Thursday, May 21, 2026

Box Office Fizz: “Jurassic World” Sequel Opens 17% Down in Previews from 2015 Blockbuster

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The dinosaur world is in high alert this morning.

Last night, “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” made $15.3 million in previews. Sounds good, but that’s down 17% from the first “Jurassic World” in 2015.

If last night and tonight don’t add up to $50 million, the weekend take could be less than $130 million. And that was a number really hoped for.

As I wrote yesterday, Universal anticipated this and made a smart move. They released “Fallen Kingdom” internationally before the bad news could turn into bad buzz and swept up $450 million. They’ve made their money back. Whatever happens now won’t hurt them too much except PR wise.

The third installment — you have to believe they’re going to finish this thing– will have to be actually written. And Chris Pratt will have to seem like he’s happy to be there.

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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