French postcard by Editions Nugeron, no. Star 202. Photo: Lucasfilm Ltd. Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Last Cruisade (Steven Spielberg, 1989).

American film actor Harrison Ford (1942) specialises in roles of cynical, world-weary heroes in popular film series. He played Han Solo in the Star Wars franchise, archaeologist Indiana Jones in a series of four adventure films, Rick Deckard in the Science Fiction films Blade Runner (1982) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017), and secret agent Jack Ryan in the spy thrillers Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994). These film roles have made him one of the most successful stars in Hollywood. In all, his films have grossed about $5.4 billion in the United States and $9.3 billion worldwide.

Harrison Ford was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1942. His parents were former radio actress Dorothy (née Nidelman) and advertising executive and former actor John William "Christopher" Ford. Harrison graduated in 1960 from Maine East High School in Park Ridge, Illinois. His voice was the first student voice broadcast on his high school's new radio station, WMTH, and he was its first sportscaster during his senior year. He attended Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin, where he was a philosophy major and did some acting. After dropping out of college, he first wanted to work as a DJ in radio and left for California to work at a large national radio station. He was unable to find work and, in order to make a living, he accepted a job as a carpenter. Another part-time job was auditioning, where he had to read out lines that the opposing actor would say to an actor auditioning for a particular role. Harrison did this so well that he was advised to take up acting. He was also briefly a roadie for the rock group The Doors. From 1964, Ford regularly played bit roles in films. He was finally credited as "Harrison J. Ford" in the Western A Time for Killing (Phil Karlson, 1967), starring Glenn Ford, George Hamilton, and Inger Stevens. The "J" did not stand for anything since he has no middle name but was added to avoid confusion with a silent film actor named Harrison Ford, who appeared in more than 80 films between 1915 and 1932 and died in 1957. French filmmaker Jacques Demy chose Ford for the lead role of his first American film, Model Shop (1969), but the head of Columbia Pictures thought Ford had "no future" in the film business and told Demy to hire a more experienced actor. The part eventually went to Gary Lockwood. He had an uncredited, non-speaking role in Michelangelo Antonioni's film Zabriskie Point (1970) as an arrested student protester. His first major role was in the coming-of-age comedy American Graffiti (George Lucas, 1973). Ford became friends with the directors George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, and he made a number of films with them. In 1974, he acted in The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) starring Gene Hackman, and played an army officer named "G. Lucas" in Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979, co-produced by George Lucas. Ford made his breakthrough as Han Solo in Lucas's epic space opera Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope (George Lucas, 1977). Star Wars became one of the most successful and groundbreaking films of all time and brought Ford, and his co-stars Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher, widespread recognition. He reprised the role in four sequels over the course of the next 42 years: Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980), Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand, 1983), Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens (J. J. Abrams, 2015), and Star Wars: Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker (J.J. Abrams, 2019).

Harrison Ford also worked with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg on the successful Indiana Jones adventure series playing the heroic, globe-trotting archaeologist Indiana Jones. The series started with the action-adventure film Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981). Like Star Wars, the film was massively successful and became the highest-grossing film of the year. Ford went on to reprise the role throughout the rest of the decade in the prequel Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg, 1984), and the sequel Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg, 1989), which co-starred Sean Connery as Indy's father, Henry Jones Sr. and River Phoenix as young Indiana. In between the successful film series, Ford also played very daring roles in more artistic films. He played the role of a lonely depressed detective in the Sci-Fi film Blade Runner, (Ridley Scott, 1981) opposite Rutger Hauer. While not initially a success, Blade Runner went on to become a cult classic and one of Ford's most highly regarded films. Ford received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for the crime drama Witness (Peter Weir, 1985) with Kelly McGillis, and also starred for Weir as a house-father in the survival drama The Mosquito Coast (Peter Weir, 1986) with River Phoenix as his son. In 1988, he played a desperate man searching for his kidnapped wife in Roman Polanski's Frantic. For his role as a wrongly accused prisoner Dr. Richard Kimble in the action thriller The Fugitive (Andrew Davis, 1993), also starring Tommy Lee Jones, Ford received some of the best reviews of his career. He became the second of five actors to portray Jack Ryan in two films of the film series based on the literary character created by Tom Clancy: the spy thrillers Patriot Games (Phillip Noyce, 1992) and Clear and Present Danger (Phillip Noyce, 1994). He then played the American president in the blockbuster Air Force One (Wolfgang Petersen, 1997) opposite Gary Oldman. Later his success waned somewhat and his films Random Hearts (Sydney Pollack, 1999) and Six Days Seven Nights (Ivan Reitman, 1998) both disappointed at the box office. However, he did play a few special roles, such as an assassin in the supernatural horror-thriller What Lies Beneath (Robert Zemeckis, 2000) opposite Michele Pfeiffer, and a Russian submarine captain in K-19: The Widowmaker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2002) with Liam Neeson. In 2008, he reprised his role as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg, 2008) with Cate Blanchett. The film received generally positive reviews and was the second highest-grossing film worldwide in 2008. Later Ford accepted more supporting roles, such as in the sports film 42 (Brian Helgeland, 2013) about baseball player Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman), the first black athlete to play in Major League Baseball. Ford reprised the role of Han Solo in the long-awaited Star Wars sequel Star Wars: The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams, 2015), which became massively successful like its predecessors. He also reprised his role as Rick Deckard in Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, 2017), co-starring Ryan Gosling. Harrison Ford has been married three times and has four biological children and one adopted child. From 1964 to 1979, Ford was married to Mary Marquardt, a marriage that produced two children. From 1983 to 2003, he was married to Melissa Mathison, from which marriage two more children were born. In 2010, he married actress Calista Flockhart, famous for her role in the TV series Ally McBeal. He owns a ranch in Jackson Hole (Wyoming). Besides being an actor, Ford is also an experienced pilot. Ford survived three plane crashes of planes he piloted himself. The most recent accident occurred in 2015 when he suffered an engine failure with a Ryan PT-22 Recruit and made an emergency landing on a golf course. Among other injuries, Ford sustained a broken pelvis and ankle from this latest accident. In 2003, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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French postcard by Editions Nugeron, no. Star 206. Photo: Lucasfilm. Publicity still for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg, 1989).

Scottish superstar Sean Connery (1930) won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and also a BAFTA Award. He is best known as the original secret agent 007, starring in seven James Bond films between 1962 and 1983. His film career also includes such notable films as Marnie (1964), The Name of the Rose (1986), The Untouchables (1987), and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989).

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French postcard by Editions Nugeron, no. Star 196. Photo: Lucasfilm Ltd. Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Last Cruisade (Steven Spielberg, 1989).

American film actor Harrison Ford (1942) specialises in roles of cynical, world-weary heroes in popular film series. He played Han Solo in the Star Wars franchise, archaeologist Indiana Jones in a series of four adventure films, Rick Deckard in the Science Fiction films Blade Runner (1982) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017), and secret agent Jack Ryan in the spy thrillers Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994). These film roles have made him one of the most successful stars in Hollywood. In all, his films have grossed about $5.4 billion in the United States and $9.3 billion worldwide.

Harrison Ford was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1942. His parents were former radio actress Dorothy (née Nidelman) and advertising executive and former actor John William "Christopher" Ford. Harrison graduated in 1960 from Maine East High School in Park Ridge, Illinois. His voice was the first student voice broadcast on his high school's new radio station, WMTH, and he was its first sportscaster during his senior year. He attended Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin, where he was a philosophy major and did some acting. After dropping out of college, he first wanted to work as a DJ in radio and left for California to work at a large national radio station. He was unable to find work and, in order to make a living, he accepted a job as a carpenter. Another part-time job was auditioning, where he had to read out lines that the opposing actor would say to an actor auditioning for a particular role. Harrison did this so well that he was advised to take up acting. He was also briefly a roadie for the rock group The Doors. From 1964, Ford regularly played bit roles in films. He was finally credited as "Harrison J. Ford" in the Western A Time for Killing (Phil Karlson, 1967), starring Glenn Ford, George Hamilton, and Inger Stevens. The "J" did not stand for anything since he has no middle name but was added to avoid confusion with a silent film actor named Harrison Ford, who appeared in more than 80 films between 1915 and 1932 and died in 1957. French filmmaker Jacques Demy chose Ford for the lead role of his first American film, Model Shop (1969), but the head of Columbia Pictures thought Ford had "no future" in the film business and told Demy to hire a more experienced actor. The part eventually went to Gary Lockwood. He had an uncredited, non-speaking role in Michelangelo Antonioni's film Zabriskie Point (1970) as an arrested student protester. His first major role was in the coming-of-age comedy American Graffiti (George Lucas, 1973). Ford became friends with the directors George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, and he made a number of films with them. In 1974, he acted in The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) starring Gene Hackman, and played an army officer named "G. Lucas" in Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979, co-produced by George Lucas. Ford made his breakthrough as Han Solo in Lucas's epic space opera Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope (George Lucas, 1977). Star Wars became one of the most successful and groundbreaking films of all time and brought Ford, and his co-stars Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher, widespread recognition. He reprised the role in four sequels over the course of the next 42 years: Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980), Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand, 1983), Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens (J. J. Abrams, 2015), and Star Wars: Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker (J.J. Abrams, 2019).

Harrison Ford also worked with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg on the successful Indiana Jones adventure series playing the heroic, globe-trotting archaeologist Indiana Jones. The series started with the action-adventure film Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981). Like Star Wars, the film was massively successful and became the highest-grossing film of the year. Ford went on to reprise the role throughout the rest of the decade in the prequel Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg, 1984), and the sequel Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg, 1989), which co-starred Sean Connery as Indy's father, Henry Jones Sr. and River Phoenix as young Indiana. In between the successful film series, Ford also played very daring roles in more artistic films. He played the role of a lonely depressed detective in the Sci-Fi film Blade Runner, (Ridley Scott, 1981) opposite Rutger Hauer. While not initially a success, Blade Runner went on to become a cult classic and one of Ford's most highly regarded films. Ford received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for the crime drama Witness (Peter Weir, 1985) with Kelly McGillis, and also starred for Weir as a house-father in the survival drama The Mosquito Coast (Peter Weir, 1986) with River Phoenix as his son. In 1988, he played a desperate man searching for his kidnapped wife in Roman Polanski's Frantic. For his role as a wrongly accused prisoner Dr. Richard Kimble in the action thriller The Fugitive (Andrew Davis, 1993), also starring Tommy Lee Jones, Ford received some of the best reviews of his career. He became the second of five actors to portray Jack Ryan in two films of the film series based on the literary character created by Tom Clancy: the spy thrillers Patriot Games (Phillip Noyce, 1992) and Clear and Present Danger (Phillip Noyce, 1994). He then played the American president in the blockbuster Air Force One (Wolfgang Petersen, 1997) opposite Gary Oldman. Later his success waned somewhat and his films Random Hearts (Sydney Pollack, 1999) and Six Days Seven Nights (Ivan Reitman, 1998) both disappointed at the box office. However, he did play a few special roles, such as an assassin in the supernatural horror-thriller What Lies Beneath (Robert Zemeckis, 2000) opposite Michele Pfeiffer, and a Russian submarine captain in K-19: The Widowmaker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2002) with Liam Neeson. In 2008, he reprised his role as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg, 2008) with Cate Blanchett. The film received generally positive reviews and was the second highest-grossing film worldwide in 2008. Later Ford accepted more supporting roles, such as in the sports film 42 (Brian Helgeland, 2013) about baseball player Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman), the first black athlete to play in Major League Baseball. Ford reprised the role of Han Solo in the long-awaited Star Wars sequel Star Wars: The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams, 2015), which became massively successful like its predecessors. He also reprised his role as Rick Deckard in Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, 2017), co-starring Ryan Gosling. Harrison Ford has been married three times and has four biological children and one adopted child. From 1964 to 1979, Ford was married to Mary Marquardt, a marriage that produced two children. From 1983 to 2003, he was married to Melissa Mathison, from which marriage two more children were born. In 2010, he married actress Calista Flockhart, famous for her role in the TV series Ally McBeal. He owns a ranch in Jackson Hole (Wyoming). Besides being an actor, Ford is also an experienced pilot. Ford survived three plane crashes of planes he piloted himself. The most recent accident occurred in 2015 when he suffered an engine failure with a Ryan PT-22 Recruit and made an emergency landing on a golf course. Among other injuries, Ford sustained a broken pelvis and ankle from this latest accident. In 2003, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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British postcard by Film Posters Merchandising, no. 876. Photo: UCS & Amblin. Publicity still for Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993).

Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park (1993) ranks as one of the most successful Science-Fiction adventure films of all time. The film is based on Michael Crichton's book of the same name and is the first installment in the Jurassic Park franchise, and the first film in the Jurassic Park trilogy. Jurassic Park was a major breakthrough for digital special effects. For the first time, moving animals could be generated entirely by computer. Previously, stop-motion and go-motion techniques were used for this.

The story of Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993) is about billionaire John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) who with the help of a team of genetic scientists, has managed to recreate prehistoric dinosaurs from their DNA. On Isla Nublar, a fictional island off the coast of Costa Rica, he has concocted a wildlife park full of living dinosaurs, Jurassic Park (called after the geological era Jura). After a Velociraptor attacks and kills one of the employees while she is being placed in her enclosure, the investors want to have the park's security checked before the official opening. Hammond wants approval as soon as possible, so persuades paleontologist Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and paleobotanist Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) to spend a weekend in his park. Their mission is to show that everything is okay. The lawyer Donald Gennaro (Martin Ferrero) and the chaos theory expert Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) will also join. Hammond invites them along with his two grandchildren (Joseph Mazzello and Ariana Richards), to join him for a control visit before the official opening of Jurassic Park, but during this control visit things get completely out of hand. Dennis Nedry (Wayne Knight), the park's computer technician, attempts to steal embryos from all the animals in the park for the competing company Biosyn and shuts the critical security systems down. For Hammond and his guests, it now becomes a race for survival with dinosaurs roaming freely over the island.

In October 1989, author Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg had a talk about the screenplay for what would later become the television series ER. In addition, the conversation was also about Crichton's future novel 'Jurassic Park', and Spielberg already had the idea of ​​a film adaptation at that time. With the backing of Universal Studios, Spielberg acquired the rights for $1.5 million before its publication in 1990 The film was produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Gerald R. Molen. Crichton was hired for an additional $500,000 to adapt the novel for the screen. The dinosaurs were created with groundbreaking computer-generated imagery by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) and with life-sized animatronic dinosaurs built by Stan Winston's team. Initially, Spielberg had intended not to release Jurassic Park until after Schindler's List. This order was reversed because the director of the Music Corporation of America (then the parent company of Universal Pictures), Sid Sheinberg, made it a condition of his approval of Schindler's List. Both films were released in 1993. After 25 months of pre-production, filming started on 24 August 1992 on the Hawaiian islands of Kauai and Oahu. Hurricane Iniki made landfall during the shooting on Kauai. Some storm scenes were also recorded during this hurricane. The sound effects that represent the sound of the dinosaurs were made by recordings of rutting and mating animals. Among other things, the Jack Russell terrier of an employee of the film was used for the sound of the Tyrannosaurus. The Velociraptors are completely covered with scales in the film, as during the production of the film it was assumed that they actually looked like this in the past. The current theory that many dinosaurs had feathers was not widely accepted at the time Jurassic Park was published. In the second sequel, Jurassic Park III, the appearance of the raptors has been slightly adapted to this by giving them some feathers on the head.

Jurassic Park won all three Oscars for which the film was nominated: the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing, the Academy Award for Best Sound, and the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. At AllMovie, Brendon Hanley writes: "One of the most influential special effects movies of the early 1990s, Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park helped show the world that the future of cinema was inside a computer. With digital dinosaurs courtesy of George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic, the film helped redefine the summer blockbuster for a new generation." Roher Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times: "Jurassic Park throws a lot of dinosaurs at us, and because they look terrific (and indeed they do), we're supposed to be grateful. I have the uneasy feeling that if Spielberg had made Close Encounters today, we would have seen the aliens in the first 10 minutes, and by the halfway mark they'd be attacking Manhattan with death rays. Because the movie delivers on the bottom line, I'm giving it three stars. You want great dinosaurs, you got great dinosaurs. Spielberg enlivens the action with lots of nice little touches; I especially liked a sequence where a smaller creature leaps suicidally on a larger one, and they battle to the death. On the monster movie level, the movie works and is entertaining. But with its profligate resources, it could have been so much more." Jurassic Park went on to gross over $912 million worldwide in its original theatrical run, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1993 and the highest-grossing film ever at the time, until this title was taken over by Titanic in 1997. Five sequels have been made or are in the works: The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1997), Jurassic Park III (Joe Johnston, 2001), Jurassic World (Colin Trevorrow, 2015), Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (Juan Antonio Bayona, 2018), and Jurassic World: Dominion (Colin Trevorrow, scheduled for a 2022 release). Although Spielberg did not direct the last four films in the series, he always remained involved as a producer. Following its 3D re-release in 2013 to celebrate its 20th anniversary, Jurassic Park became the seventeenth film in history to surpass $1 billion in ticket sales. In 2018, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

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British postcard by Film Posters Merchandising, no. 873. Photo: UCS & Amblin. Publicity still for Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993).

Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park (1993) ranks as one of the most successful Science-Fiction adventure films of all time. The film is based on Michael Crichton's book of the same name and is the first installment in the Jurassic Park franchise, and the first film in the Jurassic Park trilogy. Jurassic Park was a major breakthrough for digital special effects. For the first time, moving animals could be generated entirely by computer. Previously, stop-motion and go-motion techniques were used for this.

The story of Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993) is about billionaire John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) who with the help of a team of genetic scientists, has managed to recreate prehistoric dinosaurs from their DNA. On Isla Nublar, a fictional island off the coast of Costa Rica, he has concocted a wildlife park full of living dinosaurs, Jurassic Park (called after the geological era Jura). After a Velociraptor attacks and kills one of the employees while she is being placed in her enclosure, the investors want to have the park's security checked before the official opening. Hammond wants approval as soon as possible, so persuades paleontologist Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and paleobotanist Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) to spend a weekend in his park. Their mission is to show that everything is okay. The lawyer Donald Gennaro (Martin Ferrero) and the chaos theory expert Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) will also join. Hammond invites them along with his two grandchildren (Joseph Mazzello and Ariana Richards), to join him for a control visit before the official opening of Jurassic Park, but during this control visit things get completely out of hand. Dennis Nedry (Wayne Knight), the park's computer technician, attempts to steal embryos from all the animals in the park for the competing company Biosyn and shuts the critical security systems down. For Hammond and his guests, it now becomes a race for survival with dinosaurs roaming freely over the island.

In October 1989, author Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg had a talk about the screenplay for what would later become the television series ER. In addition, the conversation was also about Crichton's future novel 'Jurassic Park', and Spielberg already had the idea of ​​a film adaptation at that time. With the backing of Universal Studios, Spielberg acquired the rights for $1.5 million before its publication in 1990 The film was produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Gerald R. Molen. Crichton was hired for an additional $500,000 to adapt the novel for the screen. The dinosaurs were created with groundbreaking computer-generated imagery by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) and with life-sized animatronic dinosaurs built by Stan Winston's team. Initially, Spielberg had intended not to release Jurassic Park until after Schindler's List. This order was reversed because the director of the Music Corporation of America (then the parent company of Universal Pictures), Sid Sheinberg, made it a condition of his approval of Schindler's List. Both films were released in 1993. After 25 months of pre-production, filming started on 24 August 1992 on the Hawaiian islands of Kauai and Oahu. Hurricane Iniki made landfall during the shooting on Kauai. Some storm scenes were also recorded during this hurricane. The sound effects that represent the sound of the dinosaurs were made by recordings of rutting and mating animals. Among other things, the Jack Russell terrier of an employee of the film was used for the sound of the Tyrannosaurus. The Velociraptors are completely covered with scales in the film, as during the production of the film it was assumed that they actually looked like this in the past. The current theory that many dinosaurs had feathers was not widely accepted at the time Jurassic Park was published. In the second sequel, Jurassic Park III, the appearance of the raptors has been slightly adapted to this by giving them some feathers on the head.

Jurassic Park won all three Oscars for which the film was nominated: the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing, the Academy Award for Best Sound, and the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. At AllMovie, Brendon Hanley writes: "One of the most influential special effects movies of the early 1990s, Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park helped show the world that the future of cinema was inside a computer. With digital dinosaurs courtesy of George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic, the film helped redefine the summer blockbuster for a new generation." Roher Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times: "Jurassic Park throws a lot of dinosaurs at us, and because they look terrific (and indeed they do), we're supposed to be grateful. I have the uneasy feeling that if Spielberg had made Close Encounters today, we would have seen the aliens in the first 10 minutes, and by the halfway mark they'd be attacking Manhattan with death rays. Because the movie delivers on the bottom line, I'm giving it three stars. You want great dinosaurs, you got great dinosaurs. Spielberg enlivens the action with lots of nice little touches; I especially liked a sequence where a smaller creature leaps suicidally on a larger one, and they battle to the death. On the monster movie level, the movie works and is entertaining. But with its profligate resources, it could have been so much more." Jurassic Park went on to gross over $912 million worldwide in its original theatrical run, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1993 and the highest-grossing film ever at the time, until this title was taken over by Titanic in 1997. Five sequels have been made or are in the works: The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1997), Jurassic Park III (Joe Johnston, 2001), Jurassic World (Colin Trevorrow, 2015), Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (Juan Antonio Bayona, 2018), and Jurassic World: Dominion (Colin Trevorrow, scheduled for a 2022 release). Although Spielberg did not direct the last four films in the series, he always remained involved as a producer. Following its 3D re-release in 2013 to celebrate its 20th anniversary, Jurassic Park became the seventeenth film in history to surpass $1 billion in ticket sales. In 2018, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

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