Jurassic World Dominion has officially dethroned Star W***: The Force Awakens as the most expensive film ever produced. Recent financial filings have pulled back the curtain on a production budget that stunned even industry veterans. The numbers are staggering, the reasons are fascinating, and the implications for Hollywood filmmaking are bigger than a Brachiosaurus walking through your living room.

Some films cost a fortune, but one dinosaur blockbuster just made every other Hollywood budget look like pocket change.

Reports from Fortune have confirmed that Universal Pictures spent a jaw-dropping $658.8 million making Jurassic World Dominion in 2022, surpassing Disney's Star W***: The Force Awakens, which cost $638.9 million. The film was produced at the height of the pandemic, forcing Universal to implement expensive safety protocols and endure months of costly delays. The cast, including Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, and returning legends Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum, quarantined for five months at the luxurious Langley Hotel near Pinewood Studios in the UK, with rooms exceeding $600 per night.

Jurassic World Dominion concluded the Jurassic World trilogy, but Universal did not let the franchise go extinct. Jurassic World Rebirth arrived in 2025 at a considerably leaner $254.2 million production cost, proving Universal had learned some fiscal restraint. Fortune revealed that across all three Jurassic World films, UK government reimbursements totalled $262.1 million, helping Universal turn a combined $300 million profit from a $1.3 billion net outlay.

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While dinosaurs kept multiplying on screen, Netflix quietly built its own prehistoric empire worth exploring right now.

Netflix has quietly assembled an impressive dinosaur library, and fittingly, the Jurassic Park universe dominates it. Jurassic World: Chaos Theory continues the animated adventures of the Nublar Six navigating global truths, while Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous follows six teenagers stranded on Isla Nublar after the theme park's catastrophic failure. Bad Dinosaurs, Dinotrux, and Gigantosaurus round out a collection that covers every age group imaginable.

Steven Spielberg, the man who first brought dinosaurs to life in Jurassic Park back in 1993, now executive produces The Dinosaurs, a four-part documentary series that premiered on Netflix on March 6, 2026. Morgan Freeman narrates across four hour-long episodes built with Industrial Light and Magic's visual effects, exploring real prehistoric eras with hyper-realistic portrayals of species like the Tyrannosaurus rex. From a $63 million Jurassic Park in 1993 to a $658.8 million Jurassic World Dominion in 2022, dinosaurs have never been cheap, and Hollywood shows absolutely no signs of making them so.

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