The casts of Jurassic World Rebirth and 28 Years Later hope they won't be the losers of 2025's overcrowded summer blockbuster season

It’s summer movie season which means practically every week brings new blockbuster releases, especially this year, as summer 2025 is overcrowded. Someone is going to lose in this overstuffed environment, who’s it going to be? The casts of Jurassic World Rebirth and 28 Years Later hope it won’t be them.

Both casts are on press tours right now. 28 Years Later opens this week, so they’re wrapping up the last leg of their press tour, while Jurassic is just getting started ahead of their July 2 opening weekend. Let’s start with 28 Years Later, the long-gestating sequel of 28 Days Later, the movie that kicked off the millennial zombie craze. Danny Boyle was joined at the premiere by stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer, Ralph Fiennes, and relative newcomer Alfie Williams. I know everyone is into ATJ, but I’m still stuck on Ralph Fiennes’ muscle makeover from last year.

He played Odysseus in a movie called The Return and got super jacked. (Between The Return and Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey, is The Odyssey the new Roman Empire?)

Meanwhile, Jodie Comer looks STUPENDOUS.

Jodie Comer attends the "28 Years Later" photocall at IET London: Savoy Place on June 16, 2025 in London, England

Over on the Jurassic side of the fence, they have Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, Rupert Friend, and Mahershala Ali. This is a pretty irresistible group, though your mileage may vary on ScarJo. They look like a group of professors running a summer writing program and they each think they’re the one in charge. Very specific but I’m not wrong!

Mahershala Ali, Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey and Rupert Friend attend the "Jurassic World Rebirth" photocall at The Corinthia Hotel on June 16, 2025 in London, England

Have you heard Scarlett Johansson’s backstory about being a huge Jurassic Park fan? I think anyone who is old enough to have seen Jurassic Park in theaters in 1993 has some kind of lasting mark because of it—I’m afraid of walking into dark rooms because of it!—just like an older generation has a Star Wars mark. But ScarJo apparently lobbied to be in a Jurassic movie once they started making new ones, and the Big Lesson she learned from the experience is that it’s good to share your enthusiasm about things. Oh boy. You know what this means. “Scarlett Johansson: I’m such a nerd!” stories coming in three…two…