‘Jurassic World’ Director Says the Series Should’ve ‘Probably’ Ended After Spielberg’s Original: It’s ‘Inherently Un-Franchisable’

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Katie Reul editor “Encanto” swept the 37th annual Imagen Awards, which was held Sunday at Downtown Los Angeles’ La Plaza de Cultura y Artes, but the Disney musical movie was closely matched by several wins from Hulu’s “Love, Victor.” Overall, “Encanto” creators took home the most awards of any nominated project and were recognized for Best Feature Film, Best Music Composition for Film or Television, Best Music Supervision for Film or Television and Best Director – Feature Film, which co-director Charise Castro Smith was not expecting. “I’m pretty sure my mom is never going to live down the fact that I won a best director award when nominated against Stephen Spielberg,” Castro Smith, who is also known for producing “The Haunting of Hill House,” joked with the audience during her acceptance speech. “That’s serious bragging rights for her Zumba class.”

“Jurassic Park” was one of them.Trevorrow, who directed both 2015’s “Jurassic World” and 2022’s “Jurassic World: Dominion,” explained in an interview with Empire that “There probably should have only been one Jurassic Park.”Steven Spielberg launched the franchise with the original movie in 1993. That spawned two more films, “The Lost World” (1997) and “Jurassic Park III” (2001).

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Universal/Amblin’s Jurassic World Dominion recently crossed the $1B mark at the global box office, one of only three films to hit that milestone since the start of the Covid pandemic, a feat all the more impressive considering that its director seems to have had some serious doubts about the viability of the franchise from the start.

“Jurassic World: Dominion” hit theaters this summer as a culmination of sorts for the franchise. For one, it marked an end to the trilogy Colin Trevorrow oversaw since 2015’s “Jurassic World.” But it also brought together “Jurassic Park” characters of old like Sam Neill‘s Alan Grant, Laura Dern‘s Ellie Sattler, and fan-favorite Jeff Goldblum‘s Ian Malcolm to tie up loose ends.

Zack Sharf “The Wolverine” and “Logan” director James Mangold initially reacted to the news that Hugh Jackman will reprise his eponymous mutant opposite Ryan Reynolds in “Deadpool 3” with a gif depicting the fatal scene in “Logan” in which Jackman’s character is killed off for good. The R-rated “Logan” was billed as Jackman’s Wolverine swan song, but that’s no longer the case, nor does his “Logan” death scene carry the same emotional weight. While many on social media assumed Mangold was irked by the decision to bring Wolverine back after he killed him off, the filmmaker clarified that’s not the case. “Oh my gosh! Everybody chill,” Mangold wrote on Twitter. “Just kidding! I’m all good! ‘Logan’ will always be there. Multiverse or prequel, time warp or worm hole, canon or non-canon or even without a rationale, I cannot wait to see what madness my dear friends Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman cook up!”

Liza Foreman Murky blue- brown images, bringing to mind a Lorca play developed for today’s premium TV audience, fill the screen in the trailer for “The Gypsy Bride,” from “Penny Dreadful” director Paco Cabezas, which world premiered at the San Sebastián Film Festival. The fiction is produced by ViacomCBS International Studios (VIS), with the participation of Atresmedia Televisión, and in collaboration with Diagonal TV. As well as presenting the first season of the series at the Spanish-speaking world’s highest-profile festival, Cabezas, the show’s creator and director had something else to celebrate on Wednesday. 

The dinosaurs have done it as Universal/Amblin’s Jurassic World Dominion crossed the $1B mark at the global box office with Thursday’s business included. It took a little while, but that shouldn’t diminish that this makes the Colin Trevorrow-directed installment one of only three films to the milestone since the beginning of the pandemic. It is the No. 2 film of 2022 behind Top Gun: Maverick.

Apparently, Bryce Dallas Howard had to deal with a lot more than just getting paid significantly less than her co-star Chris Pratt behind the scenes of the Jurassic World franchise!

Bryce Dallas Howard was told to lose weight for 'Jurassic World'. The 45-year-old actress returned to her role as Claire Dearing for the third time in 'Jurassic World: Dominion' earlier this year but claimed she had been forbidden from using her "natural body" on screen in earlier movies and the same almost happened again until the director Colin Trevorrow intervened. She said: "What being in this third film allowed, how do I say this, how do I say this, how do I say this…[I’ve] been asked to not use my natural body in cinema.

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Bryce Dallas Howard has had an important figure in her corner in the form of “Jurassic World” director Colin Trevorrow.

Bryce Dallas Howard is opening up about the expectations of weight Hollywood has for women. The actor said that ahead of filming Jurassic World Dominion, the third installment of the Jurassic World franchise, she was asked to lose weight.

than for her in the franchise was bad enough, wait until you hear what the actor just revealed. In a new interview with , said she was asked to lose weight before filming the third film, Jurassic World Dominion. According to the star, her “natural body” was a big topic of discussion amongst studio executives for years until the request was finally shut down by director Colin Trevorrow ahead of Dominion.“What being in this third film allowed, how do I say this, how do I say this, how do I say this…[I’ve] been asked to not use my natural body in cinema,” Howard said in response to a question about female representation in action films.

“Jurassic World: Dominion.”The 41-year-old discussed what studio executives told her just before shooting the third film in the “Jurassic World” series.“What being in this third film allowed — how do I say this, how do I say this, how do I say this …[I’ve] been asked to not use my natural body in cinema,” Howard told Metro UK in a recent profile.The “Spider-Man 3” actress then revealed how director Colin Trevorrow stood up for her.She continued: “On the third movie, it was actually because there were so many women cast, it was something that Colin felt very strongly about in terms of protecting me …Because the conversation came up again, ‘We need to ask Bryce to lose weight.’ ”She then noted how the filmmaker defended her and fought back the criticism. “[Trevorrow] was like, ‘There are lots of different kinds of women on this planet and there are lots of different kinds of women in our film.’” The mother of two pointed out that she wouldn’t have been able to do several stunts if she had been dieting.Howard went on, “I’m really thrilled [at] all the action I got to do, and I got to do it with my body.

“Jurassic World Dominion.”When asked by Metro UK what being in “Dominion” meant for female representation in action films, Howard revealed that she had been asked to lose weight for the franchise.“What being in this third film allowed, how do I say this, how do I say this, how do I say this…[I’ve] been asked to not use my natural body in cinema… On the third movie, it was actually because there were so many women cast, it was something that Colin [Trevorrow] felt very strongly about in terms of protecting me…because the conversation came up again, ‘we need to ask Bryce to lose weight.’”Howard continued, adding that director and co-writer Colin Trevorrow pointed to the larger female ensemble in “Dominion” (which also included DeWanda Wise, Laura Dern and Dichen Lachman) as reason to make room for different female body types when advocating for Howard.“He was like, ‘There are lots of different kinds of women on this planet and there are lots of different kinds of women in our film’ and I got to do so many stunts that wouldn’t have been possible if I had been dieting.”Howard has not been shy about speaking up about her experience as a woman in a blockbuster franchise, previously revealing that the pay gap between her and co-star Chris Pratt was substantial and locked in for the trilogy of films.“When I started negotiating for ‘Jurassic,’ it was 2014, and it was a different world, and I was at a great disadvantage,” Howard said in August.

Zack Sharf Bryce Dallas Howard revealed in a new interview with Metro that she was asked to lose weight before filming “Jurassic World Dominion,” which marked her third outing in the “Jurassic World” franchise. Howard said her weight has often been a topic of discussion among studio executives, and that conversation came up again before shooting “Dominion.” The actor credits director Colin Trevorrow with rejecting such demands. “What being in this third film allowed, how do I say this, how do I say this, how do I say this…[I’ve] been asked to not use my natural body in cinema,” Howard said. “On the third movie, it was actually because there were so many women cast, it was something that Colin felt very strongly about in terms of protecting me…because the conversation came up again, ‘We need to ask Bryce to lose weight.'”

Is any race for a nomination in this category moot? Has Steven Spielberg already won it for his personal, Hollywood industry-friendly drama “The Fabelmans”? Possibly, but not probably. The Director’s branch of the Academy has become one of the most international of all the branches.