Dinosaur wrangling may be dangerous, but it’s lucrative work. Thanks to the success of Jurassic World Rebirth over the holiday weekend, Scarlett Johansson has become the highest-grossing lead actor ever.
The dino-filled blockbuster has raked in $318.3 million globally so far. That catapulted the actress’s lifetime career box office gross to $14.8 billion for films in which she had a lead role or a lead ensemble role, and puts her in the first place spot, according to data from The Numbers.
It helps that the series featuring the world’s least safety-conscious theme parks isn’t Johansson’s only major franchise. More than $8.7 billion of the total gross from her films comes comes from the Marvel movies in which she played Natasha Romanoff, the Black Widow. And to get to the top, Johansson leapfrogged two MCU co-stars: Samuel L. Jackson, who long held the No. 1 spot, and Robert Downey Jr. In fact, the only lead actor in the top five who isn’t a part of the MCU is Tom Hanks, because when the Avengers are involved, the box office, like life, finds a way.—AR