The $5.5 billion franchise "Jurassic World" is returning with a new sequel and cast.
When it was released in 1993, "Jurassic Park" became a pop culture classic, making $978 million, but its sequels weren't critical or commercial successes.
But over the last decade, Universal successfully revitalized the "Jurassic Park" franchise with a new trilogy, grossing over $1 billion with each "Jurassic World" film.
Since the release of "Jurassic World Dominion" in 2022, which featured actors from the first film alongside Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard, fans have wondered whether the franchise will continue.
Pratt told the Today Show in May 2022 that "Dominion" felt like a finale to the franchise.
"This is the sixth Jurassic film, and it's the end of this franchise," Pratt said. "I really do think it's the end. You've got the legacy cast back, Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum, plus the cast of Jurassic World all converged, our storylines converging in a way that is very much a finale."
But Howard told People in August 2022 that she was excited to see the franchise continue, though she believed the next film would have a "largely different cast."
On Thursday, Universal announced that a new film called "Jurassic World Rebirth," would premiere in theaters on July 2, 2025.
Rob Mitchell, the director of theatrical insights at film industry research firm Gower Street Analytics, told Business Insider that "Jurassic World Rebirth" will likely make over $1 billion like its predecessors.
Mitchell said the franchise is popular enough to survive negative reviews, since "Dominion" still made over $1 billion with a Rotten Tomatoes critic score of 29%.
Mitchell also highlighted the casting of Mahershala Ali and Scarlett Johannsson, whom he said was the biggest star the franchise has ever hired.
"I think the fact that it has these big star names, like Scarlet, and really well-respected names, like Mahershala Ali, will make people go, 'Well, there must be something interesting in this that they can get these guys to do this movie,'" Mitchell said.
Here's what we know about the sequel, including the new cast and the synopsis.