Jurassic World Rebirth Shatters Expectations: Record-Breaking Box Office Debut!

LATEST: 2025/07/06 08:15 EST BY BRENNAN KLEIN

Jurassic World Rebirth Surpasses Saturday’s Estimates of $85.4M (3-Day) and $141.2M (5-Day)

This article, initially penned Saturday morning, has been refreshed Sunday morning to include the latest box office numbers (highlighted in bold), a comprehensive chart, and additional insights.

Jurassic World Rebirth has surpassed its initial box office forecasts during its debut weekend. Directed by Gareth Edwards and featuring Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, and Jonathan Bailey, this film is the seventh entry in the Jurassic series.

The release of Jurassic World Rebirth commenced on a Wednesday just before the Fourth of July holiday in the U.S., following closely after the release of Brad Pitt’s F1 The Movie, which recorded the highest opening ever for Apple Studios on June 27.

According to Deadline, as of Sunday morning, Jurassic World Rebirth is projected to finish its first weekend with a domestic gross of $91.5 million over three days and $147.3 million over five days, surpassing its initial forecasts of $81.7 million and $137.5 million respectively. These figures are sufficient for it to surpass F1 The Movie and claim the top spot.

Furthermore, it has set a new record for the highest single-day Fourth of July domestic revenue of the 2020s, outperforming prior leaders like 2020’s Relic ($48,259), 2021’s F9 ($5.2 million), and the following years’ titles up to 2024’s Despicable Me 4 ($20.3 million).

Here is the complete domestic top 5 chart for the weekend:

Generally, with Jurassic World Rebirth leading the chart, the previous weekend’s top 5 films each moved down a position. For example, F1 The Movie dropped to the second spot with a 54% decrease in its second weekend, while How to Train Your Dragon slid to third place with a 44% drop.

Moreover, Pixar’s Elio remains robust in its third weekend with a 45% decline, yet it still falls short of recovering its reported $150 million budget. The only exception is the horror sequel 28 Years Later, which has held its fifth position with a 53% fall.

Interestingly, 28 Years Later managed to maintain its position due to better audience retention in its third weekend compared to the recent genre sequel M3GAN 2.0, which opened the previous weekend with a disappointing $10.2 million, a stark contrast to the original’s $30.4 million debut in 2023.

M3GAN 2.0 has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 57%, compared to the original’s Certified Fresh 93%.

M3GAN 2.0 has fallen to No. 6 with a projected $3.8 million 3-day gross and experienced a 63% drop. This decline, while significant, is not unusual for the horror genre, which typically sees second-weekend drops between 50 and 65%. In fact, 28 Years Later faced a similar 67.5% drop in its second weekend.

Implications for Jurassic World Rebirth

Poised for Success

The film’s domestic opening is a robust beginning in several respects. Notably, Jurassic World Rebirth was produced on a budget of just $180 million, a sum it is well on its way to surpassing in domestic sales alone.

Its projected worldwide opening of $318 million is set to far exceed this figure by Sunday’s close, positioning it as the ninth highest-grossing film of the year globally. Moreover, Rebirth is on track to secure a 3-day domestic opening that surpasses any of the films in the original Jurassic Park trilogy.

Below, find a comparison of the opening weekends and global box office totals for all the Jurassic Park and World movies:

Although this standalone sequel is currently behind its predecessors in the Jurassic World subseries, if it continues at this pace compared to those films, it could potentially achieve a final global box office of between $600 million and $770 million.

While the exact break-even point is not publicly known, it likely needs to gross just over $450 million to be profitable, suggesting a promising future for the franchise and the potential for a more economically feasible Jurassic World 5.

Insights on the Weekend Box Office

The End of PG Movies’ Dominance

With Jurassic World Rebirth claiming the top spot from F1 The Movie, PG-13 films are now leading this summer’s box office, following a period dominated by PG-rated films like Lilo & Stitch and How to Train Your Dragon.