The seventh installment in the action-adventure series created by Steven Spielberg opened well ahead of expectations over the long Fourth of July holiday in the U.S. — where it racked up $147.3 million — as well as overseas.

Dinosaurs and racecars are at the top of the box office, so it’s safe to say summer movie season is in full swing. Universal’s “Jurassic World Rebirth,” the seventh in the historic franchise, took a T-Rex sized bite out of the box office with $26 million domestically from 6,

: This dinosaur franchise is far from becoming extinct as Universal/Amblin’s Jurassic World Rebirth is now looking at a $312.5M opening, heads and tails higher than what we were seeing in our early week projection of $260M.