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It's become surprisingly easy to take dinosaurs for granted. After the past decade of overstuffed Jurassic World movies, the thrill of beholding the prehistoric beasts on screen — once considered a revolutionary feat of VFX artistry in the original Jurassic Park — no longer holds the same allure. When we meet Dr Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey, Wicked) — the latest sexy scientist of the Jurassic Park universe — he's in the middle of closing up his dinosaur exhibit in a New York museum. Ever since dinosaurs were unleashed onto the earth's unsuspecting civilian population in Jurassic World Dominion, the general public has tired of their presence, and his expertise has gone unappreciated. Outside, the presence of a sleeping dino is a mere commuting headache. If the box office success of the Jurassic World trilogy is any indicator, the real world has yet to succumb to dino-fatigue, even as the films' critical reception reached disastrous new lows for the fra...

Just seconds into this interview and someone’s already vocalising John Williams’ classic earworm of a theme for Jurassic Park . ‘That music still gives me chills because it’s so evocative of that first film and the feelings that I had when I saw it, which was sort of awe and wonder and spectacle and adventure all rolled into one,’ reminisces actor Rupert Friend , who’s part of the cast for new dino-stuffed adventure Jurassic World Rebirth . For his co-star Mahershala Ali , his first impression of the eminently popular film series is also audio-based, remembering how you would hear dinosaurs ‘before you would see them’ and how it added to the impression of their size. ‘And just that feeling – I had never felt or heard that in a theatre before.’ While Jurassic World Rebirth might be the seventh film in the long-running franchise of over 30 years, it still provided unique opportunities to its actors. ‘ With [my character] Duncan [Kincaid], I lik...

Filmmaker Gareth Edwards is back at the helm once more of a major franchise (although he hates that word, he tells me) with sequel Jurassic World Rebirth , following his foray into Star Wars with 2016’s Rogue One. This time he’s fulfilling a childhood dream by working on one of the most influential ‘creature feature’ series of all time , alongside Steven Spielberg – ‘I call him Steve,’ he grins, acknowledging the surrealism of that scenario. Coming onboard to direct the next instalment in such a popular run of films Edwards, 50, did have lots of little ways he wanted to put his stamp on it  – but also one clear desire to ground the movie in reality, despite the fact it’s set ‘on an island in the middle of nowhere with dinosaurs on it’. ‘One of the great things about Jurassic was that it wasn’t that we’d gone back in time to see dinosaurs, it was that they’d come to our time, and so I wanted some iconography of some location that was now,’ he expla...

When the dinosaurs were formed by animatronics and CGI in the first Jurassic Park film which dropped in 1993, we wonder if they knew if it would become a global phenomenon that inspired countless sequels – including the 2025 iteration, Jurassic World Rebirth . The 2025 sequel may be the fourth movie in the Jurassic World series, but it is the seventh movie to be released within the Jurassic universe. Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern, Sam Neill, Chris Pratt, and Bryce Dallas Howard are just a few of the names who have appeared in the franchise – so far. With such an impeccable reputation in the entertainment industry, it’s only natural that Jurassic World Rebirth has cast many a-list Hollywood actors. In yet another storyline where humans will interfere with dinosaurs, and ultimately put their lives in horrific danger, TV WEEK details everything you need to know about Jurassic World Rebirth . When does Jurassic World Four relea...