.R. Giger's alien in there,' Edwards told Collider. 'But there's also this empathy—we wanted you to feel slightly sorry for it.' Not yet—but it's coming. Jurassic World Rebirth is currently playing only in theaters. However, as a Universal Pictures release, it will likely be available soon for digital rent or purchase. When it comes to streaming, Rebirth is expected to arrive on Peacock after its theatrical premiere, following the Universal Studios' standard release pattern, though no official date has been confirmed. Get Tickets In the meantime, fans can revisit the full Jurassic saga from the beginning. All six previous films in the franchise—Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park III, Jurassic World, Fallen Kingdom, and Dominion—are currently available to stream on Peacock. Whether you're a newcomer or just want to rewatch Jeff Goldblum say his iconic 'Life finds a way,' now's the time to dive in.
