Jurassic World

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Jurassic World
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Colin Trevorrow
Produced by	Frank Marshall Patrick Crowley
Screenplay by	Derek Connolly Colin Trevorrow Rick Jaffa Amanda Silver
Story by	Rick Jaffa Amanda Silver
Based on	Characters by Michael Crichton
Starring	Chris Pratt Bryce Dallas Howard Vincent D'Onofrio Ty Simpkins Nick Robinson Omar Sy B. D. Wong Irrfan Khan
Music by	Michael Giacchino
Cinematography	John Schwartzman
Edited by	Kevin Stitt
Production companies	Amblin Entertainment[1] Legendary Pictures[1]
Distributed by	Universal Pictures[1]
Release date	May 29, 2015(Le Grand Rex) June 12, 2015(United States)
Running time	124 minutes[2]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$150 million (gross)[3] $129.3 million (net)[4]
Box office	$1.672 billion[3]

Jurassic World is a 2015 American science fiction adventure film, the first film in the sequel trilogy and the fourth installment of the Jurassic Parkseries. The film was directed and co-written by Colin Trevorrow, produced by Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowley, and stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard. The production companies were Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, also responsible for the rest of the Jurassic Parkfranchise, and Thomas Tull's Legendary Pictures. Set 22 years after the events of Jurassic Park, Jurassic World takes place on the same fictional Central American island of Isla Nublar, off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, where a theme park populated with cloned dinosaurs has operated for ten years. The park plunges into chaos when a genetically created dinosaur breaks loose and goes on a rampage across the island.

Universal Pictures intended to begin production on a fourth Jurassic Park film in 2004 for a summer 2005 release, but the film entered over a decade of development hell while the script went through revisions. Following a suggestion from Spielberg, writers Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silverexplored the idea of a functional dinosaur park. Once Trevorrow was hired as director in 2013, he followed the same idea while developing a whole new script with Derek Connolly. Principal photography rolled from April to August 2014, primarily in Louisiana while also using the original Jurassic Park filming locations in Hawaii. Again the dinosaurs were created through computer-generated imagery by Industrial Light & Magic and life-sized animatronics by Legacy Effects, a company created by the alumni of Jurassic Park veteran Stan Winston.

Jurassic World was completed on May 10, 2015,^[5] and was released in over 60 countries beginning on June 10, 2015. After a record-breaking opening weekend during which it grossed $500 million worldwide, Jurassic World generated a total of $1.6 billion in box office revenue, standing as the fourth highest-grossing film of all time without inflation adjustment, as well as the second highest-grossing film of 2015 and the highest-grossing film in the franchise. It also displaced Illumination Entertainment's Despicable Me 2 (2013) as the highest-grossing film released by Universal Pictures (based on original domestic release). A sequel, titled Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, is scheduled to be released on June 7, 2018, in the United Kingdom, and on June 22, 2018, in the United States.