Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science fiction adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg. It is the first installment in the Jurassic Park franchise, and is based on the 1990 novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. The film is set on the fictional island of Isla Nublar, located off Central America’s Pacific Coast near Costa Rica. It went on to gross over USD 912 million worldwide in its original theatrical run, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1993.
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Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science fiction adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Gerald R. Molen. It is the first installment in the Jurassic Park franchise, and is based on the 1990 novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. The film is set on the fictional island of Isla Nublar, located off Central America’s Pacific Coast near Costa Rica. When industrial sabotage leads to a catastrophic shutdown of the park’s power facilities, a small group of visitors and Hammond’s grandchildren struggle to survive and escape the perilous island. Jurassic Park premiered on June 9, 1993, at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D. C., and was released on June 11 in the United States. It went on to gross over USD 912 million worldwide in its original theatrical run, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1993. It was followed by four commercially successful sequels: The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park III, Jurassic World, and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, with a fifth sequel, JurassicWorld: Dominion, scheduled for a 2022 release. In 2018, the film was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”; it is considered a landmark in the development of computer-generated imagery and animatronic visual effects. The film won more than twenty awards, including three Academy Awards for its technical achievements in visual effects and sound design.
It became the seventeenth film in history to surpass USD 1 billion in ticket sales in 2013 to celebrate its 20th anniversary, and the 17th film to break the $1 billion barrier in box office sales. It has been released in 3D, 2D, and Blu-ray, with the 3D version of the film set to be released in May 2015. The 3D re-release of Jurassic Park will be released on May 25, 2015, and will be the first time that the film has been re-released in 2D and 3D at the same time; the Blu-Ray release will be on May 26, 2015. It will also be the second time the film is released in 4D, following the release of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the Planet of the Apes on May 27, 2015; the previous film was released in 1D and 2D on May 28, 2016. The movie is set in a theme park of cloned dinosaurs, Jurassic Park, on a fictional Costa Rican island. The group is shocked to see a live Brachiosaurus. After a dinosaur handler is killed by a Velociraptor, the investors demand that experts visit the park and certify its safety. At the visitor center, the group learns that the cloning was accomplished by extracting dinosaur DNA from mosquitoes preserved in amber. To prevent breeding, all the dinosaurs were made female. Most of the employees leave the park for a tour of the mainland on a boat.
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