Jurassic World Rebirth already sports a 58% Fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes, which is not necessarily excellent, but it’s impressive for this franchise at this stage. This is the seventh Jurassic movie overall, and the fourth of the Jurassic World reboot series — though the previous three definitely formed a trilogy, while this one stands apart. Rebirth is now the third-highest rated Jurassic movie on Rotten Tomatoes, and it scored much higher than the two movies that immediately preceded it. Fans will be able to make up their own minds when the movie hits theaters in the U.S. on July 2nd.

Jurassic World Rebirth is not available to general audiences yet, but plenty of critics have now seen it at pre-release screenings, or at the world premiere in London earlier this month. The reviews circulating so far say that this movie does a better job of capturing the spirit of the franchise than the other recent installments, but ultimately, it made some viewers question if there was anything left to explore in this premise at all.

Keep in mind that Rotten Tomatoes’ score represents the percentage of reviews that were counted as positive overall, and not an actual rating for the movie. The aggregator has accumulated reviews of Jurassic World Rebirth from 76 trusted critics, and determined that 44 of them were positive, and 32 were negative. Among those reviews is a wide range of ratings for the movie, and opinions on what worked and what didn’t. The website no longer presents an average score for movies.

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This already gives it a high ranking within its franchise, too. At the front of the pack is the original Jurassic Park with a 91% Fresh score, followed by Jurassic World at 72%. Rebirth is next, followed by The Lost World: Jurassic Park at 52%, then Jurassic Park III at 49%. The latter two movies in the sequel trilogy trail behind at 47% for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and 29% for Jurassic World Dominion.

Taken all together, the aggregate score and its ranking within the franchise seem like good news for Rebirth, but from another perspective, the wide range of reactions with no consensus is a bit ominous. In particular, the sentiment that there may be nothing new to explore within this premise is a bit alarming. Even if that’s not true, the fact is that studios rely on major franchises like these for bankable nostalgia. If the only hope for the Jurassic series is to evolve into something new, it may not get the chance.

Jurassic World Rebirth hits theaters on July 2nd in the U.S. The six previous movies are streaming now on Peacock.

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If you’re getting really excited about the debut of Jurassic World Rebirth this week, but don’t want to wait until Tuesday night or Wednesday to catch the film on the big screen, Peacock has something to help tide you over. NBCUniversal’s streaming service has been working to help build up anticipation for recent blockbuster releases, like Wicked and How to Train Your Dragon, by debuting entire documentaries about the making of those films ahead of their premieres. Over the weekend, Jurassic World Rebirth got the same treatment, and this special look is probably a lot more than some fans were expecting.

On Sunday, Peacock added a documentary called Jurassic World Rebirth: The Making of a New Era, which provides a behind-the-scenes look at the creation and production of director Gareth Edwards’ dinosaur debut. The documentary is far more than a regular “exclusive look” at the new movie, coming in a total run time of 22 minutes. So there’s essentially an entire TV episode’s worth of Jurassic World Rebirth to enjoy while waiting for the film’s release.

The documentary has quickly caught on with Peacock subscribers, indicating that there is a ton of excitement for the release of Jurassic World Rebirth. Monday’s edition of Peacock’s daily Top 10 charts has The Making of a New Era listed as the number one “TV” title on the entire service.

There is a ton of Jurassic goodness to enjoy on Peacock right now. In addition to the new look at Rebirth, the streaming service has all six of the franchise’s previous entries available to watch.

If you want to check out this exclusive new look at Jurassic World Rebirth but don’t have a subscription to Peacock, you can sign up for one here.

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Coming Soon to Peacock

The Peacock lineup got stronger with the addition of this already popular Jurassic World documentary, but the new arrivals aren’t stopping there. The calendar changes to July on Tuesday, and the start of a new month means a massive new wave of titles are set to hit Peacock. Below, you can check out the full list of the streamer’s July 1st additions.

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About My Father
Airplane!
American Pie
Aquamarine
Are We There Yet?
Barbershop
Barbershop 2: Back In Business
Beauty Shop
Big Momma’s House
The Brothers
Chance of Snow
Contraband
Couples Retreat
The Croods
Daniel Isn’t Real
Dante’s Peak
Dazed And Confused
Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears A Who!
Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
The Fate Of The Furious
First Blood
Forrest Gump
Friday
The Friday After Next
Furious 7
Goodfellas
Hall Pass
The High Note
Hot Tub Time Machine
Hotel Transylvania
Hotel Transylvania 2
I Am Woman
Iris
King Kong
The King of Staten Island
Legally Blonde
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White And Blonde
Liar, Liar
Making Babies
Mission: Impossible
Next Friday
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
Rambo III
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Ray
Repo Men
Robin Hood (2010)
Role Models
Sausage Party
Self/Less
Semi-Pro
Sisters
Street Fighter
Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby
Titanic
Tropic Thunder
The Turning
Twister
War Of The Worlds
Waterworld
Whitey: United States Of America V James Bulger
Love Island USA, Season 7 – New Episode (Peacock Original)
The McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys, Season 2 – Premiere (Bravo)
The Real Murders of Atlanta, Season 3 – Premiere, All Episodes (Oxygen)
Yes, Chef!, Season 1 – Finale (NBC)

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The first reactions to Jurassic World Rebirth have arrived — and it sounds like dinosaurs still rule the Earth. Those attending advance screenings of the new Jurassic World movie were among the first to see the Gareth Edwards-directed installment, which marks an all-new era in the Jurassic Park franchise that evolved into the Jurassic World trilogy of films starring Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard. On July 2, a second franchise rebirth brings Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, and Mahershala Ali to the most dangerous place on Earth: an island research facility for the original Jurassic Park inhabited by the worst of the worst dinosaurs that were left behind.

So, did critics endorse the Jurassic revival, or did they select Jurassic World Rebirth for extinction?

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According to early social media reactions and critics’ reviews, it sounds like Rebirth skews closer to a Jurassic Park movie than Jurassic World. The social media response is mostly positive, with many praising Johansson, Bailey, and Ali’s performances in the film — as well as the dinosaur action.

“That reverence — for dinosaurs and for filmmaking — is what consistently allows Jurassic World Rebirth to soar,” writes ComicBook‘s Charlie Ridgley in a four-star Jurassic World Rebirth review. “It’s not concerned with a major plot about the end of life on the planet (it actually mentions such a thing as more of an inevitable fact), or about trying to build a sweeping love story with two characters nobody likes. Edwards knows you came for dinosaur thrills and, once the characters reach the island, he delivers those droves.”

ScreenRant‘s John Orquiola called Jurassic World Rebirth “the best Jurassic since Steven Spielberg 1993,” adding the dinosaur sequences “were thrilling to behold.” Hunter Bolding of ThatHashtagShow adds, “Scarlett Johansson still 100% has the movie star sauce. She’s shot like a star, presented like a star, and looks absolutely stunning.” The Reel Thoughts Podcast‘s Cohen Harrison Wyatt says Rebirth “is surprisingly pretty good—it has a clear story, stunning visuals, and action-packed set pieces. It channels the original’s nostalgia while pushing the franchise forward, which is a strong step in the right direction.”

Variety critic Peter Debruge writes that the “dino franchise returns to its origins,” noting, “The movie offers an updated version of the same basic ride Spielberg offered 32 years earlier, and yet, it hardly feels essential to the series’ overall mythology, nor does it signal where the franchise could be headed.”

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In a review for The Hollywood Reporter, David Rooney writes, “There are some mighty new monsters on the prowl, but this is primarily an assembly of recycled story beats … Edwards clearly is a devoted Spielberg fan, embedding subtle homages throughout, notably in the open water sequences that recall Jaws. Jurassic World Rebirth is unlikely to top anyone’s ranked franchise list. But longtime fans (count me among them) should have a blast.”

RogerEbert.com critic Christy Lemire gave the film a thumbs down. “When people are in danger of being devoured by freakish, mutant dinosaurs, Jurassic World Rebirth can be a lot of fun. But it takes an awful lot of slogging through the jungle, literally and figuratively, to get there,” Lemire writes. “And there are some sporadic joys here in the clever sight gags, the sleight of hand, the bait and switch. These moments remind us of the mindless summertime excitement the Jurassic movies have long provided, albeit with diminishing returns. But that giant footprint just isn’t as imposing as it used to be.”

“Does Rebirth set up a promising new future for the franchise, as its title suggests? Not exactly — this feels very much like a stand-alone adventure,” according to a review from Consequence‘s Liz Shannon Miller. “But it does prove that it’s still possible to tell a suspenseful and exciting stand-alone story within this franchise; while it might not quite match the original, it at least doesn’t lose sight of its most compelling elements. Dinosaurs might be dying out. But the audience’s desire to watch them gobble up humans will never go extinct.”

Picking up five years after the events of 2022’s Jurassic World Dominion, Earth’s ecology has proven largely inhospitable to dinosaurs. Those remaining exist in isolated equatorial environments with climates resembling the one in which they once thrived. 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, according to pharmaceutical representative Martin Krebs (Rupert Friend).

Skilled covert operations expert Zora Bennett (Johansson) is contracted to lead a skilled team on a top-secret mission to secure the genetic material from the still-living dinosaurs, enlisting trusted team member Duncan Kincaid (Ali) and paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis (Bailey). When Zora’s operation intersects with a civilian family whose boating expedition was capsized by marauding aquatic dinos — Reuben Delgado (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo) and daughters Isabella (Audrina Miranda) and Teresa (Luna Blaise), and her boyfriend Xavier (David Iacono) — they all find themselves stranded on a forbidden island that had once housed an undisclosed research facility for Jurassic Park.

There, in a terrain populated by dinosaurs of vastly different species, they come face-to-face with a sinister, shocking discovery that has been hidden from the world for decades: man-made, mutated dinosaurs.

Jurassic World Rebirth stomps into theaters July 2.

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The Jurassic franchise has been endangered since just after the turn of the millennium. Now that’s not the case financially — the Colin Trevorrow-guided Jurassic World trilogy that kicked off in 2015 was a box office behemoth. Each of those three films grossed over $1 billion globally, which is certainly an impressive feat. But after meeting a deservedly tepid reception upon their initial releases, that entire trilogy has aged like milk, making a bad thing even worse in less than a decade. The films are forgettable at best, nearly unwatchable at worst, trading all of the magic and awe from Steven Spielberg’s efforts for lab-created dinosaurs, computer-generated messes, and…bugs?

Nothing about the first three Jurassic World films has stood the test of even a little time, and we have rightly wondered if these dinosaur adventures could ever get back on track. Can we actually recover from Chris Pratt’s Blue Steel raptor trainer and a saga about genetic cloning that consistently referenced its own failings in its plot without even realizing it? Thanks to Gareth Edwards and original Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koepp, the answer is a resounding yes. Jurassic World Rebirth is easily the greatest of these dinosaur movies since 2001. Depending on how you feel about the first two Jurassic Park sequels, you could argue that it’s the best since 1993.

Just to be clear, Jurassic World Rebirth doesn’t come close to the wonder and technical mastery of Spielberg’s original. It’s apples and oranges between the two. But Jurassic Park is about as perfect as you can get for a film of that scale. Was anything ever really going to compare?

No, it wasn’t, and Jurassic World Rebirth wisely doesn’t try to compete or even reinvent the wheel. This movie is all about reminding people how much fun this franchise can and should be. Does it have a messy plot that doesn’t make a ton of sense? Yes. Is the dialogue sometimes obnoxious? Absolutely. Rebirth is a flawed film, no doubt about it. The lows, however, are microscopic compared to Titanosaurus-level heights Edwards and the team reach here. At its best moments, Rebirth is exactly as advertised, reawakening a deep love for a franchise we thought was going extinct and giving audience members a childlike nostalgia we haven’t felt often since we first saw dinosaurs on the big screen.

Recapturing that magic is actually a major part of the plot of Rebirth, and one of my favorite elements of this film’s narrative. See, the reality of this franchise post-Jurassic World is one of boredom and apathy. People there find dinosaurs more of an inconvenience than anything to actually behold. There’s almost a quiet disdain for the creatures, who never asked to be brought back in the first place. This mirrors the franchise itself, which returned after decades and hit people over the head with genetically engineered monsters and threw the quasi-science that made the original so special right out the window. It went for big thrills over something more genuine and backfired, like the Jurassic World attraction at the center of the 2015 movie, leaving a more cynical planet in its wake.

Jurassic World Rebirth picks up there with a mission that only sounds sillier the more you think about it. Big Pharma billionaire Martin Krebs (Rupert Friend) runs a company that has unlocked a key to stopping heart disease, but in order to make the medicine work, they need the blood of the three biggest dinosaurs — one from land, one from the sea, and one from the sky. Why? Well because they have big hearts, like all dinosaurs do, but these three are special and important for some reason. So Martin hires mercenary and extraction specialist Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson) to retrieve these blood samples from the animals, who only exist on a chain of islands near the equator that have been forbidden from travel by all of the world’s governments.

They bring on paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey) to help identify the correct dinosaurs and ensure the samples are taken properly. And Zora gets her right-hand man, Duncan Kincaid (Mahershala Ali), to help lead her team. As they head for the islands and their mission really begins, they cross paths with a shipwrecked family (led by Manuel Garcia-Rulfo and anchored by a hilarious breakout performance from David Iacono) and do what they can to rescue them. Unfortunately for the family, that means hopping on a boat deep into dinosaur territory. As you can expect, the adventure goes sideways and what was meant to be a simple in-and-out mission becomes a quest for survival.

This story does take a little while to get going. The very first scene is an absolute thriller that sets up the danger of Rebirth‘s lone genetic monstrosity (the D-Rex), but it slows down after that and spends 20-30 minutes getting all of its pieces into place. You’ll feel that first act wear on you a bit. The plotting is scattered and the character beats the film tries to instill in those early scenes tend to fall flat. Well, all of them but the ones involving Bailey’s Henry Loomis, who is the shining beacon of Alan Grant/Ellie Sattler goodness in Jurassic World Rebirth. He’s a man who has devoted his life to dinosaurs (even studying under Dr. Grant for a time), only for the public to swiftly lose interest and leave him wondering what to do next. There’s a lot of ties you can make from Loomis to the filmmakers watching streaming and social media attempt to kill the art that used to bewitch us mind, body, and soul.

Loomis is such an old-school Jurassic Park character, reminding you that “war-hero-turned-raptor trainer” was always as lame as it now sounds. That scientists have not only always been cool, but they’ve also been the real heroes from the very start. And boy, does Bailey bring all that to life in ways that I’m confident make Sam Neill proud. He’s the beating heart of Jurassic World Rebirth and his performance towers over the rest of the ensemble. If you thought Bailey was a capital-M Movie Star after Wicked, Jurassic World Rebirth does more than enough to cement that notion as truth. This guy is the real deal, and good on David Koepp for realizing that a character like Loomis — who genuinely believes dinosaurs are the coolest things to ever live — is so necessary to make a Jurassic movie thrive. In one scene, Loomis tells a mercenary, “It’s a sin to kill a dinosaur,” and I had to resist the urge to stand up and cheer. That is how much reverence these movies are supposed to have for the stunning creatures at their center, and that love has been inexplicably lost since 2015.

The return of that reverence — for dinosaurs and for filmmaking — is what consistently allows Jurassic World Rebirth to soar. It’s not concerned with a major plot about the end of life on the planet (it actually mentions such a thing as more of an inevitable fact), or about trying to build a sweeping love story with two characters nobody likes. Edwards knows you came for dinosaur thrills and, once the characters reach the island, he delivers those droves.

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There are so many different dinosaurs in this movie, giving fans a cornucopia of prehistoric excitement around every corner. And unlike other Jurassic films, Rebirth doesn’t really have a “central” dinosaur antagonist. As the story rolls on, we move to different set pieces with different dinosaurs. And each of those set pieces is more exciting than the last. Edwards loves to toy with the audience, laser-focusing on the intersection of human awareness and dinosaur instinct that Spielberg used to create incredible moments like the raptor hunt in the kitchen or the snake in the waterfall. These sequences are expertly crafted, specifically engineered to generate the highest level of suspense and joy.

It’s in those moments, and in some key character choices, that Rebirth ties itself back to the original Jurassic Park. There aren’t any major cameos or surprise reveals in this film — Edwards and Koepp learned from the shortcomings of the three previous entries. But there is such a reverence for the craftsmanship and storytelling of the original that bleeds through from beginning to end. Whether that’s in the form of a fantastic child actor (Audrina Miranda) and her kinship with an adorable baby dinosaur, or with an extended T-Rex chase on a river, or using a closeup of an awe-struck scientist to do all of the talking; Edwards is acutely aware of what made Jurassic Park tick and he does his best to hit those same marks with Rebirth.

The result is very in line with The Lost World: Jurassic Park or 2001’s Jurassic Park III (directed by the criminally underrated Joe Johnston), which I consider to be a serious compliment. You will certainly notice issues, especially in the first act, but those problems pale in comparison to the victories. There are moments that’ll leave you breathless, cheering, and thinking to yourself, “This is why we come to the movies!”

Isn’t that what we’re hoping for every time we buy a ticket? I’ll gladly endure a few shortcomings in an imperfect film if it means giggling to myself, allowing my jaw to drop to the floor, and kicking my feet in my chair with the excitement of a small child because I’m experiencing a level of giddiness that I simply cannot contain. Jurassic World Rebirth did that, and I left the theater grinning ear-to-ear.

I only wish it had gone back to the Jurassic Park title, because that’s what this movie deserves. It’s a true rebirth for a franchise that easily could’ve crumbled under its own hubris, and the title is the sole reminder of the frustrating era of the franchise that Gareth Edwards has all but fossilized.

Rating: 4 out of 5

Jurassic World Rebirth hits theaters everywhere July 2nd.

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There’s nothing better than poring over fan-favorite franchises to spot new details. Jurassic Park may have surpassed the 30-year mark, but we’re still noticing little points to this day. If we take the entire Jurassic Park film franchise into account, well, that’s a lot of footage to puzzle through. This one film opened the door to an immense franchise full of movies, games, and shows. While it’s safe to say that not every ensuing film hit the same highs as the first movie, fans have enjoyed theory-crafting between the sets. That brings us to one fan theory, which may or may not create an unlikely connection between Jurassic Park III and the Jurassic World films.

Fans love trying to find new and interesting ways to create connections between the original trilogy and the new Jurassic World movies. There are plenty of obvious ones, from the named characters making appearances to certain notable dinosaur cameos. That hasn’t stopped fans from digging deeper. For example, some fans can’t help but wonder if there’s any relation between Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) of Jurassic World and Nick Van Owen (Vince Vaughn) of The Lost World: Jurassic Park. There isn’t, but there’s potentially a different connection tying Owen Grady to the island from that film and Jurassic Park III, and it’s a deep cut.

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To understand how this fan theory works, we first have to know the premise of Jurassic Park III. This film was, admittedly, the least favored of the original set. It felt more like a monster movie than a Jurassic Park film. Worse, it deviated from the animatronic elements of the first two and instead tried to get away with more CGI. On the bright side, it does bring back a couple of favorite characters, Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern). While the latter is too sensible to get wrapped up in this mess, she does have an important part to play in how the story ends.

In the film, Alan Grant and his assistant are tricked onto Isla Sorna (long story), where two desperate parents are hoping to be reunited with their missing child. The quest goes predictably wrong, justifying Grant’s stubborn refusal to ever have considered willingly setting foot on the island. While the team did successfully find the missing Eric (Trevor Morgan), it wasn’t without heavy casualties.

Ultimately, it’s reasonable to wonder if any of them would have survived had Ellie Sattler not sent both the U.S. Marines and the Navy to go and rescue everyone. Yes, really. She went over the top, but then again, she knows the risks those islands promise. Thank goodness Ellie now has friends in high places, thanks to her husband working with the State Department. Had she not been able to rally the forces so quickly, things probably would have gone very differently.

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At this point, you would be totally reasonable in wondering how on Earth that ending could tie into the Jurassic World film series. The connection is admittedly a pretty small one, so fans are welcome to discard this theory accordingly. This theory grabs onto the presence of the Navy on Isla Sorna, using that to tie a connection to Owen Grady.

Owen Grady is the protagonist of Jurassic World and ensuing films, and his introduction made a big splash. He’s taken the risky job of working at the park, not to maintain safety, but to train the raptors. That particular point has been talked to death, so we’ll move on to Owen’s backstory, as that’s what’s relevant here. While the film doesn’t waste a lot of time digging through Owen’s backstory or resume, a few key details are dropped. Including how he used to be a member of the U.S. Navy before signing up with Jurassic World.

It’s this key detail that leads some viewers to wonder if Owen Grady was potentially one of the Navy Members involved in the rescue mission. Without knowing when or where he served, it’s impossible to know for certain. Owen landing on that beach and getting his first glimpse of dinosaurs may explain his present fascination with them. After all, it seems that the Marines and Navy were not met with any direct attacks. Better yet, they got to see a group of Pteranodons peacefully fly off into the sunset (why they allowed that to happen is an entirely different question).

Is it possible that Owen Grady is one of the dozens of Navy members shown on the beach? Anything is possible; however, even we have to admit that this one feels like a stretch.

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The first reactions to Jurassic World Rebirth have been shared, and they paint a mixed picture of the upcoming blockbuster. Following the film’s world premiere and early press screenings, people took to social media to post their thoughts about what director Gareth Edwards has cooked up. Some are very high on Jurassic World Rebirth, praising its action sequences and ability to recapture the sense of awe and wonder from the original Jurassic Park. Others were disappointed by the film, feeling that it didn’t do enough to give audiences a memorable viewing experience.

“[Jurassic World Rebirth] is a fantastic addition to the franchise, delivering everything you want and MORE!” wrote X user @DravenReacts. “From the action to the cinematography, Gareth Edwards knows how to craft a great dinosaur movie. This one captures the spirit of the originals and pulls you right back in.”

“[Jurassic World Rebirth] had a solid concept—mutated dinosaurs on a new island. I was intrigued,” posted X user @theFLICKpick. “But the movie just feels blah. It’s a string of forgettable scenes that go nowhere. One river sequence stood out, but the rest blurs together. The characters are dull, there’s zero chemistry, and I found myself rooting for the dinosaurs just to feel something. The story plays out like a studio checklist—nothing gets explored, and there’s no heart in it.”

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Also on X, Maude Garrett shared that she found Jurassic World Rebirth to be “a fun time loaded with nostalgia and jumps” but also found some scenes to be “predictable” and “cringe.” Check out some tweets in the space below:

Jurassic World Rebirth is set to open in theaters on July 2nd, serving as Universal’s big tentpole release over Fourth of July weekend. It’s expected to be a strong box office draw, with early projections pegging it to earn somewhere between $120-125 million domestically over the five-day holiday frame. While that figure would be the lowest debut for a Jurassic World movie, it would still be one of the strongest starts of all time for a movie opening over Independence Day.

A key selling point of Jurassic World Rebirth during the extensive marketing campaign is that the film aims to convey the spirit of the beloved 1993 original, taking the series back to its roots. While Steven Spielberg’s first Jurassic Park is still considered an all-time sci-fi classic, the franchise overall has earned mixed reviews. 2022’s Jurassic World Dominion was seen as a low point with a 29% score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Based on these initial reactions, it sounds like Jurassic World Rebirth could be an improvement when compared to some of its direct predecessors but still falls a bit short in its attempt to fully replicate the feel of Jurassic Park. In fairness to Rebirth, Jurassic Park is a very high bar to clear, as that film is renowned for its impressive visual effects (that still hold up more than three decades later), terrifying sequences, and iconic characters. It’s difficult for any movie to match or exceed Jurassic Park in those departments, so as long as Rebirth is a step above the earlier Jurassic World movies, it should be in good shape moving forward. All three previous Jurassic World installments grossed over $1 billion despite mixed reviews, indicating this franchise is critic-proof. If word of mouth skews more positive, it could hit the high end of the box office projections.

It’ll be interesting to see how the full reviews compare to these social media reactions. People can only say so much in an X post, and they’ll have an opportunity to get into greater detail about what works and what doesn’t in the written review format. Even some people who liked the film overall pointed out certain flaws, so it’ll be fascinating to see if the negatives outweigh the positives. Hopefully, more people are on the side of believing Jurassic World Rebirth is a fun summer blockbuster.

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Jurassic World Rebirth director Gareth Edwards — the visual effects-oriented filmmaker behind such VFX-heavy films as Monsters, Godzilla, and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story — already revealed how iconic sci-fi flicks Star Wars and Alien inspired his star dinosaur, the mutated Distortus rex. Edwards described the deformed dinosaur as a cross between the Rancor, with its tooth-filled maw, and the Xenomorph, with its elongated head, influencing the D-rex’s two most distinctive features (besides its six limbs). But as seminal as director Ridley Scott‘s original 1979 Alien might be, one of Scott’s more recent films proved to be even more influential.

In the July 2025 issue of SFX Magazine, Edwards revealed that Scott’s “visually stunning” 2005 Crusades epic Kingdom of Heaven influenced the earthy look the filmmaker wanted for his Rebirth of the island-set Jurassic Park franchise.

“John Mathieson was the director of photography and the more and more I looked at it, the more I was like, ‘This is perfection. There’s not a bad frame in this movie,'” Edwards said of Kingdom of Heaven. “I’ve always had this love for his work. When you start a film like this, you have a group of names you’d like to work with, and the studio have a group of names they would trust.”

“Then there’s Steven [Spielberg] as well in the middle of that,” Edwards added of the original Jurassic Park director and series executive producer. “There was this one little overlap where they all intersected, and everyone agreed on Mathieson.”

Mathieson, who earned his first Oscar nomination for 2000’s Gladiator and shot the Scott-directed Hannibal, Robin Hood, and Gladiator II, also has experience with blockbuster fare beyond his collaborations with Scott. The cinematographer worked on films like 2011’s X-Men: First Class and 2022’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

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Edwards also recruited VFX vet David Vickery, an Oscar nominee (2011’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2) who served as the visual effects supervisor on 2018’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and 2022’s Jurassic World Dominion. That dinosaur shorthand was essential for Edwards.

“He’s just brilliant and kind of like the world’s best person at dinosaurs,” Edwards said of the ILM creative director and senior VFX supervisor, also credited on Avatar: The Way of Water, Deadpool & Wolverine, and Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning. “But he was sort of done with doing dinosaur films. He didn’t want to do another one.”

In wooing Vickery back to Jurassic World, Edwards recalled telling him, “‘I don’t want this to feel animated. I don’t want it to feel like we’ve anthropomorphized these creatures.'”

“I would love it if we could build a massive catalogue of natural history and essentially, every single shot in this movie is based on a piece of existing footage of a real animal really doing whatever it is that’s happening,” Edwards added, with that naturalistic take blending with Mathieson’s cinematography to create the look that harkens back to the Dean Cundey-shot Jurassic Park.

Jurassic World Rebirth stars Scarlet Johansson, Mahershala Ali, and Jonathan Bailey as a covert team sent to an island research facility for the original Jurassic Park to collect the genetic material of dinosaurs that could hold, in their DNA, the key to a drug that will bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humankind. The new movie opens only in theaters July 2.

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A species of dinosaur is coming out of extinction for Jurassic World Rebirth. The new movie — which sends Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, and Jonathan Bailey to an island research facility for the original Jurassic Park — centers on a crucial mission to collect DNA from the three most colossal creatures across land, sea and air: the largest known sauropod of all time, Titanosaurus; aquatic carnivore Mosasaurus; and the flying Quetzalcoatlus.

Those dinosaurs hold in their DNA the key to a drug that will bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humankind. But the tropical biosphere is also home to dinosaurs like a new breed of Tyrannosaurus rex, the horned Diabloceratops, the winged Anurognathus, the dog-sized Aquilops, and the semi-aquatic Spinosaurus, which can be seen lurking in the waters surrounding the island in the new Jurassic World Rebirth trailer below.

The Spinosaurus was the star dinosaur of 2001’s Jurassic Park III, where paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) encountered the predatory, T-rex neck-snapping Spinosaurus amid a rescue mission on Isla Sorna, the sister island of Isla Nublar also known as Site B. In that film, the Spinosaurus was the biggest threat on land.

Rebirth brings the Spino back for an ocean-set sequence as the webbed-footed wonders swarm a boat ferrying skilled covert operations expert Zora Bennett (Johansson), her team leader Duncan Kincaid (Ali), paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis (Bailey), and the Delgados, a shipwrecked civilian family, to the island.

“What the hell are those?” Bennett asks in the footage as Bobby (Ed Skrein) opens fire on the Spinos before being snatched into the jaws of the aquatic predator.

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The original Spinosaurus later reappeared on Mantah Corp Island in the Netflix animated series Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, but the species hasn’t been featured on the big screen since Jurassic Park III in 2001. (Spinosaurus skeletons made “cameos” in 2015’s Jurassic World and 2018’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.)

In The Making of Jurassic Park III, the film’s technical advisor and paleontology consultant Jack Horner described Spinosaurus as “the biggest meat-eating dinosaur that ever lived.”

“The largest example was about 56 feet. The largest of the T-rexes is about 45, 46 feet. There was no doubt that the Spinosaurus was a predator,” Jurassic Park III director Joe Johnston added. “The Spinosaurus looks a lot different than the T-rex. It’s got about a five-foot long jaw, a very crocodile-looking snout. The Spinosaurus also has a sail on his back that stands about seven feet tall.”

24 years later, that “sail” will be put to use when the Spinosaurus returns in Jurassic World Rebirth, only in theaters July 2. Gareth Edwards (Godzilla, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) is directing from a script penned by David Koepp (1993’s Jurassic Park, 1997’s The Lost World: Jurassic Park).

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Scarlett Johansson, star of the upcoming Jurassic World Rebirth, has made a significant promise regarding the tone and direction of the new dinosaur epic, suggesting a welcome return to what made the original 1993 film a cinematic landmark. Speaking at the film’s red carpet premiere (via Variety), Johansson emphasized that the new installment is deeply reverential to Steven Spielberg’s initial vision, indicating that audiences can anticipate a movie that recaptures the suspense of Jurassic Park. This statement is particularly noteworthy for long-time fans, as many of the franchise’s subsequent entries have been criticized for diverging from the original’s carefully crafted balance of awe, science fiction, and genuine terror, often favoring larger-scale spectacle over nuance.

“So I think it really is a love letter to Steven’s work,” Johansson stated. “Fans of the Jurassic universe can expect to really feel the DNA of the original Jurassic Park in this film.” The 1993 Jurassic Park was revolutionary not just for its groundbreaking visual effects, but for its intelligent narrative that explored the hubris of humanity and the terrifying consequences of playing god. It expertly blended moments of breathtaking wonder with scenes of intimate dread, ensuring that the dinosaurs were formidable and frightening presences. Yet, the film’s pacing, its focus on a small group of characters reacting to an escalating crisis, and its ability to make the unseen just as terrifying as the seen, are qualities that many feel have been diluted in the sequels.

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The Jurassic sequels, while often commercially successful, have frequently been accused of prioritizing escalating dinosaur mayhem and broader action sequences over the more suspenseful, horror-tinged atmosphere of the first movie. Through the more recent Jurassic World trilogy featuring Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard, the trend leaned towards bigger, louder, and more dinosaurs, sometimes at the expense of the edge-of-your-seat tension that defined the original. Johansson’s remarks, specifically highlighting a return to the “DNA of the original,” suggest that Jurassic World Rebirth aims to recalibrate this balance, potentially focusing more on the human vulnerability in the face of prehistoric predators.

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Jurassic World Rebirth is set five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, in a world where Earth’s ecology has proven largely inhospitable to most dinosaurs. The remaining prehistoric creatures now exist mainly in isolated equatorial environments that mimic their original climates. The plot centers on a mission to one such location, Ile Saint-Hubert, which once housed an InGen research facility for the original Jurassic Park. In the movie, Scarlett Johansson plays Zora Bennett, a skilled covert operations expert contracted to lead a dangerous expedition to collect DNA samples from three of the largest dinosaur species inhabiting this biome, as their genetic material may hold the key to a miraculous life-saving drug for humankind.

Zora’s team includes her trusted partner Duncan Kincaid (Mahershala Ali), paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey), and Martin Krebs (Rupert Friend), a representative for the pharmaceutical company funding the mission. Of course, things go awry, and the group of explorers must fight for survival on the island, facing genetic mutations deemed too dangerous for the original Jurassic Park.

Jurassic World Rebirth is being helmed by director Gareth Edwards, known for his work on creature-feature Godzilla and the atmospheric sci-fi epic Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Edwards’ experience in delivering scale and tension makes him a great choice for a back-to-basics Jurassic film. Perhaps most significantly for fans of the original, the screenplay is penned by David Koepp, the writer who adapted Michael Crichton’s novel for the 1993 Jurassic Park and also wrote its sequel, The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Koepp’s return is a strong indicator of Jurassic World Rebirth‘s intent to recapture the spirit and narrative quality of the early films. Finally, Spielberg is also involved as an executive producer through his Amblin Entertainment banner, alongside Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowley, who have been longtime stewards of the franchise.

Jurassic World Rebirth is scheduled to be released in theaters on July 2nd.

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There’s only one reason to watch the Jurassic Park movies: dinosaurs. Despite going extinct millions of years ago, John Hammond’s team finds a way to bring the creatures back, and his first thought is to create a theme park so the whole world can enjoy them. Mixing humans and dinosaurs turns out to be a bad idea, though, as certain parties sabotage Jurassic Park for their own benefit, leaving the people on the island to fight for their lives. This situation ends up happening on numerous occasions, and by the Jurassic World movies, dinosaurs have a pretty rough go of it because technology is so advanced.

One of the ways humans can outsmart dinosaurs is by using vehicles to defend themselves and escape danger. And as it turns out, there are plenty of great modes of transportation in the Jurassic World franchise.

7) Marine One

Sharing a name with the helicopter that takes the president of the United States around, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom‘s Marine One makes the sea its home rather than the air. Eli Mills hires goons to retrieve an Indominus rex bone from a lagoon to use it for experiments. He sends them down in a two-man submarine that doesn’t last long, but the vehicle’s design is enough to earn it a spot on this list.

6) Brute Force

Jurassic World tries to make up for the mistakes of its predecessor by hiring the best of the best, including Owen Grady, an animal behaviorist. When he finds himself needing to help people in the park, he uses his all-terrain vehicle, the Brute Force, to get around quickly. The four-wheeler is also formidable enough to be used during dinosaur herding.

5) Mobile Lab

After the incident at Jurassic Park, the need for quality research becomes more intense, so Hammond pulls out the big guns, an RV that’s tricked out to be a mobile lab. Appearing in The Lost World: Jurassic Park, the vehicle has everything the scientists need, including living quarters and a library. Unfortunately, despite its sweet design, the mobile lab can’t survive an attack from a T-rex.

4) Gyrosphere

The technological advancements of Jurassic World don’t just help the employees but the customers as well. The Gyrospheres allow a select few to travel through a valley full of dinosaurs by rolling around in a ball-shaped vehicle. They feature computers that display information about nearby creatures, and real-life late-night host Jimmy Fallon even participates in the tutorial video.

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3) Tour Vehicles

While the Gyrospheres are an interesting invention, they don’t hold a candle to Jurassic Park’s original tour vehicles. The first park makes use of 1992 Ford Explorer XLTs, which can drive themselves and have a paint job featuring the Jurassic Park logo, to get people around the island. The look of the vehicles screams ’90s, which is why so many people attempt to create real-life versions and pretend they’re running away from a T-rex.

2) Triumph Scrambler

Owen’s motorcycle ends up near the top of this list mostly because of its appearance on Jurassic World‘s iconic poster. However, even in the movie, it’s too cool to gloss over. Owen uses it when the Velociraptors he trains are sent after the Indominus rex. Of course, things go haywire, but the motorcycle allows Owen to escape with his life because of its off-road capabilities.

1) Jeep Wrangler

Jurassic Park has plenty of memorable scenes, but the one that takes the cake is when Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler see a living dinosaur for the first time. They’re both inside a Jeep Wrangler that the staff uses to get around, and they stand up inside it to get a better view. While the vehicle isn’t the focus of the moment by any means, it’s become synonymous with the movie and makes other Jeep owners jealous with its unique color scheme and dinosaur logo.

The Jurassic Park movies are streaming on Peacock.

Which of the vehicles in the Jurassic Park franchise is your favorite? Are there any others that you think belong on this list? Let us know in the comments below!

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Early box office projections for Jurassic World Rebirth indicate the film will have the lowest opening weekend of the four Jurassic World movies, but there’s reason to be optimistic about its long-term prospects. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the tentpole is currently tracking to gross somewhere between $120-125 million domestically over its first five days. The outlet notes that distributor Universal Pictures has set much more conservative estimates right now ($90-100 million was listed as a ballpark figure). Either way, Jurassic World Rebirth‘s debut is shaping up to be a far cry from the previous three Jurassic World movies released from 2015-2022.

The first Jurassic World broke records with a $208.8 million domestic opening. In 2018, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom grossed $148 million in its debut. Jurassic World: Dominion made $145 million when it opened three summers ago. It is worth mentioning that Jurassic World Rebirth is projected to open much higher than the original three Jurassic Park films. The highest of that initial trio was the $72.1 million posted by The Lost World: Jurassic Park. So, Rebirth is a low specifically for the Jurassic World series and not the overall franchise.

Directed by Gareth Edwards, Jurassic World Rebirth is set to open on July 2nd, making it the big blockbuster debuting over Fourth of July weekend. Universal has unsurprisingly put together a substantial marketing campaign for the film, which included a Super Bowl spot that aired earlier this year. A key aspect of promotional materials is selling audiences on the tone and feel of the original Jurassic Park as Edwards looks to tap into what made that movie so special.

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Universal is hoping Jurassic World Rebirth can be just one of their box office successes this summer. The studio’s live-action How to Train Your Dragon remake is projected to break franchise records during its opening weekend, setting the stage for a lucrative run.

The good news for Jurassic World Rebirth is that its reported production budget ($180 million before marketing costs) is significantly smaller than its direct predecessors. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom cost a whopping $432 million to make, while Jurassic World Dominion cost $265 million. Both of those titles grossed over $1 billion, but there’s no guarantee a film is going to gross that much money worldwide. Universal was smart to trim down costs this time around. It means Jurassic World Rebirth doesn’t need to break records in order to turn a profit. Given how popular the Jurassic Park franchise is, it seems likely Rebirth will go down as a hit — even as it plays in a crowded month that also sees the debuts of Superman and The Fantastic Four: First Steps.

Still, it’s a little alarming that $120-125 million is the estimated range for Rebirth‘s first five days. The previous three Jurassic World movies all opened on a Friday and posted their larger openings over traditional three-day weekends. That said, these are just initial projections. Things could fluctuate over the next few weeks, especially if word of mouth is strong. It’s also important to keep in mind Rebirth is opening over a busy holiday weekend, meaning some people might wait to see it until after the Independence Day festivities. Keeping in mind the lower budget, Universal has no reason to fret about Rebirth‘s box office potential. It’s Fandango’s most anticipated film of the summer, so viewers are excited to see Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali take on dinosaurs.

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The next installment of the Jurassic World series, Jurassic World Rebirth, hits theaters on July 2, bringing with it a new crew and a terrifying new mutated dinosaur. These days, when a big blockbuster movie hits theaters, you can bet it’s coming with a crazy popcorn bucket, and we’ve got the exclusive first look at the Jurassic World Rebirth design that will be coming to Universal Orlando Resort and Universal Studios Hollywood and online in June/early July.

There appears to be something of a popcorn bucket arms race happening right now in Hollywood, and Jurassic World Rebirth already has an interesting option coming from Regal. However, Universal is going a step further with a cute T-Rex-shaped bucket that can open and close its mouth and unleash “a mighty roar sound effect”. There’s also a button that can shift the dino’s pupils from small to wide. Is it the best movie popcorn bucket released to date? You be the judge, but it’s a safe bet that it will sell like crazy. Below you’ll find official details on where you can order one, but stick around for another funk product that Universal is cooking up for the film.

Jurassic World Rebirth Popcorn Bucket – $39.99 / Coming in late June / early July to shop.UniversalOrlando.com: “The Jurassic World Rebirth Popcorn Bucket is shaped as a T. rex whose mouth opens and unleashes a mighty “roar” sound effect. Its backside features a button that lets you shift the dinosaur’s pupils from small to wide. Inside, fill it to the brim with all the popcorn your heart could ever desire when “Jurassic World Rebirth” is released.”

Universal is also planning to release the Delores Aquilops Interactive Shoulder Pal, which perches on your shoulder that activates with sound and movements when you pet its back or by moving its “licorice accessory” near her. Other than just looking adorable, the baby Aquilops has a few sound effects and can also move its neck, mouth, and eyes, making it a pretty interactive figure. You can find details about the availability of the shoulder pal below.

Delores Aquilops Interactive Shoulder Pal – $55 / Coming in June to shop.UniversalOrlando.com: “The Delores Aquilops Interactive Shoulder Pal is an adorable baby Aquilops that sits cozily on your shoulder. Bring the licorice accessory near her or pet her on her back to activate all its cool sounds and make her neck, mouth, and eyes move!”

If you’re shaking in your boots with excitement for the next Jurassic World installment, then don’t go anywhere without checking out all the available merch. Mattel, LEGO, and others have already released their Jurassic World Rebirth lines and they’ve got a few impressive items. Look out for the Mattel Rumble ‘n Rampage Distortus Rex, a $50 interactive figure of the newest dino bad guy. 

Jurassic World Rebirth hits theaters July 2.

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“Welcome to Jurassic Park!” Those words from Dr. John Hammond didn’t just announce to Dr. Alan Grant and Ellie Satler that they’d entered a new world of possibilities. It also ushered in a new age for cinematic possibilities for audiences and filmmakers worldwide. Jurassic Park was nothing short of a miracle movie and arguably Steven Spielberg’s most game-changing blockbuster. 1975’s Jaws may have invented the summer blockbuster, but few movies afterward were eager to replicate its erratic visual effects techniques (though they were eager to make other movies about animals tormenting people).

Jurassic Park’s groundbreaking CG, meanwhile, was an immediate wake-up call to everyone around the globe that things would never be the same. Suddenly, concepts for movies or characters that were once impossible now had a shot at becoming a reality. Meanwhile, Jurassic Park also reaffirmed the enduring viability of dinosaurs in pop culture. The endless ways this classic influenced larger culture can be seen in just these seven examples of movies that wouldn’t have existed without that exhilarating vision of Jurassic Park.

1) The Star Wars Prequel Trilogy

Given that George Lucas and Steven Spielberg were close friends and both came into their own as filmmakers in the 1970s, it’s no surprise that Jurassic Park had some influence on ambitious plans Lucas had stored up for a trilogy of Star Wars prequels. Specifically, Jurassic Park’s groundbreaking visual effects techniques proved to Lucas that his heightened ideas for the various worlds and storylines of the Prequel Trilogy could finally be realized. Six years after Jurassic Park, The Phantom Menace would hit theaters and further push the boundaries of digital effects filmmaking.

2) The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Someone else eagerly eyeballing all the wonders accomplished by Jurassic Park was New Zealand auteur Peter Jackson. This filmmaker, then best known for over-the-top horror films hailing from his home country, was emboldened by what CG wizardry could accomplish. As the 90s progressed, Jackson would push forward on VFX-driven tentpoles that would eventually become some of the most lucrative films of the 2000s. The Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong were all spurred on by Jackson’s response to those digital dinos interacting with live-action humans and environments.

3) A.I.: Artificial Intelligence

Given that Stanley Kubrick’s the man behind such profoundly influential projects like 2001: A Space Odyssey, it’s hard to imagine him being shaped by a rival movie. However, Jurassic Park made Kubrick realize his long-simmering passion project, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, could finally come to the big screen as the capability of visual effects had caught up to his imagination. To make things even connected, Kubrick eventually gave the project to Steven Spielberg, who released the film in 2001, two years after Kubrick’s death.

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4) Carnosaur

Like Jurassic Park, Carnosaur was based on a novel. Not only that, but the John Brosnan Carnosaur text came out seven years before Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park novel. However, The Dinosaur Filmography Book by Mark F. Berry claims that B-movie legend Roger Corman (who’d long owned film rights to the property) accelerated development of a Carnosaur feature once he knew Jurassic Park was on the horizon. The result was a B-movie that beat Park to theaters by one month, meaning Jurassic Park was influencing major movies before it even hit the silver screen.

5) Dinosaur

Various versions of Disney’s 2000 animated feature Dinosaur existed in development since the 1980s. However, the final version that hit theaters really started taking shape in 1994, a year after Jurassic Park solidified that CG dinosaurs could thrive on the silver screen. That timing suggests Steven Spielberg’s mammoth hit had a mighty hand in driving Disney to put more resources into this project. Meanwhile, Dinosaur’s commitment to blending CG dinos with live-action environment wouldn’t have been possible without Jurassic Park’s trailblazing visual effects.

6) We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story

Five months after Jurassic Park, Steven Spielberg’s name was attached to another Universal Pictures dinosaur movie, albeit this time as just a producer. We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story hit theaters Thanksgiving 1993 with a marketing campaign fully existing in Jurassic Park’s shadow. Specifically, this film wanted to provide family moviegoers with their own dinosaur movie that wasn’t so frightening.

7) Godzilla (1998)

Much like Dinosaur, the 1998 Godzilla remake had many lives before Jurassic Park hit theaters. However, this Steven Spielberg hit underscored the urgency in getting big VFX-driven movies focused on eye-catching reptiles on the silver screen. More importantly, the eventual designs of Godzilla and her(?) brood were clearly based more on dinosaurs than anything in the original Toho features. Godzilla’s offspring especially looked like carbon copies of those Velociraptors that terrorized audiences in Jurassic Park. Though this box office sensation proved anything was possible in visual effects, titles like Godzilla opted to give audiences imagery that was all too familiar.

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Hunger is going extinct. 7-Eleven Inc., the world’s largest convenience retailer, announced it’s partnered with Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment to bring the dinosaurs of Jurassic World Rebirth to 7-Eleven, Speedway, and Stripes stores nationwide with limited time flavors, branded products, and immersive in-store takeovers. Marking a new Jurassic era in the prehistoric franchise, Rebirth (in theaters July 2) brings new dinosaur species — including the friendly Aquilops and Titanosaurus, and dinos deemed too dangerous for the original Jurassic Park, like the mutated Indominus Rex and the Mutadons — to life on the big screen.

The Gareth Edwards-directed film features the three most colossal creatures across land, sea and air — the gigantic Titanosaurus, aquatic Mosasaurus, and winged Quetzalcoatlus — which can be found on their own limited-edition Big Gulp drink cups and badge-style dangler straws (both sets of three are sold separately and priced at $7.11).

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7-Eleven’s Slurpee has evolved. The classic Blue Raspberry and Cherry Slurpee flavors have been renamed to the Jurassic-inspired Mission: Deep Blue and Mission: Colossal Cherry, which can be paired with hot food offerings in limited-time packaging featuring the dinosaurs of Jurassic World Rebirth. Hot food combos include the 5-piece Bone-in Wings for $5 or 2 slices of pizza + large Big Gulp drink for $4.

Among the other exclusive 7Select flavors are Jurassic World Rebirth-branded 7-Select Replenish Blue Raspberry Zero Sugar sports drinks and 7-Select Gummi Dinosaurs.

The collaboration involves store takeovers of select Speedway and 7-Eleven stores, which will be completely transformed, inside and out, into a Jurassic World Rebirth experience of immersive decor, photo ops, and collectibles, including a pair of exclusive Jurassic World Rebirth sunglasses available at participating stores. From June 27 to July 6, stores in New York City (the 7-Eleven located at 673 8^th Ave, New York, NY 10036), Los Angeles (1611 W Olive Ave, Burbank, California, 91506), and Beavercreek, Ohio (Speedway located at 3991 Indian Ripple Road, Beavercreek, OH 45440) will be decked out in dinosaurs.

The promotion also includes the chance to win daily Jurassic World Rebirth tickets through July 16. 7Rewards and Speedy Rewards members who purchase any 20-ounce Dr Pepper bottle at 7-Eleven or Speedway stores and use their rewards at checkout will be entered to win tickets.

Finally, 7-Eleven’s online merch store, 7Collection, has launched a line of exclusive 7-Eleven x Jurassic World Rebirth apparel and other items, including graphic tees, trucker hats, and sticker sets. You can find the limited-time offerings at participating 7-Eleven, Speedway, and Stripes stores or the online 7-Eleven store.

Marissa Jarratt, Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing & Sustainability Officer at 7-Eleven, Inc, said of the Jurassic World promo, “This summer, we’re bringing a new kind of adventure to customers in stores — one where the Slurpee drinks flow, the snacks roar and the dinosaurs rule the snack aisles. Our Jurassic World Rebirth collaboration is a full-blown, snack-fueled adventure for fans of all ages to enjoy.”

In Rebirth, set five years after the events of 2022’s Jurassic World Dominion, the planet’s ecology has proven largely inhospitable to dinosaurs. Those remaining exist in isolated equatorial environments with climates resembling the one in which they once thrived. 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 (The Avengers) plays skilled covert operations expert Zora Bennett, contracted to lead a skilled team on a top-secret mission to secure the genetic material. When Zora’s operation intersects with a civilian family whose boating expedition was capsized by marauding aquatic dinos, they all find themselves stranded on a forbidden island that had once housed an undisclosed research facility for Jurassic Park. There, in a terrain populated by dinosaurs of vastly different species, they come face-to-face with a sinister, shocking discovery that has been hidden from the world for decades.

Joining Zora on the mission are Duncan Kincaid (Blade‘s Mahershala Ali), Zora’s most trusted team member, and paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis (Wicked‘s Jonathan Bailey). Pharmaceutical representative Martin Krebs (Obi-Wan Kenobi‘s Rupert Friend) sends the group to an island research facility for the original Jurassic Park that is inhabited by the worst dinosaurs that were left behind, where they encounter civilian Reuben Delgado (The Lincoln Lawyer‘s Manuel Garcia-Rulfo) and his shipwrecked family.

Tickets are now on sale for Jurassic World Rebirth, which opens only in theaters July 2.

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Genetically Mutated Dinos Gone Bad! That was the tagline for Kenner’s 1997 toyline Jurassic Park: Chaos Effect, which was named after a quote attributed to chaotician Ian Malcolm on the box: “Whenever man interferes with nature, chaos will occur.” In 1993’s Jurassic Park, adapted from Michael Crichton’s 1990 best-selling novel, Malcolm argued that dinosaurs “had their shot, and nature selected them for extinction,” criticizing John Hammond’s InGen scientists for resurrecting a species that they patented, packaged and slapped on a lunch box (or in this case, action figures).

“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should,” Malcolm said, a line that became the genesis for Chaos Effect.

Jurassic Park: Chaos Effect

The Hasbro-released toyline was meant to tie in with a Jurassic Park animated series that, uh, never found a way to television screens in the 1990s or the early 2000s, which would have unleashed a new breed of predator: genetically-engineered mutant dinosaur hybrids.

Here’s how Hasbro described Jurassic Park: Chaos Effect on the back of action figures like “Chaos Specialist” Ian Malcolm, who traded his black leather jacket for a banana-yellow bodysuit and Dino-Mech Armor Claw:

“Scientific tampering with dinosaur genetics has created a dangerous new breed of predator. Struggling to piece together the lost genetic puzzle that brought the original dinosaurs of Jurassic Park to life, scientists began experimenting with the DNA of dinosaurs, mixing their genes with those of other dinosaur species and even modern-day animals. The result: Ultra ferocious, hybrid dinosaurs – the most aggressive predators ever – wreaking chaos on an unsuspecting world! Never before has human-kind been in such peril. A new breed walks the earth… Jurassic Park: Chaos Effect!”

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The toyline birthed such bizarre breeds as the saber-toothed Tyrannonops (with its “Chaos Genesis” described as an amalgamation of Tyrannosaurus rex and Lycaenops), the winged Ankyloranodon (Pteranodon + Ankylosaurus), the snake-like Tanaconda (Tanystropheus + Anaconda), and Alpha Raptor (a nocturnal, purebred Velociraptor developed specifically with night camouflage).

The original Jurassic Park explained how InGen extracted paleo-DNA from fossilized tree sap, then mutated the dinosaurs’ genetic code when scientists blended it with frog DNA in order to fill in gene sequence gaps in their cloned dinosaurs. In 2015’s Jurassic World, the concept of “de-extinction” took the next step, and InGen’s gene-splicing evolved to create the company’s first genetically modified hybrid: the Indominus rex.

Evolution

Designed — not bred — to be bigger and badder than the T-rex, Dr. Henry Wu (BD Wong) acknowledged that modified animals like the Indominus are known to be unpredictable. And unpredictability, as Dr. Malcolm would say, is the essence of chaos.

The I-rex was spliced with Cuttlefish genes to account for an accelerated growth rate, giving the Indominus rex the ability to camouflage (like the Chaos Effect Alpha Raptor). InGen made dinosaurs “bigger,” “louder,” “scarier,” “cooler,” with “more teeth” — and more dangerous than ever before.

“You can’t have an animal with exaggerated predator features without the corresponding behavioral traits,” Wu explained, only for even deadlier dinosaurs — like the Indoraptor (Indominus rex + Velociraptor hybrid) in 2018’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, and the Giganotosaurus in 2022’s Jurassic World Dominion — to wreak chaos across the globe.

Mutation

New movie Jurassic World Rebirth takes the concept of man-made mutant dinosaurs to the extreme. The Gareth Edwards-directed seventh installment is written by Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park scribe David Koepp, who says Rebirth‘s mutated dinosaurs like the winged Mutadons (a cross between a Velociraptor and a Pterosaur) and the Distortus rex (a deformed, six-limbed, mutant Tyrannosaurus rex) “came from my strange mind.”

“We saw in some of the previous Jurassic World movies that their experiments made dinosaurs bigger, meaner, scarier,” Koepp told Empire Magazine. “It occurred to me and [executive producer Steven Spielberg] that those can’t all have gone well. This is genetic experimentation. Things are not going to work out sometimes.”

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Koepp went on to say that an encounter with a bat inspired the Mutadons, while Edwards has cited the Xenomorphs from Alien and the Rancor from Star Wars as influences on the deformed D-rex: one of the mutated dinosaurs engineered in a since-abandoned InGen facility 17 years earlier.

On Reddit, fans noticed that the Mutadons — with their raptor heads and Pteranodon-esque bodies — resemble the Chaos Effect Velocirapteryx, a cross between Velociraptor and Archaeopteryx (a feathered dinosaur that is, essentially, a precursor to birds). As for the new breed of T-Rex in Rebirth that replaces the now-retired “Rexy” from the original Jurassic Park and Jurassic World trilogies, it appears to resemble the “Bull T-rex” toy from Kenner’s 1997 The Lost World toyline. (Edwards has likened the T-rex’s look to one of Ray Harryhausen’s stop-motion creations from the 1969 film The Valley of Gwangi.)

Extinction

The toy line was also set to release the Ultimasaurus, an ultimately cancelled hybrid mish-mash of the Tyrannosaurus rex, Velociraptor, Triceratops, and Ankylosaurus as the ultimate dinosaur.

According to Jurassic Park: Chaos Effect designer Tim Bradley, who was hired by Hasbro to create “weird hybrid dinosaurs” for the potential animated series, he “exaggerate[d] the physical characteristics of the creatures” intended for animation. Despite dino-mania, the toyline didn’t sell, and Chaos Effect was cancelled alongside a second wave titled Night Hunters.

“For Chaos Effect, I know that the aim was to create an animated JP-related series. I think the concept may have been developed in-house at Hasbro,” Bradley told the website JP Toys in a 2011 interview. Bradley added that development on the Chaos Effect animated series “went pretty far—up to meetings that included Steven Spielberg, I believe.”

“I’m not sure why the decision was made to ultimately not produce the series, but Hasbro had already started work on the toys, and they decided to continue on ahead,” he said of the toyline. “I understand why [the cancellation] was done — those types of decisions are usually marketing-driven — but it really would have been fun to see how far the line could have expanded.”

Rebirth

In Jurassic World Rebirth, an extraction team — covert operations expert Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson) and trusted team member Duncan Kincaid (Mahershala Ali), with paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey) — are contracted to embark on a top-secret mission to a forbidden island research facility for the original Jurassic Park. In order to obtain the genetic material from living dinosaurs that hold in their DNA the key to a drug that would bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humankind, the team must survive the most dangerous place on Earth — where the worst of the worst were left behind.

Because life finds a way, a new line of mutated dinosaur toys will be released as part of the Jurassic World Rebirth toyline exclusively revealed by ComicBook. Tickets are now on sale for Jurassic World Rebirth, which roars into theaters July 2.

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Trends come and go. Five years ago, fantasy and superheroes were in their heyday, with Avengers: Endgame hitting the highest points for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. That said, the superhero fatigue (especially when directed at MCU productions) is real, and we need a break; what we need right now is more science fiction. Sci-fi is a classic means for humanity to process complex themes and subjects, which is why the genre has survived the test of time, changing alongside world cultures. Because of this, we need more sci-fi tales – we need to see Hollywood doubling down on this trend, ideally by doing more than the endless cycle of remakes.

Sci-fi has a unique way of helping people process the world around them, taking complex concepts and turning them into digestible content. But it’s more than that, as sci-fi gets people looking to the future, and the potential good and bad of it all. The best part about sci-fi is that it can approach these concerns and open the door to discussions, all without sounding preachy. In other words, without chasing away a large part of the population. Just look at Star Trek! The entire franchise is focused on an inclusive and optimistic future, free of material needs.

Science Fiction, Human Psychology, and the Implementation of Technology

There’s no denying the crossroads that society is at. We live in a tech-obsessed world, and we’re on the cusp of a new shift, thanks to the rising utilization of AI. Looking at the world as it stands may feel overwhelming or impossible; thankfully, there’s a fictional lens that makes approaching it a bit more comfortable.

Sci-fi has long been there to provide us with a sort of mental blueprint for how to handle unfamiliar situations. That phrase is probably making you think of first contact, but it can also be applied to implementing technology. For every dilemma and concern of the modern world, there’s a sci-fi mirror available to help us process these emotions, preparing us for what may lie ahead. For example, Ex Machina and Westworld both explore concepts of machine consciousness and identity, while Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness explores gender and emotion in the context of a larger (read: alien) society.

Finally, since sci-fi often looks to the future, it allows society to explore the societal impact of technology before it becomes a thing. For example, Terminator has been screaming about the risk of AI for decades, though it does so by pushing the concept to the extremes. Likewise, the Minority Report explored the concept of predictive policies and the resulting ethical concerns. Meanwhile, Gattaca portrayed a society capable of genetically engineering children and openly discussed the potential problems of bias and hierarchy stemming from this.

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Sci-Fi As a Means of Addressing Clashing Ideologies

Thanks to the internet, discourse has never been quite so rapid. But rapid means of communication aren’t without problems, as they lead to an inevitable clash of ideologies that can leave a person feeling like they’re drowning in a sea of angry voices. It’s a lot to process, and that’s without these conversations becoming personal, which they almost alwasy do. Sci-fi can help people find a safer means of processing this information, letting us live in a world of allegory and symbolism. The X-Men portray a conflict of ideologies, and while the foundation is undeniably human in nature, it feels distanced enough for readers to plunge in.

When discussing the dichotomy between “us vs. them,” there’s no better genre than sci-fi. Aliens make a common stand-in, pitting humanity against something undeniably “other.” What’s important about this theme is that different stories place humanity on opposing sides. Sometimes, like in Avatar, humans are the aggressors. In sci-fi-horror, humans are targeted by superior alien races. Finally, there are tales like Star Trek that put humanity alongside dozens of other alien cultures, letting them converse, debate, and work together.

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Sci-Fi Can Offer a Spark Of Hope In Bleak Times

Even in the bleakest times, fiction can offer an escape from reality. This is certainly true for sci-fi, which can provide a spark of hope for the future. Science fiction looks to the future, and while creators will sometimes dive into darker potentials, many more are looking to the more positive side of things.

Enter the Solarpunk movement, tucked neatly inside the world of sci-fi. Solarpunk portrays an optimistic view of the future, believing that humanity will find a balance with nature. There are many core themes one can find in Solarpunk stories, including decentralized systems, environmental justice, radical hope, harmony, and more. Returning to an example we’ve used a few times, Star Trek perfectly fits within this definition, as it portrays a society that fights to protect people and planets. The best part about Solarpunk is that it can be found in unexpected places, even kids’ movies.

WALL-E may have a post-apocalyptic origin, with humanity nearly destroying the world, but the underlying message is one of hope. The people who survived and returned to Earth did so understanding the wrongs society had made, and the price everyone (the planet included) paid. As such, there’s the belief that this time around, these people will learn from their history and do better. It’s a kid’s story that confronts the real perils of our environment, climate, and human apathy, and charts a path towards a more positive world for both man, nature and machine. It’s a sparkling example of what sci-fi can do – and everything we need more of in entertainment today.

Let us know you favorite sci-fi movies and TV shows, and what kind of content you’d like to see next.

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While Jurassic Park remains one of the greatest movies of all time, the track record of its sequels is far shoddier. Rarely has a masterpiece produced so many direct follow-ups that were so dismal and missed the point of what made the original work so well. Heck, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Steven Spielberg’s lone additional directorial effort in the saga, is handily Spielberg’s weakest motion picture. All the fun, theatricality, and pitch-perfect casting marking that first Jurassic Park was later swapped out for limp staging and dire human drama.

Still, those who think that a raptor yelling “ALAN!” in Jurassic Park III was the nadir of the franchise have missed the mark. The Jurassic World trilogy, which started in 2015, is where the weakest moments of the saga began. Inevitably, this culminated in the finale of Colin Trevorrow’s trilogy, Jurassic World Dominion, becoming the worst Jurassic Park movie by far.

What Makes Dominion the Low Point of The Jurassic Park Saga?

Remember when people complained that Jurassic Park III had a runtime beneath 100 minutes? That Joe Johnston directorial effort suffered from severe pacing problems, no question, particularly with how its climax doesn’t exist. However, that brief runtime is infinitely preferable to Jurassic World Dominion’s bloated runtime, which made it the first installment in the franchise to exceed 130 minutes in length. Running 147 minutes, Dominion lasts for an eternity as it juggles endless subplots concerning Jurassic World’s new characters, as well as veteran Jurassic Park characters (including Dr. Alan Grant, Ellie Sattler, and Ian Malcolm).

Brevity is not the name of the game here. Dominion‘s script, penned by Trevorrow and Emily Carmichael, instead opts to have the World and Park characters exist in entirely removed subplots for nearly the entire runtime. To say this results in something disjointed is an understatement, especially since there are also further subplots involving clone girl Maisie Lockwood (Isabella Sermon) and Owen Grady (Chris Pratt), and Claire Dearing’s (Bryce Dallas Howard) new reckless pal Kayla Watts (DeWanda Wise). All of their actions inexplicably revolve around super-sized locusts causing chaos in the real world. Not dinosaurs. Locusts.

Naturally, Dominion is a bloated creation in terms of human characters and gargantuan bugs, but it opts for limited dinosaur action. Fallen Kingdom‘s cliffhanger ending, promising dinosaur and human society colliding, is eschewed save for a brief sequence where dinosaurs rampage across Malta. Otherwise, Dominion is an oddly derivative exercise. This includes a third act, once again confining dinosaur carnage to a remote laboratory surrounded by natural foliage. This plot turn leads all of Dominion’s characters to converge on an isolated compound owned by villain Lewis Dodgson (Campbell Scott) that might as well reside on Isla Nublar or Sorna.

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Not even a third act ramping up the dino action and finally bringing these characters together can inject excitement into the proceedings. Dominion’s scattered narrative approach makes it a chore to get to “the fireworks factory”.

Jurassic World Dominion Struggles As A Standalone Movie

Frustratingly, Trevorrow and Carmichael conclude Dominion’s labyrinthine web of melodramatic human subplots with a couple of CG dinosaurs duking it out. This includes the franchise’s beloved T-Rex from the first movie fighting with a Giganotosaurus (a Therizinosaurus also comes to the Rex’s aid). The fight starts with an eyeroll-worthy bit of “fan-service” where the T-Rex is seen through a circular object, which evokes the Jurassic Park logo. Subsequently, though, the T-Rex and Gigantosaurus duel pays off a previous skirmish between the beasts from thousands of years ago seen in a Dominion prologue that preceded F9: The Fast Saga in IMAX.

On its own merits, this skirmish is a hollow retread of the Velociraptor vs. T-Rex fight that wrapped up the first Jurassic Park or Jurassic World’s climactic dino duel. However, it’s extra befuddling and frustrating that a core emotional undercurrent to this fight will be incoherent unless you’ve seen a separate short film. Just before this fight, Dodgson perishes at the hands of some Dilophosaurus. Previously, these critters killed of Dodgson’s inside man, Denis Nedry, in the original Jurassic Park decades earlier. Dodgson even dies clutching a Barbasol can of dino DNA like Nedry.

Dominion is such an inert exercise that its ending is full of material that only matters when adding outside context. It’s just fan-service and pay-offs to Chekhov’s Guns from other projects. Combine that with the shockingly poor lighting choices of this nighttime dinosaur battle, and Dominion leaves an awful taste in one’s mouth. All of this comes after a movie that was already pretty poor on all fronts, including delivering the bare amount of spectacle a dinosaur-centric blockbuster should deliver. Trevorrow and company instead focused on having esteemed actors like Laura Dern deliver cringeworthy lines about how “he slid into my DM’s” or “it’s always darkest just before eternal nothingness.”

Watching Jurassic World Dominion is like staring into nothingness. Even its use of practical effects and locations elicits a shrug thanks to the indifferent shooting style. Not even composer Michael Giacchino, usually a reliable source of energy in zippy blockbusters, can imbue extra fun into the production. Other weak Jurassic Park installments like The Lost World or Fallen Kingdom had one or two set pieces that showed admirable theatricality or visual panache; Dominion, though, sees hollowness annihilating this franchise like a cataclysmic asteroid obliterating a dinosaur-populated Earth. The dinosaur-centric screentime is minimal. The obtuse narrative decisions are endless. Worst yet, all Dominion can do is call back to an infinitely superior motion picture from 1993 that you could just watch instead.

Jurassic World Dominion is now streaming on Peacock.

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The Jurassic World franchise returns on July 2nd with its fourth film, Jurassic World Rebirth, and Funko’s here to get you ready for the upcoming dinosaur adventure. The latest Pop figure drop is focused on the dinosaurs that will appear in the film, though we have no doubt that characters like Zora Bennett, Duncan Kincaid, and Dr. Henry Loomis are not far behind. Among the new figures is a Funko Pop of the terrifying Distortus rex (D-rex), a 6-limbed mutant Tyrannosaurus rex. Head to Entertainment Earth to pre-order. The figures should also be available here on Amazon and here at Hot Topic soon. Read on for additional info, including details on a bunch of other toys that were recently released in support of the film.

Below you’ll find a complete breakdown of the new Jurassic World Rebirth Funko Pop wave, but you’ll also be interested to know that a huge collection of toys for the upcoming film debuted here at Comicbook over the weekend. Look out for the Rumble ‘n Rampage Distortus Rex, Mattel’s $50 toy inspired by the mutant dino. Your first official look at some of the best new Jurassic World Rebirth toys can be found right here, including in-hand images of the Rumble ‘n Rampage Distortus Rex from Mattel..

• Jurassic World Rebirth Spinosaurus Jumbo 10-Inch Funko Pop! Vinyl Figure
• Jurassic World Rebirth Distortus Rex Funko Pop! Vinyl Figure
• Jurassic World Rebirth Mosasaurus Funko Pop! Vinyl Figure
• Jurassic World Rebirth Titanosaurus Funko Pop! Vinyl Figure
• Jurassic World Rebirth Quetzalcoatlus Funko Pop! Vinyl Figure
• Jurassic World Rebirth Aquilops Funko Pop! Vinyl Figure
• Jurassic World Rebirth Aquilops Funko Pocket Pop! Key Chain

The new film takes a deeper look at the new world dinosaurs live in, as a new team ventures to the original island of Jurassic Park to find a supposedly crisis-averting drug and along the way, discover a whole slew of mutated dinosaurs instead. Starring Scarlett Johannson as the covert operation expert Zora Bennett, Mahershala Ali as team leader Duncan Kincaid, and Johnathan Bailey as paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis. I’m sure fans of the series are in for another scary romp back in the jungle of the original movie. As noted, Jurassic World Rebirth hits theaters on July 2.

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Jurassic World Rebirth will begin its box office rampage on July 2nd, though the toy shelf invasion begins today with the debut of a ton of products from Mattel, LEGO, and more. It’s a safe bet that the hottest items will be the ones inspired by the new, super deadly mutant dinosaur named Distortus rex, AKA the D-rex. Director Gareth Edwards loved the design of the new dino villain, noting that he “wanted to buy the toy of it” when it comes out. Well Gareth, we have all of the details you need right here. Your first official look at some of the best new Jurassic World Rebirth toys (including the D-rex) is happening right here at Comicbook!

Below you’ll find an extensive list of new Jurassic World Rebirth toys sorted by release date. Product links are included for the first wave, which is expected to go live at some point today, June 1st (many of the links will be inactive until the launch). If it’s D-rex toys you’re after, take note of the Rumble ‘n Rampage Distortus Rex set which launches today. Mattel was kind enough to send us a sample, and you can take a closer look at some in-hand images in the gallery below. Also, look for the Distortus Rex Island Escape Set and Track N Chomp Distortus Rex & Vehicle to launch this Fall.

Mattel Rumble ‘n Rampage Distortus Rex / $49.99 / June 1st / See at Walmart / This authentic Distortus rex action figure brings the excitement of Jurassic World Rebirth home with an intimidating head rumble, dual motions (roar and chomp), and a side-to-side upper body arm swipe—it’s a total attack! It features movable joints and movie-accurate design, and its tracking code can be scanned in the free Jurassic World Play App to unlock a digital version of the dinosaur and play a game.

Mattel / Just Play Toys Available June 1st

• Just Play Roaring T. rex / $19.99 / June 1st / Amazon, Walmart / Unleash Jurassic thrills with this 10.5-inch interactive plush dinosaur toy that roars, swishes its tail, and moves up and down when its left arm is squeezed. Crafted from soft, mixed materials with embossed plush and embroidered details, it’s great for imaginative play.
• Just Play Small Plush Assortment / $6.99 each / June 1st / Walmart / Get ready for imaginations to run wild with this assortment of four 7-inch tall plush dinosaurs inspired by the Jurassic World Rebirth film. The collection includes Tyrannosaurus Rex, Indoraptor, Spinosaurus, and Mosasaur plushies, made of super-soft fabrics with velvety plush, embossed patterns, texture, and embroidered details, perfect for play, display, or trading.
• Just Play Weighted Comfort Plush T. rex / $19.99 / June 1st / Amazon / Meet the 12-inch Jurassic World Rebirth Weighted Comfort Plush T. rex, a snuggle buddy filled with 2 pounds of comforting weight to help ease anxiety. Made from ultra-soft, embossed plush with embroidered details, every touch is a satisfying, sensory delight. Inspired by its fearsome, carnivorous counterpart in the Jurassic World Rebirth film, this plush pal has Tyrannosaurus Rex’s cool markings that every fan will adore.
• Toy Monster Slime Egg / Captivz Slime Egg 3 Pack / $4.97 each / $9.97 3-pack / TBA June / Walmart (Exclusive) / Crack open your egg to reveal slime and a CAPTIVZ POP N LOCK dinosaur, with 13 to collect, including the RARE Distortus Rex and Spinosaurus. Each pack contains a CAPTIVZ Pop N Lock Dinosaur, Slime, Exclusive Collector Cards, and a Collector Guide.
• Mattel Bite ‘N Blast Mosasaurus (JCH00) / $39.99 / June 1st / Walmart, Amazon / This Mosasaurus action figure with its distinctive aquatic design brings the excitement of Jurassic World Rebirth home. A button-activated “Bite” feature allows dramatic re-enactment of movie scenes and inspires creative play. Kids can control the attack by holding the tail and pressing the button to make the jaw open wide to bite – the included mini Dilophosaurus figure can be completely “swallowed”! Press the button again to “Blast” the prey back out! With movable joints and movie-accurate design on the 25.7-inch long Mosasaurus, it’s ready for both play and display. Scan the Tracking Code under the fin in the free Jurassic World Play App to unlock a digital version of the dinosaur and play a game.
• Mattel Super Colossal Mosasaurus (JGB51) / $69.99 / June 1st / Amazon / This 37-inch long Mosasaurus figure with its distinctive look brings the excitement of Jurassic World Rebirth home. With movable joints and movie-accurate design, this Mosasaurus action figure is ready for battle moves and poses. It can also “swallow” mini dinos for realistic movie reenactments; just unlatch the stomach to “release” the dinos. Makes a great gift for big dinosaur fans ages 4 years and up. Posable joints are ready for battle moves, and the jaw which opens to 35 degrees, is ready to “swallow” mini dinosaur figures (Mini dinosaurs sold separately). Unlatch the stomach to release the prey and start all over again. This Mosasaurus has content-accurate design from Jurassic World Rebirth, including its impressive aquatic fins and tail.
• Mattel Titanosaurus (JGB62) / $69.99 / June 1st / Target (Exclusive) / Jurassic World Rebirth has thrills extending from land to air to sea, and this Herbivore Titanosaurus figure brings all the excitement home in a huge way! With its neck and tail fully extended, this figure measures 60 inches long from tip to tail. This Sauropod is ready to stretch the imagination of any dinosaur lover and complement any dinosaur collection! With movie-accurate design and posable legs, neck, and tail, the Herbivore Titanosaurus is the true colossus of Jurassic World Rebirth. Scan the Tracking Code on the dinosaur’s foot in the free Jurassic World Play App to unlock a digital version of the dinosaur and play a game.
• Mattel Tail Thrasher Spinosaurus (JGB56) / $49.99 / June 1st / Walmart, Amazon / This Tail Thrasher Spinosaurus action figure with its authentic design and distinctive sail brings the excitement of Jurassic World Rebirth home. A button-activated dual attack provides side-to-side head action and chomp and a side-to-side tail swipe. The more times and faster the button is pressed, the greater the fierceness of the attack! Movable joints and movie-accurate design make this dinosaur figure ready for battle moves and poses.
• Mattel Aerial Ambush Quetzalcoatlus (JCG27) / $34.97 / June 1st / Walmart (Exclusive) / This Aerial Ambush Quetzalcoatlus dinosaur action figure with its thrilling flying motion brings the excitement of Jurassic World Rebirth home. Use the button on the back to dramatically expand the soft goods wings, to an incredible 25-inch wingspan! As kids move the dinosaur through the air, the wings will flap up and down in a natural flying motion to drive creative play. A second button on the back activates a ferocious chomp and roar! The jaw opens to a frightening 45 degrees. Movable joints and movie-accurate design are ready for active play and spotlight-worthy display.
• Mattel Spinosaurus Danger Set (JGB54) / $34.99 / June 1st / Target (Exclusive) / This Spinosaurus Danger Set is ready to re-enact the excitement of Jurassic World Rebirth with a Spinosaurus dinosaur figure, 2 human figures—Zora Bennett and Dr. Henry Loomis—and accessories. All figures are built at 3.75-inch human scale for realistic play or display. The Spinosaurus has exclusive color design and the human figures have the actor likenesses of Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Bailey and content-accurate clothes. The accessories include a dart gun that splits into 2 parts and fits into its own case, taken directly from the movie content, as well as a shoulder holster, a knife in sheath and flare gun. Scan the Tracking Code on the dinosaur’s foot in the free Jurassic World Play App to unlock a digital version of the dinosaur and play a game.
• Mattel Primal Protector Aquilops ‘Dolores’ (JGC01) / $29.99 / June 10th / Amazon / Bring the human and dinosaur interactions from Jurassic World Rebirth home with this Primal Protector Aquilops ‘Dolores’ inspired by the relationship between Isabella and her companion dinosaur in the movie. This interactive dinosaur toy reacts positively to petting, has a tail activated “protect” action mode and is ready to chomp on a licorice treat.
• Mattel Micro Adventures Playset Assortment (JGB96) / $19.99 / June 1st / Amazon / Prop open the dino head-shaped playset to reveal a miniature world of fun inspired by the movie settings. With 4 finger-activated features and 3 included micro figures, this is a dinosaur lover’s dream. The dinosaur head even provides chomping fun when folded up! Figures fit securely on pegs throughout the environment and the set folds up neatly so it can be taken along for travel or kept packed up at home ready for playtime.
• Mattel Rage ‘N Roar Tyrannosaurus Rex (JCH04) / $39.99 / June 1st / Walmart, Amazon / This Tyrannosaurus rex mask is sure to thrill any Jurassic World fan with its appearance straight out of Jurassic World Rebirth. With authentic movie design, this Tyrannosaurus rex mask is intimidating even in its “resting” state – with ferocious teeth, blinking eyes and soft growl sounds. The light-up eye effects increase with three levels of aggression and increasingly fierce growls as the jaw is opened! This role play mask will light up any Jurassic World fan 6 years and older. Eye and mouth openings provide easy wearability and an adjustable strap provides a secure fit.
• Mattel Basic Mask Assortment (JGG11) / $16.99 / June 1st / Amazon / Playtime gets real with these authentic detailed dinosaur role-play masks inspired by Jurassic World Rebirth! This costume headgear is ready for re-enacting moments from the latest movie or the entire franchise and creating new scenes of dinosaur mayhem. Each mask features realistic details like skin texture, color and teeth so kids can “become” their favorite dinosaur! The wide-opening jaw feature allows a chomping motion for active play. A secure strap ensures a comfortable fit and eye and nose openings provide wearability.
• Mattel Spinosaurus Battle Claws Set (JGC83) / $19.99 / June 1st / Amazon / Get ready for thrilling action and adventure with these Spinosaurus Battle Claws inspired by Jurassic World Rebirth! These costume claws let kids play the role of the fierce Spinosaurus dinosaur. Made of soft plastic material, this hand gear with realistic design and texture makes dinosaur fans ready for battle. They’re perfect for swiping and slashing when recreating big action scenes and moments. The 10.8-inch long claws come with a stretchy band inside, so they fit snugly on a child’s hand for movie role-play fun! Realistic design and color from Jurassic World Rebirth make play feel real! Combine with the Jurassic World Spinosaurus dinosaur mask for added costume play.
• Jurassic World Rebirth Funko Pops will also arrive soon. Keep tabs here on Entertainment Earth and here on Amazon for the drops. UPDATE: You can find details on the first wave of Funko Pops right here.

LEGO Jurassic World Rebirth Sets For June 1st

• LEGO Jurassic World Rebirth Baby Dinosaur Dolores: Aquilops (76970) is a playset for ages 7+ that includes a brick-built baby Aquilops dinosaur figure and a buildable plant. The Baby Dolores model can move its head, arms, legs and tail, allowing a range of fun poses. 339 pieces / $24.99 / See at LEGO
• LEGO Jurassic World Rebirth Raptor Off-Road Escape (76972) for ages 6+ is inspired by a scene in the Jurassic World Rebirth and features Reuben and Isabella Delgado as minifigures, alongside Baby Dolores in the back of the off-road vehicle, as they are trying to escape the clever Velociraptor. Children can make up their own action-packed play adventures with this building set. 285 pieces / $34.99 / See at LEGO
• LEGO Jurassic World Rebirth Raptor & Titanosaurus Tracking Mission (76973) is for fans ages 7+ who like to play out missions and with this set they can take a DNA sample from the giant Titanosaurus or load up the off-road vehicle and go explore. 582 pieces / $99.99 / See at LEGO
• LEGO Jurassic World Rebirth Brick-Built Mosasaurus Boat Mission (76974) features endless possibilities for action-based playtime where builders ages 9+ can recreate the iconic Mosasaurus boat scene from the film. 858 pieces / $59.99 / See at LEGO
• LEGO Jurassic World Rebirth T. rex River Escape (76975) lets ages 5+ play out an exciting scene from the movie and features a molded, fully articulated T. rex dinosaur, plus two minifigures: Teresa Delgado and Xavier Dobbs. 199 pieces / $49.99 / See at LEGO
• LEGO Jurassic World Rebirth Spinosaurus & Quetzalcoatlus Air Mission (76976) for fans ages 8+ features Zora Bennett, Martin Krebs, Dr. Henry Loomis and Duncan Kincaid at the ancient temple and kids can play-pretend gathering a valuable DNA sample from the Quetzalcoatlus nest. The set also includes a Spinosaurus which has moving legs, arms, tail, head and jaw. 984 pieces / $149.99 / See at LEGO
• LEGO Jurassic World Dinosaur Fossils: Tyrannosaurus rex (T.rex) set / $249.99 / Available now / See at LEGO / This set is the largest LEGO Jurassic World set ever made and offers a challenging and rewarding building experience for fans. Featuring a detailed T. rex fossil skeleton, over 1m (more than 3 feet!) in length, the new 3,145 piece LEGO set is sure to impress both builders and collectors alike.

Available July

• Mattel Power Devour Tyrannosaurus Rex (JCH02) / $49.99 / July / Walmart / This Power Devour Tyrannosaurus rex inspired by Jurassic World Rebirth has a ferocious repeating chomp feature! When the tongue is pressed down, there’s an initial victory roar. When the tongue is held down longer, it activates a fierce continuous frenzy of chomping action with lights and sounds! This feature can provide action-filled battle play as the T. rex chomps on other dinosaur figures! Manipulating the tail moves the head up and down or side to side with the huge jaw opened wide!

Available Fall 2025

• Spin Master Primal Hatch / $59.99 / Fall 2025 / N/A / Millions of years in the making, Primal Hatch allows you to hatch and raise your very own T-Rex. Once hatched, train and command this dinosaur to be the ultimate companion and evolve its personality through a variety of interactions—it’s up to you if your dinosaur becomes fierce or friendly!
• Spin Master Jurassic World Bitzee / $34.99 / Fall 2025 / N/A / Jurassic World has been brought to the Bitzee-verse! With a pod shaped like a T.rex skull, you can dig for fossils, hatch eggs, and grow 25 dinosaurs! Help your dinos grow from adorable babies to ferocious adults! Play minigames to prepare and train them for battle! You can even wirelessly connect two pods and battle or trade with friends!
• Mattel Distortus Rex Island Escape Set / $49.99 / Fall / Target (Exclusive) / This special Island Escape set is based directly on the action of Jurassic World Rebirth! The pack includes a raft vehicle, a Distortus rex figure, a Reuben Delgado figure, an Isabella Delgado figure and a small Aquilops figure. This is the first time the Aquilops has appeared in the Jurassic World line! The vehicle has a blaster with two different projectile options as well as breakaway section for battle and destruction action. Accessories enhance creative play. Scan the Tracking Code on the foot of the Distortus rex in the free Jurassic World Play App with a compatible smart device to unlock a digital version of the dinosaur and play the fiercely fun game to race various vehicles on land, air and sea.
• Mattel Track N Chomp Distortus Rex & Vehicle / $59.97 / Fall / Walmart (Exclusive) / Recreate the excitement and adventure of Jurassic World Rebirth with this versatile Track ‘N Chomp Distortus Rex dinosaur with an off-road vehicle and Remote Control! The remote controller can move either the dinosaur OR the vehicle, so there are 3 ways to play! One –play with the dinosaur on its own; Two –control the dinosaur figure and chase the vehicle, Three–control the vehicle to escape the dinosaur! Full-functioning Remote Controller-moves the dinosaur or the vehicle forwards, backwards and makes 360 degree turns!
• Mattel Matchbox Jurassic World Mosasaurus Rescue Action Boat (JGG61) / $29.99 / Fall 2025 / N/A / Embark on an epic adventure with the Matchbox Jurassic World Mosasaurus Rescue Action Boat! Inspired by Jurassic World Rebirth, this 12.5″ boat has a working winch to capture and transport the included 13″ Mosasaurus on board for proper scientific investigation. Use the harpoon missiles to extract a perfect sample of the dinosaur’s DNA – watch out for its jaw that can open and close! The boat is equipped with wheels for traveling on-land and capable of floating on the water. It includes a detachable rescue boat and 1:64 scale die-cast Jeep for expanded storytelling possibilities.
• Mattel Launch ‘N Battle Vehicle Set (JGB59) / $34.99 / Fall 2025 / N/A / This Jurassic World Rebirth Launch ‘N Battle Vehicle, inspired by the excitement of the movie, is ready for adventure with a detachable turret with blaster. It launches either a DNA sample-collecting dart or a net projectile. A Jurassic World Rebirth Velociraptor and Martin Krebs figure are also included for storytelling possibilities. With the 10.7-inch long off-road vehicle, 7.5-inch long dinosaur and 3.75-inch tall Krebs, this story pack is ready for chase and battle action or realistic display. Scan the Tracking Code on the Velociraptor’s foot in the free Jurassic World Play App to unlock a digital version of the dinosaur and play the fiercely fun game to race various vehicles on land, air and sea.
• Mattel Imaginext Aquachomp Chase Mosasaurus Pack (JFR23) / $49.99 / Fall 2025 / N/A / The Aquachomp Mosasaurus dinosaur toy measures 18 inches long and features sound and movement, plus “real feel” fins and spine. Kids simply press the Power Pad for chomping action and realistic sounds or push to roll along on wheels and see her head and tail move. Reenact scenes from Jurassic World Rebirth with the included 3-inch action figure and patrol boat featuring a removable launcher and two projectiles.
• Mattel Imaginext Ultimate Action Chomp T. Rex (JGR40) / $99.99 / Fall 2025 / N/A / Standing 18 inches tall, the giant dinosaur toy rumbles and roars, moves its head up and down, features light-up eyes, has removable launchers and can “swallow” 3-inch figures — one human and one dinosaur figure are included for storytelling play right out of the box! The action starts with the trigger in the tail or a Power Pad on top—they’re easy for small hands to grasp and help preschoolers master fine-motor skills. A “real feel” tongue adds tactile thrill. Reenact scenes from Jurassic World Rebirth or imagine new stories.
• Mattel Micro Adventures Mosasaurus Playset (JGB60) / $39.99 / Fall 2025 / N/A / The dinosaur head-shaped playset props open with a roar to reveal your own miniature Jurassic World, with 7 different finger-activated features, 7 sound effects and 6 included micro figures. Features include slides, pop-out panels and break-away destruction play, all inspired by Jurassic World Rebirth. Figures fit securely on pegs throughout the environment and the set folds up neatly so it can be taken along for travel or kept packed up at home.
• Mattel Kerplunk Jurassic World Rebirth (JFW45) / $16.99 / Fall 2025 / N/A / The Jurassic World Rebirth edition of KerPlunk brings the excitement of the movie to life with an Ocean Tower featuring Spinosaurus figures and a Mosasaurus at the bottom in attack mode. Players take turns pulling sticks from the tower, carefully trying not to cause any Spinos to fall. At the start of the game, all Spinos are placed in the tower. On each turn, players roll a multi-colored die to determine which color stick they must pull. If any Spinos fall, the player collects them as their penalty. The game continues until all the Spinos have fallen, and the player with the fewest collected Spinos at the end wins!
• Mattel Tumblin’ Spinos (JFW44) / $16.99 / Fall 2025 / N/A / The Jurassic World Rebirth edition of Tumblin Monkeys brings the excitement of the movie to life with an Ocean Tower featuring Spinosaurus figures and a Mosasaurus at the bottom in attack mode. Players take turns pulling sticks from the tower, carefully trying not to cause any Spinos to fall. At the start of the game, all Spinos are placed in the tower. On each turn, players roll a multi-colored die to determine which color stick they must pull. If any Spinos fall, the player collects them as their penalty. The game continues until all the Spinos have fallen, and the player with the fewest collected Spinos at the end wins!
• Mattel UNO Jurassic World Rebirth (JFT28) / $6.49 / Fall 2025 / N/A / Fans of Jurassic World Rebirth will love playing this themed UNO card game. With a deck featuring graphics inspired by favorite characters and scenes, players try to match colors and numbers—there’s even a special “Attack of the T. Rex” rule that will have somebody drawing 5 cards! And when down to a last card, don’t forget to snarl “UNO!”

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Streaming through the entire Jurassic Park franchise has been something of a challenge the past few years. The original trio of films frequently hop between streaming services, while the newer Jurassic World titles have moved around a lot less. Finding all six on the same service has been impossible, but that is going to change in the very near future, just in time for fans to binge the entire saga before the newest entry hits theaters.

Beginning June 1st, all six Jurassic titles are going to be streaming together on Peacock. Jurassic World Dominion is already available on the service, and it’ll be joined by all of its counterparts in just one week’s time. June 1st will see the Peacock add Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park III, Jurassic World, and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.

This will give everybody a whole month to watch all six of the Jurassic movies ahead of Jurassic World Rebirth, which roars into theaters on July 2nd. If you don’t already have a subscription to Peacock, you can sign up for one here.

In addition to the films hitting Peacock in June, Universal is also re-releasing the two separate trilogies as 4K Steelbooks. The Jurassic Park titles will all be collected in one Steelbook, while the first three Jurassic World titles are going to be together in their own edition.

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Coming Soon to Peacock

Movie fans are undoubtedly excited to see the Jurassic films together on Peacock next month, but those titles are far from the only big additions hitting the service at the start of June. Below, you can check out the full lineup of Peacock’s June 1st arrivals.

Adventures of Priscilla Queen of The Desert
Anna and The Apocalypse
The Best Man
The Big Lebowski
The Birdcage
Blue Crush
Bride of Chucky
The ‘Burbs
Capote
Captain Phillips
The Chronicles of Riddick
A Cowgirl’s Story
Daddy Day Care
The Day After Tomorrow
Death Wish
Deep Rising
Dirty Dancing
Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights
Erin Brockovich
A Fantastic Woman
Fifty Shades Darker
Fifty Shades Freed
Fifty Shades of Grey
Force Majeure
Happy Gilmore
Horrible Bosses
Horrible Bosses 2
Hot Fuzz
How I Live Now
I am Legend
Jack Reacher
Jennifer’s Body
Jumanji (1995)
Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park III
Jurassic World
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Kick-Ass 2
Knock Knock
The Land Before Time
Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure
Land Before Time III: The Time of The Great Giving
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Mamma Mia!
The Matrix
The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Revolutions
The Mechanic
Megamind
Milk
My Little Pony: The Movie
Pariah
Patch Adams
Pitch Black
The Producers (2005)
Riddick
Runaway Bride
Safe House
Saved!
Scooby-Doo
Seed of Chucky
Shaun of The Dead
Stonewall
Take This Waltz
To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar
Tombstone
Up In The Air
Van Helsing
Walking Tall
Wedding Crashers
The Wedding Date
White Bird in a Blizzard
Who We Are – A Chronicle of Racism in America
The World’s End
It’s Ok To Ask Questions, Season 3 (NBC News)

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We have a T. rex! Ever since the Tyrannosaurus rex roared, chomped, and stomped into the Steven Spielberg-directed Jurassic Park in 1993, the greatest predator that ever lived has been the mascot of the franchise (right down to the fossilized logo). “Rexy,” as the T. rex dino-star of Isla Nublar would come to be known, was last seen alongside Buck and Doe — the Isla Sorna T. rex mates from 1997’s The Lost World: Jurassic Park — within a Biosyn sanctuary at the end of 2022’s Jurassic World Dominion. The trilogy ender retired the original 30-year-old T. rex alongside legacy cast members Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern, and Sam Neill.

The fourth Jurassic World movie — appropriately titled Jurassic World Rebirth — marks a new era for the franchise. There’s a new director (Gareth Edwards, Godzilla and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), new characters (played by Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, and Mahershala Ali), a new island (a research facility for the original Jurassic Park), and, of course, new dinosaurs.

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Besides mutated dinosaurs like the Mutadons and the Distortus rex, genetic experiments gone awry, there are such classic species as Diloposaurus, Spinosaurus, and Pteranodon. Rebirth also features franchise newcomers like the Aquilops, the Titanosaurus, and a new breed of Tyrannosaurus rex that is already the star attraction, appearing on a promotional poster and the trailer teasing the T. rex’s attack on a river-rafting family (a sequence that originated in Michael Crichton’s 1990 novel and was cut from 1993’s Jurassic Park).

“Both Steven [Spielberg, executive producer] and I said, ‘Hey, now we can do it,'” writer David Koepp, who penned Jurassic Park and The Lost World, says of the T. rex raft scene in the Jurassic World Rebirth-covered issue of Empire Magazine. “When I was re-reading the novel, I told him, ‘Yeah, it’s as good as we remember. We have to have this.’ Because it was just a great idea for a scene, and if only one dinosaur character recurs, it has to be the T. rex.”

Just not the T. rex from Jurassic Park. Instead, Jurassic World Rebirth‘s T. rex is described as “bigger, beefier, and even surlier” — and a different breed of Tyrannosaur than what has been seen in all six installments so far.

“If you were dinosaurs making a film, you wouldn’t say, ‘Now here comes a human, and then we’ve got another human here,” Edwards explained. “You would say, ‘Here comes Robert De Niro, and there’s Javier Bardem.’ The original Jurassic Park T. rex is one actor. Now here’s another one.”

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While the bulkier rex resembles the “Bull T. rex” from Kenner’s The Lost World: Jurassic Park toyline in 1997, Edwards cited another inspiration: The Valley of Gwangi, a 1969 film which featured stop-motion dinosaur effects by Dynamation innovator Ray Harryhausen of The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad and Jason and the Argonauts fame.

Unlike the Mark McCreery-designed Rexy, which incorporated input from paleontologists and paleoartists for the sake of accuracy, Edwards wanted the new T. rex to look “the way people thought T. rexes looked before we knew better.”

“So we looked at some of the designs in Ray Harryhausen’s films, like The Valley of Gwangi,” Edwards said, adding that there was no topping the “near perfect” Rexy from the original Jurassic Park. Rebirth‘s T. rex is “kind of how, as a kid, I always thought a T. rex would look. I’m super happy with it.”

Jurassic World Rebirth — starring Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, Mahershala Ali, Rupert Friend, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Luna Blaise, David Iacono, Audrina Miranda, with Philippine Velge, Bechir Sylvain, and Ed Skrein — opens in theaters July 2.

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To paraphrase Ian Malcolm: If there’s one thing that the history of the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World franchise has taught us, it’s that life will not be contained. On the heels of the new Jurassic World Rebirth trailer that roared online Tuesday, Universal has released a series of promotional posters showing some of the old and new dinosaurs — and a few of the human-made mutant monstrosities — that won’t be contained when the rebirthed Jurassic World returns to theaters on July 2.

The domestic and international posters below show Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, and Mahershala Ali wading through dino-infested waters, a mountaineering ScarJo, and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo’s family of civilian cruisers moments before they’re shipwrecked by an attacking Spinosaurus.

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Featured on the Korean poster is a new Tyrannosaurus rex, which can be seen chasing the family across the water in another tease of the river-rafting sequence inspired by Michael Crichton’s original Jurassic Park novel. The film’s one-sheet shows Johansson’s cliff-side encounter with the winged Quetzalcoatlus, one of the Pterosaur variants that will soar into the movie alongside the Mutadons: flying Velociraptors.

An exclusive D-Box poster showcases a redesigned Spinosaurus, resurfacing in the films for the first time since 2001’s Jurassic Park III, while the Mosasaurus, which debuted in the first Jurassic World in 2015, breaches the ocean’s surface on the 4DX poster.

Last but not least, Dolby Cinema and RealD 3D’s posters offer a glimpse at the Distortus rex: a six-limbed, deformed dinosaur that is part Tyrannosaurus rex, part Xenomorph from Alien, and part Rancor from Star Wars.

The logline reads, “This action-packed new chapter sees an extraction team race to the most dangerous place on Earth, an island research facility for the original Jurassic Park, inhabited by the worst of the worst that were left behind.”

Set five years after the events of 2022’s Jurassic World Dominion, Earth’s ecology has proven largely inhospitable to dinosaurs. Those remaining exist in isolated equatorial environments with climates resembling the one in which they once thrived. 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.

Pharmaceutical representative Martin Krebs (Rupert Friend) tasks skilled covert operations expert Zora Bennett (Johansson) with leading a skilled team on a top-secret mission to secure the genetic material. When Zora’s operation intersects with a civilian family whose boating expedition was capsized by marauding aquatic dinos — Reuben Delgado (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo) and his family, including daughters Teresa (Luna Blaise) and Isabella (Audrina Miranda) — they all find themselves stranded on a forbidden island that had once housed an undisclosed research facility for Jurassic Park.

There, in a terrain populated by dinosaurs of vastly different species, they come face-to-face with a sinister, shocking discovery that has been hidden from the world for decades. Life, uh, found a way.

See the Jurassic World Rebirth posters in the gallery below, and see the Gareth Edwards-directed movie in theaters July 2.

Jurassic World Rebirth Theatrical Poster

Jurassic World Rebirth T-Rex Poster

Jurassic World Rebirth Quetzalcoatlus Poster

Jurassic World Rebirth Mosasaurus Poster

Jurassic World Rebirth Spinosaurus Poster

Jurassic World Rebirth Distortus Rex Poster

Jurassic World Rebirth D-Rex Poster

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“Your scientists were so preoccupied over whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.” So says chaotician Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) in 1993’s Jurassic Park, warning wealthy InGen founder John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) about his plan to open a theme park of cloned dinosaurs created from millions of years old Paleo-DNA.

What followed was a series of increasingly deadlier dinosaurs: the Tyrannosaurus rex (in Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park), the Spinosaurus (Jurassic Park III), and the InGen-designed Indominus rex (Jurassic World), the Indoraptor (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom), and the Giganotosaurus (Jurassic World Dominion).

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New movie Jurassic World Rebirth sends an extraction team — covert operations expert Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson), paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey), and team leader Duncan Kincaid (Mahershala Ali) — to the most dangerous place on Earth: an island research facility for the original Jurassic Park. The forbidden island is inhabited by more than two dozen species that have migrated to the tropical climate, including the dinosaurs deemed too deadly to bring to Isla Nublar or Isla Sorna.

“The theme park owners did experimental work, leaving only the worst ones here,” Zora says in the new trailer, which teases a third site populated by man-made mutated dinos. In their DNA is the key to what could be the biggest medical breakthrough in centuries, and so Zora, Henry, and Duncan must survive their mission to extract samples from the still-living dinosaurs and potentially save millions of lives.

That’s if they can survive monstrous mutants like the Distortus rex, AKA the D-rex, and the Mutadons, an amalgamation of the winged Pterosaurs and the sharp-teethed, razor-clawed Velociraptors. (Rebirth, which is scripted by Jurassic Park and The Lost World‘s David Koepp, also marks the film debuts of less scary-looking herbivores like an Aquilops and the Titanosaurus.)

Distortus rex: The Deadly D-Rex

Like the Indominus rex, the Indoraptor, and the Giganotosaurus before it, the Distortus rex is the gene-spliced creation of scientists who were so preoccupied over whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should. The deformed D-rex has only been glimpsed in trailers so far, but if the six-limbed mutant T-rex brings to mind the Rancor from Star Wars or the Xenomorphs from Alien, that’s by design.

“It’s kind of like if the T-Rex was designed by H.R. Giger, and then that whole thing had sex with a Rancor,” director Gareth Edwards told Empire Online, referring to the Oscar-winning Alien designer and the fanged creature made famous by 1983’s Return of the Jedi. “It’s a design that I was really happy with. I’d like to buy the toy of it when it comes out.”

Added production visual effects supervisor David Vickery, “It’s as if another animal has been wrapped around the T-rex. Gareth wanted us to feel sorry for it as well as terrified, because its deformities have caused it some pain, and there’s an encumbrance to it.”

As the extraction team encounters the most colossal creatures across land, sea and air — like the towering Titanosaurus, the aquatic Mosasaurus and crocodile-like Purussaurus, and the high-flying Quetzalcoatlus and Mutadons — the group will “come face-to-face with a sinister, shocking discovery that has been hidden from the world for decades.”

“We saw in some of the previous Jurassic World movies that their experiments made dinosaurs bigger, meaner, scarier,” Koepp explained. “And it occurred to me and Steven [Spielberg] that those can’t all have gone well.”

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Hold onto your stubs. Tickets for Jurassic World Rebirth went on sale with the new trailer released on Tuesday morning, but fans booking advance tickets may have noticed that the film is being shown in RealD 3D, 4DX, ScreenX, and other large premium formats. Notably, none of the 1,738 IMAX screens worldwide will be playing the new Jurassic World, which is expected to be one of the biggest movies of the summer when it opens in theaters on July 2.

That’s a meteoric drop off from 2015’s Jurassic World, Universal’s Jurassic Park franchise-restarting blockbuster that stomped onto a record 800+ screens as IMAX’s biggest-ever worldwide release at the time.

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When IMAX announced its 2025 slate, the exhibitor touted a record number of Filmed for IMAX titles. The Ryan Coogler-directed Sinners in April was the first of eight consecutive Filmed for IMAX releases, which continued with Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts* (May 2) and Final Destination Bloodlines (May 16). Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning (May 23), How to Train Your Dragon (June 13), and F1 The Movie (June 27) will all have IMAX windows, followed by Superman (July 11) and The Fantastic Four: First Steps (July 25).

There is a finite number of IMAX screens, typically reserved for Filmed for IMAX titles and whichever movies commit to IMAX first. Unlike Universal’s own live-action How to Train Your Dragon — which will feature over 50 minutes of IMAX’s exclusive expanded aspect ratio when it flies onto PLF screens next month — Jurassic World Rebirth wasn’t Filmed for IMAX, and other films had committed to IMAX in advance. Jurassic World 4 was only surprise-announced in January 2024 (a year after Universal slated a live-action adaptation of Dreamworks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon for 2025), with the studio setting the summer 2025 release date another month after that.

In 2023, the Tom Cruise-fronted Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, released just nine days apart, competed for IMAX screens that July. Paramount’s Mission: Impossible had access to 401 North American PLF screens for just one week, having to concede them to Universal’s Oppenheimer for a rare three-week run.

Variety reported at the time that M:I 7, which only moved onto the July 2023 date because of pandemic-related delays, entered a busy summer season where IMAX had already set a commitment to Nolan’s Oppenheimer (also Filmed for IMAX). That’s why Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, the other half of the blockbuster “Barbenheimer” phenomenon released opposite Oppenheimer on July 21, didn’t play in IMAX. (Warner Bros. later set a limited, one-week engagement for Barbie in IMAX that September.)

Whether Jurassic World Rebirth gets a re-release IMAX run later this year remains to be seen. The post-summer season IMAX slate includes Weapons (Aug. 8), The Conjuring: Last Rites (Sept. 5), Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle (Sept. 12), Him (Sept. 19), and One Battle After Another (Sept. 26).

Disney’s Tron: Ares (Oct. 10), the first Filmed for IMAX release since July’s Fantastic Four, will be followed by Mortal Kombat II (Oct. 24) and Predator: Badlands (Nov. 7). Universal’s Wicked: For Good and Disney’s Zootopia 2 are slated for November, with Disney’s Avatar: Fire and Ash (Dec. 19) set to dominate the pre-Christmas corridor.

Jurassic World Rebirth is directed by Gareth Edwards (Godzilla, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) from a script by David Koepp (Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park) based on characters created by Michael Crichton. Frank Marshall (the Jurassic World trilogy) and Patrick Crowley (Twisters) are the producers, with Steven Spielberg (Jurassic Park), Denis L. Stewart (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) and Jim Spencer (The Creator) executive producing.

Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, Mahershala Ali, Rupert Friend, and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo star in Jurassic World Rebirth, which opens only in theaters July 2.

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Jurassic World has become the latest high-profile Hollywood property to get in on the collectible popcorn bucket trend. The release of the latest Jurassic World Rebirth trailer coincided with tickets going on sale. While tickets aren’t available at every location across the country yet, they can be pre-ordered at select Regal venues. To celebrate, the theater chain unveiled its exclusive Jurassic World Rebirth-themed popcorn bucket, which is one of the more creative examples we’ve seen to date. Long-time fans of the Jurassic franchise will probably want to scoop one up.

Dubbed the Incubator Dual Container, the collectible doubles as a popcorn bucket and drink holder. As the name suggests, it is modeled after the incubation equipment used in the films to birth dinosaurs. A baby raptor is sitting where the popcorn goes. You can check out a short teaser video for the bucket in the space below:

Special popcorn buckets aren’t anything new, but in recent years, there’s been more of a concentrated effort to release unique collectible ones in conjunction with some of the year’s biggest film releases (see: the infamous Dune: Part Two sandworm bucket). Just this year alone, audiences will be able to get buckets for Lilo & Stitch, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. The Mission: Impossible one was personally designed by Tom Cruise himself.

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Jurassic World Rebirth is scheduled to release in early July, just in time for Independence Day. It’s positioned as Universal’s big tentpole of the summer. The studio has already put together an extensive marketing campaign for the movie, including airing a TV spot during this year’s Super Bowl. Directed by Gareth Edwards, Jurassic World Rebirth stars Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, and Jonathan Bailey as members of a team who go on a mission to collect dinosaur DNA to help development of a drug that can save millions of lives.

Most of the collectible buckets that have come out the past couple of years are rather fitting for their respective films. It makes sense that the one for Deadpool & Wolverine is – in Kevin Feige’s words – “intentionally crude.” The Lilo & Stitch bucket draws upon the titular alien’s cute and cuddly appearance. The makers of this Jurassic World Rebirth bucket found an approach that’s appropriate for the movie. Not only does it tie into the plot of discovering genetically engineered dinosaurs, it also fits tonally with Rebirth. Every time you reach in for some popcorn, there’s going to be a baby raptor lurking, mimicking the sense of dread that’s so prevalent throughout the franchise.

What gives this bucket an edge over some of the others is its functionality. The spot to hold your drink is a nice bonus, allowing the bucket to be a one-stop shop for your concessions when you check out Jurassic World Rebirth on the big screen. Seeing that Rebirth ranks as the summer’s most anticipated movie according to a Fandango poll, these buckets should be a hot seller.

Are you going to pick up an Incubator Dual Container? Let us know in the comments!

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Welcome back to Jurassic Park. Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, and Mahershala Ali journey to the island that birthed John Hammond’s dinosaur theme park in a new Jurassic World Rebirth trailer, which teases a second extinction event for the cloned creatures that have roamed — and ruled — the Earth since we last saw them co-existing with humans in 2022’s Jurassic World Dominion.

In the new movie directed by Gareth Edwards (Godzilla) and written by David Koepp (Jurassic Park), covert operations expert Zora Bennett (Johansson), paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis (Bailey), and team leader Duncan Kincaid (Ali) are sent to the forbidden island that once housed an undisclosed research facility for the original Jurassic Park.

“Any dinosaurs too dangerous were left here,” Loomis says in the trailer (below) over footage of an Aliens-esque sequence showing glimpses of the Distortus rex, the six-limbed mutated dinosaur genetically-engineered by InGen scientists on the third site where Rebirth takes place.

RELATED: Jurassic World Rebirth Adapts a Cut Sequence from Original Jurassic Park Novel

Five years after the Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard-fronted Dominion, dinosaurs are once again an endangered species. Earth’s ecology has proven largely inhospitable for the dinosaurs resurrected from prehistoric DNA, and those remaining have flocked to isolated equatorial environments with climates resembling the one in which they once thrived.

Residing in this tropical biosphere are the three most colossal creatures across land, sea, and air, which hold in their DNA the key to a drug with miraculous life-saving benefits for humanity. It would be “the biggest medical breakthrough in centuries,” says Big Pharma’s Martin Krebs (Rupert Friend), but they require samples from living dinosaurs. “You want to take blood samples from these animals while they’re alive?” Bennett asks incredulously. In order to save millions of lives, the extraction team of Bennett, Loomis, and Kincaid will risk their own to obtain the Paleo-DNA from the third site: the most dangerous place on Earth.

While sea is the domain of the aquatic Mosasaurus and the sea-faring Spinosaurus, and air the domain of the Mutadons — new winged Raptor-Pterosaur hybrids — land is ruled by the greatest predator that ever lived: Tyrannosaurus rex. But in a sequence inspired by author Michael Crichton’s original Jurassic Park novel, the T-Rex attacks as the humans cross a river by raft.

“We did take some things from [the novels],” Koepp previously told Vanity Fair about the new movie, which isn’t an adaptation of any one novel. “There was a sequence from the first novel that we’d always wanted in the original movie, but didn’t have room for. We were like, ‘Hey, we get to use that now.’ But just to get back in that head space 30 years later — is it still fun? And the answer is yes, it still really is. Dinosaurs are still fun.” And still scary.

Jurassic World Rebirth — starring Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, Mahershala Ali, Rupert Friend, and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, with Luna Blaise, David Iacono, Audrina Miranda, Philippine Velge, Bechir Sylvain, and Ed Skrein — roars into theaters July 2.

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Jurassic World: Rebirth director Gareth Edwards had an old Hollywood legend in mind while casting Scarlett Johansson in the lead role. The filmmaker had heard that Ridley Scott didn’t specify a gender for Ripley, the lead character in his movie Alien. In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Edwards said he did the same with the character that became Zora Bennett, casting a wide net for the perfect actor. That, along with a few other guiding parameters, led him to cast Johansson, and he regards it as a great decision. He claimed that Johansson herself has been dying for a chance to get into the Jurassic franchise for quite some time.

The flexible genders of the characters in Alien have been well-documented, including in the 2003 behind-the-scenes documentary The Beast Within: The Making of Alien. According to that feature, screenwriter Dan O’Bannon intentionally left all the human characters underdeveloped, with a note on the scrip saying: “The crew is unisex and all parts are interchangeable for men or women.”

Edwards told EW that he had that old wisdom in mind while casting Rebirth. Armed with a script by Jurassic franchise legend David Koepp, he knew his three main characters were a covert ops veteran, their longtime partner in crime, and a paleontologist tagging along with them. “It felt like at least one of them was going to be an A-lister,” Edwards recalled.

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Edwards said that early in the casting process, he found himself in a Universal Pictures conference room with Steven Spielberg and several others contributing to the film. They were brainstorming some casting ideas, naming their top picks before logistical considerations would force them to narrow it down. “There were your obvious names floating around, and then at one point, Steven said, ‘Well, if we don’t give it to Scarlett, she’s going to kill me because she’s been pursuing a Jurassic film for ages,'” Edwards said. “My eyes lit up.”

Now that the movie is finished, Edwards said he admires Johansson more than ever. “It’s hard to think of someone better than Scarlett,” he said. “Now having worked with her, it’s really clear why she’s had the career she’s had, and she’s never been out of a limelight, as well as being an excellent actress.”

Jurassic World: Rebirth hits theaters on July 2nd. Previous entries in the franchise are currently split across the Starz streaming app and Prime Video.

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Jurassic Park debuted in theaters in 1993, and 32 years later, the movie remains one of the most quotable of Steven Spielberg’s career, and certainly of the dinosaur genre. Michael Crichton’s 1990 novel Jurassic Park first told the tale of billionaire entrepreneur John Hammond building a theme park of dinosaurs cloned from pre-historic DNA. The novel was an immediate best-seller, and made it to the big-screen three years later in Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park, which became the highest grossing movie ever made to that point. Jurassic Park spawned multiple sequels and an entire media franchise, cementing itself as THE dinosaur-based franchise, but it all goes back to the impact the original Jurassic Park had.

Not only did Jurassic Park bring dinosaurs to life with some of the best visual effects of its time, but it is also a highly-quotable movie. Jeff Goldblum snags the lion’s share of iconic Jurassic Park quotes with his performance as Dr. Ian Malcolm, but David Koepp and Michael Crichton’s script is packed with unforgettable lines from the movie’s other characters, as well. Here are the 10 Jurassic Park movie quotes that cement the movie’s iconography over three decades later.

“Must go faster!”

One of Jurassic Park‘s most iconic lines is one of the sort that every audience member would say in the situation of a T-Rex being in hot pursuit of them. As Robert Muldoon (Bob Peck), Dr. Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) and the injured Dr. Malcolm head back for the safety of the Visitor’s Center, the unleashed T-Rex gives chase, eager to chow down on her next meal. As the T-Rex gets closer, Dr. Malcolm admonishes Muldoon “Must go faster!” in pure Jeff Goldblum fashion. So iconic and hilarious was Dr. Malcolm’s line to pick up speed in Jurassic Park, Goldblum later famously recited “Must go faster!” thrice to Will Smith as the duo flee pursuing aliens in their massive mothership during the finale of 1996’s Independence Day.

“And before you even knew what you had, you patented it, and packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunch box, and now, you’re selling it, you want to sell it!”

As the dinosaur population of Jurassic Park is unveiled to the park’s first tour group, the group of scientists react with a mix of awe-struck wonder and skeptical trepidation. Particularly nervous about the idea of bringing dinosaurs back to life is Dr. Ian Malcolm, who chides John Hammond (Sir Richard Attenborough) about the dangers of such generic experimentation. As Malcolm argues, Hammond and Jurassic Park’s scientists were so blinded by the possibilities of resurrecting dinosaurs into the modern world as a capitalist venture, they failed to forsee how it could go wrong, leading to Malcolm’s iconic line, said while pounding the lunch table. Oft-quoted and always done so verbatim, Dr. Malcolm’s line is a timeless warning about the dangers of trying to turn dinosaurs into a multi-billion dollar theme park attraction.

“The only one I’ve got on my side is the blood-sucking lawyer!”

John Hammond’s attempt to sell the tour group of scientists on Jurassic Park’s safety and security doesn’t go as he’d hoped. In addition to Dr. Malcolm’s aforementioned concerns, Dr. Sattler expresses her own uneasiness (“There are plants in this building that are poisonous. You picked them because they look good”), and his Hail Mary to get one pre-tour endorsement out of Dr. Grant also ends in failure. In the end, Hammond still takes it in stride, chuckling the hilarious line, which the lawyer in question, Donald Gennaro (Martin Ferrero), receives with a simple “Thank you.” In addition to its warning about the dangers of playing God, Jurassic Park seemingly isn’t the biggest fan of corporate lawyers.

“What have they got in there? King Kong?”

As the first tour into Jurassic Park begins, the two tour cars enter the the park through a towering set of swinging doors bearing the park’s name, leading Dr. Malcolm to quip “What have they got in there? King Kong?” Malcolm’s line adds some levity to the inaugural Jurassic Park tour, but also acts as a fun Easter egg of film history for 1933’s King Kong. The residents of Skull Island similarly protect themselves from Kong’s wrath behind a similar wall with swinging doors, through which they also offer human sacrifices to Kong. Malcolm’s line ultimately harkens back to the majesty and terror of pre-historic creatures hidden behind a wall with a bit of King Kong trivia, and which foreshadows the futility of trying to contain the dinosaurs as no more effective than the same attempt for Kong.

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“Shoot her! Shoot her!”

The first timeless quote of Jurassic Park arrives in the movie’s opening scene with the park’s security team unloading a Velocipator into her designated observation pen. The effort ends up going disastrously, with the Raptor knocking the loading pen away from the main pen’s doorway, and viciously attacking a park worker. As the Jurassic Park team tries to subdue the Raptor with tasers, Robert Muldoon proclaims “Shoot her! Shoot her!” in a last ditch and ultimately failed effort to save the park worker’s life. Not only is it one of Jurassic Park‘s most iconic quotes, it’s easily the movie’s most tragic.

“All I’m say is that life, uh, finds a way.”

The scientists of Jurassic Park and well as John Hammond are convinced they’ve got security and population control in the park on a lock, partly by engineering the entire dinosaur population to be female. Dr. Malcolm, of course, remains unconvinced, and monologues that such artificial restrictions on life have never taken hold. Asked by the incredulous Dr. Henry Wu (B.D. Wong) if he believes that the park’s entirely female population will reproduce, Dr. Malcolm responds with the iconic line. Standing the test of time as another unforgettable Ian Malcolm/Jeff Goldblum quote, “Life finds a way” eventually found its way onto the poster for 2018’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom as the movie’s tagline.

“Spared no expense.”

John Hammond is just as much a salesman as he is an entertainer, as exemplified by his running quote throughout Jurassic Park of “Spared no expense.” Hammond drops the line on everything from park security to the choice of Richard Kiley to narrate the park tour to even the choice of ice cream kept in the Visitor’s Center’s dining room. Hammond’s quote has a double meaning in the context of Jurassic Park‘s story, illustrating his shrewd acumen as an entrepreneur to take Jurassic Park tourists on the ultimate adventure, and also demonstrating that no amount of money can make his dream of a dinosaur-filled theme park a safe venture.

“Clever girl.”

Few propositions are as deadly as hunting Velociraptors, as Robert Muldoon discovers when he tries to take down a pair of escaped Raptors while Dr. Sattler tries to restore Jurassic Park’s power. Thinking he’s got one Raptor in locked, another pops up right next to him, with Muldoon commending the Raptor as a “Clever girl” before being tackled and devoured before he can turn his shotgun on his new target in time. Funnily enough, Muldoon’s demise perfectly recaptures Dr. Grant’s Raptor attack scenario early in the movie, with the attack from Jurassic Park‘s most intelligent dinosaur indeed coming not from the front, but from the side.

“That is one big pile of sh-t.”

Seriously, what Jurassic Park fan hasn’t quoted this line ad infinitum? As Dr. Sattler examines the dung of a sick Triceratops to diagnose her illness, Dr. Malcolm offers the most blunt reaction to it possible with his comment “That is one big pile of sh-t”. Easily the biggest laugh line of Jurassic Park, Dr. Malcolm’s one-liner has been forever immortalized with memes and GIFs on top of being eternally quoted, and will surely continue that trend for decades to come.

“Life found a way.”

One of Jurassic Park‘s most enduring quotes pays off another, specifically Dr. Malcolm’s skepticism that the dinosaurs of the park can’t breed due to all of them being female with Malcolm’s rebuttal of “Life, uh, finds a way.” Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) discovers just how right Dr. Malcolm was as he guides Lex and Tim back to the Visitor’s Center, discovering the remains of dinosaur eggs along the way, indicating that the dinosaurs are breeding. Dr. Grant hypothesizes that, with the dinosaur’s cloned DNA having been supplemented with frog DNA to fill in the gaps of their pre-historic genes, some of the park’s dinos have begun changing sex, as some West African frogs are known to do, to facilitate breeding in a single-sex environment. “Life found the way,” Dr. Grant comments, confirming Dr. Malcolm’s once seemingly impossible theory and delivering an immortal line capturing how timeless a dinosaur classic Jurassic Park will always be.

Jurassic Park is available to stream on Hulu and AMC+, and Jurassic World Rebirth will be released in theaters on July 2nd.

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This summer’s Jurassic World Rebirth will swap out the human leads of the previous three Jurassic World installments for a new motley crew of human beings so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they never stopped to think if they should. Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, Rupert Friend, Jonathan Bailey, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Ed Skrein, and Luna Blaise are just some of the actors taking on major roles in this production. There will, of course, also be tons of new dinosaurs, including at least one mutant T-Rex offshoot with an overabundance of arms.

The Jurassic Park franchise has employed tons of great actors over the years to play its human characters including Judy Greer, Dichen Lachman, Toby Jones, Julianne Moore, and Vincent D’Onofrio (among many others). But do you remember their names? Beyond the engrossing humans in the very first Jurassic Park movie, none of the humans in this franchise have left an impression. Rather than shelling out Scarlett Johansson money for her to headline Rebirth, it’s time for the dinosaurs themselves to be the exclusive stars of the Jurassic Park saga.

Dinosaurs Can Totally Headline a Movie

Putting dinosaurs front and center in a movie without any human leads might sound weird, but in all honesty, it’s not a strange concept. For one thing, the concept of having lead characters who can’t talk isn’t an unprecedented concept. There’s an entire era of silent cinema out there proving audiences can be absorbed into dialogue-free storytelling. Modern incarnations of this mold like No One Will Save You or Flow show that the appeal of such stories lives on into the 21st century.

For proof of the joys of silent dinosaur cinema, just look at Gertie the Dinosaur, a 100+ year old animated short film focusing on the mischief created by the titular critter. Gertie is infinitely more compelling than Vince Vaughn in The Lost World: Jurassic Park or Chris Pratt in any of the Jurassic World films. She’s adorable, a scallywag, and immensely hungry (not to mention prone to random naps), with all these character traits succinctly materializing in just a few minutes of screentime. Imagine what kind of rich, fun personalities could emerge following a dinosaur for a feature-length Jurassic Park movie.

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Projects like Gertie the Dinosaur (and even projects like WALL-E) reflect how much humans adore interpreting their own emotions or words onto silent characters. That’s a phenomenon the Jurassic Park dinosaurs could easily play into for a whole movie. Plus, there’s a frustrating historical trend of various dinosaur-centric properties like The Land Before Time or Dinosaur initially planning on being silent epics before shoehorning in traditional dialogue. A Jurassic Park entry focusing just on dinosaurs could finally make those unrealized concepts a reality. Finally, a movie about dinosaurs who don’t incessantly yammer.

Focusing On Dinos Would Fix Jurassic Park’s Human Problem

It’s clear that audiences would totally sit still and be enraptured by a dinosaur-centric Jurassic Park movie if it was well-made and emotionally engaging. Even better, concentrating on the dinosaurs would solve a problem plaguing this franchise in recent years. The original Jurassic Park was packed with striking characters and intimate human-centric scenes (like John Hammond wistfully recalling his flea circus) that crackled with tangible pathos. Since then, though, the humans have been a snore, especially in the Jurassic World movies.

There’s something so deeply obligatory about the writing of post-1993 Jurassic Park/World human characters that makes it impossible to invest in them. People come to these movies for fun dinosaur chaos, not to hear poor Laura Dern utter the phrase “slid into my DM’s” or witness Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard do tin-eared romantic banter. Worse yet, the most recent World installments filled up the human casts with characters like an older Lewis Dodgson who just harkened back to the old movies.

Focusing on dinosaurs for an entire Jurassic Park movie could help this saga finally burst free from the constraints of fan-service and the legacy of the original 1993 masterpiece. No more could this franchise rely on human characters meant to remind viewers of Ian Malcolm or Dennis Nedry. Instead, fresh prehistoric protaganists would fill the frame. Audiences would have to relate to characters previously only used for chase scenes or jump scares. That would be an exciting, creative challenge rife with creative possibilities far more enticing than just making more disposable Jurassic Park human characters. People come to the Jurassic movies for glorious dinosaur spectacle. It’s time this franchise seized on that reality by ceding the spotlight to these resurrected creatures.

Jurassic World Rebirth hits theaters on July 2.

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When it was released in the summer of 1993, Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park played and played in theaters, ultimately ending up the highest-grossing movie of the year with $357 million in unadjusted domestic box office dollars. It was an event, and so too was The Lost World: Jurassic Park four years later. And, while a massive success in its own right, it still made about $128 million less domestically than its predecessor. It wasn’t quite the crowd-pleasing rollercoaster ride the original film was, with some detractors (quite fairly) claiming it was too grim and violent to have the family appeal that the original film did.

But, let’s be honest, that’s part of why The Lost World is the best Jurassic Park sequel. It’s a film that feels like it has real stakes, which is an impact only compounded by the fact that, this time, there’s a kid on the island standing beside the adults.

A Lot of Movie

On one hand, The Lost World can feel like a movie that throws a lot at the wall to see what sticks. On the other hand, it’s also careful to try to stick to what worked the first time. Most of the dinosaurs we see here were seen in the original movie, which, in spite of the upped stakes provided by the darker tone, can make it feel like a retread of the 1993 adventure.

But when a movie is as beloved as Jurassic Park, feeling similar to it isn’t exactly a detriment. Is The Lost World as great as Jurassic Park? Not at all. But it’s far more entertaining than the films that followed. Not to mention, if you rent a Jurassic Park movie wanting to see dinosaurs eat people, The Lost World is the entry for you. A lot of people get chomped in this movie.

And, more often than not, these chompings occur in a memorable and well-crafted set piece. For instance, the raptors in the tall grass is one of the franchise’s most iconic sequences, the opening scene with the little girl and the Compies does a great job of setting the dangerous tone, the T-Rex attacking the InGen camp is a blast, and the waterfall scene is just as top-tier.

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Retaining the Original’s Power

But the highlight of The Lost World, the elongated sequence that shows that Spielberg and crew still had the juice that made the first film great, is the trailer over the cliff set piece. From the shots of Dr. Ian Malcolm, Dr. Sarah Harding, and Nick Van Owen dangling over the side of the cliff within the trailer to the hair-raising race against the clock faced by the ill-fated Eddie Carr, desperately trying to pull the lengthy, heavy vehicle back up in an SUV as a pair of T-Rexes stomp around nearby, it all works. Of course, it’s also in this sequence, with the demise of Mr. Carr, that any number of ’90s kids got some pretty visceral nightmares. So, in a way, that’s another plus.

What The Lost World is, like Jurassic Park, is a rollercoaster ride. It’s just this rollercoaster is so intent on delivering ante-upping set pieces that it often forgoes logic. This includes what may just happen to be the most rationality-dispelling moment in blockbuster cinema history. InGen wants to bring the T-Rex and its baby to San Diego and, thanks to some tranquilizer darts, they succeed in doing so. As the protagonists and human antagonists stand at the Port of San Diego, the boat bringing the dinosaurs careens onto the mainland. We see that all of the boat’s crew have been devoured, yet there’s absolutely no explanation of what killed them.

It doesn’t make a shred of sense, but now that there’s a T-Rex about to go all Godzilla on California, we don’t quite care. That in and of itself summarizes The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Something ludicrous happens, but we’re not given enough time to really let it bother us because another ludicrous, entertaining thing is right around the corner.

What also helps The Lost World: Jurassic Park stand as the best of the IP’s sequels is that what came after was even less impressive than this film was at its worst (except for when Dr. Malcolm’s daughter gymnastics a raptor to death). Jurassic Park III is an admirable early film from Captain America: The First Avenger‘s Joe Johnston, but even with a new dino, it yet again felt like a retread. And, this time, hardly anyone was eaten.

Then there’s the Jurassic World trilogy (soon to be expanded via Jurassic World Rebirth). Jurassic World was a huge financial success and, to a degree, a critical success, but it was also too glossy. And, for some, the whole raptor training plotline was and remains ridiculous.

There were also problems with how the two protagonists were written. One was an Indiana Jones ripoff and the other one was a negligent aunt whose first big moment of badassery was a scene where she takes off her high heels in the jungle (played for laughs).

As for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and Jurassic World Dominion, the first was ambitious but ultimately a failure, while the latter was disastrously anticlimactic. It’s hard to imagine that the film that finally brought the dinos to the mainland (and brought back the original cast) could be so dull, but that was exactly the case for Dominion. They’ve only helped to further emphasize how it was nice to get some more ’90s vibes from The Lost World. Perhaps we took those vibes for granted back in the day.

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Jurassic World Rebirth is set to bring a brand-new dinosaur into the franchise’s next adventure, with the dino’s name being a fittingly menacing one. The news of the new dinosaur’s name was revealed by Empire Magazine on the publication’s Instagram, with the dinosaur known as the Distortus Rex. A shadowy look at the dino’s design was also included as part of the post, which teases May’s print issue of Empire covering Rebirth. Jurassic World Rebirth is reportedly set five years after Jurassic World: Dominion, with the dinosaur population that was freed upon the world unable to survive in the bulk of modern Earth’s environment, and concentrating themselves in a select few locations.

Rebirth follows a group of mercenaries led by Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson) who embark on an expedition to an island location teeming with dinosaurs to retrieve samples of their DNA, which could help perfect a revolutionary new pharmaceutical drug. However, the team finds themselves stranded in the dino-filled location alongside a shipwrecked family, forcing them to try to navigate out of the location alive.

From the look of the Distortus Rex, the creature’s appearance more closely resembles that of a classic Japanese kaiju than a traditional dinosaur. However, throwing new dinosaur surprises at audiences has been the calling card of the Jurassic Park franchise for over 30 years. Indeed, the Jurassic World movies in particular have really made an effort to capitalize on new dinosaurs.

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From the start, the Jurassic World movies have brought at least one new dinosaur into the franchise with each installment. 2015’s Jurassic World started the Jurassic Park franchise’s revival by introducing the fearsome Indominus Rex, a hybrid dinosaur created from various different dinosaur carnivores. 2018’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom brought in a new dinosaur of its own with the Indoraptor, while 2022’s Jurassic World: Dominion brought in the Gigantosaurus as its dinosaur final boss. With the Distortus Rex, Rebirth is very much continuing what has become an ongoing tradition in the Jurassic World movies.

Even going back to the original Jurassic Park trilogy, each movie has delivered many amazing and scary new dinosaurs, like the Spinosaurus in Jurassic Park III and the brief glimpse at the Pteranodons in The Lost World: Jurassic Park that was later paid off in Jurassic Park III. Ultimately, the fact that there is such an abundance of dinosaurs in the fossil record creates a virtually unlimited supply of dinosaurs for the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World movies to work into the equation. That also lends itself very well to merchandising, which has long been a key pillar of the popularity and success of the Jurassic Park franchise in all forms of media.

The backstory of the Distortus Rex has not been shown in much detail yet, though it seems likely that it is more in the vein of the Indominus Rex as a dinosaur created through further genetic experimentation. In any case, the Distortus Rex seems likely to be positioned in much the same way as the Spinosaurus, Indominus Rex, and Indoraptor previously were as being the prehistoric big bad of Jurassic World Rebirth, and hopefully, the Distortus Rex debuts with the same memorable impact as its predecessors when the movie hits theaters.

Jurassic World Rebirth will be released in theaters on July 2nd.

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Ahead of its release this summer, Jurassic World Rebirth has been officially rated, and it sticks to a long-standing franchise tradition. Per the movie’s listing on the Film Ratings website, Jurassic World Rebirth is rated PG-13, the same rating all previous installments in the series received, dating back to the 1993 original. Throughout its history, the Jurassic Park films have featured several intense sequences that might be frightening to younger viewers, but they aren’t violent enough to necessitate an R rating. They fall right within that sweet spot Jurassic Park director Steven Spielberg talked about when he proposed the PG-13 rating be created back in the ’80s.

The official reasonings for Jurassic World Rebirth‘s PG-13 rating include “intense sequences of violence/action, bloody images, some suggestive references, language and a drug reference.” All three installments of the first Jurassic World trilogy had similar “intense sequences of violence/action,” but Rebirth is the first one to have “bloody images.” The original Jurassic Park films earned their PG-13 ratings for “intense sci-fi terror.”

Jurassic World Rebirth director Gareth Edwards has been open about his desire to take the franchise back to its roots. He’s paying homage to the original Jurassic Park by crafting a story of survival, capturing the tone of that seminal ’90s classic. The Jurassic World Rebirth trailer has played up the horror elements, showcasing some of the most terrifying dinosaurs the franchise has seen.

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In a crowded summer movie season featuring the likes of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Superman, and The Fantastic Four: First Steps (among other high-profile titles), Jurassic World Rebirth was voted as the the season’s most anticipated film in a Fandango poll. Though the previous Jurassic World movies weren’t critical darlings, they were all very successful at the box office, grossing over $1 billion each.

As entertaining as some might find an R-rated Jurassic World movie that goes all out on dino carnage, nobody should have expected Rebirth would be the one to blaze that trail. This is Universal’s big tentpole for the summer, and the studio obviously wants to maximize box office potential — especially since it’s premiering in a loaded July. Embracing the PG-13 rating allows Edwards & Co. to appeal to the widest possible audience and stay in line with the spirit of the franchise. While the violence may not be as bloody as something like John Wick, for example, Jurassic World Rebirth will likely push the PG-13 rating to its limits. A film doesn’t have to be R to deliver horrifying thrills.

Hopefully, some of the “intense sequences” in Jurassic World Rebirth are memorable, setting the stage for even more exciting set pieces in future sequels. It’s already been confirmed Rebirth brings back the famous river raft sequence from the original Jurassic Park novel, which sounds like it will be a centerpiece of the film. Jurassic Park still resonates as one of the finest blockbusters of all time because of its expertly crafted scenes of sci-fi terror (the T-Rex breaking out of its paddock, raptors in the kitchen) that proved PG-13 was more than scary enough for summertime audiences.

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From the start, Jurassic World aims to show that its monstrous Indominus Rex differs from the other dinosaurs fans have seen in the franchise. We’ve witnessed cunning and deadly dinosaurs throughout the franchise, but the Indominus Rex is a lab creation from top to bottom, created from a slew of fearsome dinosaurs, including the Tyrannosaurus Rex, Velociraptor, and a few others. The result is a killing machine, and if` that’s not enough, the movie wastes little time demonstrating just how cruel and deadly this new creation is in the park. But is this a type of brutality fans haven’t seen in the films before Jurassic World? If anything, the brutality is part of the franchise’s successful chemistry.

In Jurassic World, we’re introduced to the full-size Indominus Rex after it successfully masks its temperature and lures Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) and two park employees into its enclosure. The monster strikes and delivers one of the franchise’s goriest deaths in a few short moments.

After revealing itself and chasing the trio, Indominus Rex immediately snatches up the slowest of the group with monstrous claws like some sort of demon, warranting a blood-curdling scream before a loud crunch silences the man. The beast then proceeds to tear him apart, catching fans off guard and setting stakes for what’s to come. In a tense moment outside of its cage, the Indominus tosses a car with ease and continues its slaughter throughout the park.

Was it Too Shocking for Jurassic Park fans?

But is it such a shocking scene? Fans on Reddit seem to think the original Jurassic Park stands apart from the newer entries. And one Reddit commenter even notes that Jurassic World was not an “overly gory movie,” lamenting that its sequels toned down the violence. That’s arguable since most of the scenes featuring the Indoraptor in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom show it chomping people to bits. The scene where Ted Levine’s Wheatley is eaten maintains the horror from the first entry while slowing it down. Where Indominus is fast and ferocious, Indoraptor lifts Levine by his arm and seems to enjoy torturing the mercenary before eating him.

Similarly, the original trilogy seems to get misremembered in terms of its gore and horror. The opening of Jurassic Park set the tone from the moment the velociraptor cage moves through the jungle leaves. I can still vividly remember the worker’s hands slipping away while the iconic raptor scream wails, wasting little time in scaring me to death. It also got me hooked, so it was super effective work by director Steven Spielberg.

What Movies Were They Watching?

The movie does not slow up much from that point. Characters we love, like Samuel L. Jackson’s Ray Arnold or Bob Peck’s Robert Muldoon, are unceremoniously killed in horrible fashion. Arnold’s arm is all that’s left of him by the conclusion, while Muldoon famously dies in the jaws of a “clever girl.” If you’re after gore, it’s there from the first movie, and it continues in the sequels: Donald Gennaro shows his cowardly side by abandoning the kids in the park cruiser with the T-Rex, hiding in the toilet nearby. This doesn’t work, of course, and Gennaro ends up in the jaws of the Rex and is ripped in half by its jaws. Dennis Nedry receives similar horror treatment with his death by Dilophosaurus. It’s far worse in the Michael Crichton book, but the onscreen demise is horrifying enough.

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Eddie Carr, Donald Gennaro & Mr. Udesky Would Like a Word

The franchise ups the onscreen gore in The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Countless nameless poachers are crushed, eaten, sliced, and diced throughout the movie, but the heroes seem to suffer the gnarliest demise. Eddie Carr (Richard Schiff) is in charge of the equipment for the heroes and dies sacrificing himself to save his team’s trailer which falls over a cliff after a T-rex attack. For his noble act, he is torn out of his car by the Tyrannosaurus pair and split in half like a wishbone.

The bloodletting continues in Jurassic Park III with the Spinosaurus and Velociraptor chasing the returning Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and his group. One of the mercenaries hired for protection is snatched up in broad daylight by the Spino and causes the group’s plane to crash. Later, the mercenary leader, Mr. Udesky (Michael Jeter), has what might be the most chilling death in the series. He is used as bait by the Velociraptors, leaving him alive by severing his spine before coldly snapping his neck once their trap is revealed.

Jurassic World is merely doing its part to keep up with the original trilogy when it comes to shocking gore. The stakes are raised in the sequel quite a bit, thanks to modern film capabilities, andit never shies away from showing its teeth. As other fans point out, Dominion sorely lacked these types of moments and hindered the rest of the movie. Worse yet, it only draws more attention to the shortcomings of the film and its bloated runtime.

Let’s hope this type of shocking scene returns in Jurassic World Rebirth. Seeing how it is returning to The Lost World‘s Isla Sorna, with new mutations similar to the Indominus Rex, the chances are high we could witness a return somewhat. Jurassic World Rebirth will hit theaters on July 2 with stars Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali, director Gareth Edwards, and the return of screenwriter David Koepp to the franchise.

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As the Jurassic World franchise enters a new era with this summer’s Jurassic World Rebirth, it’s been confirmed that there will be a new composer responsible for the musical score. According to Entertainment Weekly, Alexandre Desplat will be taking over for Michael Giacchino, who worked on all three installments of the original Jurassic World trilogy. Desplat talked about the “daunting task” of handling the music for such an iconic property, following the footsteps of not just Giacchino, but also John Williams. The Oscar-winning composer took it upon himself to find a way to pay homage to the past while also paving a new path forward that ties into the story director Gareth Edwards is telling.

“Every score John Williams has written has become an iconic score, so it’s quite a daunting task,” Desplat said. “At first, you’re excited, then panic comes along because you realize that you’re taking over from a fabulous composer who invented so many great things that the whole planet knows. You try to find your way through that. You try to make it your own, and at the same time, pay homage to Williams’ music, and try to find your own way through that by inventing new themes and ideas, but staying in the same artistic zone as the scores of the franchise.”

Over his career, Desplat has won two Oscars (The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Shape of Water) and been nominated for nine others. While this marks the first time he’s composing a Jurassic Park film, Desplat is no stranger to big-budget blockbusters. Among the previous credits on his filmography are two Harry Potter movies and 2014’s Godzilla.

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Jurassic World Rebirth is slated to hit theaters on July 2nd. Edwards’ approach with the film is to take the franchise back to its roots with a tone and story reminiscent of the 1993 original. A recent promotional video for the film showed that the filmmakers are bringing the iconic river raft scene from the Michael Crichton novel to the big screen. That sequence was initially designed to be in the first film but was cut.

Giacchino is one of this era’s standout composers himself, with an Oscar win to his name (Up) and several other notable titles on his resume. However, it’s still exciting to see Desplat come aboard. Given the film’s position as a “rebirth” of sorts for the series, it makes sense to bring in a new voice for the music. Desplat will be able to inject some fresh blood into the score with his unique perspective while also tipping his hat to what’s come before. This isn’t the first time he’s been part of a franchise touched by John Williams’ legacy (Harry Potter), so he knows exactly what that job entails. Someone with his experience and gifts should be able to craft a memorable score.

Music is an integral part of the Jurassic Park movies, either capturing the sense of awe and wonder at seeing dinosaurs brought back to life or helping the action set pieces feel more exciting. Those iconic musical cues are arguably as vital to the franchise’s success as the groundbreaking visual effects. Considering that rich track record, it should be thrilling to hear what Desplat came up with. There will obviously be nods to Williams’ work, but he’ll have a chance to leave his own mark with some original tracks.

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Jurassic Park has been stunning fans for over 32 years, yet we still find reasons to argue and debate about it. It shows this movie’s lasting impact, not just on one generation but several. Beyond elements like the Lysine contingency and how the T-Rex pen suddenly has a giant hole in it, one hotly debated moment surrounds the nature of the dinosaur eggs Dr. Alan Grant stumbles upon in the first movie. These eggs were the first significant indication that the breeding protocols didn’t work as intended. However, fans are confused, concerned, and argumentative about which type of eggs Grant actually found. Interestingly, the books didn’t leave this question up for debate, outright telling readers what kind of dinosaur laid the eggs. So now the question is, do we apply the book’s logic to the movie?

Any fan who’s watched their favorite novel get the adaptation treatment knows that significant changes can (and will) be made in the process, and Jurassic Park is no exception. For example, in Michael Crichton’s original book, John Hammond was a brutal capitalist, not some idealist who didn’t think his actions through. The movie also swapped around character traits and roles, resulting in a more even balance. While most fans can agree that the changes proved useful, it still raises the question of whether we can apply evidence from the books.

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Jurassic Park’s Wild Egg Debate

Following a series of unforgettable events, Dr. Grant, Tim, and Lex begin their trek back to the park’s main welcome center, which they hope will bring them safety. At this point, Dr. Grant spots something very concerning – a nest of eggs. Given that the island is supposed to be full of female dinosaurs, it could be believable that these eggs are infertile, with one major exception, as they had hatched. If the cracked shells leave any doubt, the little footprints will erase any lingering misunderstanding. All of this is to say viewers learned alongside Grant that the failsafe was, well, failing.

Here’s where the big debate occurs, as the movie never explicitly states what type of dinosaur eggs they were. We can infer from the scene that the dinosaurs in question couldn’t be the Brachiosaurus; the eggs are too small, and the nest is tucked between two roots, so it’s just not possible. But that raises an even bigger question: What are they if they’re not Brachiosaurus eggs? Grant and the kids haven’t gotten that far, so we can probably assume they’re still in the same enclosure. This spells bad news for containment procedures.

Eagle-eyed fans quickly point out that the eggs portrayed in this scene are the same color, shape, and size as eggs seen in two other instances. The first occurred earlier in this movie when the crew watched the hatching of a baby Raptor. The second instance played a major role in Jurassic Park III. In this movie, Billy steals a few raptor eggs in hopes of earning extra funding for himself and Grant. This begins a whole subplot, but the key detail to focus on is the type of egg: Velociraptor eggs. It is probably the worst dinosaur to have lost and bred on the island.

A few passing phrases in Jurassic Park back this theory up. When introducing the raptors, the crew explains two key pieces of information. First, the raptors weren’t originally in this dense and high-security pen; they had been moved after testing out the fences. Second, they originally bred eight raptors. Slipping in that “originally” predisposes viewers to think about growing numbers.

Naturally, as this is an ongoing debate, some fans take issue with presenting these pieces of evidence as fact. After all, we have no proof that the eggs belong to Raptors. Likewise, we have no proof the Raptors ever escaped their enclosures before the system reboot. A lot has to line up to make this possible, so it feels too far-fetched. Plus, the smaller prints may indicate Gallimumus prints, which sounds believable, especially considering the herd that Grant and the kids soon encounter.

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What the Jurassic Park Book Has to Say

As mentioned, the Jurassic Park novel doesn’t leave any room for interpretation regarding these eggs. In the book, the Raptors escaped fairly early in the process. It’s why mentioning eight of the dinosaurs at first is so important, because unobserved, these numbers went from eight to thirty-seven. Yes, many Raptors were free-roaming on the island at a certain point, so it’s easy to see how that posed quite a problem.

By being precise about these eggs, the Jurassic Park novel establishes a clear problem and sets up the sequel. However, we’re still divided on whether evidence from the books should be applied to the movie. As we already discussed, the adaptation made many changes to the novel’s plot, and it never outright told readers that the raptors escaped. There’s too much left open to interpretation for this case ever to be closed. Now, if Steven Spielberg would like to weigh in and close this debate once and for all, that would be fantastic.

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A new promotional video for this summer’s Jurassic World Rebirth offers a tease of a scene that was cut from the original Jurassic Park. Featuring sound bites from members of the cast and crew, the primary objective of this video is to illustrate how Rebirth harkens back to the seminal 1993 classic, blending a sense of awe with a terrifying survival story. About halfway through the video, screenwriter David Koepp, who is returning to the franchise after penning the first two installments, opened up about a scene involving a river raft, discussing how it draws from the original Jurassic Park book by Michael Crichton.

“The sequence with the raft was in the first novel,” Koepp said. “One of the first things [executive producer Steven Spielberg] and I said was, ‘We gotta get that raft sequence in some place.'” Footage of Koepp’s interview is interspersed with clips of the scene in question, featuring characters frantically paddling in a raft. You can see the video in the space above.

The Jurassic Park novel includes a scene where Dr. Alan Grant, Lex, and Tim escape from a T-rex in a raft. During development of the movie adaptation, the sequence was storyboarded but never entirely filmed. It would have been a significant set piece for the blockbuster, showcasing the T-rex chasing its prey through the water.

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Jurassic fans have known the raft sequence would be featured in Rebirth since February, when producer Frank Marshall confirmed its inclusion. It’s one of many connections to the original Jurassic Park in Rebirth. Not only is director Gareth Edwards looking to take the series back to its roots with regard to the tone, Rebirth‘s main setting is where the original Jurassic Park lab was located.

The raft scene is one of the standout parts of the book, but it’s easy to see why it was cut for the film. When Spielberg was making the original Jurassic Park, CGI was in its infancy. His special effects team were pushed to their limits when crafting the dinosaur sequences that are in the final product. Due to the technological limits of the era, it would have been borderline impossible to film — even for Spielberg. Considering how famous and scary the scene is in the novel, it would have been disappointing if the filmmakers fell short of realizing it for the big screen. It’s better Spielberg & Co. held off on including it in a Jurassic movie until now, as they’re able to utilize today’s advanced tools to pull it off in a way that should be satisfying.

As Universal gears up for Jurassic World Rebirth‘s July premiere, it’ll be interesting to see if the raft scene becomes a bigger focus of marketing. Studios like to build trailers and TV spots around big-budget spectacle, so it wouldn’t be surprising if the raft sequence became a centerpiece of promotion, highlighting the film’s scares and scope in a single scene. That said, it arguably might be for the best if it isn’t completely spoiled before audiences have a chance to see Jurassic World Rebirth on the big screen. This has the potential to be a special moment for the franchise, and holding off for just a few more months could pay off in spades.

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Jurassic Park spared no expense — and John Hammond (Richard Attenborough). Steven Spielberg’s 1993 adaptation of author Michael Crichton’s novel sees the InGen CEO and co-founder “spare no expense” in hiring three experts — paleontologist Alan Grant (Sam Neill), paleobotanist Ellie Sattler (Laura Stern), and chaotician Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) — to sign off on his island, Isla Nublar. It’s the site of Jurassic Park, a theme park and zoo where the main attractions are dinosaurs cloned from paleo-DNA.

But when disgruntled Jurassic Park computer technician Dennis Nedry’s (Wayne Knight) sabotage causes the island’s facilities to shut down, freeing the dinosaurs to once more roam the Earth the island off the coast of Costa Rica, Nedry, lawyer Donald Gennaro (Martin Ferrero), game warden Robert Muldoon (Bob Peck), and chain-smoking chief engineer Ray Arnold (Samuel L. Jackson) all become casualties of a park preview gone wrong.

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Hammond (who spared almost no expense except for his technician) survives, and ultimately escapes the island with his grandchildren Lex (Ariana Richards) and Tim (Joseph Mazzello). He then returns in the sequel, 1997’s The Lost World: Jurassic Park, which opens with a pack of Compsognathus attacking a young girl on Isla Sorna, a sister island 87 miles southeast of Nublar.

The girl survives, but later in the movie, dino-hunter Dieter Stark (Peter Stormare) isn’t as fortunate when he encounters the “compys.”

Life, uh, finds a way

It’s a fate inspired by Crichton’s original Jurassic Park novel, where Hammond dies when he’s swarmed by a pack of Procompsognathus (the book’s equivalent of the compys).

In the chapter “Hammond II,” Hammond has broken his ankle after falling down a hillside while en route to his bungalow. The 76-year-old tries and fails to climb the hill, only to hear the chitters of the chicken-sized scavengers that prey on crippled animals. The venomous bites of the compys overwhelm Hammond, and he dies feeling only a “slight pain” as the dinosaurs bite into his neck.

David Koepp, screenwriter of 1993’s Jurassic Park, referenced Hammond’s original fate in the latest issue of Empire Magazine. The issue, commemorating the 50th anniversary of another Spielberg movie based on a novel about a man-eating creature — 1975’s Jaws — draws a comparison to author Peter Benchley’s novel. The movie dropped a novel subplot about Hooper (played by Richard Dreyfuss in the movie) having an affair with police chief Martin Brody’s (Roy Scheider) before being killed by the shark.

“Those sound like the sort of choices you need to make when you adapt a novel,” Koepp told Empire. “With Jurassic Park, the novel’s a bit darker than the film. The Richard Attenborough character [Hammond] dies in the book, eaten by his creations. And it just seemed like a downer.”

“We kinda like this guy; can’t he just learn his lesson?” Koepp said. “And that sounds like a similar choice [in Jaws]. You don’t need an affair. You have a great white shark. That’s a lot to work with.”

The Jurassic Park movie also softened Attenborough’s Hammond, who is more dismissive of the park’s employees and the deaths of workmen. In The Lost World novel, Malcolm remembers the late Hammond as a “hustler” whose only true talent was “making money.”

Koepp also penned new movie Jurassic World Rebirth, which stomps into theaters July 2.

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Expect “thrillifying” news out Universal’s CinemaCon presentation. With the third day of the theater owners confab currently underway in Las Vegas, Universal Pictures and Focus Features will take over the stage at Caesars Palace’s Colosseum theater on Wednesday (from 3:45 p.m. PT to 5:30 p.m.) to preview a 2025 slate that includes anticipated sequels like Wicked: For Good and Jurassic World Rebirth; Blumhouse’s M3GAN 2.0, The Black Phone 2, and Five Nights at Freddy’s 2; and DreamWorks’ live-action How to Train Your Dragon remake, which screened in full exclusively for attendees ahead of a June premiere in theaters.

To recap: Universal and Focus follow Sony’s blockbuster showcase, which kicked off the four-day CinemaCon on Monday with the newly titled Spider-Man: Brand New Day and newly dated Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, plus the reveal of the Fab Four actors set to play the Beatles in four Sam Mendes-directed biopics.

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Tuesday saw Lionsgate announce a slew of sequels, including the Keanu Reeves-fronted John Wick: Chapter 5, a spinoff centered on Donnie Yen’s Caine, and an animated Wick prequel movie, plus a new Hunger Games prequel movie and not one but two Now You See Me sequels. Warner Bros. underwhelmed with a “Big Picture” presentation with new footage from James Gunn’s Superman and Warner Bros. Animation’s The Cat in the Hat reboot, but little in the way of announcements beyond animated Tom & Jerry, Flintstones, and Looney Tunes movies.

“At Universal, we don’t buy franchises; we build them from the ground up, working with the most innovative, bold and kinetic filmmakers and actors in the industry,” said Jim Orr, President, Domestic Theatrical Distribution, Universal Pictures. “Our 2025 slate stands as a testament to our commitment to cinema that shatters the mold and to movies that invite audiences into your theaters… and then to places they never imagined.”

Following the release of the Blumhouse and Platinum Dunes thriller Drop (April 11), about a widowed single mom (The White Lotus‘ Meghann Fahy) who is terrorized by anonymous messages dropped to her phone, Universal will bring the live-action reimagining of How to Train Your Dragon (June 13) to theaters with HTTYD trilogy director Dean DeBlois.

After the first M3GAN 2.0 teaser trailer danced online during the Grammys in February, Universal will deliver an update on Blumhouse and Atomic Monster’s A.I. mean girl (June 27). Another franchise roaring back to life is Jurassic World Rebirth (July 2), from director Gareth Edwards (Godzilla, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) and writer David Koepp (the original Jurassic Park). The action-packed new chapter sees an extraction team — played by Scarlett Johansson (the Avengers movies), Jonathan Bailey (Wicked), and Mahershala Ali (Marvel’s Blade reboot) — race to the most dangerous place on Earth: an abandoned island research facility inhabited by the most lethal creatures in history.

DreamWorks Animation’s The Bad Guys 2 (August 11) — featuring the voices of Sam Rockwell, Anthony Ramos, Awkwafina, and Craig Robinson, who are joined by Danielle Brooks, Maria Bakalova, and Natasha Lyonne as The Bad Girls — will steal a segment of the showcase, followed by DreamWorks’ Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie (Sept. 26).

Also hitting theaters later this summer is 87North’s Nobody 2 (Aug. 15), which again stars Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul) as everyman and former assassin Hutch Mansell. From Blumhouse, Ethan Hawke and Mason Thames will once again answer the call for Black Phone 2 (Oct. 17), and Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (Dec. 5) will unleash another level of animatronic terror with director Emma Tammi (2023’s FNAF movie) based on Scott Cawthon’s video game series.

Finally, Universal will return to the Land of Oz for Wicked 2. The followup to last year’s musical blockbuster, Wicked: For Good (Nov. 21) again stars Oscar nominees Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba and Ariana Grande as Glinda, a.k.a. the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good.

Stay tuned to ComicBook.com for the latest CinemaCon news and updates as they happen.

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Whenever a new feature in the Jurassic Park saga drops its first trailer, you can expect plenty of nods to the previous movies. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’s first teaser, for example, culminated in Jeff Goldblum’s Ian Malcolm solemnly intoning “life finds a way.” Jurassic World Rebirth, meanwhile, kicked off its first trailer with a shot evoking that Jurassic Park image of the T-Rex roaring while the “When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth” fell in the foreground. Fittingly for a franchise about beasts from eons ago, the Jurassic Park marketing machine always begins with reminders of yesteryear.

But what about the very first Jurassic Park movie? This 1993 adaptation of the original Michael Crichton novel had no other installments to build off of. There was no pre-existing John Williams theme or famous John Hammond lines it could co-opt. The film version of Jurassic Park instead introduced audiences to this universe with a marketing method common to pre-21st century blockbusters. This involved eschewing showing any footage from the final film, but it still produced one of the all-time great teaser trailers, nonetheless.

What Is The Jurassic Park Teaser Trailer?

This Jurassic Park teaser, running 100 seconds, is initially set in an environment only briefly glimpsed at in the final film. The trailer immediately plunges viewers into the mines where folks frantically look for any organisms that could have dinosaur DNA. The teaser’s imagery shows one miner finding something in stone, which turns out to be a meticulously preserved mosquito with dinosaur blood in its veins. A momentous score accompanying these images emphasizes the staggering importance of what’s happening onscreen.

The teaser concludes with the camera slowly pulling in on a microscope as a polished-sounding narrator intones how the first evidence of dinosaur DNA was found “in the spring of 1990, from a mine in South America came a piece of amber containing the fossilized remains of a prehistoric mosquito.” As the camera zooms in on the preserved mosquito (with viewers getting an intimate look at the insect’s pupils), the score doubles down on ominous noises as the narrator notes that this bug allowed scientists to recreate dinosaurs. “Man and dinosaur shared the Earth. It happened at a place called … Jurassic Park.” Cue the now-famous Jurassic Park logo, with the trailer announcer promising that “next summer, director Steven Spielberg will take you there.”

There’s no Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, or even dinosaurs in sight in this teaser, yet this initial piece of Jurassic Park marketing engrossed the imagination. Showing the practical process of unearthing these mosquitoes just makes it feel extra tangible that everything onscreen could really happen. The specific dates and locations invoked for the history of dinosaur DNA reconstruction only heighten this authenticity. Concluding on a note reinforcing Spielberg’s reputation as a master of cinematic spectacle is a perfect way to close out this teaser. Who needs to see spoilery Jurassic Park images when the combination of this compelling premise and filmmaker is enough to communicate that something special is brewing?

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These Kinds of Teasers Used To Be More Common

It’s hard to imagine the Jurassic Park teaser trailer even getting proposed, let alone released, today. The modern movie marketing ecosystem is all about launching trailers full of footage from the actual film so that online speculation can run rampant about potential Easter eggs, surprise cameos, or sequel teases hiding in plain sight. The showmanship and restraint in the Jurassic Park teaser are absent from the 2020s movie marketing machine, but it wasn’t always this way.

On the contrary, the Jurassic Park teaser reflected the standard way most massive blockbuster kicked off their movie marketing campaigns. The 1990s especially saw a wave of expensive features introduce themselves to the public with footage shot exclusively for a teaser. T2: Judgement Day, Total Recall, and 1998’s Godzilla are perfect examples of this phenomenon. Movies had longer promotional campaigns back in the day, while the internet speculation machine didn’t exist yet. In this landscape, teasers that functioned as mini-standalone movies were a go-to way of drumming up excitement.

Though this trend lasted until 2001 with Spider-Man, this just isn’t how movies are promoted anymore. Taking the time to create fresh teasers reflecting an individual motion picture’s aesthetic is not something studios have any patience for anymore. That just makes the Jurassic Park teaser all the more incredible to absorb. It’s a time capsule of craftsmanship and showmanship, not to mention a fittingly excellent trailer for a movie as outstanding as Jurassic Park.

Jurassic Park is now streaming on Starz and Hulu.

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Fandango has released its list of the most anticipated movies this summer, and the film claiming the top spot may surprise you. The Top 10 list is filled with familiar franchises and superhero fare, from Marvel to DC to Mission: Impossible to John Wick to Jurassic World, just to name a few. One would assume that big-budget remakes of Fantastic Four and Superman would fight it out for box office dominance, but a surprising contender has risen to the top to be the #1 film on the minds of moviegoers for the summer. But that doesn’t mean these superhero films are far behind, still making it into the Top 5.

The Top 10 Most Anticipated Summer Movies in Fandango’s list is led by Jurassic World Rebirth, followed by The Fantastic Four: First Steps in second place, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning in third place, Superman in fourth place, and Thunderbolts* in fifth place. The list is rounded out by From The World of John Wick: Ballerina in sixth place, 28 Years Later in seventh place, How to Train Your Dragon in eighth place, Lilo & Stitch in ninth place, and Freakier Friday in tenth place. You can check out the full list below.

The top 10 most anticipated summer movies are:

1. Jurassic World Rebirth
2. The Fantastic Four: First Steps
3. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
4. Superman
5. Thunderbolts*
6. From The World of John Wick: Ballerina
7. 28 Years Later
8. How to Train Your Dragon
9. Lilo & Stitch
10. Freakier Friday

These results come from Fandango’s annual Moviegoing Trends & Insights Study as the industry gears up for CinemaCon, running March 31-April 3 in Las Vegas. The online movie ticketing service surveyed over 5,000 moviegoers and split them between Loyal Moviegoers — those who saw five or more movies in theaters in 2024 — and Casual Moviegoers — those who saw fewer than four movies in theaters in 2024.

“As consumers’ appetite and interests continue to evolve, understanding moviegoing behaviors is essential to find new areas of opportunity and help drive industry growth,” said Jerramy Hainline, EVP of Fandango. “With a diverse slate of upcoming films, from superhero epics to action thrillers to cult classic sequels, this summer is proving to have something for all movie fans.”

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Loyal Moviegoers made up 41% of the survey sample, seeing an average of 10 movies in 2024. The statistics say they are most likely to be millennials or Gen X, and most likely male. Casual Moviegoers represented 59% of the survey sample, saw an average of two movies in 2024, and are likely to be Gen Z and female. 

It may come as a surprise that neither The Fantastic Four: First Steps or Superman is the most anticipated movie for Summer 2025. Comic book fans like to think that the world revolves around their favorite heroes, but apparently, that isn’t the case. The Jurassic Park/Jurassic World franchise continues to churn out films that audiences look forward to.

Jurassic World Rebirth is something of a soft reboot for the franchise. Its narrative takes place five years after the events of 2022’s disappointing and critically panned Jurassic World Dominion. Directed by Gareth Edwards, the film stars Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, Mahershala Ali, Rupert Friend, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Luna Blaise, David Iacono, and Audrina Miranda.

Jurassic World Rebirth hits theaters on July 2nd. Let us know what your most anticipated movie of Summer 2025 is in the comments below!

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Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park is an all-time dinosaur movie classic, but there’s one plot hole in the movie that has eluded fans for thirty years. Now though, some fans think they’ve found an explanation. Based upon Michael Crichton’s 1990 novel of the same name, Jurassic Park centers on a group of scientists and kids brought in as the first test audience for a theme park populated by dinosaurs, brought back to life in modern times through cloning technology. Unfortunately, a power mishap shuts down the park’s electrified fences, allowing the dinos to escape, including the fearsome Tyrannosaurus Rex in one of the most iconic dinosaur movie scenes of all time.

While the T-Rex’s escape scene still thrills and scares with the same power today as it did in 1993, many audiences have noticed one issue with the environment it takes place in. When the scene begins, the ground inside of the T-Rex’s paddock looks to be level with the ground outside of it, yet the scene culminates in the T-Rex pushing one of the two tour cars over a cliff inside of the paddock that was previously not there. Naturally, that has only left the fan theory mill to churn endlessly on where the cliff inside of the T-Rex paddock came from, and in a recent post by user Specialist-Ad-5300 on the official Jurassic Park subreddit, some fans seemingly have come up with the perfect explanation. The question is, are they on the money? Or is it one big pile of…

Fans Think They’ve Figured Out Where The T-Rex Paddock Cliff Came From In Jurassic Park

The fan theory of the cliffside’s sudden arrival inside of the T-Rex paddock posits that there may have been a built-in cliffside inside of the area all along. In the post, a bird’s eye view blueprint of the T-Rex paddock lays out both the location of the two Jurassic Park tour cars when they stop in front of the paddock, and the section inside of the paddock that the T-Rex pushed the first car into. As seen in this blueprint, there is a large concrete moat on the far side of the paddock, with a deep drop to its right. This indicates that in pushing the car over, spinning it in on its top, and eventually pushing it over the edge, the T-Rex also inadvertently shoved the car right in front of the section of the paddock where the cliff was located.

As an added outline of the scene, the Reddit post also includes aerial artwork from inside the paddock, showing the two cars on their side of the fence, the T-Rex approaching the area of the fence she broke through, and the concrete moat and cliffside to her right. With these two outlines, many Jurassic Park fans believe it is now possible to account for the cliff’s sudden appearance in the movie’s T-Rex escape scene, with the T-Rex simply exiting the paddock in an area where the ground was flush with the outside of the paddock, and pushing the car into the section with a huge drop. However, this doesn’t mean that the makers of Jurassic Park were thinking along these lines while making the movie.

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Jurassic Park Photos Debunk This Fan Theory As Being Official (But It’s Still A Good Explanation)

While it’s a compelling and decidedly persuasive explanation for why there is a cliff inside of the T-Rex paddock that didn’t seem to be there before, footage from Jurassic Park itself unfortunately rules the idea out. When the two Jurassic Park tours cars first arrive at the T-Rex paddock (seen in another Reddit post made by user waber_mattie), the area of the T-Rex’s paddock referenced in the two aerial outlines is visible. In this image, it can clearly be seen that the ground throughout the T-Rex paddock is flush with the ground outside of the paddock, including in the area where the cliffside and concrete moat would have ostensibly been situated.

Additionally, either of the two blueprints being official concept art for Jurassic Park has already been officially debunked by Jurassic Park visual effects supervisor Phil Tippett. The aerial photo of the T-Rex inside of the paddock was circulating on Twitter/X as far back as 2023, with Tippet quote-tweeting a user claiming that animatics were created of the T-Rex dragging the car through the mud, with the shot specifically inserted in the animatic by Tippet to account for the cliff’s presence in the scene, but that this part of the scene itself was never filmed. In his quote tweet, Tippett responded “Re: The image below. I never saw it and dealt a lot with Rick Carter the Production Designer. 99.9% sure it a fan thing.” While Tippett’s .01 margin of error might leave the slimmest of possibilities of the aerial artwork being official, it’s about as official a debunking as one can get.

In the end, the blueprint and the fan art of the T-Rex paddock might not be officially sanctioned as canon to the movie by the makers of Jurassic Park, but they are nonetheless impressive layouts to account for the continuity discrepancy of the cliff only being inside of the paddock when the T-Rex pushes the car over. In all, it’s pretty easy for fans to head canon the two aerial layouts to explain the plot hole, even if it does mean attributing the view of the ground inside of the paddock level with the ground outside as being a minor continuity gaffe. Steven Spielberg, however, has another arguably much better explanation.

Steven Spielberg Had The Perfect Response To The Cliff Continuity Error In Jurassic Park

Fans aren’t the only ones to have noticed the cliff inside of the T-Rex paddock appearing out of nowhere. Per Jurassic Park‘s official Making Of Book, co-writer David Koepp actually asked Spielberg directly “Aren’t we going to wonder where the cliff came from?” Spielberg then replied to Koepp “There’s a T-Rex right there!”, indicating Spielberg’s belief that the presence of a towering pre-historic predator like the Tyrannosaurus Rex would be where the audience’s attention would be locked for the duration of the scene. In essence, Spielberg prioritized believability over realism in this scene, and with the T-Rex escape scene still standing as the most iconic Jurassic Park T-Rex scene of all time, it’s hard to argue he was wrong.

This wasn’t the first time Spielberg had determined that believability was of greater importance than plausibility. In the 1995 Making of Jaws documentary, Jaws author Peter Benchley described when Spielberg laid out his plans to give Jaws a “big, rousing ending.” The shark’s demise in Benchley’s novel comes after the shark finally dies of its mortal wounds just before being able to eat Sherriff Martin Brody and sinking to the bottom of the ocean, with Spielberg changing it to the ending of Brody shooting an oxygen tank inside the shark’s mouth, causing it to explode. Despite Benchley feeling that Spielberg’s ending was “completely unbelievable,” Spielberg told Benchley “I don’t care. If I’ve got them for two hours, they will believe whatever I do for the next three minutes, because I’ve got them in my hands, and I want the audience on their feet screaming at the end ‘Yes! Yes! Yes! This is what should happen to this animal!” In the end, Benchley conceded “He was right, I was wrong in this entire argument” regarding the ending of Jaws.

As with Jurassic Park 18 years later, Jaws became the highest-grossing movie ever made at the time, and both are testimony to Spielberg’s skill as popcorn moviemaking and storytelling. In some cases, a writer and director may need to sacrifice some amount of logic or realism in order to tell a compelling story or deliver the most dynamic and exciting action sequence possible for the audience. The cliff inside of the T-Rex’s paddock simply appearing out of thin air falls into this category. It might be a hiccup in the geography presented on-screen previously, but the T-Rex’s escape is that much more terrifying when Dr. Grant and Lex dodge the falling Jurassic Park tour car by mere inches as it falls sixty feet into a tree below with Tim still inside. The efforts of fans to account for the cliff’s presence in Jurassic Park‘s T-Rex escape demonstrate the talent that devoted fans have for fan art and analysis of their favorite movies, but for Steven Spielberg, all that ever mattered was making the T-Rex as scary a monster as possible, an endeavor he and Jurassic Park unequivocally succeeded at.

Jurassic Park is available to stream on Starz.

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The LEGO lineup for March 2025 is substantial, but it lacked a real blockbuster set – until now. The LEGO Group and Universal Products and Experiences have launched the Jurassic World Dinosaur Fossils: Tyrannosaurus rex (T.rex) #76968 set. It will be the largest in the Jurassic World collection at 3,145 pieces, and will produce a detailed T. rex fossil skeleton that will measure more than 3 feet in length when complete. Everything you need to know about adding it to your collection can be found below.

The T.rex set will feature a movable head, opening jaw, and posable arms and tail for custom posing along with a display stand and an information plaque. There will also be an Easter egg or two, like a hidden amber piece. Speaking of Easter eggs based on the films, LEGO has done something special with the minifigures by including Dr. Ellie Sattler and Dr. Alan Grant in this set based on the characters’ appearances in the original 1993 Jurassic Park film.

Honestly, this is the direction that we hoped LEGO would go in after releasing the Dinosaur Fossils: T.rex skull and Triceratops skull sets. If you want to get your hands on it, make sure to sign up for a LEGO Insiders account (it’s free) and grab one right here at the LEGO Shop. It is now available to purchase in early access priced at $249.99. Non-members will be able to purchase it at the same time and in the same place on March 15th. Note that a wave of LEGO sets inspired by Jurassic World Rebirth are on the way for June 1st. Details about those sets can be found here.

You can find many of the upcoming LEGO releases here in the “Coming Soon” section on the LEGO website.  After the launch, they will shift here in the “Available Now” section. Some of the new releases will be available here on Amazon, but in most cases you’ll want to stick with LEGO to take advantage of their special offers. You can also take a first look at LEGO sets inspired by the upcoming Jurassic World Rebirth right here. The official synopsis for the movie can be found below.

“Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, theplanet’s ecology has proven largely inhospitable to dinosaurs. Those remaining exist in isolated equatorial environments with climates resembling the one in which they once thrived. The three most colossal creatures within that tropical biosphere hold the key to a drug thatwill bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humankind. Academy Award nominee Scarlett Johansson plays skilled covert operations expert Zora Bennett, contracted to lead a skilled team on a top-secret mission tosecure genetic material from the world’s three most massive dinosaurs.

“When Zora’s operation intersects with a civilian family whose boating expedition was capsized by marauding aquatic dinos, they all find themselves stranded on an island where they come face-to-face with a sinister, shocking discovery that’s been hidden from the world for decades.”

Jurassic World Rebirth will hit theaters on July 2nd.

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Scarlett Johansson is one of the rare Hollywood A-listers who does not have a social media presence, and she wasn’t going to change that to promote the upcoming Jurassic World Rebirth. In a wide-ranging interview with InStyle, the Oscar-nominated actress discussed her feelings about social media and revealed that Universal had asked her to start an Instagram account to help raise awareness for Jurassic World Rebirth‘s impending release. While acknowledging that there are benefits to using social media platforms (Johansson has appeared on posts shared by her skincare company, The Outset), she doesn’t enjoy social media enough to make it part of her personal life.

“I mean, even today, I got an email from Universal [Pictures], and they’re like, ‘Hey, would you consider joining Instagram in tandem with the release of Jurassic World Rebirth?’” Johansson said. “[I] get a lot of pressure to join social media.” She also stated she doesn’t believe she could “stay true to who I am” if she was on social media.

“The work that I put out there is all based in truth. That’s the key ingredient,” she added. “So if I was a person who really enjoyed social media, then I could totally get on the bandwagon. But I’m not. And I think the film will do fine.” 

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Johansson stars in Jurassic World Rebirth as Zora Bennett, a covert ops specialist who embarks on a dangerous mission to secure DNA samples from the largest dinosaur species on Earth to aid in the development of a drug that can save lives. Directed by Gareth Edwards, the film is scheduled to hit theaters in July. The cast also includes the likes of Mahershala Ali, Jonathan Bailey, and Rupert Friend.

Ahead of the movie’s premiere, Universal has been revving up the promotional campaign. February saw the release of the first official Rebirth trailer, which highlighted the film’s terrifying dinosaurs. The studio also promoted the blockbuster during this year’s Super Bowl, releasing a TV spot.

Johansson’s assessment that Jurassic World Rebirth will “do fine” should pan out. All three installments of the original Jurassic World trilogy grossed over $1 billion at the worldwide box office, despite earning mixed reviews. Based on that track record, Rebirth is poised to be one of the top earners of the year, kicking off what should be a busy July at the multiplex (Superman and The Fantastic Four: First Steps also come out that month). Releasing over the always lucrative Fourth of July weekend should be a boon for Rebirth, even if word-of-mouth isn’t the strongest. For over 30 years, the Jurassic Park franchise has been one of Hollywood’s premier properties.

Whether or not Johansson starts an Instagram account shouldn’t have any bearing on Rebirth‘s ticket sales. Still, it’s easy to see why Universal was interested in getting its star on the platform. Thanks to her work with Marvel and in other high-profile projects, Johansson has a sizable fan base, meaning she’d be able to reach millions of people directly on Instagram. If she had joined social media, she probably wouldn’t have had to post anything too in-depth or personal; she could have used the account strictly for promoting Rebirth by sharing clips and photos from events. But her stance on social media as a whole is understandable, and Rebirth should be just fine this summer.

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We all watch movies like Jurassic Park and Jurassic World and marvel at the possibilities of bringing back animals and creators from the history books into the present day, and now Colossal Biosciences has made a massive step towards doing just that. Colossal Biosciences has achieved a huge milestone in advanced multiplexed genome engineering with the birth of the Colossal Woolly Mouse, who have been engineered to express multiple key mammoth-like traits that allow it to adapt to life in cold climates. You can get an up-close look at the Woolly Mice below.

These mice have been created with altered coat color, texture, and thickness, which are all reminiscent the woolly mammoth’s core phenotypes. This is a huge step in showing the feasibility of expressing traits using all of the information learned from computational analysis of 59 wooly, Columbian, and steppe mammoth genomes, which range from 3,500 to over 1,200,000 years old. These are all crucial targets for mammoth de-extinction.

Colossal’s mammoth team explored a data set of 121 mammoth and elephant genomes, identifying significant genes that impact hair and other cold-adaptation traits. The official release states that the team focused on a suite of genes in which mammoths had evolved fixed differences compared to their closely related Asian elephant cousins, and then refined the list to include ten genes related to hair length, thickness, texture, and color as well as lipid metabolism that were compatible with expressions in a mouse.

The team then edited the mouse genome using a combination of three editing technologies, including RNP-mediated knockout, multiplex precious genome editing, and precision homology-directed repair (HDR). Those edits were made simultaneously, and some of the editing efficiencies were as high as 100% to modify seven genes.

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“The Colossal Woolly Mouse marks a watershed moment in our de-extinction mission,” said Ben Lamm, Co-Founder and CEO of Colossal Biosciences. “By engineering multiple cold-tolerant traits from mammoth evolutionary pathways into a living model species, we’ve proven our ability to recreate complex genetic combinations that took nature millions of years to create. This success brings us a step closer to our goal of bringing back the woolly mammoth.”

“The Colossal Woolly Mouse showcases our ability to use the latest genome editing tools and approaches to drive predictable phenotypes,” said Dr. Beth Shapiro, Chief Science Officer at Colossal. “It is an important step toward validating our approach to resurrecting traits that have been lost to extinction and that our goal is to restore.”

“I’m incredibly proud of what our team has accomplished here in the lab in such a short period of time,” said Dr. Michael Abrams, who co-leads Colossal’s Mammoth Team. “We’ve pushed the boundaries of genetic engineering by coordinating multiple complex trait modifications in living animals with exceptionally high efficiency. This achievement showcases both the technical expertise of our scientists and the power of our genetic engineering platform to deliver predictable phenotypes.”

“The Colossal Woolly Mouse demonstrates remarkable progress we’ve made in precise genome engineering, including optimized delivery methods, innovative multiplexing and combinations of gene targeting strategies,” said George Church, Professor of Genetics at the Wyss Institute and Harvard Medical School and Co-founder of Colossal. “We are showing that we can now rationally design and construct complex genetic adaptations, with profound implications for the future of multi-gene de-extinction and engineering.”

Fans will have a chance to hear from Lamm and actor and producer Joe Manganiello in a special keynote at SXSW today at 2 pm CT to talk about the implications of the Woolly Mouse and it’s impact on Colossal’s de-extinction efforts.

What do you think of the Woolly Mouse, and are we one major step closer to actually making Jurassic Park a reality? Let us know in the comments or on Bluesky @knightofoa!

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With Jurassic World Rebirth arriving ten years after Jurassic World’s debut, audiences will officially have experienced more Jurassic installments over the last decade than they did in the first 21 years after Jurassic Park’s release. Today, it’s easy to forget, but there was a time when countless obstacles seemed to make it a foregone conclusion that Jurassic Park would remain a trilogy. The days of a raptor exclaiming “Alan!” in Jurassic Park III seemed destined to be the grand final of this saga. With problems like the passing of Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton, creative changes behind the scenes, and The Great Recession, these dinos faced no shortage of obstacles in evading cinematic extinction.

Jurassic World would eventually arrive in June 2015 and shatter box office expectations across the globe. For many, it seemed like an inevitable next step for the franchise to explore what would happen if a version of Jurassic Park actually opened. Getting to that narrative, though, was a long and winding road that included a now infamous alternate Jurassic Park 4 script that was nothing short of bonkers.

What Was The Plot of This Proposed Jurassic Park 4?

In the eons between Jurassic Park III and Jurassic World, multiple different ideas for how to extend the franchise were considered. Some explicitly continued the world of Jurassic Park III by further exploring the world of Dr. Alan Grant. However, the most famous unmade version of Jurassic Park 4 was written by director John Sayles. In his career, Sayles is most well-known for socially conscious and intimate works like Matewan and Lone Star. However, Sayles cut his teeth as a screenwriter on cheapie Roger Corman genre films like Piranha and Battle Beyond the Stars.

Sayles would evoke those roots with his absolutely unhinged concept for a fourth Jurassic Park adventure. This production would’ve focused on an almost exclusively new cast of characters grappling with a new biological threat: dinosaurs spliced with human DNA’s. These creatures were supposed to be the ideal soldiers, since they could handle weapons like human beings but had all the ferocity of a dinosaur. Leaked concept art for the film shows that this idea would not have been grounded in reality visually. Jurassic Park 4 was committed to humanoid creatures that had T-Rex teeth, scales, and other dinosaur flourishes.

The feature envisioned by Sales would’ve apparently concluded with those dinosaur soldiers (while trying to rescue a girl taken hostage by evildoers) gaining autonomy and betraying the normal human characters. Life finds a way and wouldn’t you know it, dinosaurs chowing down on humans overly confident in their ability to control nature also finds a way. This vision of Jurassic Park 4 would’ve been a massive departure from everything that preceded this feature in the Jurassic Park franchise. Perhaps it was too audacious, as this version of the production would eventually fall apart. It would take until the early 2010s for Jurassic Park 4 to gain any more momentum.

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Would This Project Have Improved on Jurassic World?

Decades after Sayles wrote this bananas screenplay, it’s worth asking whether or not his version of Jurassic Park 4 sounds superior to the Jurassic World audiences got in June 2015. That’s a difficult comparison given that one of these projects exists only as a screenplay and the other is a finished film. Who knows if this earlier iteration of Jurassic Park 4 would’ve maintained all its endearing madness to its final cut. However, on a conceptual level, this does sound like a much more entertaining and fearless ride than the more nostalgic-centric Jurassic World.

While Colin Trevorrow’s 2015 follow-up was very focused on reminding people of the past, the vision of Jurassic Park 4 from Sayles and company sounds like a total upending of expectations of what a Jurassic Park movie even looks like. It could’ve delivered beasts, visuals, and types of action sequences we still haven’t seen in this franchise. Plus, this iteration of Jurassic Park 4 would’ve fully committed to audacious ideas like dinosaur/human hybrid soldiers.

That’s a welcome stark contrast to how the Jurassic World movies keep waking back potentially game-changing notions for the saga like Fallen Kingdom’s fizzled-out cliffhanger of dinosaurs getting out into the human world. Though it certainly would’ve been divisive, this version of Jurassic Park 4 sounds like something that would’ve inspired livelier discussions and responses than the Jurassic World just serving up what audiences knew they wanted. That very quality, alas, is likely why Universal and Amblin opted to pass on this concept for a sequel. Who knows, though. Given how frequently Jurassic World sequels are being made nowadays, perhaps some of the concepts in that Jurassic Park 4 script will manifest in future installments of the saga.

Jurassic World Rebirth arrives in theaters on July 2.

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Jurassic Park fans on Reddit have overwhelmingly expressed their desire for a faithful adaptation of Michael Crichton’s original novels as a television series. In a discussion that gained significant traction on the r/JurassicPark subreddit, fans were asked whether they would prefer a two-season show that adapts the first two books with complete accuracy or a ground-up remake of Fallen Kingdom and Dominion with the benefit of hindsight. The timing of this conversation is particularly relevant as Universal Pictures prepares for the July release of Jurassic World: Rebirth, which promises to return to the franchise’s horror roots while still maintaining continuity with previous films.

Despite Steven Spielberg’s 1993 classic being widely regarded as one of the greatest blockbusters ever made, the film took significant liberties with its source material. Crichton’s novel presents a considerably darker tale with more explicit violence, different character fates, and deeper scientific and philosophical discussions that the runtime of a feature film couldn’t accommodate. Reddit user Dener_ emphasized this point, noting that a TV adaptation should be “awesome, full on 18+ gory,” highlighting the appetite for a more mature take on the material. Another fan, shberk01, specifically mentioned wanting to see book-exclusive sequences finally realized on screen: “The T. Rex stalking Grant and the kids along the river, the camouflaging Carno, Hammond’s end. Spare no expense!”

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The discussion revealed overwhelming support for the TV adaptation option, with many fans specifically calling for HBO to handle the project, citing the network’s success with other adaptations. “Two seasons on HBO adapting the novels,” wrote CyanRC, with another user adding, “This is important. HBO, NOT Amazon.” User All-In-Red proposed, “Novel, 100%. Follow it as closely as possible. Horror and gore. They could do it in the same style as Chernobyl. A limited series, showing the different chapters.” The comparison to HBO’s Chernobyl miniseries format appeared multiple times, suggesting fans are looking for a prestige television approach rather than another blockbuster interpretation.

The potential for a properly atmospheric horror take on the material also emerged as a key desire among fans. User Salty-Dragonfly2189 stated, “I want the first two books, and I want it as a horror/thriller like it was meant to be.” Numerous commenters echoed this sentiment, specifically mentioning the need for a TV-MA approach that embraces the more terrifying aspects of dinosaurs as predators, something the films have increasingly moved away from in favor of action sequences and broader global storylines.

How Jurassic World: Rebirth Tries to Satisfy Fans While a True Novel Adaptation Remains Elusive

While Jurassic World: Rebirth appears to be attempting to recapture some of the original film’s magic by amping up the horror, it still represents a continuation of the film universe rather than a fresh adaptation of Crichton’s work. The upcoming movie, starring Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, and Mahershala Ali, follows a team heading to an island research facility from the original Jurassic Park to secure genetic material for medical purposes before becoming stranded with the prehistoric creatures. The return of original screenwriter David Koepp suggests an attempt to reconnect with the franchise’s origins, but it remains firmly within the established film continuity rather than starting fresh with the novels.

The Reddit discussion illuminates the fact that after nearly 30 years and six films, many fans still believe the truest and most compelling version of Jurassic Park remains unpictured on screen. User TheDeadlySpaceman even expressed interest in seeing a truly faithful adaptation including Ian Malcolm’s death: “I would actually prefer it if they just did that part completely accurately.” This sentiment reflects a broader desire among the fan base for content that prioritizes the intellectual and horror aspects of the concept over blockbuster spectacle. Sadly, while Universal retains the rights over Crichton’s work, it seems the studio is solely interested in expanding its successful franchise.

Jurassic World: Rebirth hits theaters on July 2nd.

Are you excited about the upcoming movie? Or would you also prefer a faithful adaptation of the books? Join the discussion in the comments!

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LEGO teased new sets inspired by the upcoming film Jurassic World Rebirth last month, but now they’ve fully unveiled six new releases that fans will be able to pick up on June 1st. That will give you plenty of time to build and play ahead of the July 2nd release date of the movie in theaters. Specifically, the sets will bring to life “epic scenes and and characters” from the film, so consider the following a sneak peek at what’s to come. Also, keep in mind that the crown jewel of the Jurassic World lineup – Dinosaur Fossils: Tyrannosaurus rex (T.rex) #76968 – is dropping on March 11th / 12th at 9pm PT / 12am ET right here at the LEGO Shop. At that time, it will be available to purchase in early Insider access priced at $249.99.

Note that the following Jurassic World Rebirth sets will be available to order starting on May 31st / June 1st at 9pm PT / 12am ET right here at the LEGO shop (two sets are available to pre-order now). Odds are Insiders promotions will be available with the purchases in June, so make sure to sign up for a free account right here. Below you’ll find details on the new sets along with direct links.

• LEGO Jurassic World Rebirth Baby Dinosaur Dolores: Aquilops (76970) is a playset for ages 7+ that includes a brick-built baby Aquilops dinosaur figure and a buildable plant. The Baby Dolores model can move its head, arms, legs and tail, allowing a range of fun poses. 339 pieces / $24.99 / See at LEGO
• LEGO Jurassic World Rebirth Raptor Off-Road Escape (76972) for ages 6+ is inspired by a scene in the Jurassic World Rebirth and features Reuben and Isabella Delgado as minifigures, alongside Baby Dolores in the back of the off-road vehicle, as they are trying to escape the clever Velociraptor. Children can make up their own action-packed play adventures with this building set. 285 pieces / $34.99 / See at LEGO
• LEGO Jurassic World Rebirth Raptor & Titanosaurus Tracking Mission (76973) is for fans ages 7+ who like to play out missions and with this set they can take a DNA sample from the giant Titanosaurus or load up the off-road vehicle and go explore. 582 pieces / $99.99 / See at LEGO
• LEGO Jurassic World Rebirth Brick-Built Mosasaurus Boat Mission (76974) features endless possibilities for action-based playtime where builders ages 9+ can recreate the iconic Mosasaurus boat scene from the film. 858 pieces / $59.99 / Pre-order at LEGO
• LEGO Jurassic World Rebirth T. rex River Escape (76975) lets ages 5+ play out an exciting scene from the movie and features a molded, fully articulated T. rex dinosaur, plus two minifigures: Teresa Delgado and Xavier Dobbs. 199 pieces / $49.99 / Pre-order at LEGO
• LEGO Jurassic World Rebirth Spinosaurus & Quetzalcoatlus Air Mission (76976) for fans ages 8+ features Zora Bennett, Martin Krebs, Dr. Henry Loomis and Duncan Kincaid at the ancient temple and kids can play-pretend gathering a valuable DNA sample from the Quetzalcoatlus nest. The set also includes a Spinosaurus which has moving legs, arms, tail, head and jaw. 984 pieces / $149.99 / See at LEGO

“Our LEGO Jurassic World sets bring to life the excitement and adventure of thrilling dinosaurs and favorite scenes from the popular franchise, inspiring creativity and storytelling through play and exploration – just like in the movies. It was a lot of fun for the team to create these new LEGO sets inspired by Jurassic World Rebirth and watching some sneak peaks of what fans can expect was beyond cool!” said Benjamin Liboriussen, LEGO Jurassic World Designer at the LEGO Group.

You can find all of the upcoming LEGO releases here in the “Coming Soon” section.  After the launch, they will shift here in the “Available Now” section. Some of the new releases will be available here on Amazon, but in most cases you’ll want to stick with LEGO to take advantage of their monthly launch promotions.

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Jurassic World Rebirth, the fourth installment in the Jurassic World sequel series, is set to hit theaters this July, but not without some awesome collectible toys coming along too. LEGO has already announced what will likely be the crown jewel of the collection – the Jurassic World Dinosaur Fossils: Tyrannosaurus rex, a giant set made of 3,145 pieces and priced at $249.99. Now, Mattel’s getting in on the action, too, with an entire collection of Jurassic World Rebirth playsets, action figures, games, and more that are set for release this year. Read below for a rundown of the entire collection, which includes images for most of the items. When they become available to purchase, you’ll be able to find them here on Amazon.

JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH RAGE ‘N ROAR TYRANNOSAURUS REX MASK / $39.99 / Estimated arrival: Spring 2025 /  “With authentic movie design, this Tyrannosaurus rex mask is intimidating even in its “resting” state – with ferocious teeth, blinking eyes and soft growl sounds. The light-up eye effects increase with three levels of aggression and increasingly fierce growls as the jaw is opened! It’s fierce, it’s fiercer, watch OUT! This role play mask will light up any Jurassic World fan 6 years and older. Eye and mouth openings provide easy wearability and an adjustable strap provides a secure fit.”

JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH MICRO ADVENTURES PLAYSET / $19.99  / Estimated arrival: Spring 2025 / “Prop open the dino head-shaped playset to reveal a miniature world of fun inspired by the movie settings. With 4 finger-activated features and 3 included micro figures, this is a dinosaur lover’s dream. The dinosaur head even provides chomping fun when folded up! Figures fit securely on pegs throughout the environment and the set folds up neatly so it can be taken along for travel or kept packed up at home ready for playtime. Different designs available; each playset sold separately and subject to availability.”

JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH BASIC MASK / $16.99  / Estimated arrival: Spring 2025 / “Each mask features realistic details like skin texture, color and teeth so kids can “become” their favorite dinosaur! The wide-opening jaw feature allows a chomping motion for active play. A secure strap ensures a comfortable fit and eye and nose openings provide wearability.” 

JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH SPINOSAURUS BATTLE CLAWS / $19.99 / Estimated arrival: Spring 2025 / “Made of soft plastic material, this hand gear with realistic design and texture makes dinosaur fans ready for battle. They’re perfect for swiping and slashing when recreating big action scenes and moments. The 10.8-inch long claws come with a stretchy band inside, so they fit snugly on a child’s hand for movie role-play fun! Combine with the Jurassic World Spinosaurus dinosaur mask for added costume play.” 

JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH PRIMAL PROTECTOR AQUILOPS ‘DOLORES’  / $29.99 / Estimated arrival: Spring 2025 / “Bring the human and dinosaur interactions from Jurassic World Rebirth home with this Primal Protector Aquilops ‘Dolores’ inspired by the relationship between Isabella and her companion dinosaur in the movie. This interactive dinosaur toy reacts positively to petting, has a tail activated “protect” action mode and is ready to chomp on a licorice treat.”

Jurassic World Rebirth Launch ‘N Battle Vehicle Set  / $34.99 / Estimated arrival: Fall 2025 / “This Jurassic World Rebirth Launch ‘N Battle Vehicle, inspired by the excitement of the movie, is ready for adventure with a detachable turret and blaster. It launches either a DNA sample-collecting dart or a net projectile. Includes a 10.7-inch long off-road vehicle, 7.5-inch long dinosaur and 3.75-inch tall Krebs. Scan the Tracking Code on the Velociraptor’s foot in the free Jurassic World Play App with a compatible smart device (Android or iOS, not included) to unlock a digital version of the dinosaur and play the fiercely fun game to race various vehicles on land, air and sea.” 

Kerplunk Jurassic World Rebirth / $16.99 / Estimated arrival: Fall 2025 / “The Jurassic World Rebirth edition of KerPlunk brings the excitement of the movie to life with an Ocean Tower featuring Spinosaurus figures and a Mosasaurus at the bottom in attack mode. Players take turns pulling sticks from the tower, carefully trying not to cause any Spinos to fall. At the start of the game, all Spinos are placed in the tower. On each turn, players roll a multi-colored die to determine which color stick they must pull. If any Spinos fall, the player collects them as their penalty. The game continues until all the Spinos have fallen, and the player with the fewest collected Spinos at the end wins!” 

Timblin’ Spinos / $16.99 / Estimated arrival: Fall 2025 / “The Jurassic World Rebirth edition of Tumblin Monkeys brings the excitement of the movie to life with an Ocean Tower featuring Spinosaurus figures and a Mosasaurus at the bottom in attack mode. Players take turns pulling sticks from the tower, carefully trying not to cause any Spinos to fall. At the start of the game, all Spinos are placed in the tower. On each turn, players roll a multi-colored die to determine which color stick they must pull. If any Spinos fall, the player collects them as their penalty. The game continues until all the Spinos have fallen, and the player with the fewest collected Spinos at the end wins!”

UNO Jurassic World Rebirth / $6.49 / Estimated Arrival –  Fall 2025 / “With a deck featuring graphics inspired by favorite characters and scenes, players try to match colors and numbers — there’s even a special “Attack of the T. Rex” rule that will have somebody drawing 5 cards! And when down to the last card, don’t forget to snarl “UNO!” 

UNO Attack Jurassic World / $27.99 / Available Now / “The Jurassic World edition of UNO Attack game features a card-launching machine in the shape of a dinosaur head that shoots cards high into the air. Lights and dinosaur sound effects build over time to heighten the thrill — the suspense builds, too, as players wait to see when the cards will shoot out! Stack the cards in the machine, then play by the classic UNO card matching rules.” 

Imaginext Jurassic World Rebirth Ultimate Action Chomp T. Rex  / $99.99 / Estimated arrival: Fall 2025 / “Standing 18 inches tall, the giant dinosaur toy rumbles and roars, moves its head up and down, features light-up eyes, has removable launchers and can “swallow” 3-inch figures — one human and one dinosaur figure are included for storytelling play right out of the box! The action starts with the trigger in the tail or a Power Pad on top, and the “real feel” tongue adds tactile thrill.”

Imaginext Jurassic World Rebirth Aquachomp Chase Mosasaurus Pack / $49.99 / Estimated Arrival: Fall 2025 / “The Aquachomp Mosasaurus dinosaur toy measures 18 inches long and features sound and movement, plus “real feel” fins and spine. Simply press the Power Pad for chomping action and realistic sounds or push to roll along on wheels and see her head and tail move. Reenact scenes from Jurassic World Rebirth with the included 3-inch action figure and patrol boat featuring a removable launcher and two projectiles.”

Imaginext Jurassic World Rebirth Sprinting Spinosaurus Figure / $49.99 / Estimated Arrival: Fall 2025 / “The 9-inch-tall dinosaur toy can dart, dash, chomp and thrash with dynamic motion — kids simply squeeze the trigger on the tail to see the ferocious creature lunge forward and chomp! It’s easy for small hands to grasp and helps preschoolers master fine-motor skills. A “real feel” spine adds to the tactile thrill. Reenact scenes from Jurassic World Rebirth or imagine new stories. Dinosaur and action fans can engage in imaginative play as they sprint and chomp their way through playtime.”

The synopsis for Jurassic World Rebirth reads: “Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, the planet’s ecology has proven largely inhospitable to dinosaurs. Those remaining exist in isolated equatorial environments with climates resembling the one in which they once thrived. The three most colossal creatures within that tropical biosphere hold the key to a drug thatwill bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humankind. Academy Award nominee Scarlett Johansson plays skilled covert operations expert Zora Bennett, contracted to lead a skilled team on a top-secret mission tosecure genetic material from the world’s three most massive dinosaurs.”

“When Zora’s operation intersects with a civilian family whose boating expedition was capsized by marauding aquatic dinos, they all find themselves stranded on an island where they come face-to-face with a sinister, shocking discovery that’s been hidden from the world for decades.”

Jurassic World Rebirth will hit theaters on July 2nd.

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Steven Spielberg‘s filmography features some of history’s greatest movies, but there are still some other titles that don’t get been celebrated enough. Spanning numerous genres from sci-fi to historical drama, the legendary director’s resume boasts over 30 feature-length films across five decades. A three-time Oscar winner, Spielberg has cemented his legacy in Hollywood as the pioneer of the modern blockbuster, with his most recognized projects including his four Indiana Jones movies, Schindler’s List, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan, and E.T the Extra-Terrestrial. Due to his high number of films, some of them have gone overlooked. Thus, Spielberg has several underrated gems in his arsenal, and fans should take the opportunity to check them out.

These three Spielberg films deserve a lot more appreciation from movie fans.

Bridge of Spies

Spielberg’s 2015 legal drama is inspired by the Cold War-era true story of James B. Donavan (Tom Hanks), a lawyer representing KGB spy Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance). James is tasked with negotiating the exchange of Rudolf for Francis Gary Powers (Austin Stowell), a CIA operative who was shot down over the Soviet Union while piloting a spy mission. Bridge of Spies takes true history and crafts a riveting narrative full of tension and thrills, despite lacking the action spectacle of Spielberg’s most famous war movie, Saving Private Ryan.

Bridge of Spies is one of numerous collaborations between Hanks and Spielberg, and the star makes another major statement his performance. Rylance, who won an Oscar for his portrayal of Rudolf in Bridge of Spies, also forms a great duo with Hanks. Beyond its entertainment value, Bridge of Spies serves as a touching reminder of the value of compassion. Despite many around James viewing him as a traitor for defending a Soviet Spy, he never loses his humanity. The relationship of respect and trust that James and Rudolf build together sits at the heart of Bridge of Spies, despite the movie’s label as an espionage thriller. Audiences in search of a powerful and heartwarming story will find a masterful piece of storytelling here.

Bridge of Spies is available to rent or purchase on various VOD platforms.

Catch Me If You Can

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Despite the leading star power of Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio, 2002’s Catch Me If You Can remains largely under-appreciated in comparison to Spielberg’s other prominent titles of the era. The film tells the story of con artist Frank Abagnale Jr. (DiCaprio), whose autobiography of the same name inspired Catch Me If You Can. An exhilarating cat and mouse game, the movie follows FBI agent Carl Hanratty’s (Hanks) repeated attempts to halt Frank’s criminal exploits.

Spielberg’s savvy direction injects a pleasant dose of humor into Catch Me If You Can‘s eccentric narrative. Furthermore, DiCaprio’s portrayal of the charismatic and quick-witted young Frank is delightful to watch. The accuracy Catch Me If You Can‘s events has been disputed for quite some time, but audiences will hardly care. Fictitious or not, the movie is wildly entertaining, guaranteeing a fun time for viewers. Catch Me If You Can vastly differs from the quintessential Spielberg action or sci-fi blockbuster, though it stands out on the acclaimed director’s resume thanks to its enjoyable screenplay, lively acting performances, and uncanny style.

Catch Me If You Can is streaming on Paramount+.

Amistad

1997’s Amistad begins with an inspiring revolt of captive African men, women, and children on a Spanish slave ship turns into a gripping courtroom drama. Set in 1839 and based on a true story, the film chronicles the Mende tribespeople’s legal battle for the right to return home after being captured by an American vessel. An outstanding breakout performance by Djimon Hounsou as the uprising’s leader Joseph Cinqué leads the impressive cast, with Matthew McConaughey’s attorney Roger Sherman Baldwin, Anthony Hopkins‘ U.S. Representative John Quincy Adams, and Morgan Freeman’s fictional former slave Theodore Joadson also serving as sound interpretations. Amistad was Chiwetel Ejiofor’s first feature film appearance, and he delivers a strong portrayal of the interpreter James Covey.

Spielberg’s Amistad is deeply moving and disturbing as the film takes audiences through the Mende people’s harrowing journey prior to defeating their Spanish captors. Highlighting challenges such as the language barrier between the tribe members and their attorney, Amistad‘s narrative paints a fairly accurate picture of the ordeal. Amistad received four Oscar nominations, however, movie fans still haven’t given the movie the recognition it deserves. Even though the movie runs for a lengthy two-and-a-half hours, it’s still an engaging story that will leave a lasting impression on viewers.

Amistad can be streamed on Pluto TV and Paramount+.

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These days, movies are extremely frontloaded. Back in the ’80s and ’90s, a tentpole (or even a smaller genre film) could enjoy several weeks of big-screen success; now, whether a film is deemed a success or failure seems to be determined after its first Sunday. That’s the nature of the beast because the streaming industry has become such a giant that, more often than not, those services are what people are choosing over an expensive trip to the theater. Even still, those first three (or five, for Wednesday openers) days aren’t everything. A movie can open to dropped jaws and applause, but if it plummets from that point and never recovers, those jaws aren’t going to stay dropped. Those are the movies that follow, those that opened very well but couldn’t maintain momentum.

The only exceptions were Onward, which plummeted because of the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and stuff like The Twilight Saga: New Moon and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, which had devoted fanbases that were fully expected to turn out their first few days. Also excluded was Valentine’s Day, which made more than half its total domestic gross throughout its first three days, but when those three days are February 12th through 14th, it would be baffling for there to be any other outcome.

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Very few films that could open to $166 million domestically and close with $330.4 million would be considered financial disappointments. Consider Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice the exception to the unwritten rule. And fair enough, it was the first live-action movie in history to feature both of DC’s two major A-list characters. Yet horrible reviews and toxic word of mouth from general filmgoers trumps profitability.

And Batman v Superman did actually turn a profit. $874 million worldwide against a $250 million price tag, to be exact. But that $250 million doesn’t include the film’s massive marketing push. In short, it may have made money, but not nearly as much as it was expected to (or should have). It was just too dour a theatrical experience to earn repeat business the way 2012’s The Avengers did. Watchmen and X-Men Origins: Wolverine faced similar fates, but there’s no doubt the expectations were higher for Batman v Superman than they were for those two movies.

The Devil Inside

January is known as a dumping ground for good reason. It’s when studios release the projects they pretty much know are going to generate poor reviews and at best a modest return on investment. But it can be dynamite for horror films, no matter how awful the horror film is. For instance, The Devil Inside.

On the plus side, its $33.7 million opening and $53.3 million final domestic gross were amazing returns on a $1 million investment. But there’s no doubt the many who turned out opening weekend didn’t like what they saw. Nor should they have – it’s a movie that has the audacity to end by promoting a website the viewer (a.k.a. the person who shelled out cash for a ticket) can visit, as opposed to an actual conclusion to the film.

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Five Nights at Freddy’s

Five Nights at Freddy’s could be considered an iffy entry here. After all, it was simultaneously released on Peacock. But the fact remains that it couldn’t even come close to doubling its $80-million opening. On average, a movie has a final domestic haul of 2.5 to three times its opening weekend gross.

When all was said and done, Five Nights at Freddy’s netted $137.3 million domestically. Was that enough to make it a massive success on a $20-million budget? Absolutely. Is the fact that it could open to $80 million while also being on a streaming service impressive? Without a doubt. But a 1.7 multiple on an opening weekend gross is miniscule.

Friday the 13th

Compared to other genres, horror is the most frontloaded. It’s expected to be frontloaded. But Marcus Nispel’s surprisingly solid 2009 Friday the 13th reboot was extremely frontloaded. Even the following year’s borderline unwatchable A Nightmare on Elm Street remake enjoyed a far better multiple on its opening weekend haul.

To put it into context, 2010’s Nightmare on Elm Street opened to about $33 million and ended its run with $63 million domestically and a further $52.6 million from overseas markets. Friday the 13th opened higher at $40.6 million, but plummeted after day three, ultimately accumulating $65 million. It didn’t even do particularly well overseas with $26.5 million. It’s unclear why the Freddy reboot nearly doubled its opening weekend domestically while Jason only netted a 1.6 multiple. Neither film was bolstered by glowing word of mouth, but without a doubt, Freddy’s was worse. In this Freddy vs. Jason, Jason should have handily won. But like in the actual Freddy vs. Jason, it was more of a tie.

Godzilla

In hindsight, it’s pretty surprising that Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla was able to kick off the Monsterverse. 1998’s Godzilla sold a comparable number of tickets to the 2014 film and was widely deemed a failure, to the point that other movies’ advertising (e.g. Small Soldiers) made fun of it. The 2014 reboot seemed to get a pass.

This could be credited to two factors. For one, Edwards’ film received far better reviews than Roland Emmerich’s. Two, it had a terrific opening of $93 million. As time has gone on, more importance has been bestowed on opening weekend figures. Even still, with a sharp 66.8% drop on weekend two and a final domestic tally of $200.7 million, Godzilla didn’t quite pull in the numbers that give birth to a cinematic universe.

Which film’s box office drop is most surprising? Let us know in the comments below!

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