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Days Before Domestic Release, ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ Has Already Made Nearly $400 Million
As we told you one week ago, J.A. Bayona’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom has already embarked on its overseas roll-out, ahead of the U.S. theatrical release this coming weekend. Last weekend, Fallen Kingdom scooped up $151 million in 48 markets, giving it the franchise’s biggest opening weekend to date in 15 international markets!
The overseas theatrical release continued this past weekend, and Variety reports this morning that Fallen Kingdom‘s worldwide total is now up to $370 million. The site notes, “Fallen Kingdom earned an additional $173.6 million in 51 international territories this weekend, including $111.8 from its launch in China.”
“The Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment sequel saw strong holds in the United Kingdom and Ireland ($9.3 million), Korea ($6.4 million), Germany ($4.8 million), and France ($4.3 million). It releases in Australia and Brazil on June 21, Mexico on June 22, and Japan on July 13.”
Fallen Kingdom is expected to have a domestic opening weekend somewhere in the ballpark of $140-$150 million, a bit less than Jurassic World‘s $208 million U.S. start.
Worldwide, the mega-hit Jurassic World raked in $1,671,713,208 in 2015, so Fallen Kingdom still has a long road ahead if it hopes to top its gargantuan predecessor.
Fallen Kingdom arrives here in the States on June 22.
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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