Jurassic World 2 Suffers Massive Friday-To-Friday Box Office Drop

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

Despite roaring out of the logic gate last Friday , dinosaur sequelJurassic World : Fallen Kingdomhas hurt a massive box office driblet in weekend two . Considering that the firstJurassic Worldfilm is one of the highest - grossing flick in history - # 5 on the chart with well-nigh $ 1.7 billion , right behindAvengers : eternity War- it was absolutely bonny for observers to ask the same type of box office staff say-so from its continuation . Unfortunately , that might not terminate up being the case .

Now , that ’s not to say thatFallen Kingdomis doing poorly overall , because it most certainly is n’t . The pic crushed the box office during its domestic opening weekend , earning well-nigh $ 150 million . A sky - high international sales total has so far added on over $ 600 million to that haul , leading to atotal cosmopolitan revenue of $ 826.5 million . That ’s definitely an telling stat , but it ’s also telling , asFallen Kingdom’sdomestic opening was down most 30 % from its herald . alien tag salesmight service shore upFallen Kingdomin the end , but the chances of it touch or surpassingJurassic World’s$652 million domestic take are looking slim .

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Now , Exhibitor Relationshas nip out a surprising fact : Fallen Kingdomonly earned $ 17.4 million on Friday . That ’s a staggering 71 % drop from last week ’s Friday total of $ 58.5 million . While this form of vast free fall does sometimes happen - for example , Solo : A Star Wars Storysustained an enormous 77 % Friday - to - Friday pearl in May - it ’s definitely not encouraging .

WhileJurassic World : Fallen Kingdomis still externalise to easily take # 1 again domestically this weekend - with a total of around $ 60 million - that ’s also not really an encouraging stat overall . Assuming the projections hold out , that ’ll be a 59 % weekend - to - weekend drop , much high than the firstJurassic World’s49 % cliff from weekend one to weekend two . Things start to look even worse when one considers thatJurassic World’sdomestic opening weekend take was $ 208 million , much high thanFallen Kingdom’sdomestic opening . All in all , while mellow overseas gross will likely once again lift Universal ’s subsequence well over the $ 1 billion mark , Fallen Kingdomwill belike come up unawares of toppingJurassic World’sworldwide take as well .

A twosome of factor that likely contributed toFallen Kingdom’ssecond weekend dip are that it ’s pre - July 4 weekend in the states , and that the sequel’scritical notices have n’t exactly been impressive . While the actual July 4 holiday is n’t until Wednesday , destiny of Americans are already on holiday for the effect , and this would be far from the first time that said hejira lead to an underwhelming weekend for the box position . Still , that ’s hardly a rule , as many films have done well around the vacation . On the critical side , Fallen Kingdomearned a 51 % on Rotten Tomatoes , much lower thanJurassic World’s71 % score . Thus , it ’s definitely possible that many who pause to see the plastic film opening weekend ended updiscouraged by reviews . One question what this down movement for the dealership means for 2021’sJurassic World 3 .