The final film in the Jurassic World trilogy, Jurassic World Dominion opened wide in theaters here in the United States over the weekend, playing across 4,676 theaters domestically.
The box office numbers are in, and Jurassic World Dominion took a bite out of $143 million in its domestic opening weekend, the lowest opening for a Jurassic World film so far.
For the sake of comparison, Jurassic World had a domestic opening of $208 million back in 2015, while Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom opened to $148 million back in 2018. That puts Jurassic World Dominion not all that far behind the previous installment in the franchise, but largely negative reviews could see Dominion fall from grace in the coming weeks.
Both previous films went on to cross the billion dollar mark globally, and Jurassic World Dominion is thus far at $389 million on the worldwide charts. Will it get there? Only time will tell. But the new movie will at least eventually reach the point where it’s profitable for Universal – the reported production budget was $185 million, so it’ll have to earn roughly 3x that to get in the black – which could mean that we haven’t seen the last of the franchise.
Keep in mind that Jurassic World Dominion was only promised to end the Chris Pratt/Bryce Dallas Howard trilogy, but there’s certainly endless room for sequels of a different kind. I’ll be over here continuing to hold out hope for a Mosasaurus spinoff horror movie, for starters.
From director Colin Trevorrow, Dominion takes place four years after Isla Nublar has been destroyed. Dinosaurs now live—and hunt—alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the future and determine, once and for all, whether human beings are to remain the apex predators on a planet they now share with history’s most fearsome creatures.
Meagan wrote in her Dominion review for BD, “Dominion may give most of its characters a strong send-off, but it ends the Jurassic World trilogy with a tired whimper.”
(from left) Kayla Watts (DeWanda Wise), Dr. Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) and a Giganotosaurus in Jurassic World Dominion, co-written and directed by Colin Trevorrow.
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