Last year, Gareth Edwards helmed Jurassic World Rebirth, and while it didn’t reach the financial heights of its predecessors, it successfully found a new formula for the series that took the excitement out of a park and into the wild. While a sequel is on the way, Edwards ended up leaving the project.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom director J.A. Bayona is a frontrunner to helm the upcoming sequel. Rebirth stars Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, and Jonathan Bailey are all expected to return.

Since launching in 1993, the Jurassic Park franchise has seen its ups and downs, to say the least. The original Steven Spielberg-directed movie is nothing short of revolutionary, with his directorial talents managing to entirely elevate the campy concept of dinosaurs being brought back to life. Spielberg returned for the sequel and, while still a financial success, The Lost World: Jurassic Park didn’t resonate quite as strongly with critics. Joe Johnston directed Jurassic Park III, which continued the diminishing returns of the series, resulting in the franchise’s stagnation.

Jurassic World was a financial sensation, though anyone old enough to remember the original movie couldn’t help but criticize how similar it felt to the original movie and how it didn’t deliver as much freshness into the concept as many had hoped. Fallen Kingdom, however, leaned much more into the realm of monster movies, including a thrilling chase through a creepy mansion as our heroes evaded deadly dinosaurs in its finale.

Bayona took a much bigger swing with his horror-inspired narrative, and while it didn’t earn as strong of reviews as what came before him, it still took in $1.3 billion worldwide. Trevorrow would then return to the series for Jurassic World: Dominion, which largely closed the book on the characters from both the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World series.

Given that Edwards’ breakout movie was 2014’s Godzilla, he similarly approached Rebirth as a monster movie more than anything else. Bayona’s penchant for big swings could make him the perfect choice to continue this narrative, and we’d rather a filmmaker who takes bigger risks at the helm than someone who repeats what’s already been done.

The Jurassic World Rebirth sequel doesn’t yet have a release date.

Would you like to see Bayona return? Let us know in the comments below!

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“Welcome to Jurassic World,” Jeff Goldblum’s Ian Malcolm says in the exciting final moments of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, which essentially serve as a teaser trailer for Dominion. A teaser trailer for a movie that it seems we won’t ever be able to actually watch.

So where does Jurassic World Dominion go wrong? For starters, Dominion makes the bizarre decision to skirt around the issue presented in the final moments of Fallen Kingdom, instead jumping four years into the distance to pick up in a world where dinosaurs, well, they’ve become little more than a minor nuisance to the humans they now share an ecosystem with. Massive dinos are herded up like horses and the situation is largely under control at the start of Dominion, the world-changing problem created by the previous sequel solved off-screen in the years between the two films. And aside from brief snippets of dinosaurs running amok and even claiming human lives – all of which are relegated to quick flashes in the film’s opening sequence – Dominion instead chooses to tell a whole different story entirely.

A story primarily centered on crop-eating locusts. And a little girl with strange DNA.

If Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom was the “Last Jedi” of the Jurassic World franchise, saying goodbye to the past – in this case, literally blowing up Isla Nublar with a volcanic explosion – and introducing fresh new concepts – gothic dino horror! dinosaur auctions! human clones?! – then Jurassic World Dominion is very much the “Rise of Skywalker” of the prehistoric saga, walking back some of those more unique ideas and instead slipping back in past comfort zones. The entire second half of Jurassic World Dominion slides so far backward into nostalgia that it takes place in what is essentially yet another dinosaur park, making Jurassic World Dominion feel more like… well… the original Jurassic Park, than anything else.

And yes, that of course includes the return of legacy trio Laura Dern, Sam Neill, and Jeff Goldblum, who mostly just exist in this movie to remind you of the magic they created together back in the 1990s. All of them are safe from any sort of real danger, of course, and their characterizations never dare paint outside already established lines. The bulk of Jurassic World Dominion is nostalgic comfort food, the sort of movie you’d expect from the Jurassic World trilogy’s debut rather than its third and final installment. It takes the “legacy sequel” approach that Hollywood studios love so much right now, more interested in reminding you of past glories than actually paving any sort of new ground for the franchise’s evolution.

In some ways Jurassic World Dominion is precisely the experience that was advertised to consumers, in fairness, but in others it’s a film that seems to be completely at odds with the direction the franchise seemed to be taking just a few short years ago. If you go back and watch the trailers for Jurassic World Dominion after you see the movie in theaters, you’ll probably be struck by the complete and total erasure of the film’s actual storylines. The various marketing materials for Dominion strongly suggested that the film was very much continuing from the game-changing point that Fallen Kingdom left us at, with the human characters of the franchise coming together to save the World from a Jurassic threat. There’s even a scene of a T-rex rampaging through a drive-in theater that outright promises a certain kind of mayhem, a scene that never actually appears in the movie. It pops up in a TV spot for Progressive Insurance, oddly enough, but never does a T-rex appear on the mainland in the actual movie itself. Instead, we’re simply *told* that humans have had trouble getting the T-Rex problem under control, but we’re never actually *shown* the threat the apex predator posed.

And that pretty well sums up the entire approach of Jurassic World Dominion, a summer blockbuster that somehow manages to turn Fallen Kingdom‘s all-time great sequel tease into a relatively boring experience all around. The film comes alive in short bursts, with only an extended chase sequence in Malta coming close to delivering on the thrills promised by the premise. We see dinosaurs running through the streets of Malta and jumping from rooftops, chasing after Chris Pratt‘s motorcycle-riding Owen Grady and even taking a minute to take a bite of some unlucky tourists in the area. It’s one hell of a sequence, unlike anything we’ve seen from the Jurassic Park/Jurassic World franchise up to this point. The bulk of the movie, however, returns the franchise to business as usual, its main villain a new version of John Hammond, its main location a new version of Jurassic Park, and even its final climactic battle sequence playing out virtually the same as the one we already saw in Jurassic World. The film’s final coda attempts to fully drive home themes the movie never actually bothered to explore, Jurassic World Dominion seemingly book-ended by scenes from another movie. A movie about dinosaurs and humans co-existing. A movie it would’ve been great to see.

And then we have the crop-eating locusts, super-charged with dinosaur DNA and threatening to devour the entire planet’s food supply in short order. It’s the locust threat that serves to bring Ellie and Alan back into the mix in under-whelming fashion, the handiwork of Lewis Dodgson and Dr. Henry Wu. It’s hard to imagine a team of well-paid writers sitting around a table and conjuring up crop-eating locusts as a major storyline in a movie about dinosaurs and humans sharing the world, and it’s equally hard to imagine anyone signing off on such an idea at this point in the franchise. Did we really need an additional threat on top of the one already present? Did we really need an additional reason for Ellie and Alan to be compelled back into action? Jurassic World Dominion convolutes a simple premise with storylines that are far less compelling than the main one, bloating the runtime and ultimately focusing on anything and everything other than the literal JURASSIC WORLD we’ve been invited into.

While the locusts are the main problem the legacy characters are tasked with taking on, Owen Grady and Claire Dearing are forced to play hero once more when their surrogate daughter, Maisie Lockwood, is kidnapped by the same men who orchestrated the locust plague. As silly as the locust storyline turns out to be – and it’s another threat in the movie that mostly gets the off-screen treatment – the Maisie storyline is no better, the creative team walking back compelling past reveals about the character in an effort to give this movie an engine to run on. Remember how Fallen Kingdom revealed that Maisie is actually a clone of her deceased mother, created by the same men behind the original Jurassic Park? It was a wild new area for the franchise to explore, providing Maisie with a unique connection to the dinosaurs that were similarly created in a lab by humans who never stopped to think whether or not they should. But Dominion manages to find a way to walk that reveal back, the film instead tasking BD Wong with delivering a monologue that rewrites the character entirely.

Maisie, we learn in Dominion, isn’t actually a clone created in a lab. Her mother gave birth to her before she passed away from a rare illness, we’re now told, but not before her mother was able to essentially rewire her DNA and make her immune from the hereditary illness that was claiming her own life. Why do the writers rob Maisie of her most unique quality? Purely because they needed a way to solve the locust problem they created. Much like Ellie in The Last of Us, Maise’s modified DNA becomes the cure-all for the locust plague, with Dr. Henry Wu ultimately using her DNA to wipe out the locusts he helped create. The entire film is built around this brand new problem and this all-too-convenient new solution, and quite honestly both of the ideas are as bad in execution as they are on paper. Remember when I said that Dominion is the “Rise of Skywalker” of the franchise? That’s the case right down to Maisie becoming the franchise’s Rey, a character previously revealed to be one thing only for that to be entirely wiped off the slate when it came time to make the next sequel. It’s hard not to wonder if Dominion‘s decision to erase the divisive “human cloning” storyline was due to fan backlash when Fallen Kingdom came out, but all I can say is it sure felt that way to me.

It’s as if all of Fallen Kingdom‘s big new ideas for the franchise were scrubbed from Dominion almost entirely, a movie that instead brings back past characters, relives past glories, and slips back into comfortable scenarios. It’s a problem that has reared its ugly head for a handful of big Hollywood franchises in recent years, from Star Wars to Halloween. Why do something new when you can just do something old again? Why blaze new paths with existing franchises when you can just pander to past nostalgia? Why make a movie about dinosaurs and humans co-existing on the mainland when you can just skirt around those bold new avenues to explore and instead recycle the same tired material we’ve already seen?

The answer, of course, is that Hollywood is making sure-thing movies that they know audiences will play A LOT OF MONEY to see, and Jurassic World Dominion is indeed on its way to making A LOT OF MONEY in theaters. General audiences also seem to be responding quite well to the movie even if critics are not, so perhaps Hollywood is only doing what Hollywood needs to be doing to stay alive. But even still it’s hard not to be incredibly disappointed by a movie like Jurassic World Dominion, a film about evolution that fails to evolve anything about the long-running franchise. It’s a step backwards rather than a step forwards, and a limp finale to a trilogy that seemed primed and ready to step into the future. Those steps were already taken by JA Bayona with Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, much the same way Rian Johnson took them with The Last Jedi, but it seems Hollywood is intent on always making sure we end up right back where we started. And so Laurie Strode continues to battle Michael Myers. Emperor Palpatine continues to wreak havoc in a galaxy that continues to shrink down its scope. And Alan, Ellie and Ian continue to be trapped inside Jurassic Parks.

I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for something different.

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Throughout the film series’ existence, we’ve had dozens of games that ranged the gamut in terms of entertainment and education, with varying quality. To whet your appetite for Jurassic World Dominion on June 10, here’s a sampling of what kids grew up with (and in some cases, tolerated) as part of the film experience.

Seriously, there are a lot of video games related to Jurassic Park. As such, we’re not going to list every single one, so let us know in the comments below if there’s a glaring omission.

Jurassic Park – Super Nintendo, Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy (1993)

We’d mentioned the SNES version of Jurassic Park not too long ago. Developed by Ocean Software, this game was the same for the various Nintendo consoles at the time. Playing as Sam Neill’s Dr. Grant from an overhead perspective, you ran around doing things like restarting generators or getting the computer system back online, all in order to get off the island. You’ll have to contend with the obvious dinosaurs like Raptors, Dilophosaurus and so on, but you’ll have a variety of weapons at your disposal. The notable thing about the SNES version is when you enter a building, the game switches to a first-person perspective a la Doom. The SNES isn’t quite powerful enough to make these segments appear more than a choppy mess, but it’s still impressive. Sadly, the game doesn’t come with a password system, so you’ll be having to beat the game in one sitting. Which when coupled with the huge maps, might not make it worth your while.

Jurassic Park – Sega Genesis (1993)

I remember playing this at my cousin’s house, thinking it was awesome. The commercial at the time sold me on the game, particularly the fact that you could play as the raptor and munch on people. Developed by BlueSky Software, you could also play as Dr. Grant as you try to escape Isla Nublar in this sidescrolling action platformer. The game was set up so that you could play as either character from the start, with the raptor and Dr. Grant having their own unique story and levels. Unfortunately, going back and playing this game now with fresh eyes is a bit of a disappointment. While the animation on the characters (particularly the raptor) are awesome, the backgrounds didn’t receive as much love. The soundtrack is okay, but you won’t be finding John Williams’ score in here. The main issue is the floaty controls, which will have you frustrated when having to make the several blind jumps to progress in the levels; coupled with how easily you take damage as Dr. Grant. The obvious draw was playing as the raptor, which is still pretty fun. That being said, the game will be testing your patience more than you’d like.

Jurassic Park: Rampage Edition – Sega Genesis (1994)

Given the wild success of the film, of course you’d have a video game sequel, right? Rampage Edition carves its own story not related to The Lost World. Rather, Dr. Grant must stop InGen from attempting to smuggle out more DNA and eggs, for fear of them starting another park. Once again, you can also play as the raptor, which is also looking to escape the island to find a place to nest. The gameplay is a little faster-paced this time, with Grant being able to use ziplines and ride dinosaurs. Graphically, BlueSky Software decided this time to give the characters a black outline, which helps them stand out from the background which have been made a bit brighter this time with more detail. The music is about the same in terms of quality as before. However, the game overall just isn’t that much of a leap from its predecessor, and the overly long levels can leave you lost quite easily.

Jurassic Park 2: The Chaos Continues – Super Nintendo, Game Boy (1994, 1995)

Just as before, Ocean Software developed this sequel that creates its own narrative different from The Lost World. In the SNES version, John Hammond has enlisted Dr. Grant’s help in stopping rival corporation BioSyn from taking over the island. In the Game Boy version, BioSyn isn’t mentioned, but you still play as Grant, who has to make his way to Jurassic Park’s headquarters in order to restore power to the island. Rather than an overhead action game, Jurassic Park 2 is a run ‘n’ gun, and in the case of the SNES version, two players can play simultaneously, with the second player taking on the role of tactical sergeant Michael Wolfskin. The unique mechanic for this game was the idea that you couldn’t kill any of the dinosaurs (apart from the raptors and T-Rex), so you’d have to use non-lethal ammo in those cases. That being said, the game tends to be unbalanced with the damage output, with some dinosaurs requiring a lot more effort than seems necessary to put them down. The Game Boy version emphasizes action platforming, which is fine, but again with the complex levels, your patience will be tested. Overall, both games are serviceable, but not something you’d put down as must-plays.

Jurassic Park – Arcade (1994)

If you didn’t have the opportunity to play this one in your local arcade, you missed out. Not only was this rail shooter darn fun, Sega built each unit so that you were in a small version of the Ford Explorer you saw in the film. Best of all, the seat was equipped with hydraulics that moved according to action on screen. The game takes place on Isla Nublar a few months after the events of the film, where your vehicle is attacked by dinosaurs, and the ultimate goal is to get the dinos back in their cages. Using a mix of 2D and 3D graphics, the game had you (and an optional buddy) clearing out four areas, with the last area having you battle the T-Rex. Admittedly, the story was thin, and was only there to get you set up to blow away dinos. Even then, the action did get a bit repetitive, though the graphics and the “feedback” from the chair made it a blast for kids.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park – Sony PlayStation, Sega Saturn (1997)

Continuing what Sega and Blue Sky Software had started, DreamWorks Interactive’s (and Appaloosa Interactive for Saturn owners) The Lost World lets you play as either dinosaur or human. Though you have to complete all levels sequentially before unlocking the next character, you have the option of playing as either a Human Hunter or Sarah Harding for the humans, and Compsognathus, Velociraptor and T-Rex as the dinosaurs. Ignoring the film’s plot entirely, you are basically tasked with surviving on the island. What they don’t tell you is that the gameplay feels like you’re stuck in the 8-bit era of sidescrollers, with ho-hum level design, frustrating jumps and an annoying checkpoint system. Fans at the time seemed to ignore that for the PS1 version, as it was later granted a Special Edition re-release, where DreamWorks attempted to fix up some of the original game’s balancing issues.

Chaos Island: The Lost World – PC (1997)

A strategy game involving dinosaurs? DreamWorks certainly thought it could work. Based around the plot of The Lost World, you control several characters from the film (who are voiced by their actors), to breed and train a team of dinosaurs that can be used against enemies across twelve missions. Each character has their own attributes, which includes the speed of their movement, the number of supplies they can carry, and their eyesight for the game’s Fog of War. Eight dinosaurs from the films are featured, including the T-Rex and Velociraptor. The game is reminiscent of Command & Conquer, but nowhere near the quality and execution. The AI isn’t particularly tough, a shallow take on RTS fundamentals (notably omitting a hotkey for assigning units or groups of units to call up for later use) and overall lack of challenge makes it geared towards casual players.

Trespasser – PC (1998)

Last year, Luiz touched on DreamWorks Interactive’s Trespasser, which you can either view as an experiment totally gone wrong, or a game that was ahead of its time. Taking place a year after the events of The Lost World, you play as Anne (voiced by Minnie Driver), the sole survivor of a plane crash onto Isla Sorna, aka “Site B”. You’ve got to make your way across the island and get yourself rescued. While the AI for Trespasser was pretty good, and the game looked amazing at the time, technical issues (and the lack of a beefy PC) left many people frustrated. Truthfully, there are aspects of the game — the physics engine, control scheme, and use of voiceover narration — that would go on to influence other games that would see the benefit of Trespasser‘s missteps. There’s still a cult following to this day that has managed to rework the game’s source code and fix some of the original game’s issues.

Warpath: Jurassic Park – Sony PlayStation (1999)

Primal Rage, this is not. Again, what seemed like a good idea on paper with a fighting game involving dinosaurs, Warpath missed on its execution. You choose from an initial roster of eight dinosaurs, with an additional six to be unlocked. Developer Black Ops Entertainment took an obvious bit of artistic license with each dinosaur, as each has its own fighting techniques and style. That also happens to involve scaling some of the dinosaurs way out of proportion each other. The game looks great, but when you realize that you can potentially finish off your opponent using the same two moves in a relatively quick amount of time, things start to sour. The crappy AI, complex control scheme and sluggish gameplay doesn’t help matters, either.

Jurassic Park III: The DNA Factor, Jurassic Park III: Park Builder and Jurassic Park III: Island Attack – Game Boy Advance (2001)

Konami managed to snag the license for Jurassic Park III, and the result was a trio of different games with varying quality. The DNA Factor is a sidescrolling affair where players controlled either Mark Hanson (a photographer) or Lori Torres (an ace pilot), who have to wander the island collecting DNA. The game looked good for a GBA title, but the gameplay was a sloppy and frustrating mess. Poor controls and collision detection aside, players had to bounce between the foreground and background, which made grabbing DNA difficult when nothing cast a proper shadow.

Island Attack has you (as Dr. Grant) crash-landing on Isla Sorna, where you must reach the island’s coast in order to be rescued. Again, the game graphically looks good on Nintendo’s handheld, but the gameplay can be best described as tedious. In addition to some annoying gameplay mechanics (who thought it was a good idea to mash buttons repeatedly to open crates?), the game’s difficulty is ratcheted up unfairly with blind jumps and the inability to get your grappling hook to work on practically anything. The horrible sound and music just add insult to injury.

Park Builder is probably the most competent out of the three GBA games, and can be seen as a sign of things to come later for the series’ video game adaptations. The premise is literally players designing and running an island-based Jurassic Park theme park. Admittedly, the game is pretty simple, but in hindsight, for a GBA title, it’s pretty good. It’s surprisingly complex, with you having to build and maintain the park, but you also have to research new dino DNA to create more dinosaurs for your park. You also have to care for your dinos, which can get sick. Lastly, you must also advertise your park in order to attract visitors. There are better Jurassic Park park sims out there, but this one deserves a look, at the very least.

Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis – PC, Sony PlayStation 2, Microsoft Xbox (2003)

Stepping up from Park Builder, Blue Tongue Entertainment expanded on the original concept, and gives fans a different (though nonetheless complex) theme park simulation. Again, you’re tasked with creating a theme park, create and house dinosaurs, make your park popular, and keep it safe. You once again must research DNA from specimens trapped in amber or fossils, with the higher quality DNA resulting in a heartier dinosaur. There are a total of 25 species of dinosaurs featured in the game, with each group having its own requirements. The game has 10 missions in total with varying objectives. After completing the 10 missions, you unlock “Site B” mode, which allows you to create an island for dinosaurs only for your viewing pleasure. It’s definitely a better game than Park Builder, though the fickle AI and lack of a way to increase the game speed can be irksome.

Jurassic Park: The Game – PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 (2011)

Telltale Games got their usual episodic game on with this one. Set during and after the events of the 1993 film, Jurassic Park: The Game is a point-and-click affair when you control multiple characters set across four episodes, with the central plot thread involving that canister full of dinosaur embryos that Dennis Nedry lost in the original film. If you’ve played any of Telltale’s other games, you know what to expect in terms of gameplay. Unfortunately, the writing across the four episodes doesn’t hit home as well as it should. Many of the characters aren’t as endearing as they should be, which is compounded by the story decisions that force you to stay on the island instead of escaping it. It’s an okay time, but you’re better off just re-watching the films if you want compelling characters and a properly-executed storyline.

Jurassic World Evolution – PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch (2018)

Continuing the evolution (pun sort of intended) of Park Builder, Evolution represents further expansion of the park management sim idea for Jurassic Park. This time, players construct a dinosaur park on Las Cinco Muertes Archipelago. The sandbox mode from Operation Genesis returns, this time set on Isla Nublar, though you don’t have to unlock it this time. Featuring more than 40 types of dinosaurs, players can now alter their dinosaur’s genes to introduce new features. The game divided critics, with some calling it too simplistic and easy, while others said it was too complex and hard. Regardless, it still garnered award nominations, and developer Frontier Developments kept rewarding fans with plenty of DLC packs, including the final DLC that saw the reunion of the original Jurassic Park cast.

Jurassic World Aftermath – Oculus Quest (2020)

If you’ve wanted to relive that famous kitchen scene in Jurassic Park, Aftermath is your answer. Taking place on Isla Nublar two years after the events of Jurassic World, you are Sam, a security expert sent to the island to infiltrate its ruins and obtain information. After an unfortunate encounter with a Pteranodon, your plane crashes on the island. From there, you’re hunted by velociraptors, which forces you to employ stealth tactics to constantly evade them and progress in your mission. Despite the decision to use cel-shaded graphics in an attempt to make the dinos less scary (and appeal to a wider audience), Aftermath still manages to contain its fair share of frights. The bigger issue is the gameplay, which can become repetitive and lacks variety, particularly in the puzzle department. More frustrating is the 3-hour length of the game, which can be expanded with Part 2 (after you pay for it, of course), but that second part sadly feels more of the same.

Jurassic World Evolution 2 – PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series (2021)

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Frontier Developments kept that in mind with Evolution 2. Taking place prior to Jurassic World Dominion, players are once again tasked with building and managing a dinosaur-theme park, this time in the United States itself. Evolution 2 further expands upon the original’s concepts while introducing more dinosaurs, a revamped AI system, and new gameplay tweaks that furthered the complexity. The Challenge and Sandbox modes make a return, and are joined by the “Chaos Theory” mode, which revisits key narrative moments in the films for players to carve their own paths. As with the previous game, some aspects of micromanagement (namely in employees) can be frustrating for some players, but the depth of personalization and what you can do with your park can offset the headaches. And as with the previous game, Frontier has kept things fresh with new DLC, the latest being based on the Camp Cretaceous Netflix show.

Jurassic Park: Survival – Nintendo Gamecube, PC, Sony PlayStation 2, Microsoft Xbox (Cancelled)

A bit of a twist for this one, as Survival was never released, yet held so much promise. Survival began development in October 2000, and was originally going to be based on Jurassic Park III. However, due to the lack of references, the development teams decided to implement their own designs and ideas. Survival was to be played from a third-person perspective, with players assuming the role of a member of a security team sent in to oversee a secret third island that was threatening to become overpopulated with dinosaurs. The gameplay was described as Tomb Raider-esque, but contained a heavy dose of Survival Horror that Dino Crisis fans would’ve loved. Unfortunately, development ceased in July 2001 due to payment conflicts with developer Savage Entertainment and Vivendi Universal, the latter being dissatisfied with the progress of the game.

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While this is a bit of non-news (and wishful thinking on my part), Dern has openly expressed a desire to revisit the character. If the filmmakers were to reach out to her, we could see a huge reunion that would be celebrated among fans everywhere.

“I don’t know, I have no idea actually,” Dern told ET in response to rumors of a possible cameo. “I mean, I love Dr. Ellie Satler so I could never say no to that on any level,” she admitted. “But I really don’t know, I don’t even know what they’re cooking up yet.”

Both Chris Pratt and Jeff Goldblum have both previously expressed their openness to have Dern’s character return in any capacity she wants. What do you all think? Should they continue to bring back old characters or start building into something new?

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Having practical effects, such as animatronics, as often as possible was one of the main techniques that director J.A. Bayona used to get genuine reactions out of the actors in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Mashable talked to one of the film’s puppeteers and got some insights into what it takes to breathe life into these beautiful inanimate creatures.

At different points in the film, Blue, the T-rex and the Indoraptor were all brought to life using practical animatronics, and the video digs into the incredible magic that made it happen.

Long live practical effects.

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In many ways, J.A. Bayona’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom kills off the franchise we know Jurassic Park/World to be, opening it wide up and allowing it to become something else entirely. Mostly, I’m referring to the complete and total destruction of Isla Nublar, leveled by a massive volcano that, long story short, sets many of the island’s dinosaurs free.

Sadly, not all the dinosaurs that were in Jurassic Park/World survive the volcanic event, with a Brachiosaurus being the film’s most devastating casualty. As a sad version of John Williams’ iconic Jurassic Park theme song plays over the stunning visuals, we see a Brachiosaurus left behind on the island, where it meets a fiery, thoroughly heartbreaking end.

To make the scene even sadder, the Brachiosaurus that dies in Fallen Kingdom was supposed to be the very same dinosaur we first saw in Jurassic Park, and the same character animation was even utilized to remind us of that breathtaking moment we first experienced way back in 1993. It’s all really just too much to handle, but beautifully executed all the same.

Now we’re crying all over again with Bayona’s reveal that the reference point for the unforgettable shot was freakin’ E.T.‘s beating heart, a touching nod to Spielberg.

Why are you doing this to us, man? WHY?!

Fun fact: the reference for the look of this shot was the heart of E.T.#JurassicWorldFallenKingdompic.twitter.com/XUABtwsF1r

— JA Bayona (@FilmBayona) August 9, 2018

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As I previously wrote, 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.

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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Like many Hollywood blockbusters, several different versions of the film will be released on September 18, including Target and Walmart exclusives. Today brings the full rundown…

Target Exclusive 4K/Blu-ray/Digital & Blu-ray/DVD/Digital – Includes 28-page gallery book plus 30 minutes of exclusive bonus content

Walmart Exclusive Limited Edition Giftset – Includes Funko POP! keychains of Owen and Blue

Best Buy Exclusive 4K/Blu-ray/Digital & Blu-ray/DVD/Digital – Steelbook packaging

Jurassic World 5-Movie Collection Blu-ray/DVD/Digital

Check out full special features info for all releases below.

BONUS FEATURES EXCLUSIVE TO 4K ULTRA HD, BLU-RAY & DIGITAL:

• The KINGDOM Evolves – Filmmakers discuss how the second chapter in the Jurassic World trilogy pushes the franchise in a new direction.
• Return to Hawaii – Cast and crew discuss shooting the film in Hawaii.
• Island Action – A behind-the-scenes look at the bunker scene and runaway gyrosphere sequence.
• Aboard the Arcadia – Cast and crew discuss working with the animatronic dinosaurs.
• Start the Bidding! – A behind-the-scenes look at the auction scene.

BONUS FEATURES ON DVD, 4K ULTRA HD, BLU-RAY & DIGITAL:

• On Set with Chris & Bryce – Go behind the scenes with Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard.
• Birth of the Indoraptor – An inside look at the genetically designed monstrosity known as the Indoraptor.
• Death by Dino – Go behind the scenes as the Indoraptor faces off with a key character.
• Monster in a Mansion – Director J.A. Bayona discusses how Jurassic Park and Dracula (1979) influenced his approach to directing the monster in a mansion scene.
• Rooftop Showdown – A look at the terrifying showdown on the rooftop of the Lockwood Mansion.
• Malcolm’s Return – Behind the scenes with the one & only Jeff Goldblum.
• VFX Evolved – The team at ILM discuss their cutting-edge approach to creating dinosaurs.
• FALLEN KINGDOM: The Conversation – Filmmakers and cast sit down for a candid and casual conversation about Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.
• A Song for the KINGDOM – Justice Smith sings for the cast and crew of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.
• Chris Pratt’s Jurassic Journals
  • Vivian Baker, Makeup Artist
  • Mary Mastro, Hair Stylist
  • Chris Murphy, 1st Assistant Sound
  • Dean Bailey, Stunt Edge Car Driver
  • Peter Harcourt, Diver
  • Daniella Pineda and Justice Smith, Actors
  • Jody Wiltshire, Set PA
  • Kelly Krieg, Assistant Script Supervisor
  • J.A. Bayona, Director
  • James Cox, Stunt Performer
  • Rachelle Beinart, Stunt Double
  • Bryce Dallas Howard interviews Chris Pratt, Actor
• JURASSIC Then and Now – Presented by Barbasol – Key moments from the Jurassic saga that tie into Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.

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Stars Chris Pratt (Jurassic World, Guardians of the Galaxy franchise) and Bryce Dallas Howard (Jurassic World, Pete’s Dragon) return as Owen Grady and Claire Dearing with original cast members Jeff Goldblum (Jurassic Park, Thor: Ragnarok) and BD Wong (Jurassic World, “Law and Order: SVU”) reprising their iconic roles.

In Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom directed by J.A. Bayona (The Impossible, The Orphanage) and executive-produced by Jurassic titans Steven Spielberg and Colin Trevorrow, Owen (Pratt) and Claire (Howard) return to Isla Nublar three years after the destruction of the Jurassic World theme park to rescue any remaining dinosaurs on the island from a catastrophic volcano that threatens to leave dinosaurs extinct once again. Owen is driven to save his lead raptor, Blue, while Claire makes it her mission to preserve the creatures that she has grown to deeply respect. When the lava begins to rain down, they soon discover terrifying new breeds of ferocious dinosaurs along with a conspiracy that could threaten the entire world. Joined by co-stars James Cromwell (Babe, The Green Mile) as wealthy entrepreneur Benjamin Lockwood, Dr. John Hammond’s partner in creating Jurassic Park, as well as Justice Smith (The Get Down) and Daniella Pineda (The Detour) as Franklin Webb and Zia Rodriguez, members of Claire’s Dinosaur Protection Group; this brilliant cast brings an extraordinary story to life as chaos erupts when Owen, Claire, and their team discover a most deadly endgame that could bring the planet back to prehistoric times.

Complete your Jurassic library when the all-new five-Movie Collection is available on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD on September 18, 2018. Now fans can experience the glory of all five movies in one complete must-own set including, Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park III, Jurassic World and the all-new movie Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.

BONUS FEATURES EXCLUSIVE TO 4K ULTRA HD, BLU-RAY & DIGITAL:

• The KINGDOM Evolves – Filmmakers discuss how the second chapter in the Jurassic World trilogy pushes the franchise in a new direction.
• Return to Hawaii – Cast and crew discuss shooting the film in Hawaii.
• Island Action – A behind-the-scenes look at the bunker scene and runaway gyrosphere sequence.
• Aboard the Arcadia – Cast and crew discuss working with the animatronic dinosaurs.
• Start the Bidding! – A behind-the-scenes look at the auction scene.

BONUS FEATURES ON DVD, 4K ULTRA HD, BLU-RAY & DIGITAL:

• On Set with Chris & Bryce – Go behind the scenes with Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard.
• Birth of the Indoraptor – An inside look at the genetically designed monstrosity known as the Indoraptor.
• Death by Dino – Go behind the scenes as the Indoraptor faces off with a key character.
• Monster in a Mansion – Director J.A. Bayona discusses how Jurassic Park and Dracula (1979) influenced his approach to directing the monster in a mansion scene.
• Rooftop Showdown – A look at the terrifying showdown on the rooftop of the Lockwood Mansion.
• Malcolm’s Return – Behind the scenes with the one & only Jeff Goldblum.
• VFX Evolved – The team at ILM discuss their cutting-edge approach to creating dinosaurs.
• FALLEN KINGDOM: The Conversation – Filmmakers and cast sit down for a candid and casual conversation about Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.
• A Song for the KINGDOM – Justice Smith sings for the cast and crew of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.
• Chris Pratt’s Jurassic Journals
  • Vivian Baker, Makeup Artist
  • Mary Mastro, Hair Stylist
  • Chris Murphy, 1st Assistant Sound
  • Dean Bailey, Stunt Edge Car Driver
  • Peter Harcourt, Diver
  • Daniella Pineda and Justice Smith, Actors
  • Jody Wiltshire, Set PA
  • Kelly Krieg, Assistant Script Supervisor
  • J.A. Bayona, Director
  • James Cox, Stunt Performer
  • Rachelle Beinart, Stunt Double
  • Bryce Dallas Howard interviews Chris Pratt, Actor
• JURASSIC Then and Now – Presented by Barbasol – Key moments from the Jurassic saga that tie into Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.

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In many ways, director J.A. Bayona’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom kills off the franchise we know Jurassic Park/World to be, opening it wide up and allowing it to become something else entirely. Mostly, I’m of course referring to the complete and total destruction of Isla Nublar, leveled by a massive volcano that, long story short, sets many of the island’s dinosaurs free.

Sadly, not all the dinosaurs that were in Jurassic Park/World survive the volcanic event, with a Brachiosaurus being the film’s most devastating casualty. As a sad version of John Williams’ iconic Jurassic Park theme song plays over the visuals, we see a Brachiosaurus left behind on the island, where it meets a fiery, thoroughly heartbreaking end.

As it turns out, that scene was approximately 1,000x more devastating than you maybe even realized. As Bayona revealed in a chat with Empire, that was *the* original Brachiosaurus.

“That’s the brachiosaurus that Alan Grant saw for the first time in Jurassic Park,” Bayona told the site, explaining that the same character animation was even utilized. “I think it’s a beautiful moment – it’s sad but it’s beautiful, and it’s so relevant.”

Writer Colin Trevorrow added, “For that to be the last dinosaur we see on the island, I found to be emotionally effective. But then the way that J.A. executed it – the colours, the very spiritual way that he shot it and finished it… It was actually the last shot that we finished on the whole movie, everyone had been up all night. He’s so meticulous, especially with his color and his composition. He worked on that shot until he had seconds left.”

Yes, the first dinosaur we ever laid eyes on in the Jurassic Park franchise is the very same dinosaur as the final one we see before we depart Isla Nublar forever, in Fallen Kingdom.

Who’s got the tissues? We need all the tissues.

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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).

ALSO READ: Colin Trevorrow Hints at the Return of More Jurassic Park Characters in Jurassic World 3

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Westworld and Jurassic Park have always shared themes and plot points, but a funny thing happened while I was watching the second season finale of Westworld: I realized I had seen this ending somewhere recently. It was in J.A. Bayona’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.

Full Spoilers Ahead…

Westworld was always going to be about a park going wrong, where everything turns into chaos and the robot hosts start killing the human guests. The second season finale of the show, The Passenger, takes it a step further, as we see Dolores change bodies to a robot copy of Executive Director Charlotte Hale and secretly make her way off the Island park with the core memories of a few other hosts, dead set on eradicating humanity. The doors to the park have been blown wide open, and the show can go anywhere as there is now a robot hiding amongst humans, completely unbeknownst to them.

In the second installment of the Jurassic World reboot/sequel trilogy, we learn that Isla Nublar, home to the now-defunct Jurassic World theme park, is also home to a now-active volcano that threatens to obliterate all dinosaur life from the face of the Earth. Instead of the logical solution of transferring the animals to the near Isla Sorna, they are moved to California where a sinister business guy auctions the dinosaurs off to the highest bidder. In the last few minutes we find out that a little girl we were made to believe was the granddaughter of John Hammond’s secret business partner, Benjamin Lockwood, was, in fact, a human clone. Oh, and all the dinosaurs escape and are now free to roam the continental United States.

It is easy to see how Michael Crichton was inspired by his work on the original Westworld when it became time to write his novel about a park going wrong and the dangers of genetic engineering. Both are about illusions of control, and the dangers of playing God. While the similarities in plot may be a bit superficial, it is in the themes explored and the future possibilities for both franchises that we find the connection between dinosaurs and hosts.

First of all, while Westworld and Fallen Kingdom present their endings as surprising twists, they were always the inevitable end to the promise set up by both franchises. A conflict between mankind and a new species we ourselves created for our amusement. The lesson in both the original Westworld and Jurassic Park was that humans should not mess around in creating things we cannot control, as they will always get out of control. The dinosaurs escape, and the robots programmed to be harmless turn against their masters in bloody fashion. But now they are hinting at something more, at a future where humanity doesn’t just learn from its mistakes, but it pays for them in blood and extinction.

That’s right, they were always going to end up as Planet of the Apes-type stories with humanity struggling to co-exist in the same world as robots or dinosaurs, and our eventual demise. The original premise of Westworld was that the robots would turn on people and start killing, so their ultimate goal was to replace mankind as the ruling species. When it comes to dinosaurs, Dr. Alan Grant said it best: “Dinosaurs and man, two species separated by 65 million years of evolution have just been suddenly thrown back into the mix together. How can we possibly have the slightest idea what to expect?” Sure, we have weapons, but that’s where the human-dinosaur hybrids come into play!

One of the interesting things about Fallen Kingdom was how it could be perfectly divided into two distinct movies. The first one is an ending to the franchise, a goodbye to the island. The second is a teaser for the next installment in the franchise, one that ups the sci-fi to the max and delivers on the promise of having dinosaurs roam free and terrorize the suburbs. In the same vein, the robots in Westworld have rarely set foot outside of the park (and when they did their memories got wiped). This season was all about bringing down the establishment, both by killing all of the park’s top officials, and by having the hosts jump off a cliff and die. By the end, the park is gone (though we know from Jurassic Park that has never stopped anyone), there are no more hosts, and Dolores is free to do whatever she wants – with the ability to build infinite bodies for herself and her lieutenants. Both the film and the show are now free of expectations tied to the rest of the franchise and can explore a multitude of stories.

Westworld has always been about showing us the worst of humanity in and out of the park. Unlike Michael Crichton’s other work featuring a futuristic amusement park, these humans aren’t merely greedy, they are straight evil, and have no regards for the hosts that have now gained consciousness. The human guests not just mistreat the robot hosts, they rape and kill everything they come across and then laugh it off. A big part of the season was devoted to William, a shy kid who finds he has a liking to killing and raping all the robots he can. So when Dolores finally gains consciousness and kills her human creator, we root for her and the other hosts to get free and fight their oppressors.

When it comes to the Jurassic films, they have always shown the greediness in humanity and our inability to see how little control we have over things, but when the dinosaurs get free and start eating people, we see that as a mistake getting bigger, not divine justice against evil men. That is, until Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. This is the first time we see a person being killed by another person, humans being left to die by other humans and plenty of acts of random violence and hatred. This is the first film where we actively root for not only the killing of a few greedy and selfish humans, but for the replacing of mankind as the dominant species on Earth. I could argue that the sight of the dying brachiosaurus alone was enough to make everyone in the audience hate humans, without the need of evil planning and murder.

What will become of Westworld? Will Dolores build an underground army? Will she get access to the nuclear codes? Will Maisie Lockwood ever get accepted as a human clone? Will Dr. Henry Wu finally give the people what they want and make human-dinosaur hybrids? Only time will tell. Two things are certain: humanity’s future doesn’t look bright, and it’s an excellent time to be a Michael Crichton fan.

Rafael Motamayor (@GeekWithAnAfro) is a recovering-cinephile and freelance writer from Venezuela currently based in Norway. He has written for Flickering Myth, Birth.Movies.Death, THR’s Heat Vision, and SYFY.

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The Japanese website Natalie brings the limited time pop-up cafe to our attention this week, and they note that it’s open from July 5th to August 6th in Tokyo at Ikebukuro Parco, and from August 10th to September 30th in Osaka at Shinsaibashi Open in 161.

The fully Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom-inspired menu includes items such as “Mososaurus Soda,” “Volcano Curry,” “Jurassic World Burger” and even dinosaur cupcakes!

Check out some of the awesome treats below.

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One of the new characters we meet in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is Benjamin Lockwood, played by veteran actor James Cromwell. As we quickly learn, Lockwood was the former business partner of the late John Hammond, and it was actually the two of them who together created what eventually became Jurassic Park. We also meet Maisie Lockwood (actress Isabella Sermon) in J.A. Bayona’s film, who is John Lockwood’s granddaughter. Well, she’s initially presented as Lockwood’s granddaughter, that is.

Early in the film, we’re told that Lockwood’s daughter had died in a car accident some years prior, leading him to essentially play the role of surrogate father to his daughter’s daughter, Maisie; the little girl lives with Lockwood at his estate, overseen by a live-in helper, Iris. But the film seems to be hinting at something strange about Maisie, which is eventually revealed to be a pretty massive twist for the franchise at large. While it initially seems that Maisie is merely a dead ringer for her late mother, we eventually find out that, well, she *is* her mother.

Maisie, the film tells us in a surprising twist, is actually Lockwood’s daughter. After her death, Lockwood used his daughter’s DNA to create a clone of her, which created a rift between Lockwood and Hammond that was never healed. In other words, the reason we never heard about Benjamin Lockwood in any of the previous films, Fallen Kingdom explains to us, is because Lockwood was written out of the Jurassic Park history books for going one step too far with the high-tech DNA wizardry he and Hammond perfected. While Hammond stopped at bringing dinosaurs back to life, Lockwood took it upon himself to bring his dead daughter back to life; human re-animation, for Hammond, was one area best not trifled with.

How does the reveal of Maisie’s not-quite-human origin play into the events of Fallen Kingdom? Well, it becomes clear in the final act that Maisie’s bizarre origin story exists in the film for the primary purpose of giving Maisie a direct link to the dinosaurs; after all, she, like them, was cooked up in a lab. This comes into play at the very end of the film, when Maisie makes the incredibly irresponsible (but totally understandable, both cause she’s a child and especially because she’s a fake-child) decision to set the surviving dinosaurs from Jurassic World free into, well, the world. Whereas Owen and Claire decide to let them die in containment rather than escape the Lockwood Mansion, Maisie can’t abide that. As she says in an admittedly corny final life before hitting the big red button, “They’re alive… like me.”

Maisie’s storyline aside, the “we cloned a human” reveal in Fallen Kingdom is a bold choice for a franchise that had never previously played around with human DNA. Sure, the revival of a long-gone, prehistoric species was perhaps always more impressive than bringing back one dead human being, but it’s nevertheless an addition that breaks new ground for the series. And even if the next film(s) doesn’t at all play around with that idea any further, what’s done can’t be undone: in the Jurassic Park/World universe, human beings can be cloned!

Could we someday down the line see the rebirth of John Hammond himself? Even more out there, could a new hybrid dinosaur be created that’s… part human?

The latter idea, now entirely possible in the world that these films inhabit, is actually one that the franchise has *almost* played around with in the past. As you’ve maybe heard over the years, a very early idea for the unmade Jurassic Park 4 included creatures that were half-human, half-dinosaur!

Around 2005, William Monahan and John Sayles had written a script for Jurassic Park 4 that boldly introduced the idea of human DNA and dinosaur DNA being combined for weaponization purposes, aspects of which eventually found their way into the Jurassic World films; after all, both films to date have played with the idea of weaponization and feature hybrid dinosaurs as villains, and Fallen Kingdom messes with human DNA experimentation for the first time. But the Monahan and Sayles concept took all of these things to new levels of absurdity.

As we’ve been told, that iteration of the project was to reportedly center on “a secret genetics lab that has been cross-breeding humans with dinosaurs. The result is an army of grotesque and intelligent humanoid dino freaks with problem-solving intelligence and the ability to fire automatic weapons.”

Early concept art – drawings and even sculptures – that was allegedly whipped up for this proposed project hit the net several years back, which you’ll find below. The legitimacy of the art has been brought into question more recently, with Industrial Light & Magic shooting down initial reports that it was their handiwork, but the art nevertheless paints a picture of what dinosaur/human hybrids might look like. And while they’d probably be cool as the featured creatures in their own movie, we’re thinking they’re just not right for Jurassic World.

We’ll likely never seen dino-humans in the Jurassic World franchise – according to Colin Trevorrow, we won’t even be seeing any more dinosaur hybrids in the next film – but along with Maisie Lockwood’s reveal in Fallen Kingdom comes a whole lot of intrigue. For better or worse, this dinosaur-inhabited world just got a whole lot more interesting.

You can’t help but wonder if Maisie is the *only* human clone out there…

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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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If the second film in a trilogy is supposed to ensure that you’d instantly pay to see the final film right afterwards, if given the option, then oh boy does J.A. Bayona’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom succeed in that particular department. In fact, so good is the tease for “Jurassic World 3” that it’s already my most anticipated movie of the next few years.

As we recently learned, the third installment in the Jurassic World franchise, planned at this time to be the final installment, is being directed by Jurassic World‘s Colin Trevorrow and will be unleashed into theaters on June 11, 2021. What we knew about the sequel, heading into this weekend, was that Trevorrow recently described it as being a “science thriller,” adding that he was looking forward to “getting a little back into the Paleontological, wild animal, true dinosaur nature of all of it.”

Having seen Fallen Kingdom, we now have a much better idea of what he was talking about. The main thrust of the Fallen Kingdom storyline is that Isla Nublar, the former home of both Jurassic Park and Jurassic World, is completely decimated by the eruption of a massive volcano we never knew was on the premises. Fortunately, *most* of the remaining dinosaurs on the island are evacuated before being melted by the sinister orange lava, brought to the home of Benjamin Lockwood, the former partner of the late John Hammond (who we never knew existed). While some of them are sold off in an auction to be used by rich businessmen for presumably nefarious purposes, most of them – including Blue and the T-Rex – are set free into the world, totally unrestrained and left to their own devices.

As Jeff Goldblum’s Ian Malcolm perfectly points out in a closing monologue that wraps up his brief-but-important return, the Earth has literally become… Jurassic World.

Fallen Kingdom comes to a close with some pretty ominous imagery, as the surviving dinosaurs of both parks are running around in *our* world; the T-rex faces off with a lion at the zoo, Blue races around on mountaintops, and the always-hungry Mosasaurus prepares to make a hot lunch out of an unlucky surfer at the beach. Even though the trailers already showed off all of those moments months before the movie was released, for whatever stupid reason, the images are no less chilling and awe-inspiring when seen in context.

There’s even a post-credits scene at the very end of Fallen Kingdom, a first for the franchise, which shows a group of Pterosaurs flying high above Las Vegas!

Granted, Fallen Kingdom‘s teasers for the next installment aren’t necessarily brand new for the franchise, per se. One of the most memorable aspects of Steven Spielberg’s The Lost World: Jurassic Park was the film’s final act, wherein the massive T-rex was transported to San Diego. The beast is eventually returned to Isla Sorna, but not before it goes on a rampage through the city. Only in the film’s last fifteen minutes does it make its way off the island, but the imagery of the prehistoric monster roaming around San Diego is pretty fantastic. Most memorably, the T-rex traipses around the backyard of a home, walking past a child’s bedroom window and then drinking from the pool; later, it runs wild in the streets, destroying a bus and forcing it into the storefront of a Blockbuster Video. Who’s extinct now, bitch.

Needless to say, the final act of The Lost World was bold new territory for the franchise, but it only briefly touched upon the potential for the series to leave the island behind completely and bring the dinosaurs into our world; Jurassic Park III, I needn’t remind you, went right back to the island. But Fallen Kingdom is a different beast entirely, with its final act promising the film that The Lost World left you hungry to see all those years ago. By literally demolishing Isla Nublar, Bayona’s film essentially kills off what you’ve come to know the franchise to be and opens up the endless possibilities of what it can be, going forward. In Jurassic World 3, we’re not going back to the island. The island is gone. Instead, Bayona promises of Trevorrow’s 2021 film, we’re entering a world where dinosaurs and human beings are going to have to truly co-exist for the very first time in the franchise.

It would seem that Jurassic World 3 will be the closest thing to an adaptation of Topps’ brutal Dinosaurs Attack! trading card line that we may ever see, as we can only imagine the unleashed dinosaurs will be rampaging and devouring everything (and everyone) in their path. Sure, Fallen Kingdom may have done a great job making us empathize with those dinos, who never asked to be cooked up in a lab in direct defiance of the natural order of things, but you can only imagine how they’ll behave when presented with an entirely new food source. By the looks of things, humans are going to drop way down to the bottom of the food chain once 2021 rolls around.

If only we didn’t have to wait three years to see how it all plays out, eh?

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The Jurassic movies were always monster movies anyway, at their core. A giant T-rex chasing a jeep was downright terrifying, even if it did eat that A-hole lawyer we all hated. And no matter how gentle the Brontosauri were, they were giant creatures that could pulverize you with a single step. Still, there’s a bit of a safe distance in the other Jurassic Parks and Jurassic World. After all, in those movies, you’re only really in danger if you buy a ticket to the theme park.

So Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom asks you to confront something much scarier: What if dinosaurs broke into your home?

The script by Derek Connolly and Colin Trevorrow sets the second half of Fallen Kingdom indoors. Considering how giant dinosaurs are, that’s miraculous in itself. Sure, it’s an enormous mansion, but it’s confined to four walls, a floor and a ceiling. Director J.A. Bayona seems at home with this.

Eli Mills (Rafe Spall) has orchestrated a rescue of the dinosaurs on Isla Nublar before a volcano erupts and re-extincts them. Turns out, Mills is not a humanitarian. He wants to sell the dinosaurs to the highest bidder. Everyone thinks they can control John Hammond’s experiments, but it’s up to Owen (Chris Pratt), Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) and Maisie Lockwood (Isabella Sermon) to contain this mess and escape the mansion.

There’s a reason siege movies are a tried and true subgenre of horror. What works for zombies can work just as well with dinosaurs, especially in the hands of a director like Bayona (The Orphanage). The principle is you’re trying to keep the monsters out, but you’re still trapped. It doesn’t matter how big or small the monsters are, they’re relentless.

The dark corridors of the mansion lead to a lot of reveals of dinosaurs lurking in the shadows. Bayona knows how to build suspense to keep you waiting until the dinosaurs step out into the light. There are hiding places for the humans too, but what good is hiding when an Indominus Rex/Raptor crossbreed can smell you?

They sort of did this in Jurassic Park with the kitchen scene with the raptors. The kids were hiding, and the raptors learned how to turn doorknobs. This is the kitchen scene on a much bigger scale. There are more hallways and elevators in the mansion, and lots more (and bigger) dinosaurs on the loose.

Fallen Kingdom gives you sympathy for the monsters too. Like King Kong, Godzilla or Frankenstein, the dinosaurs didn’t ask to be created.

They’re just living their lives, doing what giant prehistoric animals do. By the time they’re loose in the mansion, they’ve been dragged off their island, shot with tranquilizers and bullets in some cases. And they’re not happy about it. Maybe they don’t know that Owen, Claire and Maisie are on their side; maybe they don’t care. The heroes don’t want to hurt the dinosaurs. They’re still dinosaur advocates at the end of the day, but that only makes it harder to survive the nightmare scenario. How do you defeat a monster you don’t want to kill?

I get why Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is maybe a misfire to audiences used to Spielbergian dinosaur epics. The size and scale of dinosaurs necessitates wide open spaces and the franchise has firmly established tropical locales as main settings. Asking those viewers to now get excited about dank, dark, wet interiors, well, that’s maybe a tough sell.

However, I hope the audience that loves movies like Dawn of the Dead, Assault on Precinct 13 and From Dusk Till Dawn appreciate what Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom has given us. They made a Jurassic sequel that’s really just people trapped in a house with monsters, and it totally works.

I realize that even among horror fans, the audience for Jurassic World may not want the franchise to stray too far from the epic monster movie roots of the series. That’s fair, but Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is here anyway. If you’re worried it’s going to be a letdown, I hope you can at least consider watching it in the context of a housebound horror movie and see if it satisfies you as much as it did me.

From where I stand, dinosaurs are scary again. And that’s a win for Fallen Kingdom.

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“That’s one of the first ideas that Colin [Trevorrow] pitched me was this kind of second half of the movie that plays a little bit like a haunted house movie with dinosaurs sneaking through corridors inside of a mansion and sneaking through windows, that kind of gothic world,” Bayona said in a phone interview.

“For me, one of the intentions was going back to the original Jurassic Park and the kind of suspense that Steven played in the second half. We all remember the scene of the velociraptors chasing the kids in the kitchen. For me it was a chance of playing suspense and the space in a more interesting way, playing with claustrophobia and tighter locations.”

Raptors in the kitchen are one thing. But the T-rex, Stegosaurus and other breeds won’t even fit in your standard duplex. The Lockwood mansion of the finale is a large enough space to give dinosaurs plenty of hiding spaces, and lots of room for humans to run away.

“From the moment you decide to get a dinosaur inside a mansion, there were a lot of conversations with the special effects guys, visual effects and production designer in order to fit dinosaurs inside the mansion and make it believable,” Bayona said.

“One of the major challenges was how to create the scene of the auction in order to make it believable. We decided that the whole space is like a garage of old cars, suggesting that Lockwood had a collection or cars or something. So that gave us the possibility of having these big doors. It was a space that you can imagine the space of a millionaire where he can store lots of cars, luxury cars. We were playing with it, with the production designer, to make it believable.”

Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) watches from the outside this time, but even Goldblum was wowed by the horror influence.

“Boy, there’s so much edge of your seat cliffhanger-y stuff in the beginning and then that horror movie section with the gothic mansion plays visual references to Nosferatu, I thought were really spectacular,” Goldblum said.

The dinosaurs in Fallen Kingdom are brutal. Gorehounds will be pleased. Bayona knows the trick to getting away with dismemberment in a PG-13 movie.

“You play with those limits,” Bayona said. “One of the limits is that you cannot show human blood. You cannot show much human blood. There’s a limit for that. These movies, you need to come up with very creative deaths because one of the fun aspects of watching one of these movies to enjoy when the bad guys are eaten by dinosaurs. You really need to think about creative ways of showing without showing. There is a moment, for example, one of the characters has his arm eaten by the Indoraptor. It’s pretty wild but you don’t see any blood in that moment. That’s the way you go. It’s a little bit like the way Alfred Hitchcock was playing with censorship in the old times. Somehow you put yourself in the same position. I try to play with the rules in order to create a bigger impact without crossing the red lines.”

The Spielberg movies were pretty brutal too. He made horror movies that were PG, although some of those were the reasons the PG-13 rating was invented in the first place.

“I think you take a look at Steven Spielberg movies, he plays from time to time with suspense and also with horror,” Bayona said. “There are moments that are pretty violent in Jaws or even in the first Jurassic Park. When you see the first appearance of the T-Rex and the way he attacks the kids in that scene, it’s definitely a horror movie and you can see people jumping in the theater and grabbing their seats. There’s tension. There’s suspense and I love it. That’s one of the things that I love the most from the first Jurassic Park. From the very beginning, when Colin pitched me the story, that was one of the goals in this movie. Go back to that sense of fear and suspense.”

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom has a different look than the previous four films. It is the first Jurassic film in the widescreen 2.35:1 aspect ratio. We have A Monster Calls to thank for that.

“The main reason that they did the other movies with a [1.85] aspect ratio was to frame the dinosaurs, to have more space to frame the dinosaurs considering the difference of height between the humans and dinosaurs,” Bayona said.

“The thing is that I was coming from shooting A Monster Calls with the same aspect ratio. The two lead characters were a kid and a giant tree monster. I never had problems framing the story so I just told Steven [Spielberg] that I wanted to change the aspect ratio. He understood and he supported my idea 100%.”

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom opens June 22 in the U.S.

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“We are suggesting it,” director J.A. Bayona told Bloody-Disgusting in a phone interview.

“We really didn’t want to get into that. Maybe something that Colin [Trevorrow] will want to explore more in the third movie. I really don’t know about that. In this movie, it’s more a suggestion. One of the things that I like about the Indoraptor is that it’s a prototype. Kind of like a rejected creature. That, for me, is like a way of creating a little bit of sense of empathy towards the monster. In terms of the story for weaponized dinosaurs, we are only hinting at the possibility in this movie. We’re not getting it 100%.”

This is really the fifth time humans thought they could control dinosaurs. It’s quite clear that this is a terrible mistake, yet the audience wants idiot humans to keep making this mistake so we can keep watching fun dinosaur movies.

“I think it’s very interesting because from the very beginning you have Ian Malcolm asking Congress to let the dinosaurs die, to not interrupt the natural course of history, of nature,” Bayona said. “That’s pretty complex, to see a character we love saying that from the very beginning.”

But, because the Lockwood Corporation has a shady plan to move the dinosaurs off a volcanic island that would wipe them out, we get to enjoy a scene of Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard saving dinosaurs from lava.

“We have a massive scene with the eruption of the volcano, but I like how the movie at the end somehow manages to get smaller and more constrained, more contrite, more tight and claustrophobic,” Bayona said. “The way you get the attention of the audience in a very different way building up suspense very carefully.”

The example for making big action intimate and relatable comes from Steven Spielberg, but not the Spielberg you may think. Bayona is a defender of the oft-maligned sequel The Lost World: Jurassic Park.

“You can see Spielberg at his best in that film,” Bayona said. “The camera work, the blocking, the set pieces. For me the best set piece in the whole franchise is that moment where you can see the truck hanging from the cliff. One of the things I like about this movie, and you can see the perfect example in that scene is how the whole thing becomes from being big and gigantic and then you get the whole thing into one detail. I’m talking about that scene where you see Julianne Moore over the glass and then you start to see the glass cracking. It’s about that small detail that creates the tension. It becomes this very big thing into a single detail that is able to create all the suspense. That was the goal in some of the scenes I was doing in this movie.”

Five movies in, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom has sympathy for the dinosaurs. They didn’t ask to be brought back. They’re not asking humans for help. Yet they’re the ones who keep suffering from human interference. They’re like King Kong being dragged from his home and then punished for it.

“For me, it’s a movie about empathy and it’s a movie about accepting what they don’t understand,” Bayona said.

“I think it’s kind of smart the way that the movie makes its case. It’s suddenly not about caring for dinosaurs anymore. It’s about caring for us, for humans. That’s a major step forward in the Jurassic stories.”

There is an emotional scene with a Brontosaurus whom Bayona intends to be the same Brontosaurus who first graced the screen in Jurassic Park.

“We are closing a circle that we started 25 years ago,” Bayona said.

“There’s a moment that we represent the ending of the island and we see the first dinosaur we saw. There’s a line that refers to that when Claire says, ‘Remember the first time you saw a dinosaur.’ So you put the audience in front of that same dinosaur and you portray what is like the ending of a dream. That had to be emotional and it is quite rewarding when you are in a cinema watching the scene with the audience. You can tell they definitely feel for the dinosaurs. They feel for the dream they had 25 years ago and how they go through the ending of that dream.”

25 years later, however, Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) has had enough. You don’t survive two dinosaur rampages and keep giving them the benefit of the doubt.

“Hopefully I’m making my points so that anybody listening, in the imaginary world or just watching it, says yeah, I wish you’d listen to this guy,” Goldblum said. “Even at the beginning of this movie where it breaks my heart to say no more dinosaurs, because I, in fact, love all living creatures. I fight hard for animal rights myself. I think we should do right by the elephants and all the creatures under the sea and every other creature, but Darwin is a hero of mine. This was a mistake to bring these extinct creatures back for cheap entertainment. I’m fiercely anti-greed, anti-militarism so I speak my piece.”

And it happens yet again, but at least Malcolm may be winning the new generation to his side.

“Like I say in the beginning of the movie, I say I wouldn’t be hunting them down,” Goldblum continued. “I don’t like that idea but as long as this volcano, a natural occurrence seems to want to take them out, I’d let that happen. As difficult and as painful as that is for me to say, Chris and Bryce’s character would now probably agree with me however painfully. So oh boy, I’ll do whatever I can to try to give me guidance now if anybody is interested.”

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom opens June 22 in the U.S.

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Jurassic Park introduced Malcolm as a proponent of chaos theory, a trendy new science in 1993. If anything, over the course of two dinosaur catastrophes and presumably witnessing a third in Jurassic World (it’s entirely possible Jurassic Park III was kept a private affair), Malcolm has realized he needs to put his position into layman’s terms.

“Well, the early chaos stuff was also against the park, the exploitation of animals and the exploitation of glorious science,” Goldblum told Bloody-Disgusting in a phone interview.

“Maybe I was ambiguous with a remark or two when first you saw me but now I’m certainly clear when I say science and scientists are to be honored and facts, human curiosity and intellectual curiosity and investigation, that’s all to the good. It’s stupid, grotesque, political, petty agendas and nationalism and militarism and exploitation and profit-making that needs to get managed.”

Malcolm was still pretty accessible in Jurassic Park when he said, “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.” But four movies later they’re still not asking the latter.

“We all need to wise up in the quickest and most urgent way because all these powers are now in our hands,” Goldblum continued.

“Genetically we can tinker with things. I wish we would cure some diseases with what we can do before we make amusement parks. Certainly, with the power to destroy ourselves, we’ve got to of course, as in the real world, get real smart real fast and learn how to resolve our conflicts without any violence, etc. Early on, chaos theory, that was just a sign of mathematical blueprint way of analyzing, assessing things that told me boy, a park like this, no matter my views on anything else… has all sorts of unpredictables and it won’t go in the way that you think it will. That’s what I was saying the first time.”

In a pivotal moment, Malcolm quotes the late John Hammond in his caution. When he says, “Welcome to Jurassic World,” it’s not as cheerful as Hammond’s unveiling of his creation.

“Well, it was a responsibility, a little callback and reprise, a quotation with some new resonance and dark irony I suppose,” Goldblum said. “I remember distinctly, Ian Malcolm does, the interesting, intriguing John Hammond, and well meaning John Hammond. The day that he said, ‘Welcome to Jurassic Park’ as we were first watching these creatures with unbelieving eyes, the three of us, Sam [Neill], Laura [Dern] and me. Now 25 years later, I’m always a little prescient about what’s going to happen in a few days, and I say if these things get out, now that we’ve done more, welcome to Jurassic World. It’s a new and more challenging era. Yes, I’m thinking of all that. Of course, as an actor, to in any way quote and do something with the shoes of the great Richard Attenborough.. I adore him to no end. What a sterling and spectacular filmmaker and actor he was. Boy, oh boy, oh boy.”

Not returning for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is Malcolm’s daughter (Vanessa Lee Chester) introduced in The Lost World: Jurassic Park. For the maligned sequel’s defenders (this author included), Goldblum assures fans that their relationship remains copacetic since their adventure.

“Mm, I loved our relationship and I love that actor and that character,” Goldblum said. “I imagine that in the last couple of decades, we’ve remained very close. I’ve done everything I could to support her continued empowerment and blossoming and intellectual freedom, etc. I bet we’re very close.”

Fallen Kingdom director J.A. Bayona confirmed that there was never any talk of including Malcolm’s daughter, Kelly. “We never thought about that,” Bayona said. “It was not part of the conversation.”

Bayona confirmed that for his scenes testifying before Congress, Goldblum shot in a single day. However, he arrived early to make the scenes the best they could be.

“We had one day with Jeff Goldblum,” Bayona said. “He actually came three or four days before shooting the scene so we were able to work on set as we were doing all the scenes, to be working with Jeff going through the lines and trying to make the best of the performance that he has in the movie, the scene that he has in the movie. It’s not a major role but I think it’s very significant, meaningful role for the story. I think this being the second chapter in the trilogy, the moment that we see the Jurassic universe in the most uncertain way possible, it’s a Jurassic universe where we cross the red lines. I think that Ian Malcolm has always been this voice of conscience, a reminder. We all thought it was a good idea to bring him back in order to let us know what is the right thing to do.”

The film sets up a third sequel. Could Malcolm be drawn back into the field for a larger role in Jurassic World 3/Jurassic Park 6?

“I don’t know what the plan is,” Goldblum said. “I think they’re cooking up the plan. Nobody’s shared with me the plan but Colin Trevorrow is a wonderful guy and I talked to him on this movie, my little part. Really, the best thing we could do, he’s a wonderful writer, wonderful director. He and Emily Carmichael are writing this script that will be a movie in your local theater in summer of 2021 they say. Who knows? However humbly I can serve the story, if at all, I’ll be happy to do so.”

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom opens in the U.S. June 22.

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The collector’s editions of the Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom packages will cost $24.99 each (plus shipping). Quantities are very, very limited: Kellogg has produced a total of only 200 boxes. The Kellogg’s packages with the embedded digital screens and Jurassic World-themed packaging are available for purchase on Amazon.com.

The videos in the embedded digital player will include clips showing how the filmmakers brought the Jurassic World dinosaurs to life and how they used a roller coaster to capture the actors’ reactions when they’re in the Jurassic World gyrosphere. The special packages have a 7-inch screen with 1024-by-600 resolution. The special Frosted Flakes package features Blue, the intelligent female velociraptor from the new movie, while the Keebler Fudge Stripes box showcases a T-rex.

Universal’s pact with Kellogg for the limited-edition boxes is part of a broader promo deal for Jurassic World branding on a range of products. While Kellogg is releasing only 200 of them, select Kellogg’s and Keebler boxes will feature a Shazam code that unlocks interactive games and other original content tied to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, starring Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard, hits theaters this Friday, June 22.

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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.

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This week marks the 25th anniversary of Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park, unleashed into theaters on June 11, 1993. From vehicles to dinosaurs, much has changed about the franchise over the years, but much has stayed the same. In this fun GIF collection, fan Ryan Taylor tracks the 25-year evolution of the franchise’s stars and imagery.

He explains, “The graphics show how some of the main staples of the Jurassic Park/World franchise have changed in the last 25 years. What’s even more surprising is how well the 1993 T-Rex and Raptor CGI designs have held up in comparison to their 2015/2018 counterparts. Sometimes I even think the 1993 versions look better in the T-Rex case.”

• 1. Evolution of the Jurassic Park/World Logo over 25 years
• 2. Staff Transport Vehicle Jurassic Park vs Jurassic World (Jeep vs Mercedes)
• 3. CGI T-Rex Jurassic Park vs CGI T-Rex Jurassic World
• 4. CGI Raptor Jurassic Park vs CGI Raptor Jurassic World
• 5. Another look at 1993 T-Rex CGI vs T-Rex of Jurassic World (above)
• 6. Ian Malcolm Jurassic Park vs Ian Malcolm Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom
• 7. Primary Helicopter JP vs Primary Helicopter JW
• 8. Dr. Henry Wu Jurassic Park vs. Dr. Henry Wu Jurassic World

Twenty five years later, we venture into Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom on June 22!

Jurassic Evolution

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You’ve probably noticed bags of Doritos branded with Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom imagery in recent weeks at your local grocery store, but the partnership gets taken to a whole new level this week with a brand new hybrid product dubbed Jurassic Doritos, limited-edition, one-foot chips that are, to date, the world’s largest Doritos.

Jurassic Doritos will be available for one week starting Thursday, June 14, through Wednesday, June 20. The giant chips will hatch from “dinosaur eggs”, shipped in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom prop-replica crates, and come in the Nacho Cheese flavor.

Fans looking to “adopt” a Jurassic Doritos chip will be able to do so via Twitter (tweet @Doritos with #JurassicDoritos #entry) or through an online auction on JurassicDoritos.com. All proceeds raised will be donated to help with disaster relief efforts for the American Red Cross chapter in Hawaii, where many scenes from the Jurassic films were shot.

Well, now we really have seen it all!

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Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are returning for the sequel, which also stars Jeff Goldblum, along with Justice Smith, James Cromwell and Toby Jones. Colin Trevorrow, who directed Jurassic World, wrote the script for the sequel with Derek Connolly.

“It’s been three years since theme park and luxury resort Jurassic World was destroyed by dinosaurs out of containment.  Isla Nublar now sits abandoned by humans while the surviving dinosaurs fend for themselves in the jungles.

When the island’s dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event. Owen is driven to find Blue, his lead raptor who’s still missing in the wild, and Claire has grown a respect for these creatures she now makes her mission. Arriving on the unstable island as lava begins raining down, their expedition uncovers a conspiracy that could return our entire planet to a perilous order not seen since prehistoric times.

With all of the wonder, adventure and thrills synonymous with one of the most popular and successful series in cinema history, this all-new motion-picture event sees the return of favorite characters and dinosaurs—along with new breeds more awe-inspiring and terrifying than ever before.  Welcome to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.“

Life continues to find a way on June 22.

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As Bayona himself tweeted yesterday, “[Fallen Kingdom is] the Biggest Opening Weekend in the Jurassic World franchise in 15 markets.”

Box Office Mojo breaks it all down…

“The film topped the charts in all 48 markets and included the studio’s largest openings all-time in Hong Kong ($4.3m) and South Korea ($27.2m). Additional openings included $19.9 million in the UK & Ireland as well as France ($10m), Spain ($9.5m), Germany ($9.1m), Taiwan ($8.4m), Russia ($8m), India ($7.9m), Indonesia ($5.2m), Thailand ($4.7m), Italy ($4.5m), Malaysia ($4.1m), Philippines ($4m), Singapore ($2.9m) and Netherlands ($2.6m). The film will hit theaters in North America on June 22 and will continue to roll-out in in 21 more overseas territories over the next month, including China on June 15, Australia and Brazil on June 21, Mexico on June 22 and Japan on July 13.”

Worldwide, the record-breaking Jurassic World raked in $1,671,713,208 back in 2015, so Fallen Kingdom has a long road ahead if it hopes to top its gargantuan predecessor.

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The imposing life-like creature is Owen’s beloved Velociraptor from Jurassic World and Jurassic World:  Fallen Kingdom and was brought to life for the “Raptor Encounter” employing the exact computer-generated model and images used to create her for the big screen.

Blue is a welcome new addition to the “Raptor Encounter,” allowing guests to come face-to-face with the clever carnivore. Velociraptors are intelligent and formidable hunters, and theme-park guests are advised to approach them with caution.

With their intimidating eye contact and ear-piercing screeches that reinforce predatory dominance, each Raptor bares 56 razor-sharp, bone-crushing teeth and lunges forward with curved talons that extend up to 12 inches from their 18-inch-long feet.  Towering 12 feet in height and 15 feet—from tail to snout—the aggressive carnivores will each succumb to highly skilled handlers who adeptly guide them to within feet of guests.

Universal Studios Hollywood recently announced its “Countdown to the Extinction of Jurassic Park—The Ride” campaign designed to pay homage to the thrill ride that closes on September 3 to make way for the all-new Jurassic World ride, a technologically-advanced epic adventure inspired by Universal Pictures’ blockbuster film franchise, opening in 2019.

In 1996, Universal Studios Hollywood redefined theme park thrill rides with the unprecedented introduction of “Jurassic Park—The Ride,” based on three-time Academy Award winner Steven Spielberg’s epic film.  Hailed as a technological achievement of triumph and wizardry, the ride featured newly debuted principles of hydraulic physics, mechanics and space-age robotics.  Working in partnership with scientists, paleontologists and aerospace engineers, Universal Creative—the team that develops Universal theme park rides—brought to life one of the most compelling rides ever created. Life-sized and lifelike animatronic dinosaurs, some towering more than five-stories high, freely roamed the earth at Universal Studios Hollywood.

Twenty-two years later—and after sending millions of guests back to the Jurassic era for menacing encounters with such predators as Stegosaurus, Parasaurolophus, Dilophosaurus, Velociraptors and the Tyrannosaurus rex, “Jurassic Park—The Ride” will become extinct in preparation for a new, next-generation experience that’s even more immersive and technologically-advanced.

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Oscar-winning film composer Michael Giacchino (Jurassic World) scored Fallen Kingdom, and his soundtrack for the sequel features a brand new theme song.

“I thought this was a great chance to be a little darker and more tense, to go in a direction that felt new, and it didn’t mean that I would abandon the orchestral element, but just texturally how you use melody and chords and eighths and the sort of ugliness that you can get out of an orchestra to create these frightening moods,” Giacchino told the site. “The main theme is really about the darker world they’re going into, and it’s used in many different ways: in a positive way, a dark way, a humorous way, if you need to.”

Listen to the darker, more ominous theme below!

Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are returning for the sequel, which also stars Jeff Goldblum, along with Justice Smith, James Cromwell and Toby Jones. Colin Trevorrow, who directed Jurassic World, wrote the script for the sequel with Derek Connolly.

“It’s been three years since theme park and luxury resort Jurassic World was destroyed by dinosaurs out of containment.  Isla Nublar now sits abandoned by humans while the surviving dinosaurs fend for themselves in the jungles.

When the island’s dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event. Owen is driven to find Blue, his lead raptor who’s still missing in the wild, and Claire has grown a respect for these creatures she now makes her mission. Arriving on the unstable island as lava begins raining down, their expedition uncovers a conspiracy that could return our entire planet to a perilous order not seen since prehistoric times.

With all of the wonder, adventure and thrills synonymous with one of the most popular and successful series in cinema history, this all-new motion-picture event sees the return of favorite characters and dinosaurs—along with new breeds more awe-inspiring and terrifying than ever before.  Welcome to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.“

Life continues to find a way on June 22.

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Turn away now if you’d rather go in blind. You’ve been warned.

Oddly enough, while Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom doesn’t arrive in theaters here in the States until June 22, it has already been released in a handful of territories *this* week, including Spain and the United Kingdom. That’s why you’re seeing so many reviews hitting the net, and that’s why spoilers are also coming in hot and heavy.

As reported by Radio Times, Fallen Kingdom has a post-credits scene tacked onto the very, very end, and the site brings us the spoiler-filled details on what to expect from it…

“The post-credits scene picks up where Fallen Kingdom left off, as various dinosaurs escape from captivity and enter the human world for the first time. In the film proper we saw the T-Rex squaring off against a lion, velociraptor Blue checking out some hot surburban real estate and the sea-dwelling mososaur getting ready to snack on some Surfer-n-turf – and the post-credits scene drops us in on one other species out in the real world. The scene opens with a group of pterosaurs, free from both the park and human imprisonment in general, flying around what looks like the top of a skyscraper or radio tower. 

As the camera pulls out, however, it quickly becomes clear that they’re flapping around the replica Eiffel Tower that sits on the Las Vegas Strip, suggesting that we’re either about to see a few flying dinosaurs hit the casinos or witness a surprisingly gory Hangover sequel.”

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Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Pratt return as Claire Dearing and Owen Grady, whose on-off relationship is sadly set to off, but they must put aside their irreconcilable differences and what the filmmakers insist is smoldering physical chemistry in order to rescue Blue, Owen’s velociraptor protégé, from dying in a volcanic eruption that threatens the remaining dinosaurs who now roam freely in the abandoned park. What they soon discover, however, is that Eli Mills (Rafe Spall), the financier of their expedition to Isla Nublar, has different plans for the beasts than he initially suggested: he plans to auction them off to the highest bidder for whatever research, entertainment or military purposes they may have in mind. Following the animals to Lockwood Estate where they’re set to be sold, Claire and Owen attempt to once again rescue their charges from being exploited, only to discover that Mills has already crossbred them to create a new dinosaur – the “Indoraptor” – that promises to be smarter and deadlier than any they’ve encountered before.

The irony of Jurassic World was that its central thesis was “people don’t think dinosaurs are cool anymore,” but never explores that, or worse, bothers to try and make them any cooler than they’ve been in the other movies. Fallen Kingdom wisely forgets that notion but replaces it with an almost hilariously oblivious philosophical quandary: what responsibility do humans have to dinosaurs after they’ve brought them back from extinction? Since the ones in the movies are either latex or computer-generated, the probable answer is “a story worthy of them,” but quite frankly, Claire and Owen’s efforts to save the dinosaurs feel exactly as naïve as when it didn’t occur to them they would ever have to. That doesn’t stop the movie from repeatedly paying lip service to Claire’s “realization” that the dinosaurs deserve to be saved, or underlining the moral relativism of her former role running Jurassic World and Mills’ current one trying quite literally to capitalize off of them by selling them. Not to mention the fact that not since the original Alien has “a corporation wants to harvest animals for weapons” been a fresh premise for heroic conflict.

Quite frankly, a movie where The Army uses dinosaurs to, like, fight terrorists sounds much more interesting than any story this franchise has told since the first film, especially since Fallen Kingdom essentially repeats so many of the choices of its predecessors. (If you were wondering if there’s a scene late in the film where people gather test tubes full of “DNA” and put them into briefcases to be whisked to an undisclosed location for safety, rest assured they got you covered.) The only reason I can divine that Trevorrow has become so beloved by Spielberg and producer Frank Marshall is that he, or at least his writing, seems to be built solely from the component parts of scripts from the 1980s, down to formulaic characters, hacky jokes, and narrative conveniences that were, to be fair to Amblin et al, at least sort of original at the time. Just using the very opening scene of the film – one of its best – for example, why would a gate need to be wifi enabled to close when it’s literally the only thing between a giant underwater fish and the rest of the world? And are we still doing the thing where the radio signal of a guy’s headphones drops out because of weather at the most dangerous moment possible? There’s something profoundly exciting about the idea that animal instincts are sharper than humans, but this is a film where 90 percent of the dinosaurs’ success in tracking down their prey is attributable to human error, or more likely, stupidity.

Howard and Pratt are marginally more likeable than in the first film, where they seemed to be reading their lines from behind cardboard cutouts of Corporate Bitch and Rugged Hero character types, but again, I don’t know anyone who sits watching these movies Really Hoping These Two End Up Together. Their supporting cast, including Daniella Pineda and Justice Smith as, unfortunately, Plucky Female Scientist and Nerdy Computer Hacker, Pretty Much, enliven the film occasionally, but both characters feel like a missed opportunity and a fairly anemic way to inject some diversity or progressivism into the film. That leaves Spall as Mills and Toby Jones, who’s apparently given up serious acting, as the Evil White Men In Charge, and they are predictably loathsome, albeit more in the lethargy and broadness of their performances than in the sophistication of their villainy.

That said, there are a handful of truly great moments in the film, including some (other) shots in that opening sequence, and a long moment after the humans escape Isla Nublar, looking back at the destruction they both escaped, and in some ways caused. And to be fair, this is a much scarier and more intense movie than Trevorrow’s film, thanks to Bayona’s fascination with evoking (or outright imitating) the scenes from the first two where audiences could feel a palpable sense of danger for the characters. But given the fact that Universal already announced that Trevorrow will return to co-write and direct the third film, so much of what happens in this film feels like a lot of white noise en route to the story they really want to tell – namely, what happens when prehistoric creatures encounter the modern world. (Which of course they did, if only briefly, in The Lost World.) In which case, Fallen Kingdom is, like every Jurassic Park film since the first one, another ride that largely ends in disappointment, because it seems far happier to remind you of the twists and turns that you previously liked than to bother creating any new ones.

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In theaters June 22, the sequel also stars Jeff Goldblum, along with Justice Smith, James Cromwell and Toby Jones. Colin Trevorrow, who directed Jurassic World, wrote the script for the sequel with Derek Connolly.

“It’s been three years since theme park and luxury resort Jurassic World was destroyed by dinosaurs out of containment.  Isla Nublar now sits abandoned by humans while the surviving dinosaurs fend for themselves in the jungles.

When the island’s dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event. Owen is driven to find Blue, his lead raptor who’s still missing in the wild, and Claire has grown a respect for these creatures she now makes her mission. Arriving on the unstable island as lava begins raining down, their expedition uncovers a conspiracy that could return our entire planet to a perilous order not seen since prehistoric times.

With all of the wonder, adventure and thrills synonymous with one of the most popular and successful series in cinema history, this all-new motion-picture event sees the return of favorite characters and dinosaurs—along with new breeds more awe-inspiring and terrifying than ever before.  Welcome to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.“

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Bryce Dallas Howard also returns for the sequel, which also stars Jeff Goldblum, along with Justice Smith, James Cromwell and Toby Jones. Colin Trevorrow, who directed Jurassic World, wrote the script for the sequel with Derek Connolly.

“It’s been three years since theme park and luxury resort Jurassic World was destroyed by dinosaurs out of containment.  Isla Nublar now sits abandoned by humans while the surviving dinosaurs fend for themselves in the jungles.

When the island’s dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event. Owen is driven to find Blue, his lead raptor who’s still missing in the wild, and Claire has grown a respect for these creatures she now makes her mission. Arriving on the unstable island as lava begins raining down, their expedition uncovers a conspiracy that could return our entire planet to a perilous order not seen since prehistoric times.

With all of the wonder, adventure and thrills synonymous with one of the most popular and successful series in cinema history, this all-new motion-picture event sees the return of favorite characters and dinosaurs—along with new breeds more awe-inspiring and terrifying than ever before.  Welcome to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.“

Life finds a way on June 22.

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And who doesn’t love toy slime, am I right?

As spotted by Jurassic Outpost’s Chris Pugh over on Twitter, Mattel is this month adding the “Lava Surge Playset” to their Fallen Kingdom toy line, which includes a figure of the new hybrid known as Baryonyx as well as a packet of orange toy slime that’s meant to allow you to recreate that fiery scene we’ve glimpsed in the film’s trailers.

• Includes a Baryonyx dinosaur action figure and bunker with 4 oz. of oozing orange slime!
• Pour the slime over the top of the Playset to mimic lava dripping into the bunker
• Breakaway walls allow humans to escape the lava and dinosaur attack

Additionally, the upcoming Dimorphodon playset will also include toy slime!

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Created by Nima Nakhshab, it’s unclear if the following is meant to be deadpan serious or a loving wink at “floating heads” art, but either way, it’s hilarious. I have to have one…

Source: Nima Nakhshab

Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are returning for the sequel, which also stars Jeff Goldblum, along with Justice Smith, James Cromwell and Toby Jones. Colin Trevorrow, who directed Jurassic World, wrote the script for the sequel with Derek Connolly.

“It’s been three years since theme park and luxury resort Jurassic World was destroyed by dinosaurs out of containment.  Isla Nublar now sits abandoned by humans while the surviving dinosaurs fend for themselves in the jungles.

When the island’s dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event. Owen is driven to find Blue, his lead raptor who’s still missing in the wild, and Claire has grown a respect for these creatures she now makes her mission. Arriving on the unstable island as lava begins raining down, their expedition uncovers a conspiracy that could return our entire planet to a perilous order not seen since prehistoric times.

With all of the wonder, adventure and thrills synonymous with one of the most popular and successful series in cinema history, this all-new motion-picture event sees the return of favorite characters and dinosaurs—along with new breeds more awe-inspiring and terrifying than ever before.  Welcome to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.“

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This coming Wednesday night on NBC will be “American Ninja Warrior: Jurassic World Night,“ hosted by Fallen Kingdom stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard!

The special event promises a Jurassic World-themed, “dino-sized course,” and an exclusive sneak preview of Fallen Kingdom will air during the broadcast.

Catch it June 6 at 8/7c on NBC.

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Found in front of Stage 18 at Universal Studios, the LEGO sculpture depicts Blue standing atop an overturned Jurassic Park vehicle, and it was made using 703,855 bricks and weighs an incredible 3,560 pounds! Oh and it took 2,548 hours to build.

Let’s agree to never dismantle this incredible work of art, yeah?

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Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are returning for the sequel, which also stars Jeff Goldblum, along with Justice Smith, James Cromwell and Toby Jones. Colin Trevorrow, who directed Jurassic World, wrote the script for the sequel with Derek Connolly.

ALSO READ: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Just Had First Public Screening and Reactions Hit Twitter

“It’s been three years since theme park and luxury resort Jurassic World was destroyed by dinosaurs out of containment.  Isla Nublar now sits abandoned by humans while the surviving dinosaurs fend for themselves in the jungles.

When the island’s dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event. Owen is driven to find Blue, his lead raptor who’s still missing in the wild, and Claire has grown a respect for these creatures she now makes her mission. Arriving on the unstable island as lava begins raining down, their expedition uncovers a conspiracy that could return our entire planet to a perilous order not seen since prehistoric times.

With all of the wonder, adventure and thrills synonymous with one of the most popular and successful series in cinema history, this all-new motion-picture event sees the return of favorite characters and dinosaurs—along with new breeds more awe-inspiring and terrifying than ever before.  Welcome to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.“

Life continues to find a way on June 22.

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One of the things the Alamo Drafthouse movie theater chain is known for is the fine art of kicking out assholes who can’t help but talk and text during movies, a strict policy that I’d personally love to see other chains adopt. After all, there are few things worse than having movies completely ruined by idiots who can’t keep their mouths shut.

In an effort to curb disturbances as much as possible, the Drafthouse runs fun videos ahead of movies that make their policy clear, and they enlisted the help of Jeff Goldblum for their Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom-themed talking & texting PSA!

In the video, Goldblum introduces the world’s first anti-talking & texting velociraptor…

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ALSO READ: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Just Had First Public Screening and Reactions Hit Twitter

Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are returning for the sequel, which also stars Jeff Goldblum, along with Justice Smith, James Cromwell and Toby Jones. Colin Trevorrow, who directed Jurassic World, wrote the script for the sequel with Derek Connolly.

“It’s been three years since theme park and luxury resort Jurassic World was destroyed by dinosaurs out of containment.  Isla Nublar now sits abandoned by humans while the surviving dinosaurs fend for themselves in the jungles.

When the island’s dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event. Owen is driven to find Blue, his lead raptor who’s still missing in the wild, and Claire has grown a respect for these creatures she now makes her mission. Arriving on the unstable island as lava begins raining down, their expedition uncovers a conspiracy that could return our entire planet to a perilous order not seen since prehistoric times.

With all of the wonder, adventure and thrills synonymous with one of the most popular and successful series in cinema history, this all-new motion-picture event sees the return of favorite characters and dinosaurs—along with new breeds more awe-inspiring and terrifying than ever before.  Welcome to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.“

Life continues to find a way on June 22.

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Okay, so none of us have actually ever seen a real-life dinosaur like the characters in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom have, and surely never will, but one thing I’ll never forget is the pure magic of seeing the dinosaurs for the first time in Spielberg’s Jurassic Park. In this new clip, Bryce Dallas Howard might as well be talking about that experience.

Get ready to feel things in 3, 2, 1…

Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are returning for the sequel, which also stars Jeff Goldblum, along with Justice Smith, James Cromwell and Toby Jones. Colin Trevorrow, who directed Jurassic World, wrote the script for the sequel with Derek Connolly.

“It’s been three years since theme park and luxury resort Jurassic World was destroyed by dinosaurs out of containment.  Isla Nublar now sits abandoned by humans while the surviving dinosaurs fend for themselves in the jungles.

When the island’s dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event. Owen is driven to find Blue, his lead raptor who’s still missing in the wild, and Claire has grown a respect for these creatures she now makes her mission. Arriving on the unstable island as lava begins raining down, their expedition uncovers a conspiracy that could return our entire planet to a perilous order not seen since prehistoric times.

With all of the wonder, adventure and thrills synonymous with one of the most popular and successful series in cinema history, this all-new motion-picture event sees the return of favorite characters and dinosaurs—along with new breeds more awe-inspiring and terrifying than ever before.  Welcome to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.“

Life continues to find a way on June 22.

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ALSO READ: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Just Had First Public Screening and Reactions Hit Twitter

Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are returning for the sequel, which also stars Jeff Goldblum, along with Justice Smith, James Cromwell and Toby Jones. Colin Trevorrow, who directed Jurassic World, wrote the script for the sequel with Derek Connolly.

“It’s been three years since theme park and luxury resort Jurassic World was destroyed by dinosaurs out of containment.  Isla Nublar now sits abandoned by humans while the surviving dinosaurs fend for themselves in the jungles.

When the island’s dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event. Owen is driven to find Blue, his lead raptor who’s still missing in the wild, and Claire has grown a respect for these creatures she now makes her mission. Arriving on the unstable island as lava begins raining down, their expedition uncovers a conspiracy that could return our entire planet to a perilous order not seen since prehistoric times.

With all of the wonder, adventure and thrills synonymous with one of the most popular and successful series in cinema history, this all-new motion-picture event sees the return of favorite characters and dinosaurs—along with new breeds more awe-inspiring and terrifying than ever before.  Welcome to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.“

Life continues to find a way on June 22.

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A screening of J.A. Bayona’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom in Madrid, Spain last night marked the very first time this Summer’s new film had been seen by a public audience, so we’re naturally quite interested in the reactions that are coming out of the screening. A handful of them can be found on Twitter, many tracked down by /Film.

For the most part, the reactions are incredibly positive, with fans raving that Fallen Kingdom is “very different from the first one,” “fucking incredible,” and “brutal.”

Click on each tweet below for the Spanish-to-English translations…

#JurassicWorld2 es la continuación que la saga merece. No solo es interesante tal y como se plantea, sino que lo que está por venir va a ser BRUTAL. @FilmBayona, no defraudas.

— Adolfo Rodríguez (@AdolfoRH) May 21, 2018

Estoy ALUCINANDO. #JurassicWorld #ElReinoCaído es un sinfín de emociones y el principio de una nueva era de la mano de @FilmBayona. #PremiereJW pic.twitter.com/JrfN6qYldK

— F Gascó – Pakozoico (@El_Pakozoico) May 21, 2018

@FilmBayona lo tenía difícil pero ha conseguido superar mis expectativas con una película enorme. Ademas este #jurassicworld tiene para mi la mejor secuencia de inicio de la saga. Todos los aplausos han sido pocos

— Jose. (@JooseLS) May 21, 2018

Vale, vista Jurassic World: El reino caído.
IMPRESIONANTE. Muy diferente a la primera, una fotografía increíble, la música me ha dejado flipado. Muy, muy, pero que muy recomendable. He estado toda la película con los ojos como platos. Id a verla. De verdad. pic.twitter.com/yrrI1vpw4j

— KAJAL (@kajalnapalm) May 21, 2018

FUCKING INCREÍBLE #JurassicWorld2 #ElReinoCaído. Gracias gracias gracias @FilmBayona por esta maravilla! INCREÍBLE! @Universal_Spain pic.twitter.com/F2F4k0XVTD

— Iñaki Oyarzun (@InakiO) May 21, 2018

#JurassicWorld2 cumple como blockbuster pero me decepciona como película de Bayona. Es un encargo muy bien resuelto, pero ofrece pocas sorpresas. Es la primera película de Jota que no me emociona. Plantea varios debates morales/sociales muy interesantes.

— Juan Manuel Toribio (@Juanma_Toribio) May 21, 2018

Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are returning for the sequel, which also stars Jeff Goldblum, along with Justice Smith, James Cromwell and Toby Jones. Colin Trevorrow, who directed Jurassic World, wrote the script for the sequel with Derek Connolly.

“It’s been three years since theme park and luxury resort Jurassic World was destroyed by dinosaurs out of containment.  Isla Nublar now sits abandoned by humans while the surviving dinosaurs fend for themselves in the jungles.

When the island’s dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event. Owen is driven to find Blue, his lead raptor who’s still missing in the wild, and Claire has grown a respect for these creatures she now makes her mission. Arriving on the unstable island as lava begins raining down, their expedition uncovers a conspiracy that could return our entire planet to a perilous order not seen since prehistoric times.

With all of the wonder, adventure and thrills synonymous with one of the most popular and successful series in cinema history, this all-new motion-picture event sees the return of favorite characters and dinosaurs—along with new breeds more awe-inspiring and terrifying than ever before.  Welcome to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.“

Life continues to find a way on June 22.

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Upgrade – June 1

There’s perhaps no better way to kick off the summer season than the latest by Leigh Whannell (Saw, Insidious). Set in the near-future where technology has pervaded nearly every aspect of life, technophobe Grey (Logan Marshall-Green) is forced to rely on an experimental computer chip named Stem when his world is turned upside down. A high-octane sci-fi action thriller injected with the humor Whannell is known for makes Upgrade (review) a perfect fit for its summer season release.

Hereditary – June 8

There’s no other horror film as highly anticipated as the latest from A24, and release is finally just around the corner. Following the Graham family as they uncover terrifying secrets about their family history in the wake of the death of their family matriarch, our own Fred Topel has called the film “psychologically and viscerally grueling,” while Trace declared that it “rewards your patience with nightmare fuel.” It sounds like one not to be missed.

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom – June 22

Whether you loved or hated 2015’s Jurassic World, its follow up seems to be doing everything right to entice horror fans. Director J.A. Bayona has promised to take the sequel back to the horror roots of the original, and emphasized the practical effects-heavy nature of the film. And the reveal of Jeff Goldblum in the trailers is an instant win. Set four years after the events of the last film, Owen (Chris Pratt) and Clair (Bryce Dallas Howard) mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs when Isla Nublar’s dormant volcano roars to life. Emphasis on the dino action.

The First Purge – July 4

This tried-and-true summer staple of horror returns in prequel form, with the most appropriate release on America’s most patriotic holiday. Exploring the events that lead to the first annual Purge, we can expect that writer/series creator James DeMonaco will once again go right for the jugular of its political themes, especially if the ballsy marketing is any indication. While Frank Grillo won’t be returning, producer Andrew Form has promised a new badass protagonist worth rooting for.

Unfriended: Dark Web – July 20

Eschewing supernatural teen angst for something much, much darker, this Blumhouse sequel opts for terrifying realism when 20-something Matias brings home a used laptop to use for connecting with friends for a Skype game night. The original owner, however, is not only watching him, but willing to do anything to get it back. Our own Trace has proclaimed that this sequel is “brutal and downright cruel.”

Summer of ’84 – August 3 (limited)

From the minds that brought cult hit Turbo Kid comes an ‘80s set murder mystery with teenage friends on the case. Leaning heavily into nostalgia, Summer of ’84 seems to draw inspiration from the likes of The ‘Burbs, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and of course “Stranger Things.” Our own Fred Topel states that the “serial killer element means business,” while it hits the “sweet spot” of nostalgia.

The Meg – August 10

Is there anything more quintessentially summer than shark movies? Or in this case, a pre-historic 75-foot-long shark. The marketing has been killer (pun totally intended), and Jason Statham’s presence promises an action-heavy summer romp. While the PG-13 rating means we won’t get any shark carnage, I should probably remind you that The Shallows also had a PG-13 rating, and it was still a lot of tense fun.

Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich – August 17 (limited)

This gonzo reboot is heavy on the gore and offensive humor, that there’s no way in hell it would pass with an R-rating. With gonzo kills that could easily win the prize for best kill scenes in modern horror, it would be a shame to trim any of that out. Luckily, the Cinestate production team refuses to cut a moment out, and it will get released unrated. The downside means that theatrical release will be limited. That’s still a huge win for horror, though, this crowd pleaser should be sought out on the big screen (review).

The Happytime Murders – August 17

Proving that August 17 should be marked as a national holiday for warped, adult takes on puppets, this R-rated comedy revolves around a puppet cast of a beloved ‘80s show getting murdered one by one. The trailer shown at CinemaCon elicited strong reactions, with boasts that it would be an “instant cult classic.” The film stars Elizabeth Banks, Melissa McCarthy, Joel McHale, and Maya Rudolph, so heavy prominence on the comedy. But R-rated puppet murder sounds intriguing.

Slender Man – August 24

Sony Screen Gem’s release about the infamous creepypasta revolves around four high school girls as they attempt to debunk the existence of the thin, tall faceless figure known as Slender Man. When one of the girls goes missing, they realize that maybe there’s more fact than fiction to the lore. While the initial trailer indicated a by-the-numbers teen horror, it’s late summer slated release may hint there’s more to this creepypasta than meets the eye. The film stars Joey King (The Conjuring, Wish Upon) and horror favorite Javier Botet as the titular Slender Man.

The Little Stranger – August 31

Based on Sarah Waters gothic ghost story of the same name, this quiet haunter is set in the 1940s as a doctor is called to a countryside estate, where he discovers its inhabitants may be haunted by an ominous presence. Starring Domhnall Gleeson, Charlotte Rampling, Will Poulter, and Ruth Wilson, and directed by Lenny Abrahamson (Room), will likely lean heavily into the gothic moodiness of the source material. So far, not much has been revealed about the film, which means a higher potential that this release date isn’t set in stone.

Mandy – TBD

Nicolas Cage is a busy actor, and probably has about 50 films slated for release this year. So, if you must choose only one, make it Panos Comsatos’ latest. Set in 1983, Cage plays Red Miller, a broken man hunting down the religious sect who slaughtered the love of his life. From what we can tell, vengeance will be downright bloody. Our own Fred Topel has stated that Mandy is “an intense two hours,” and teases that “Cage could hold his own with Bruce Campbell, Gunnar Hansen and Chow Yun-Fat as chainsaw warriors.” There’s no set date yet, but RLJE Films has slated Mandy for a summer theatrical release.

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Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are returning for the sequel, which also stars Jeff Goldblum, along with Justice Smith, James Cromwell and Toby Jones. Colin Trevorrow, who directed Jurassic World, wrote the script for the sequel with Derek Connolly.

“It’s been four years since theme park and luxury resort Jurassic World was destroyed by dinosaurs out of containment.  Isla Nublar now sits abandoned by humans while the surviving dinosaurs fend for themselves in the jungles.

When the island’s dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event. Owen is driven to find Blue, his lead raptor who’s still missing in the wild, and Claire has grown a respect for these creatures she now makes her mission. Arriving on the unstable island as lava begins raining down, their expedition uncovers a conspiracy that could return our entire planet to a perilous order not seen since prehistoric times.

With all of the wonder, adventure and thrills synonymous with one of the most popular and successful series in cinema history, this all-new motion-picture event sees the return of favorite characters and dinosaurs—along with new breeds more awe-inspiring and terrifying than ever before.  Welcome to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.“

Life continues to find a way on June 22.

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Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are returning for the sequel, which also stars Jeff Goldblum, along with Justice Smith, James Cromwell and Toby Jones. Colin Trevorrow, who directed Jurassic World, wrote the script for the sequel with Derek Connolly.

“It’s been four years since theme park and luxury resort Jurassic World was destroyed by dinosaurs out of containment.  Isla Nublar now sits abandoned by humans while the surviving dinosaurs fend for themselves in the jungles.

When the island’s dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event. Owen is driven to find Blue, his lead raptor who’s still missing in the wild, and Claire has grown a respect for these creatures she now makes her mission. Arriving on the unstable island as lava begins raining down, their expedition uncovers a conspiracy that could return our entire planet to a perilous order not seen since prehistoric times.

With all of the wonder, adventure and thrills synonymous with one of the most popular and successful series in cinema history, this all-new motion-picture event sees the return of favorite characters and dinosaurs—along with new breeds more awe-inspiring and terrifying than ever before.  Welcome to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.“

Life continues to find a way on June 22.

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“You will see more dinosaurs than you’ve ever seen in all the other movies combined,” producer Pat Crowley promises in the new video…

Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are returning for the sequel, which also stars Jeff Goldblum, along with Justice Smith, James Cromwell and Toby Jones. Colin Trevorrow, who directed Jurassic World, wrote the script for the sequel with Derek Connolly.

“It’s been three years since theme park and luxury resort Jurassic World was destroyed by dinosaurs out of containment.  Isla Nublar now sits abandoned by humans while the surviving dinosaurs fend for themselves in the jungles.

When the island’s dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event. Owen is driven to find Blue, his lead raptor who’s still missing in the wild, and Claire has grown a respect for these creatures she now makes her mission. Arriving on the unstable island as lava begins raining down, their expedition uncovers a conspiracy that could return our entire planet to a perilous order not seen since prehistoric times.

With all of the wonder, adventure and thrills synonymous with one of the most popular and successful series in cinema history, this all-new motion-picture event sees the return of favorite characters and dinosaurs—along with new breeds more awe-inspiring and terrifying than ever before.  Welcome to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.“

Life continues to find a way on June 22.

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The Orphanage director J.A. Bayona’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom promises to be the most unique installment in the franchise to date, and it also aims to be the most terrifying. In this brand new featurette video, the cast and crew hype that while Fallen Kingdom starts as a traditional Jurassic Park movie, it sure doesn’t stay one…

Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are returning for the sequel, which also stars Jeff Goldblum, along with Justice Smith, James Cromwell and Toby Jones. Colin Trevorrow, who directed Jurassic World, wrote the script for the sequel with Derek Connolly.

“It’s been four years since theme park and luxury resort Jurassic World was destroyed by dinosaurs out of containment.  Isla Nublar now sits abandoned by humans while the surviving dinosaurs fend for themselves in the jungles.

When the island’s dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event. Owen is driven to find Blue, his lead raptor who’s still missing in the wild, and Claire has grown a respect for these creatures she now makes her mission. Arriving on the unstable island as lava begins raining down, their expedition uncovers a conspiracy that could return our entire planet to a perilous order not seen since prehistoric times.

With all of the wonder, adventure and thrills synonymous with one of the most popular and successful series in cinema history, this all-new motion-picture event sees the return of favorite characters and dinosaurs—along with new breeds more awe-inspiring and terrifying than ever before.  Welcome to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.“

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Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are returning for the sequel, which also stars Jeff Goldblum, along with Justice Smith, James Cromwell and Toby Jones. Colin Trevorrow, who directed Jurassic World, wrote the script for the sequel with Derek Connolly.

“It’s been four years since theme park and luxury resort Jurassic World was destroyed by dinosaurs out of containment.  Isla Nublar now sits abandoned by humans while the surviving dinosaurs fend for themselves in the jungles.

When the island’s dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event. Owen is driven to find Blue, his lead raptor who’s still missing in the wild, and Claire has grown a respect for these creatures she now makes her mission. Arriving on the unstable island as lava begins raining down, their expedition uncovers a conspiracy that could return our entire planet to a perilous order not seen since prehistoric times.

With all of the wonder, adventure and thrills synonymous with one of the most popular and successful series in cinema history, this all-new motion-picture event sees the return of favorite characters and dinosaurs—along with new breeds more awe-inspiring and terrifying than ever before.  Welcome to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.“

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Eric Vespe describes, “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’s opening was fantastic. A small sub enters the water part of the abandoned Jurassic World, looking for the bones of the Indominus Rex. They find it, but the Mosasaurus finds them. Very horror-feeling. Lighting storm showing bits and pieces as the T-Rex hunts the part of the team on the surface.”

Deadline digs deeper into the footage…

“A small submarine enters the underwater depths of the park at Isla Nublar. They saw off some bone from a dead dinosaur, and it floats up and hits that toothy killer whale beast’s bottom from the first movie. Then, there’s another researcher in the park who gets chased by the T-Rex in the night. The gentleman grabs onto the ladder of a helicopter which the T-Rex tries to pull down. The beast does not, but that killer whale has the final chomp in the end. Later in the trailer, we see that whale actually make it to the beach where folks are, of course, surfing.”

Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are returning for the sequel, which also stars Jeff Goldblum, along with Justice Smith, James Cromwell and Toby Jones. Colin Trevorrow, who directed Jurassic World, wrote the script for the sequel with Derek Connolly.

“It’s been four years since theme park and luxury resort Jurassic World was destroyed by dinosaurs out of containment.  Isla Nublar now sits abandoned by humans while the surviving dinosaurs fend for themselves in the jungles.

When the island’s dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event. Owen is driven to find Blue, his lead raptor who’s still missing in the wild, and Claire has grown a respect for these creatures she now makes her mission. Arriving on the unstable island as lava begins raining down, their expedition uncovers a conspiracy that could return our entire planet to a perilous order not seen since prehistoric times.

With all of the wonder, adventure and thrills synonymous with one of the most popular and successful series in cinema history, this all-new motion-picture event sees the return of favorite characters and dinosaurs—along with new breeds more awe-inspiring and terrifying than ever before.  Welcome to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.“

Life continues to find a way on June 22.

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