Billboard Women in Music 2025
Talk about kicking classing up CinemaCon. It was like The Hollywood Bowl inside Caesar’s Colosseum as a 43-piece orchestra led by Emmy-winning music director Rickey Minor fired up Universal‘s presentation with 10 minutes from such pics as E.T., Back to the Future, Jurassic Park, How to Train Your Dragon, Psycho, Jaws, the Fast & Furious movies, Despicable Me, Shrek, Oppenheimer, and last year’s Conclave and Wicked.
But then the orchestra continued to play — with music from from Jurassic World: Rebirth preceding that pic’s new trailer unveil with director Gareth Edwards, Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali onstage. Ali spoke about the wonders of shooting in Thailand with snakes and rivers. “There’s no F’n way I’m doig that,” said Ali about Edwards’ direction through the jungle. “Which is why we shot Jonathan Bailey’s scenes first,” said Edwards. “We wanted to put the scares back in Jurassic,” added Johansson.
Universal’s action-packed monster movie Jurassic World Rebirth last month topped a ranking compiled by digital outlet Fandango of moviegoers’ most-anticipated releases of summer 2025.
The fourth film in the Jurassic World series follows a team of scientists and others whose main objective is to acquire genetic samples from three of the largest dinosaurs in the sea, on land and in the air. Set five years after Jurassic World Dominion (2022), the planet has become inhospitable for dinosaurs, so those that still exist have become isolated to environments in which their breeds once flourished. The three most colossal creatures in the different parts of the ecosystem could prove necessary for a life-saving drug for humans.
Cast includes Jonathan Bailey among others. Universal opens the film globally on July 2.
