It has taken over three months to achieve, but Jurassic World: Dominion has become only the third movie since 2019 to cross the $1 billion mark at the worldwide box office. The dino-centric movie is the second highest grossing movie of 2022 behind Top Gun: Maverick and follows the Tom Cruise hit into the elite billion dollar club, the 51st movie in history to do so.
At the beginning of this year, there were a small number of movies seen as viable candidates to break the magic milestone including a number of Marvel movies as well as the likes of The Batman and of course the climax of the Jurassic World trilogy. While Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness came closest, it was the surprising runaway success of Top Gun: Maverick that came out of nowhere to be the first movie of 2022 to break the barrier, and now Jurassic World: Dominion has finally dragged itself over the line.
Jurassic World: Dominion could in theory still manage to just overtake Jurassic Park’s $1.046 billion and become the third highest grossing movie of the franchise behind Jurassic World and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. With the movie bringing the whole Jurassic Saga to an end, at least in the immediate future, it is a fitting way to end its cinematic run, and certainly one that defied the critics who completely mauled the film on its release.
Jurassic World: Dominion Was One Of The Worst Rated in the Franchise
Jurassic World: Dominion did everything right on paper to earn itself a place as the perfect culmination of the Jurassic Park/World movies. The film featured returning stars Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum from the original Jurassic Park movies, many fan-favorite dinosaurs that haven’t been seen for a long while, and a whole host of callbacks and Easter eggs for long-term fans. However, this didn’t help the movie when it came to reviews, with the critic score placing it at the bottom of the heap for the franchise, giving it just 29% approval rate.
Despite that, audiences were not quite so harsh on the movie, giving it a 77% fresh rating and clearly turning up in droves to see dinosaurs ruling the world and eating people. Jurassic World: Dominion took just over a month to break $900 million, and has slowly been clawing its way towards a billion. It may have taken another two months, but cinemagoers have continued to turn up, and proven that when it comes to some movies, critic opinions are mostly redundant.
Whether the Jurassic franchise will roar again is currently up for debate, but with dinosaurs clearly still being big business at the box office, it is surely only a matter of time before we see another revival in future. While it is unlikely that we will see the old Jurassic Park cast getting back in the mix again, there is every possibility of Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard reprising their roles as Owen and Claire if and when the next Jurassic movie roles around.