Summer blockbusters are definitely here with Jurassic World: Rebirth taking the top spot at the weekend holiday box office. The movie grossed $91.5 million over the weekend for a domestic total of $147.3 million since it opened. Internationally, the movie has grossed $171 million for a worldwide total of $318.3 million. It’s a debut that falls far short of the previous films in this latest iteration of the franchise raising questions as to the public’s continued demand for the series.

Jurassic World opened with $208.8 million domestically in 2015 for an eventual $653.4 million and $1.672 billion worldwide. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom in 2018 opened with $148 million for a domestic gross of $417.7 million and $1.310 billion worldwide. Finally, Jurassic World: Dominion opened with $145.1 million in 2022 for $376.9 million gross and $1.002 billion worldwide.

The latest film, while a strong showing post Covid, shows a franchise that continues to lose its luster and may finally go extinct for a while if this latest movie falls short. Each subsequent release has opened with a lower domestic gross and overall worldwide gross by the end decreases. With some major blockbusters opening this month, there’s little room for the film to cross the billion dollar mark like its predecessors.

F1: The Movie came in second with $26.1 million to bring its domestic total to $109.5 million. Internationally, it grossed $95.7 million over the week to bring that to $184.1 million. Worldwide, the film has grossed $293.6 million after two weeks.

How to Train Your Dragon dropped one spot to third place with $11 million to lift its domestic gross to $224 million. Over the week, it gross $38.5 million internationally where the total now stands at $292.9 million. Worldwide, the movie has grossed $516.9 million.

Elio dropped to fourth place with $5.7 million to bring its domestic total to $55.1 million. Over the week, it grossed $11.6 million to lift its international gross to $41.7 million and worldwide gross to $96.8 million. It’s hard to not see this as a failure for the once infallible Pixar.

Finally, 28 Years Later shuffled along in fifth place with $4.6 million domestically where it has now grossed $60.2 million. Internationally, the movie has grossed $65.6 million for a worldwide gross of $125.8 million.

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Thunderbolts* added $50,000 to its domestic total this weekend to bring that to $189.9 million and internationally it added $100,000 over the week where it has now grossed $192 million for a worldwide total of $381.9 million. Between the budget and marketing, the film needs around $425 million to break even.

The weekend box office saw a total of 57 films gross $155,578,531 from 30,520 theaters compared to last weekend’s $127,370,743 from 53 films and 30,976 theaters. This weekends average was $5,097.59 compared to last weekend’s $4,111.92.