<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $63 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $1.029 billion </Td> </Tr> <P> Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science - fiction adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Gerald R. Molen . The first installment in the Jurassic Park franchise, it is based on the 1990 novel of the same name by Michael Crichton and a screenplay written by Crichton and David Koepp . The film is set on the fictional island of Isla Nublar, located off Central America's Pacific Coast near Costa Rica, where billionaire philanthropist John Hammond and a small team of genetic scientists have created a wildlife park of cloned dinosaurs . When industrial sabotage leads to a catastrophic shutdown of the park's power facilities and security precautions, a small group of visitors, along with Hammond's grandchildren, struggle to survive and escape the perilous island . </P> <P> Before Crichton's novel was published, four studios put in bids for its film rights . With the backing of Universal Studios, Spielberg acquired the rights for $1.5 million before its publication in 1990; Crichton was hired for an additional $500,000 to adapt the novel for the screen . Koepp wrote the final draft, which left out much of the novel's exposition and violence and made numerous changes to the characters . Filming took place in California and Hawaii between August and November 1992, and post-production rolled until May 1993, supervised by Spielberg in Poland as he filmed Schindler's List . </P>

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