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UPDATE, writethru: Disney/Pixar's Lightyear was no match for dinosaurs or Tom Cruise at the international box office this weekend. The Toy Story spinoff came in below projections with a $34.6M offshore bow in 43 material markets. That landed it third among Hollywood movies for the overseas session, behind holdovers Jur…

SUNDAY AM UPDATE: Blame the fact that it doesn’t appeal to girls, blame Disney+ for stealing family moviegoers, blame the lack of an ensemble Toy Story cast, heck, blame everything as Disney/Pixar’s Lightyear didn’t do its magic by internal studio or industry standards this weekend with $51M, close to a third below…

Universal/Amblin Entertainment's Jurassic World Dominion is set to thrash past $500M worldwide today. The global total through Thursday is $493.2M. That includes $302.1M from the international box office and $191.1M domestic on the Colin Trevorrow-directed threequel. JWD reaching the five-century milestone will see it…

In its 18th day of release, Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick has crossed the four century mark at the domestic box office or $401.8M, easily becoming the highest grossing movie year to date in 2022 at the domestic box office, and the second highest-grossing movie of the pandemic after Sony’s Spider-Man: No Way Ho…

UPDATE, with Sunday actuals: Jurassic World Dominion came in slightly higher in the global and international box office actuals with a $178M second frame across 72 overseas markets, down 47% in the 15 holdovers that debuted the previous weekend. The offshore total through Sunday is $247.4M with global jumping to $392.4…

MONDAY AM UPDATE: Even more signs that moviegoing is shaking off all pandemic jinxs, business was bigger on Sunday for both Universal/Amblin’s Jurassic World Dominion and Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick.  Dominion‘s Sunday came in at $38.5M, vs. the forecasted $36.9M yesterday AM, putting its 3-day at $145M…

SATURDAY UPDATE: Universal/Amblin Entertainment's Jurassic World Dominion is storming to a projected $386M worldwide cume through Sunday. In its second offshore frame, it added 57 new markets, after releasing early in 15 last session. The international box office cume through Friday is $135M including the new hubs and…

Laura Dern has added her voice to those demanding changes in US gun laws following the Uvalde School shooting.  Dern, who stars in Jurassic World Dominion which opens today, spoke of her support for her daughter's plans to join a mass walkout at her own school in protest.  The Oscar-winning actress told the Guardian…

Old and new Jurassic casts merge in this sixth and supposedly “final” entry into Universal and Amblin’s now 30-year-old franchise that essentially was broken up into two distinct trilogies, beginning with Steven Spielberg’s 1993 Jurassic Park which delivered three films, and then the Spielberg-produced Jurassic World…

Following Paramount’s Top Gun: Maverick strutting its stuff and Disney’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness‘ charge toward $1 billion, Universal and Amblin’s Jurassic World Dominion will once again prove that there’s a global appetite for moviegoing close to two years after cinemas reopened. Jurassic World Dom…

Today on Crew Call we speak with Jurassic World Dominion co-scribe Emily Carmichael about how she broke into the Universal $5 billion-grossing series; one of the keys to wowing over filmmaker Colin Trevorrow was her screenplay redo of Disney’s 1980s sci-fi movie The Black Hole.  We also talk with Carmichael about the…

After more than a month of pandemic-related restrictions, Beijing began a return to normal on Monday. Today, the Universal Beijing Resort said it will resume operations on June 15 in a phased approach. In a memo titled “Restart the blockbuster fun,” the resort’s website noted that online ticket sales start up again on…