The latest dinosaur reboot captures the essence of the original – but leans too heavily on 'CGI-heavy set pieces'

About 10 minutes into the runtime of “Jurassic World Rebirth,” a character is driving through New York City, where a long-necked sauropod dinosaur has collapsed and is on the verge of death — who could have predicted that creatures from 100 million years ago wouldn’t survive in today’s metropolises?

The dinosaurs of the “Jurassic World” franchise get a bad rap, akin to the shark in “Jaws.” But for 2 minutes in “Jurassic World Rebirth,” the movie pauses the stereotype of dino killing machines and we get to watch titanosaurs the size of 7-story buildings nuzzle each other in a presumed courtship display.

Rebirth, Universal seemingly spared no expense to make the technology as real as possible, just like Steven Spielberg's original did all those years ago. In doing so, director Gareth Edwards and the creative team worked with Colossal Biosciences,

The seventh installment in the action-adventure series created by Steven Spielberg opened well ahead of expectations over the long Fourth of July holiday in the U.S. - where it racked up $147.8 million - as well as overseas.

Apple Original Films’ F1 via Warner Bros posted a second Saturday around $10.6M per estimates, +54% from Friday, for a 3-day around $26M, -54%, for a ten-day total of $109.5M. Imax screens stateside added $7.6M, close to a third of the weekend, with a running Imax total of $27.4M.

As Jurassic World movies tend to do, Rebirth features callbacks to a number of films in the franchise. However, it pays particular homage to the original—and greatest dinosaur movie to ever do it— Jurassic Park. Here are six of the best nods to Steven Spielberg's 1993 classic.

Towards the end of 2024, a certain internet video started circulating, and it was touted as the leaked trailer for Jurassic World: Rebirth. The video in question looked like it was filmed secretly in a movie theater or screening room,