Jurassic Park 3D box office: Possibly trailing Titanic 3D, The Phantom Menace
April 6: Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park 3D rerelease will likely gross a solid (but hardly tyrannosauric) $17–$18 million at the North American box office this weekend, after having collected $7 million at 2,771 venues on Friday, according to studio estimates found at Boxofficemojo.com. Originally released in 1993, Jurassic Park, starring Laura Dern, Sam Neill, and Richard Attenborough, took in $357.1 million at the time, or about $694 million in 2013 dollars. Worldwide, the early 1990s Jurassic Park release scored $557.6 million, or approximately $896 million today, for an adjusted worldwide total that reached almost $1.6 billion.
Here are a couple of comparisons to Jurassic Park 3D (likely) weekend box office performance: James Cameron’s Titanic 3D rerelease in early April 2012 pulled in $17.7 million at 2,674 sites on its first weekend out in North America. However, by then Titanic 3D had already blown off some steam, as it opened on a Wednesday: the film’s initial five-day haul was $25.6 million.
In case Jurassic Park 3D does indeed gross $18 million this weekend (on a par with Titanic 3D’s initial weekend), it’ll be doing so without having blown off any box office steam. In other words, Titanic 3D would be the movie with higher popular appeal.
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio (soon to be seen in Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street), Kate Winslet, and veteran Gloria Stuart (The Invisible Man, The Old Dark House), Titanic 3D ultimately cumed at $57.9 million in the U.S. and Canada. Additionally, Cameron’s epic love story earned an astounding $285.7 million internationally (most up-to-date figure found at Box Office Mojo), more than half of it (an estimated $145 million) from China. The original Titanic opened in late 2007.
In February 2012, George Lucas’ Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace 3D opened with $22.46 million from 2,655 locations. The Phantom Menace 3D eventually reached $43.5 million in the domestic market, in addition to (around) a relatively modest $59.3 million internationally (most up-to-date figure found at Box Office Mojo). First released in 1999, The Phantom Menace features Liam Neeson, Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor, Jake Lloyd, Terence Stamp, Pernilla August, Ian McDiarmid, Kenny Baker, Anthony Daniels, Celia Imrie, Keira Knightley, and Sofia Coppola.
Don’t be too surprised if Jurassic Park 3D follows a pattern similar to that of Titanic 3D, with international grosses far surpassing the domestic total – especially considering that when the original opened two decades ago, current top markets such as China and Russia were a fraction of what they would become a decade or so later.
Weekend box office
The top five movies at the North American box office this weekend will likely be the following: at no. 1, Fede Álvarez’s Sam Raimi-produced Evil Dead 2013, with approx. $27 million (though poor word of mouth – C+ CinemaScore – may hinder Saturday and Sunday business). Channing Tatum-Dwayne Johnson’s G.I. Joe: Retaliation and The Croods, featuring the voices of Ryan Reynolds, Emma Stone, and Nicolas Cage, are vying for the second spot, each with around $20–$21 million.
Jurassic Park 3D will be the no. 4 movie, followed by Tyler Perry’s Temptation, featuring Kim Kardashian and Vanessa Williams, among others, with about $10 million.
Official studio estimates will be released on Sunday morning. Weekend box office actuals come out on Monday.
Jurassic Park 3D cast
Based on Michael Crichton’s bestselling science-fiction thriller, Jurassic Park was adapted by Crichton and David Koepp (Mission: Impossible, Spider-Man, War of the Worlds). The cast includes the aforementioned Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and veteran actor-director Richard Attenborough (Brighton Rock, Gandhi), in addition to Jeff Goldblum, Bob Peck, Martin Ferrero, Joseph Mazzello, Ariana Richards, BD Wong, Wayne Knight, and a pre-Pulp Fiction (and long-pre-The Avengers) Samuel L. Jackson.
“Jurassic Park 3D Box Office” notes
Jurassic Park 3D Laura Dern Sam Neill image: Universal Pictures.