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On June 10,  Jurassic World Dominion the last movie in  Jurassic World  trilogy, premiering in theaters nationwide. In a recent section for  The Hollywood Reporter , writer Richard Newby called the film “a clear demonstration of the strengths and weaknesses of the blockbuster business”. This installment in the franchise sees DeWanda Wise (plane pilot Kayla Watts) emerge as a necessary and unlikely hero, whose cockpit ingenuity reorients the course of the game. movie. More recently, Wise has entered the universe of a classic Western American in Jeymes Samuel’s  The harder it is, the more they fall,  a comedy directed by Stella Meghie’s  Weekend  and Brooklyn’s reimagined series updates to Spike Lee’s hit classic  She’s Gotta Have It  on Netflix .  Each genre has its own set of requirements and creative freedoms, and Wise’s approach to all of them is strategy and trust in equal parts: “I’m very visual,” she says. In front of ...

More Jurassic Park sequels after The Lost World had the flexibility to chart their own route because there were no more Crichton novels to base them on. Jurassic Park 3, directed by Joe Johnston and released in summer 2001, was the least financially successful movie in the series, resulting to a 14-year sabbatical before Jurassic World brought the franchise back. While many would blame the slump on negative reviews, a repetitive idea, or waning cultural interest in dinosaurs, an often neglected factor may be even more essential. Jurassic Park 3, at the time of its release, was representative of the type of movie that would very soon die off: The standalone franchise sequel. When looked at within that context, it provides a great example of a franchise that failed to anticipate the changes that were about to occur in the moviemaking marketplace. Join us for the third part in our retrospective of the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World films. 2001: A Serial Odyssey 2001 is a criti...