The profits from Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park, the president was told, equaled those from the export of 60, 000 Hyundai cars.
Movie stars still had their place in the new blockbuster era, at least for a period of time, but Jurassic Park cemented the idea that you could have a massively successful movie without any actual movie stars.
FORBES: The Box Office Legacy Of 'Jurassic Park,' 20 Years Later
She worked on the Jurassic Park and Back to the Future franchises and co-founded Amblin Entertainment with Steven Spielberg.
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For more than a moment on Monday, Blackpool's Winter Gardens looked more like the setting for Jurassic Park III than the Labour party conference.
Monstrously profitable productions such as Jurassic Park really are the stuff of Hollywood.
The top-down view of the canyon looks like something from the set of Jurassic Park, with cliffs that jut out into the Pacific Ocean.
In a publishing career that spanned more than 40 years, Mr. Crichton produced bestsellers such as "Jurassic Park" and "The Andromeda Strain, " and sold more than 200 million copies of his books.
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In the end, Jurassic Park and its box office successes 20 years ago represented things to be admired about the modern movie-going experience as well as premonitions of the doom to come.
FORBES: The Box Office Legacy Of 'Jurassic Park,' 20 Years Later
The idea that audiences walked into Jurassic Park mostly unaware of its quality is one that resonates in the current age of long-lead review embargoes and spoilers included as marketing tools.
FORBES: The Box Office Legacy Of 'Jurassic Park,' 20 Years Later
Andrews himself identified dozens of fossils of new dinosaur and other species, including the Velociraptor, the terrifying meat-eater made famous by the film Jurassic Park.
The 12ft long creature, similar to the Velociraptor created for the film Jurassic Park, was equipped with murderous claws, razor sharp teeth and unusually long hindlegs.
Craig Venter, who mapped the genome back in 1995, talked about his latest project: ushering in the "Jurassic Park" era of combinatorial genomics, where scientists will create life by typing out DNA. He predicts his team will be able to produce a single-cell eurkaryote--and eventually gasoline--in the lab from cellular building blocks within ten years.
The effort, echoing "Jurassic Park", won't bring back dinosaurs -- their DNA didn't survive the tens of millions of years since they disappeared -- but aims to " de-extinct" such species as the passenger pigeon, declared extinct in 1914.
The long awaited Jurassic Park 4 will be directed by little-known director Colin Trevorrow, Universal Pictures has said.
"After losing to the spinosaurus in Jurassic Park III and now to a gorilla, it would seem that T. rex has lost most of it's 'rexness, '" says Horner.
Jurassic Park is perhaps a defining example of the perfect combination of newfangled and old-school blockbuster film-making.
FORBES: The Box Office Legacy Of 'Jurassic Park,' 20 Years Later
The only other major new release was the 3D reissue of Jurassic Park.
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Meanwhile, speaking to 5 live on Monday, Binoche told the BBC's Colin Paterson she had turned down director Steven Spielberg for three films - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Jurassic Park and Schindler's List.
More than 20 species have been successfully cloned, and there is now talk in some conservation circles of a veritable Jurassic Park-effect becoming essential, as the rate of species extinctions exceeds anything biologists even a generation ago could have imagined.
About 300 people gathered in Swanage to oppose the Navitus Bay Wind Park which could see 218 wind turbines built off the Jurassic Coast.
But with Time Warner (Batman Forever, Bridges of Madison County) and MCA (Jurassic Park) behind it, Toshiba is looking the likely winner.
Glass can also be compared to another technology breakthrough 20 years ago, Andreessen said: the 3D graphics technology used in the Steven Spielberg film, Jurassic Park.
Spielberg announced in 2011 that Jurassic Park 4 was in development, much to the delight of fans who will have waited 13 years when the fourth film hits the big screen.
He won a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, has two honorary degrees, inspired a character in "Jurassic Park" and is curator of paleontology for the largest Tyrannosaurus rex collection in the world.
Besides the LJMs, Fastow also discussed financial mechanisms called Raptors--curiously sharing a name with the ruthless, carnivorous beasts of Jurassic Park.
Instead of scientists' re-creating the world of dinosaurs as in Jurassic Park, this tale's mad scientist and colleagues invent technology to transport people to other periods of time.
Instead, to the applause of the U.S. Treasury Department, the IMF and other advisers with Jurassic Park mentalities, Brazil cobbled together a program resembling a pretzel designed by someone on LSD.
Softimage: This was software for the movie industry that powered films such as Jurassic Park and Titanic.
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