The fourth film, Jurassic World, was initially scheduled to be released in 2005, but was delayed numerous times and was ultimately released in June 2015. As of 2000, the franchise had generated $5 billion in revenue, making it one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time. Numerous video games and comic books based on the franchise have been created since the release of the 1993 film, and several water rides have been opened at various Universal Studios theme parks. Subsequent films in the series, including Jurassic Park III (2001), are not based on the novels. The film received a theatrical 3D re-release in 2013, and was selected in 2018 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being 'culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant'.Ī 1995 sequel novel, The Lost World, was followed by a film adaptation in 1997. The book was successful, as was Steven Spielberg's 1993 film adaptation. It began in 1990 when Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment bought the rights to the novel by Michael Crichton before it was published. Jurassic Park, later also referred to as Jurassic World, is an American science fiction media franchise centered on a disastrous attempt to create a theme park of cloned dinosaurs.
