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Jurassic World Rebirth star Scarlett Johansson got officially welcomed into the "Jurassic Family" by Bryce Dallas Howard as soon as she was cast
Jurassic World Rebirth opened with one of the best weeks at the box office of 2025, giving new life into franchise nearly as old as the dinosaurs themselves.
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When a franchise has been around as long as Jurassic Park, there is always a sort of passing of the torch feeling when one star departs and the next group of stars takes over. For Scarlett Johansson, that feeling came as Bryce Dallas Howard welcomed her into the “Jurassic Family” when news broke that Johansson had been cast in Jurassic World Rebirth.
According to Scarlett Johansson, the email from Bryce Dallas Howard, who starred in the previous three Jurassic World films, was a warm welcome into the franchise. “When I got cast, Bryce Dallas Howard reached out to me and was so excited,” Scarlett Johansson said during a recent interview. “She wrote me a whole long email about her experience and how wonderful the fans were and how that was part of the excitement, joining the Jurassic family and having these fans for life.”
The fans turned out to be just as welcoming as Howard, it seems, with Jurassic World Rebirth having one of the best openings of the year. It outpaced expectations at the box office, bringing in $147.3 million in its first five days in the US alone. That is one of the highest 4th of July weekend performances ever at the box office, and a good start to the summer blockbuster season.
Jurassic World Rebirth signals a changing of the guard for the franchise, with a totally new cast and very little tying it to the previous movies aside from the fact that dinosaurs are stomping around the world. Still, knowing that Bryce Dallas Howard was eager to welcome the next cast into the Jurassic Family gives the whole handover a warm vibe to it. Now we just want to know what you serve at a Jurassic Family reunion.
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