Jurassic Park 3D Hits No. 1 Overseas, Shatters Box Offices
Steven Spielberg's classic dinosaur epic, Jurassic Park was released in 3D and smashed international box offices this past weekend.
The 1993 film was no. 1 overseas, and earned over $30 million in 11 different countries, reported the Christian Science Monitor. That total brought it to the worldwide mark of $90 million.
There are eight more countries expected to get the movie with China, Bolivia, Mexico, Panama, Spain, Ireland, U.K., and Trinidad already showing.
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When Jurassic Park was originally released, the film made $970 million worldwide and was the highest-grossing film of all time up until that point.
The two sequels, The Lost World in 1997 and Jurassic Park 3 in 2001, have grossed over $1.9 billion.
The film stars Sam Neil, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum, and was written by Michael Crichton.
The premise of the movie follows a group of scientists as they head over to an amusement park zoo comprised primarily of gene-cloned dinosaurs that were reconstructed using DNA found in bones and amber.
The island's creator dreamed of a dinosaur utopia but got more than he bargained for when a series of power failures and events turn the dinosaurs loose on the people of the island.
At the time of the film's creation it had some of the most advanced CGI and robotics ever used in film.
