‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ Roars to the Top of the Box Office

Comcast-owned Universal Pictures debuted ‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ over the holiday weekend. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)

Comcast’s Universal Pictures’ Jurassic World Rebirth chomped its way to the top of the domestic box office and global box office as Hollywood enjoys a summer-movie surge.

The latest in the dinosaur flick series sold $91.5 million of tickets over the three-day holiday weekend, and $147.3 million for the five days since its July 2 debut, according to Comscore. Of the more than 10 million people who saw it over the first five days, 27% saw it in a premium format, paying an average of $17.89 per ticket compared with $14.84 for general admission tickets, according to Steve Buck, chief strategy officer of EntTelligence.

Jurassic World Rebirth also tore up global box office records, selling another estimated $171 million worldwide across 82 markets, and opening at No. 1 in China, where it sold $41.5 million this weekend, including $5.5 million on IMAX screens. The film also opened at No. 1 in the U.K. and Ireland, Mexico, Germany, South Korea, Spain, Australia, France, Italy, Thailand, Taiwan, Indonesia, Brazil, and Malaysia, bringing its total global ticket sales to more than $318.3 million.

Jurassic World Rebirth continues the string of successful 2025 hits that have helped Hollywood outpace last year’s sales. As a whole, domestic ticket sales reached $156 million this weekend. For the year, the domestic box office has hauled in $4.44 billion, up 14.7% from the comparable time last year, according to Comscore.

Warner Bros.’ A Minecraft Movie is still the year’s top-grossing film, with $423.9 million in domestic box office sales through Sunday.

After a May that generated nearly $1 billion in domestic box office sales, including a record-breaking Memorial Day weekend, the July 4 holiday weekend was a “grand slam home run for the industry,” Comscore senior media analyst Paul Dergarabedian said.

“Jurassic World Rebirth sets into motion what is looking to be an extremely solid month of July with Superman flying into theaters” this Friday, and other big titles from every genre on the way in the coming weeks and continuing all the way to Labor Day Monday, he told Barron’s.

Including previous Jurassic Park films—from 1993’s Jurassic Park through Jurassic World: Dominion in 2022—the franchise has already sold more than $2.4 billion in domestic box office and more than $6.3 billion in worldwide box office, Dergarabedian said.

Starring Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, Rupert Friend, and two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali, the science-fiction action adventure follows scientists racing to get DNA samples from surviving dinosaurs. It was written by the original Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koep, and directed by Gareth Edwards of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

Warner Bros. and Apple Original Films’ FI The Movie took second place at the domestic box office, with another $25 million in ticket sales in its second weekend, bringing its domestic cumulative sales to $109.5 million through Sunday. It captured another $82.4 million internationally, bringing its global cumulative sales to $293.6 million.

Universal’s DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon was third with $21 million through Sunday and $292.9 million cumulatively in domestic box office since it opened on June 13. Its global sales so far have surpassed $516.9 million.

Walt Disney Pixar’s Elio sold another $5.7 million through Sunday for a domestic cumulative of $55.1 million in its third weekend. Globally, Elio has sold $96.8 million.

Disney’s Lilo & Stitch, meanwhile, has sold $408.5 million in domestic tickets year to date and $972.7 million in global box office sales.

Sony Pictures’ 28 Years Later, a horror thriller about survivors of a rage virus, took fifth place with another $4.6 million in domestic ticket sales in its third weekend.

Warner Bros. Superman, starring David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan, opens in theaters on July 11 and was also filmed for IMAX.

Write to Janet H. Cho at janet.cho@dowjones.com