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‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ Surpasses Expectations with $150 Million Domestic Debut

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J.A. Bayona’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom may have a 50% critical score on Rotten Tomatoes, tying it with Jurassic Park III as the site’s lowest rated in the franchise, but a movie this big in a franchise this beloved is pretty well critic proof. And the numbers reflect that, as Fallen Kingdom gobbled up $150 million at the domestic box office this past weekend! The film had been on track to make somewhere between $130-140 million this weekend, so it’s needless to say a big time win for Universal.

Back in 2015, Jurassic World made $208,806,270 domestically in its opening weekend, but nobody ever expected Fallen Kingdom to approach that number. After all, Jurassic World was at that time the franchise’s first film in 14 years, so it was something much more fresh and new than Fallen Kingdom promised to be this past weekend.

Worldwide, Fallen Kingdom‘s numbers are even more impressive. Having been released outside the U.S. in the weeks prior to last week, Bayona’s installment in the franchise has to date grossed $711,501,000 worldwide! Yes, Fallen Kingdom is already on its way to crossing the $1 billion mark, proving that the property is still as hot as ever.

For context, Fallen Kingdom had a $170 million production budget, with a MASSIVE marketing spend on top of that, but the film has already recouped all of those millions. Needless to say, the planned trilogy-ender, being directed by Colin Trevorrow, is no doubt still a go, already set for release in June 2021.

And Jurassic World 3 promises to be EPIC.

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Amblin Movie ‘Thursday Murder Club’ Sounds Like ‘Knives Out’ Meets ‘Cocoon’

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Chris Columbus (Gremlins – writer, Home Alone – director) is headed back into the director’s chair for Thursday Murder Club, Amblin’s upcoming feature film adaptation of the same-titled novel written by Richard Osman. Variety first reported the news this morning.

It’s not a horror movie, mind you, but rather a star-studded murder-mystery. Think Rian Johnson’s Knives Out… only this particular murder-mystery is set in a retirement community!

Variety details, “The book, released in 2020, tells the story of four septuagenarian friends who live in a retirement community and solve cold cases for fun. When a shady property developer is found dead, the four find themselves in the middle of their first live crime.”

Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and Ben Kingsley are “being eyed” to lead the cast!

Richard Osman’s 2020 novel was such a hit that it launched a franchise. Follow-up The Man Who Died Twice followed in 2021, with The Bullet That Missed coming along in 2022. And then there was The Last Devil to Die in 2023, with a fifth book in the series expected in 2025.

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