Running time 127 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $63 million Box office $1.029 billion Jurassic Park is a 1993 American directed by and produced by and. The first installment in the franchise, it is based on the 1990 by and a screenplay written by Crichton and. The film is set on the fictional islet of, located off 's Pacific Coast near, where a billionaire philanthropist and a small team of genetic scientists have created a of.

Before Crichton's novel was published, four studios put in bids for its film rights. With the backing of, Spielberg acquired the rights for $1.5 million before its publication in 1990; Crichton was hired for an additional $500,000 to adapt the novel for the screen. Koepp wrote the final draft, which left out much of the novel's exposition and violence and made numerous changes to the characters. Filming took place in California and Hawaii between August and November 1992, and post-production rolled until May 1993, supervised by Spielberg in Poland as he filmed. The dinosaurs were created with groundbreaking by and with life-sized dinosaurs built by 's team. To showcase the film's sound design, which included a mixture of various animal noises for the dinosaur roars, Spielberg invested in the creation of, a company specializing in digital formats. Following an extensive $65 million marketing campaign, which included licensing deals with 100 companies, Jurassic Park grossed over $900 million worldwide in its original theatrical run, becoming, a record held until the 1997 release of.

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It was well received by critics, who praised its special effects, ' musical score, and Spielberg's direction. Following a re-release in 2013 to celebrate its 20th anniversary, Jurassic Park became the 17th film to surpass $1 billion in ticket sales, and the film ranks among the. The film won more than twenty awards, including three for its technical achievements in visual effects and sound design.

Jurassic Park is considered a landmark in the development of computer-generated imagery and animatronic visual effects, and was followed by three commercially successful, (1997), (2001), and (2015). A fifth film, titled is scheduled for a June 2018 release. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Plot [ ] Industrialist John Hammond and his company, InGen, have created a called Jurassic Park on, a Costa Rican island, populated with cloned. After one of the dinosaur handlers is killed by a, the park's investors, represented by lawyer Donald Gennaro, demand that experts visit the park and certify it is safe. Gennaro invites mathematician and chaos theorist Ian Malcolm, while Hammond invites paleontologist Dr.

Alan Grant and paleobotanist Dr. Ellie Sattler. Upon arrival, the group is stunned to see a live. At the park's visitor center, the group learns that the cloning was accomplished by extracting from that had been preserved in.

DNA from frogs was used to fill in gaps in the dinosaur genomes. To prevent breeding, all the dinosaurs were made female.

Malcolm scoffs at the idea of such controlled breeding, declaring it will inevitably break down. The crew witness the birth of a baby raptor and visit the raptor enclosure. During a luncheon, the group debates the ethics of cloning and the creation of the park, with Dr. Malcolm giving a harsh warning about the implications of genetic engineering as a whole. The group is then joined by Hammond's grandchildren, Lex and Tim Murphy, for a tour of the park, while Hammond oversees the trip from the park's control room. The tour does not go as planned, with most of the dinosaurs failing to appear and the group encountering a sick.

The tour is cut short as a approaches Isla Nublar. Most of the park employees evacuate on a boat to the mainland while the visitors return to their electric tour vehicles, except Ellie who stays with the park's veterinarian to study the Triceratops. Jurassic Park's lead computer programmer, Dennis Nedry, having been bribed by Hammond's corporate rival Lewis Dodgson, deactivates the park's security system to gain access to the embryo storage room where he steals the valuable fertilized embryos. Nedry stores the embryos inside a canister disguised as shaving cream, supplied by Dodgson. Because of Nedry, the power goes out and the tour vehicles become stuck.

Most of the park's electric fences are deactivated as well, allowing the to escape and attack the tour group. Grant, Lex, and Tim escape, while the Tyrannosaurus injures Malcolm and devours Gennaro. On his way to deliver the embryos to the island's docks, Nedry becomes lost in the rain, crashes his, and is killed by a. Sattler assists the park's game warden, Robert Muldoon, in a search for survivors, but they only find an injured Malcolm, before the Tyrannosaurus returns. Grant, Tim, and Lex take shelter in a treetop. Later, they discover the broken shells of dinosaur eggs. Grant concludes that the dinosaurs have been breeding, which occurred because of their frog DNA— can change their sex in a single-sex environment, allowing the dinosaurs to do so as well, proving Malcolm right.

Unable to decipher Nedry's code to reactivate the security system, Hammond and the park's chief engineer Ray Arnold opt to reboot the entire park's system. The group shuts down the park's grid and retreats to an emergency bunker, while Arnold heads to a maintenance shed to complete the rebooting process.

When Arnold fails to return, Sattler and Muldoon head to the shed. They discover the shutdown has deactivated the remaining fences and released the raptors. Muldoon distracts the raptors, while Sattler goes to turn the power back on, before being attacked by a raptor and discovering Arnold's severed arm.

Meanwhile, Muldoon is caught off-guard and killed by the other two raptors. Grant, Tim and Lex finally reach the visitor center. Grant heads out to look for Sattler, leaving Tim and Lex inside. Tim and Lex are pursued by the raptors in an industrial kitchen, but they escape and join Grant and Sattler. Lex restores full power from the control room, allowing the group to call Hammond, who in turn calls for help.

The group is cornered by the raptors, but they are able to escape when the Tyrannosaurus suddenly appears and kills the raptors. Hammond arrives in a Jeep with Malcolm, and the entire group boards a helicopter to leave the island. 's book attracted the attention of director Steven Spielberg even before publishing. The author was also responsible for the film's first scripts. Originally conceived a about a graduate student who recreates a dinosaur; he continued to wrestle with his fascination with dinosaurs and cloning until he began writing the novel. Even before publication, learned of the novel in October 1989 while he and Crichton were discussing a screenplay that would become the television series.

Spielberg considered that what really fascinated him was that Jurassic Park was 'a really credible look at how dinosaurs might someday be brought back alongside modern mankind', going beyond a simple monster movie. Before the book was published, Crichton demanded a non-negotiable fee of $1.5 million as well as a substantial percentage of the gross. And, and, and and bid for the rights, but eventually acquired them in May 1990 for Spielberg. After completing, Spielberg wanted to film. (then Universal Pictures's parent company) president gave a green light to the film on the condition that Spielberg made Jurassic Park first. The director later declared that by choosing a creature-driven thriller, 'I was really just trying to make a good sequel to, on land.'

To create the dinosaurs, Spielberg at first thought of hiring, who designed a giant mechanical for 's. Upon considering that the life-sized dinosaurs would be too expensive and not all convincing, Spielberg instead sought the best effects supervisors in Hollywood. Brought in were to create the dinosaurs, to create dinosaurs for credited as Dinosaur Supervisor, to supervise the on-set effects, and of to do the. Paleontologist supervised the designs, to help fulfill Spielberg's desire to portray the dinosaurs as animals rather than monsters. This led to the entry of certain concepts about dinosaurs, such as the theory that dinosaurs and had very little in common with lizards.

One of the first consequences was the removal of the raptors' flicking tongues in Tippett's early, as Horner complained it was implausible. Winston's department created fully detailed models of the dinosaurs before molding skins, which were fitted over complex robotics.

Tippett created stop-motion animatics of both the raptors in the kitchen and the Tyrannosaurus attacking the car. But despite go motion's attempts at, Spielberg still found the end results unsatisfactory in terms of working in a feature film. Muren declared to Spielberg that he thought the dinosaurs could be built through, and the director asked him to prove it. ILM animators and developed a computer-generated walk cycle for the T. Rex skeleton, and were approved to do more. When Spielberg and Tippett saw an animatic of the T. Rex chasing a herd of Gallimimus, Spielberg said, 'You're out of a job,' to which Tippett replied, 'Don't you mean extinct?'

Spielberg later injected this exchange into the script, as a conversation between Malcolm and Grant. Although no go motion was used, Tippett and his animators were still used by the production to supervise dinosaur movement. Tippett acted as a consultant regarding dinosaur anatomy, and his stop motion animators were re-trained as computer animators. The animatics made by Tippett's team were also used along with the as a reference for what would be shot during the action sequences. ILM's artists were sent to private tours to the local animal park so they could study large animals — rhinos, elephants, alligators, and giraffes — up close, and also received classes for understanding movements. Writing [ ] Universal paid Crichton a further $500,000 to adapt his own novel, which he had finished by the time Spielberg was filming.

Crichton noted that because the book was 'fairly long' his script only had about 10 to 20 percent of the novel's content; scenes were dropped for budgetary and practical reasons, and despite the gory descriptions, the violence was toned down. Began a script rewrite in October 1991 over a five-month period, merging Ian Malcolm with Alan Grant. As Spielberg wanted another writer to rework the script, Universal president recommended him, co-writer of.

Koepp started afresh from Marmo's draft, and used Spielberg's idea of a cartoon shown to the visitors to remove much of the exposition that fills Crichton's novel. While Koepp tried to avoid excessive character detail 'because whenever they started talking about their personal lives, you couldn't care less', he tried to flesh out the characters and make for a more colorful cast, with moments such as Malcolm flirting with Sattler leading to Grant's jealousy. Some were changed from the novel. Hammond went from a ruthless businessman to a kindly old man, because Spielberg identified with Hammond's obsession with showmanship. He also switched the characters of Tim and Lex; in the book, Tim is aged eleven and interested in computers, and Lex is only seven or eight and interested in sports. Spielberg did this because he wanted to work with the younger Joseph Mazzello, and it also allowed him to introduce the sub-plot of Lex's adolescent crush on Grant. Koepp changed Grant's relationship with the children, making him hostile to them initially to allow for more character development.

Two scenes from the book were ultimately excised, with Spielberg removing the opening sequence with attacking a young child as he previously found it too horrific, and Koepp cutting for budgetary reasons the T. Rex chasing Grant and the children down a river before being tranquilized by Muldoon. Both parts eventually saw inclusion in the film sequels.

Spielberg suggested the addition of the scene where the T. Rex pursues a jeep, which at first would only have the characters driving away after listening to the dinosaur's footsteps. Casting [ ] was initially offered the role of Alan Grant, but turned it down without reading the script.

Was also offered the role of Grant. Sam Neill was ultimately cast as Grant three or four weeks before filming began. Neill said that 'it all happened real quick. I hadn't read the book, knew nothing about it, hadn't heard anything about it, and in a matter of weeks I'm working with Spielberg.' Janet Hirshenson, the film's casting director, felt that Jeff Goldblum would be the right choice to play Ian Malcolm after reading the novel.

Also auditioned for the role. According to Hirshenson, Carrey 'was terrific, too, but I think pretty quickly we all loved the idea of Jeff.' Had previously worked with Spielberg on Hook, and initially auditioned for the role of Malcolm, before trying out for the role of Dodgson. Thor said about casting, 'It just said 'shaving-cream can' in the script, so I spent endless time in a drug store to find the most photogenic. I went with Barbasol, which ended up in the movie. I was so broke that I took the can home after the audition to use it.' Laura Dern was Spielberg's first choice for the role of Ellie Sattler.

Spielberg chose to cast Wayne Knight after seeing his acting performance in, saying, 'I waited for the credits to roll and wrote his name down'. Ariana Richards said, 'I was called into a casting office, and they just wanted me to scream. I heard later on that Steven had watched a few girls on tape that day, and I was the only one who ended up waking his sleeping wife off the couch, and she came running through the hallway to see if the kids were all right.' Had initially for a role in Hook, but was deemed too young. Spielberg promised Mazzello that they would work together on a future film.

Turned down a role in the film. Auditioned for a role, but did not receive it. Replica of the featured in the film.

After 25 months of pre-production, filming began on August 24, 1992, on the island of. While was considered as a location given it is the story's setting, Spielberg's concerns on infrastructure and accessibility made him choose a place where he had already worked before. The three-week shoot involved various daytime exteriors for Isla Nublar's forests. On September 11, passed directly over Kaua ʻi, which caused the crew to lose a day of shooting. Several of the storm scenes from the movie are actual footage shot during the hurricane. The scheduled shoot of the Gallimimus chase was moved to on the island of and one of the beginning scenes had to be created by digitally animating a still shot of scenery. The opening scene was shot in, on the island of, with additional scenes being filmed on the 'forbidden island' of.

Jackson was to film a lengthy death scene in which his character would be chased and killed by raptors, but the set was destroyed by Hurricane Iniki. By mid-September, the crew moved back to California, to shoot the raptors in the kitchen at Stage 24 of the Universal studio lot.

Given the kitchen set was filled with reflective surfaces, cinematographer had to carefully plan the illumination while also using black cloths to hide the light reflections. The crew also shot on Stage 23 for the scenes involving the power supply, before going on location to for the dig scenes. The crew returned to Universal to shoot Grant's rescue of Tim, using a fifty-foot prop with hydraulic wheels for the car fall, and the Brachiosaurus encounter. The crew filmed scenes for the Park's labs and control room, which used animations for the computers lent from and. While Crichton's book features cars in Jurassic Park, Spielberg got a deal with the, who provided seven. The Explorers were modified by ILM's crew and veteran customizer to create the illusion that they were by hiding the driver in the car's trunk. Barris also customized the featured in the production.

The crew moved to ' Stage 16 to shoot the T. Rex 's attack on the LSX powered SUVs. Shooting proved frustrating because of water soaking the foam rubber skin of the animatronic dinosaur, which caused the animatronic T. Rex to shake and quiver from the extra weight when the foam absorbed the water. This forced Stan Winston's crew to dry the model with between takes. On the set, Malcolm distracting the dinosaur with a flare was included at Jeff Goldblum's suggestion, as he felt a heroic action was better than going by the script, where like Gennaro, Malcolm would get scared and run away.

The ripples in the glass of water caused by the T. Rex 's footsteps were inspired by Spielberg listening to in his car, and the vibrations the bass rhythm caused. Lantieri was unsure of how to create the shot until the night before filming, when he put a glass of water on a guitar he was playing, which achieved the concentric circles in the water Spielberg wanted. The next morning, guitar strings were put inside the car and a man on the floor plucked the strings to achieve the effect. Back at Universal, the crew filmed scenes with the Dilophosaurus on Stage 27. Finally, the shoot finished on Stage 12, with the climactic chases with the raptors in the Park's computer rooms and Visitor's Center.

Spielberg changed the climax to bring back the T. Rex, abandoning the original ending in which Grant uses a platform machine to maneuver a raptor into a fossil tyrannosaur's jaws. The scene which already had the juxtaposition of live dinosaurs in a museum filled with fossils, while also destroying the bones, now also had an ending where the T. Rex saved the protagonists, and afterwards did what Spielberg described as a 'King Kong roar' while an ironic banner reading 'When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth' flew. The film wrapped twelve days ahead of schedule on November 30, and within days, editor had a rough cut ready, allowing Spielberg to go ahead with filming. Dinosaurs on screen [ ].

Reconstruction of the stop-motion scene of the destroyed car in the of,. Despite the title of the film referencing the period, Brachiosaurus and Dilophosaurus are the only dinosaurs featured that actually lived during that time; the other species featured did not exist until the period.

This is acknowledged in the film during a scene where Dr. Grant describes the ferocity of the Velociraptor to a young boy, saying 'Try to imagine yourself in the Cretaceous period.' • was acknowledged by Spielberg as 'the star of the movie', even leading him to rewrite the ending to feature the T. Rex for fear of disappointing the audience. Winston's animatronic T. Rex stood 20 feet (6.1 m), weighed 17,500 pounds (7,900 kg), and was 40 feet (12 m) long.

Jack Horner called it 'the closest I've ever been to a live dinosaur'. While the consulting paleontologists did not have a consensus on the dinosaur's movement, particularly regarding its running capabilities, animator decided to 'throw physics out the window and create a T. Rex that moved at sixty miles per hour even though its hollow bones would have busted if it ran that fast'. The major reason was the T.

Rex chasing a Jeep, a scene that took two months to finish. The dinosaur is depicted with a vision system based on movement, though later studies indicated the T. Rex had comparable to a. Its roar is a baby mixed with a and an, and its breath is a 's blow.

A dog attacking a rope toy was used for the sounds of the T. Rex tearing a Gallimimus apart, while cut crashing to the ground became the sound of the dinosaur's footsteps. • plays a major role in the film. The creature's depiction is not based on the actual dinosaur genus in question, which itself was significantly smaller. Shortly before Jurassic Park's theatre release, the similar was discovered, though was proven bigger in appearance than the film's raptors; this prompted Stan Winston to joke, 'We made it, then they discovered it.' For the attack on character Robert Muldoon and some parts of the kitchen scene, the raptors were. Screams, bellowing, hissing, 's, mating, and human rasps were mixed to formulate various raptor sounds.

Following discoveries made after the film's release, most paleontologists theorize that like Velociraptor and were fully covered with feathers like modern birds. This feature is only included in for the male raptors, who are shown with a row of small quills on their heads. • was also very different from its real-life counterpart, made significantly smaller to make sure audiences did not confuse it with the raptors. Its and its ability to spit venom are fictitious. Its vocal sounds were made by combining a, a, a, and a. The animatronic model, nicknamed 'Spitter' by Stan Winston's team, was animated by the puppeteers sitting on a trench in the set floor, and used a mechanism to spit the mixture of and that served as venom. • is the first dinosaur seen by the park's visitors.

It is inaccurately depicted as chewing its food, and standing up on its hind legs to browse among the high tree branches. According to artist Andy Schoneberg, the chewing was done to make the animal seem docile, in a way it resembled a cow chewing its cud. The dinosaur's head and upper neck was the largest puppet without hydraulics built for the film.

Despite scientific evidence of their having limited vocal capabilities, sound designer decided to represent them with and calls to give them a melodic sense of wonder. Penguins were also recorded to be used in the noises of the dinosaurs.

• has an extended cameo, being sick with an unidentified disease. Its appearance was a particular logistical nightmare for Stan Winston when Spielberg asked to shoot the animatronic of the sick creature earlier than expected. The model, operated by eight puppeteers in the Kaua'i set, wound up being the first dinosaur filmed during production.

Winston also created a baby Triceratops for Ariana Richards to ride on, a scene cut from the film for pacing reasons. Gary Rydstrom combined the sound of himself breathing into a cardboard tube with the cows near his workplace at to create the Triceratops vocals. • are featured in a stampede scene where one of them is devoured by the Tyrannosaurus. The Gallimimus was the first dinosaur to receive a digital version, being featured in two ILM tests, first as a herd of skeletons and then fully skinned while pursued by the T.

Its design was based on, and to emphasize the birdlike qualities, the animation focused mostly on the herd rather than individual animals. As reference for the dinosaurs' run, the animators were filmed running at the ILM parking lot, with plastic pipes standing in as the tree that the Gallimimus jump over. The footage even inspired to incorporate an animal falling in its leap as one of the artists crashed making the jump.

Horse squeals became the Gallimimus sounds. • appear in the background during the first encounter with the Brachiosaurus. • appears as a skeleton in the Jurassic Park visitor center.

Post-production [ ]. 'Dinosaur Input Device' raptor used for the film. Special effects work continued on the film, with Tippett's unit adjusting to new technology with Dinosaur Input Devices: models which fed information into the computers to allow themselves to animate the characters like stop motion puppets. In addition, they acted out scenes with the raptors and Gallimimus. As well as the computer-generated dinosaurs, ILM also created elements such as water splashing and digital face replacement for Ariana Richards' stunt double. Compositing the dinosaurs onto the live action scenes took around an hour. Rendering the dinosaurs often took two to four hours per frame, and rendering the T.

Rex in the rain even took six hours per frame. Spielberg monitored their progress from during the filming of Schindler's List, having teleconferences four times a week with ILM's crew. The director described working simultaneously in two vastly different productions as 'a bipolar experience', where he used 'every ounce of intuition on Schindler's List and every ounce of craft in Jurassic Park'. Along with the digital effects, Spielberg wanted the film to be the first with digital sound. He funded the creation of, which would allow audiences to 'really hear the movie the way it was intended to be heard'. The sound effects crew, supervised by, were finished by the end of April. Sound designer considered it a fun process, given the film had all kinds of noise – animal sounds, rain, gunshots, car crashes – and at times no music.

During the process, Spielberg would take the weekends to fly from Poland to, where he would meet Rydstrom to see the sound progress. Jurassic Park was finally completed on May 28, 1993.

Main article: Composer began scoring the film at the end of February, and it was recorded a month later. John Neufeld and provided the score's. Similar to another Spielberg film he scored,, Williams felt he needed to write 'pieces that would convey a sense of 'awe' and fascination' given it dealt with the 'overwhelming happiness and excitement' that would emerge from seeing live dinosaurs. In turn more suspenseful scenes such as the Tyrannosaurus attack earned frightening themes. The was released on May 25, 1993.

For the 20th anniversary of the release of the film, a new soundtrack was issued for on April 9, 2013, including four bonus tracks personally selected by Williams. Release [ ] Universal took the lengthy pre-production to carefully plan the Jurassic Park marketing campaign, which cost $65 million and had deals with 100 companies to market 1,000 products. These included by and, a toy line by that was distributed by, ', and a aimed at young children. The film's trailers only gave fleeting glimpses of the dinosaurs, a tactic journalist Josh Horowitz described as 'that old Spielberg of never revealing too much' when Spielberg and director did the same for their production of in 2007. The film was marketed with the 'An Adventure 65 Million Years In The Making.' This was a joke Spielberg made on set about the genuine, thousands of years old mosquito in amber used for Hammond's walking stick. The film premiered at the on June 9, 1993, in, in support of two children's charities.

Two days later it opened nationwide, in 2,404 theater locations and an estimated 3,400 screens. Internationally it was equally wide at 3,400 prints. Following the film's release, a traveling exhibition called 'The Dinosaurs of Jurassic Park' began, showcasing dinosaur skeletons and film props. Jurassic Park was broadcast on television for the first time on May 7, 1995, following the April 26 airing of The Making of Jurassic Park.

Some 68.12 million people tuned in to watch, garnering a 36 percent share of all available viewers that night. Jurassic Park was the theatrical film broadcast on television by any network since the April 1987 airing of. In June–July 1995 the film was aired a number of times on the network. Theatrical re-releases [ ].

Theatrical poster for the 3D re-release of Jurassic Park for the film's 20th anniversary In anticipation of the release, Jurassic Park had a released in UK cinemas on September 23, 2011. It wound up grossing £245,422 ($786,021) from 276 theaters, finishing at eleventh on the weekend box office. Two years later, on the 20th anniversary of Jurassic Park, a of the film was released in cinemas. Spielberg declared that he had produced the film with a sort of 'subconscious 3D', as scenes feature animals walking toward the cameras and some effects of foreground and background overlay. In 2011, he stated in an interview that Jurassic Park was the only of his works he had considered for a conversion, and once he saw the 3D version of in 2012, he liked the new look of the film so much that he hired the same retrofitting company, Stereo D.

Spielberg and cinematographer supervised the nine-month process closely in-between the production of. Stereo D executive Aaron Parry declared that the conversion was an evolution of what the company had done with Titanic, 'being able to capitalize on everything we learned with on Titanic and take it into a different genre and movie, and one with so many technical achievements.' The studio had the help of ILM, which contributed some elements and updated effects shots for a better visual enhancement.

It opened in the United States and seven other territories on April 5, 2013, with other countries receiving the re-release in the following six months. Home media [ ] The film made its and debut on October 4, 1994. With 17 million units sold in both formats, Jurassic Park is the fifth best-selling VHS tape ever.

Jurassic Park was first released on Collector's Edition on October 10, 2000, in both a widescreen and, and in a box set along with sequel and both movies' soundtrack albums. It ended as the 13th best-selling DVD of 2000 counting both versions, finishing the year with 910,000 units sold. Following the release of Jurassic Park III, a new box set with all films called Jurassic Park Trilogy was released on December 11, 2001; it was re-released on VHS and DVD as part of its 15th anniversary on October 8, 2004. It was repackaged as Jurassic Park Adventure Pack on November 29, 2005. The trilogy was released on Blu-ray on October 25, 2011, debuting at fifth on the Blu-ray charts, and being nominated as the best release of the year by both the Las Vegas Film Critics Society and the.

In 2012, Jurassic Park was among twenty-five films chosen by Universal for a box set that celebrated the studio's 100th anniversary, while also receiving a standalone 100th anniversary Blu-ray featuring an cover. The following year, the 20th anniversary 3D conversion was issued on Blu-ray 3D. On June 1, 2016, Jurassic Park, along with its sequels The Lost World and Jurassic Park III, were added to the streaming service. Reception [ ] Box office [ ] Jurassic Park became the highest-grossing film released worldwide up to that time. Following $3.1 million from midnight screenings on June 10, the film earned $47 million in its first weekend, with the $50.1 million total breaking the opening weekend record set by the year before. By the end of its first week, Jurassic Park had grossed $81.7 million, and stayed at number one for three weeks. It eventually grossed $357 million in the U.S.

Estimates that the film sold over 86.2 million tickets in the US in its initial theatrical run. The film also did very well in international markets, breaking opening records in the,,,,, and, ultimately earning $914 million worldwide, with Spielberg reportedly making over $250 million from the film. It surpassed Spielberg's own as the highest-grossing film ever worldwide, and became second to E.T. In North America earnings. Jurassic Park 's record was only surpassed in 1998 by, the first film to gross over $1 billion.

The 3D re-release of Jurassic Park opened at fourth place in North America, with $18.6 million from 2,771 locations. Showings accounted for over $6 million, with the 32 percent being the highest IMAX share ever for a nationwide release. The international release had its most successful weekend in the last week of August, when it managed to climb to the top of the overseas box office with a $28.8 million debut in China. The reissue earned $45,385,935 in North America and $44,500,000 internationally as of August 2013, leading to a lifetime gross of $402,453,882 in North America and $628,723,171 overseas, totaling up to a worldwide gross of $1,029,939,903, making Jurassic Park the 17th film to surpass the $1 billion mark. It was the first and only Universal Pictures film to surpass the $1 billion mark until 2015, when the studio got three such films,,, and the fourth installment of the Jurassic Park franchise,. It currently ranks as the 24th highest-grossing film of all time (unadjusted for inflation) and 22nd highest-grossing film.

It is the, and the highest-grossing film directed by Spielberg. Critical response [ ] High praise was given to the film's visual effects, musical score, and Spielberg's direction, although there was some criticism leveled at the script and departures from the book. Website retrospectively gave the film a 'Certified Fresh' rating of 93%, based on 116 reviews, with a score of 8.3/10. The site's critical consensus reads, ' Jurassic Park is a spectacle of special effects and life-like animatronics, with some of Spielberg's best sequences of sustained awe and sheer terror since.' Gave the film a score of 68 out of 100, based on 20 critics, indicating 'generally favorable reviews'. Of called it 'a true movie milestone, presenting awe- and fear-inspiring sights never before seen on the screen.

On paper, this story is tailor-made for Mr. Spielberg's talents.[but] [i]t becomes less crisp on screen than it was on the page, with much of the enjoyable jargon either mumbled confusingly or otherwise thrown away.' In, described the film as 'colossal entertainment—the eye-popping, mind-bending, kick-out-the-jams thrill ride of summer and probably the year [.] Compared with the dinos, the characters are dry bones, indeed. Crichton and co-screenwriter David Koepp have flattened them into nonentities on the trip from page to screen.' Noted, 'The movie delivers all too well on its promise to show us dinosaurs. We see them early and often, and they are indeed a triumph of special effects artistry, but the movie is lacking other qualities that it needs even more, such as a sense of awe and wonderment, and strong human story values.'

Henry Sheehan argued, 'The complaints over Jurassic Park's lack of story and character sound a little off the point,' pointing out the story arc of Grant learning to protect Hammond's grandchildren despite his initial dislike of them. Magazine gave the film five stars, hailing it as 'quite simply one of the greatest blockbusters of all time.' Accolades [ ] In March 1994, Jurassic Park won all three for which it was nominated:,, and (at the same ceremony, Spielberg, editor Michael Kahn, and composer John Williams won Academy Awards for Schindler's List). The film won honors outside the U.S. Including the 1994 for, as well as the Award for the Public's Favorite Film. It won the 1994 for, and the 1993 for,, for Crichton and Koepp and.

The film won the 1993 for Favorite All-Around Motion Picture. Were given to Ariana Richards and Joseph Mazzello, with the film winning an Outstanding Action/Adventure Family Motion Picture award. In 2001, the ranked Jurassic Park as the 35th. The film has been included in the book, film lists by magazine, and. Entrance to the Jurassic Park Discovery Center. In the years following its release, Jurassic Park has frequently been cited by film critics and industry professionals as one of the greatest movies of the action and thriller genres. The named Jurassic Park the 35th most thrilling film of all time on June 13, 2001.

The also ranked Jurassic Park as the 55th scariest movie of all time and, in 2005, chose the scene in which Lex and Tim are stalked by two raptors in the kitchen as the 95th scariest movie moment ever. On magazine's fifteenth anniversary in 2004, it judged Jurassic Park the sixth most influential film of the magazine's lifetime. Called the first encounter with a Brachiosaurus the 28th most magical moment in cinema. In 2008, an poll of readers, filmmakers, and critics also rated it one of the 500 greatest films of all time. On 's fifty-fifth anniversary in 2005, it declared the film to be one of the five most important in the magazine's lifetime.

In 2006, ranked Jurassic Park as the 19th greatest film franchise ever. In a 2010 poll, the readers of rated it the greatest summer movie of the previous 20 years. The popularity of the movie caused the management of the expansion franchise founded in Toronto in 1995 to adopt the nickname. Jurassic Park's biggest impact on subsequent films was a result of its. Film historian commented on the film's innovation and influence, saying that 'In its way, Jurassic Park heralded a revolution in movies as profound as the coming of sound in 1927.' Many filmmakers saw Jurassic Park 's effects as a realization that many of their visions, previously thought unfeasible or too expensive, were now possible. ILM owner, realizing the success of creating realistic live dinosaurs by his own company, started to make the prequels; decided to invest in pet project, to which he would later bring Spielberg to direct; and began to re-explore his childhood love of, a path that led him to and.

Jurassic Park has also inspired films and documentaries with dinosaurs such as the American adaptation of,, (in which Laura Dern's mother starred), and. Stan Winston, enthusiastic about the new technology pioneered by the film, joined with and director to form a new special effects company,. Sequels and merchandise [ ]. Further information: After the enormous success of the film, Spielberg asked Crichton to write a sequel novel, leading to the 1995 book.

This, in turn, was adapted as the film. Released on May 23, 1997, it was directed by Spielberg and written by David Koepp. Another film,, was released on July 18, 2001, under the direction of, with Spielberg as executive producer, featuring an original script that incorporated ultimate unused elements from Crichton's original Jurassic Park. A fourth installment,, was released in theaters on June 12, 2015. Spielberg again produced, with directing a script written by himself and.

The story of the film was also continued in auxiliary media, at times even unattached to the film sequels themselves. These included a series of Jurassic Park written by for, and video games such as Ocean Software's (1994), 's (2003) and ' (2011). All of the include a Jurassic Park-themed ride. The first was at Universal Studios Hollywood on June 15, 1996, built after six years of development at a cost of $110 million. Said attraction was replicated on in 2001. In,, has an entire section of the park dedicated to Jurassic Park that includes the main ride, christened 'Jurassic Park River Adventure', and many smaller rides and attractions based on the series.

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