While the country is engulfed in a massive heatwave, we’re in the midst of a holiday week that feels like it’s running through two weekends. Universal Pictures is sipping the lemonade and enjoying the monstrous success of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the latest Jurassic Park sequel that takes the dinosaurs off the island and drops them into a Gothic horror movie setting.
As of this writing, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is stomping all over the box office with wild numbers. Get this: by the end of the day it will have surpassed both $300M domestically and $700M internationally for a worldwide total of $1 billion. With a “modest” reported budget of $170M and a marketing budget to match, the Jurassic World sequel has long surpassed the profit zone and is now swimming in profits. But it’s a lesson to all of Hollywood to reign it the fuck in. Disney’s Solo: A Star Wars Story cost over $250M to produce with Warners Justice League also allegedly topping $300M. The ramifications of such outrageous budgets create the need for almost a 40% more surplus at the box office just to break even. It’s stupid.
Digressing, Jurassic World ended its run at $1.6B, while crossing $1B internationally. It’s unclear if Fallen Kindom will land in the same zone, but either way, it’s already a huge success story that warrants more sequels, theme parks, and whatever else they can conjure up (fine, I’ll buy the Dr. Pepper cans).
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