Monitoring, June 15 (INP) - "God creates dinosaurs, God destroys dinosaurs, God creates Man, Man kills God, Man brings back dinosaurs," Jeff Goldblum deadpanned in "Jurassic Park," released 25 years ago this week. It was a pithy summary of Steven Spielberg’s landmark monster movie and the series it launched that left audiences gasping in wonder as they handed over a dino-sized $3.8 billion for tickets over four films. "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom" -- the fifth episode -- comes to the US having already opened in 48 territories, shooting to the top spot in each, breaking several records and grossing $151 million. "It’s wonderful that it’s still popular and not yet extinct," Spielberg, an executive producer on "Fallen Kingdom," said at its Los Angeles premiere on Tuesday. He praised the imagination and creativity of Michael Crichton, the late author of the novels, and revealed that he thought of the "Jurassic" series as part of his family. "It’s kind of like being a birth parent, and you give your kid up for adoption but you’re really proud of the adoptive parents for doing a great job with your original idea," he said. China will be running for its life from T. rex this weekend, where experts are predicting a $100 million-plus debut, followed by Latin America and North America on June 22. "Jurassic World" (2015) remains among the all-time top five grossing movies, despite competition in the intervening years from four "Star Wars" episodes and eight releases in Disney’s Marvel comic book stable. The latest foray among the Cretacious critters of Isla Nublar -- T. rex and the velociraptor are far too young to be considered Jurassic-period animals -- involves the high-octane action that audiences have come to expect, including all manner of terrifying therapods and oversized marine predators. "We’re really thrilled. It’s been received really well critically and commercially around the world so far," Chris Pratt, who plays swashbuckling raptor wrangler Owen Grady, said on the red carpet in LA. "If the rest of the world is any indication, I think people are really loving it and are really going to go out and see it, which is fantastic. It means we can probably do another one." Directed by J.A. Bayona ("A Monster Calls") and co-written by Colin Trevorrow, who helmed "Jurassic World," the movie opens three years after the theme park was abandoned, with the dinosaurs roaming freely. Isla Nublar’s long-dormant volcano has awoken and is spewing lava, threatening another mass extinction. Goldblum briefly reprises his role as Ian Malcolm, the grumpy but perspicacious chaos mathematician from the first and second films, to make his case for letting the big, scary lizards die off. Inp/khan