The Jurassic Series

The five films in the franchise

JURASSIC PARK

Release: 1993, Directed by Steven Spielberg Plot: An attempt to create a science park with cloned dinosaurs goes wrong when the dinosaurs start killing the humans.

Box-office: Hit. Broke box-office records at the time.

THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK

Release: 1997, Directed by Steven Spielberg

Plot: Set four years after the original film, this showed what happens when a group of humans try to capture the cloned dinosaurs who have been roaming free in Isla Sorna and bring them to the mainland.

Box-office: Hit. Had the biggest opening weekend collections in the US at the time, though its overall collections were less than that of the first one.

JURASSIC PARK III

Release: 2011, Directed by Joe Johnston Plot: A divorced couple gets palaeontologist Alan Grant to go back to Isla Sorna to look for their son.

Box-office: Got mixed reviews. The lowest-rated film of the franchise.

JURASSIC WORLD

Release: 2015, Directed by Colin Trevorrow Plot: What happens when two brothers visit the site of the original Jurassic Park where a new theme park named Jurassic World has opened? Box-office: Hit. Highest gross earnings among all Jurassic Park films till then.

JURASSIC WORLD:

THE FALLEN KINGDOM

Release: 2018, Directed by JA Bayona Plot: When a volcano threatens to erupt on the island on which Jurassic World had been built, a campaign starts to save the dinosaurs.

Box Office: Hit