Jurassic Park is, hands down, one of the most popular franchises in the history of cinema. With its movies, TV shows, and many other productions that have been released over the last 30 years, the franchise has built a huge fan base spanning all ages that continues to grow to this day. This film franchise kicked off in 1993 with the premiere of Jurassic Park, a movie directed by Steven Spielberg that, at the time, became the highest-grossing film ever. This production, that introduced a theme park of cloned dinosaurs set up by a multi-millionaire, was based on Michael Crichton's novel of the same name. Jurassic Park was highly innovative in terms of technology and special effects, and won, among many, many other awards, three Oscars for Best Sound Effects Editing, Best Sound, and Best Visual Effects.
The film became the first installment of a trilogy that wrapped up in 2001, and, 14 years later, came the premiere of the franchise's second trilogy, Jurassic World. The latest film released so far is 2022's Jurassic World: Dominion, but new films are not ruled out in the future (per TOR). Apart from the two trilogies, over the years the franchise has also released TV series, short films, video games, and even comic books inspired by the characters and their adventures. One of its most famous TV productions to date was Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, a Netflix animated show that aired for five seasons. Still, the franchise's forte are definitely its movies, all of which earned phenomenal profits at the box office. Check out all of Jurassic Park and Jurassic World movies, ranked by box office gross.
6 Jurassic Park III — $368.8M
With a worldwide gross of $368.8 million, Jurassic Park III ranked as the lowest-grossing film of the original trilogy and the franchise as a whole. This time around, the film was not directed by Spielberg but by Joe Johnston, with Spielberg serving as executive producer. It was also the first film in the franchise that was not based on a book by Michael Crichton. Jurassic Park III saw the return of two stars who had not been involved in the second installment, but participated in the original film: Sam Neill and Laura Dern. The cast also included William H. Macy, Téa Leoni, Alessandro Nivola, Trevor Morgan, and Michael Jeter, among others.
A few years have passed since the disaster on Isla Nublar, and Dr. Alan Grant is now struggling to find investors for his Velociraptor research. Suddenly, a divorced couple offers him lots of money in exchange for an aerial tour of Isla Sorna, and considering his lack of funds for the research, he decides to take it. What Grant is unaware of is that the offer is not exactly as proposed: the couple's real plan is to land on the island and persuade the paleontologist to help them look for their son who got lost in it. But this mission will not be that easy, since, besides finding the boy, the group must evade the attacks of different dinosaurs if they wish to get out of the island alive.
5 The Lost World: Jurassic Park — $618.6M
Due to the overwhelming success of Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton set to work on a sequel to his novel called The Lost World. This book was adapted to the silver screen in 1997 under Spielberg's direction and became the franchise's second installment. The Lost World: Jurassic Park is set four years after all the events of the first film, and, once again, features John Hammond who, thwarted by the failure of his park on Isla Nublar, sends chaotician Ian Malcolm along with a team to Isla Sorna, to study the dinosaurs that are left behind and explore the possibility of opening another park to save InGen from bankruptcy.
In this production, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Joseph Mazzello, and Ariana Richards reprise their roles from the first movie, alongside Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, Arliss Howard, Vince Vaughn, and Vanessa Lee Chester. The Lost World: Jurassic Park was one of the most eagerly awaited films of 1997, but unfortunately did not live up to its predecessor in terms of popularity. It did garner a few nominations, including an Oscar nomination for Best Visual Effects, but lost to Titanic. This film grossed $618.6 million worldwide.
4 Jurassic World Dominion — $1.003B
2022's Jurassic World Dominion is, so far, the latest installment of the Jurassic Park franchise. It also features Sam Neill and Laura Dern reprising their roles, along with Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jeff Goldblum, DeWanda Wise, Mamoudou Athie, BD Wong, and Omar Sy. Dern, among others. With Colin Trevorrow returning as director, Jurassic World Dominion introduces a world in which humans and dinosaurs now coexist peacefully, just four years after the volcanic eruption on Isla Nublar.
Two storylines converge in this film: Owen Grady and Claire Dearing as they travel to Malta to rescue Maisie Lockwood and their Velociraptor Beta, and Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler, who reconnect with Ian Malcom to expose a corporation known as Biosyn. Despite unfavorable reviews, Jurassic World Dominion proved to be a box office success, reaping a worldwide gross of $1.003 billion.
3 Jurassic Park — $1.1B
Back in 1990, and before Crichton's novel Jurassic Park was even published, several studios competed for the rights to make it into a movie. Eventually, the writer accepted Spielberg and Universal Studios' offer, who also offered him to take part in the film as screenwriter. And so, 1993 saw the release of one of the greatest movie classics of all time: Jurassic Park. This science fiction film stars Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Bob Peck, Martin Ferrero, B.D. Wong, Joseph Mazzello, Ariana Richards, and Samuel L. Jackson, among other actors, and it also marked the beginning of the franchise's first trilogy.
Jurassic Park introduces John Hammond, a multimillionaire businessman, who realizes his lifelong dream: to build a theme park populated by de-extinct dinosaurs. Prior to its opening on Isla Nublar, Hammond invites scientists, investors, and his own grandchildren to the park to prove that it is completely risk-free and get the safety certification needed to open. But a boycott by an internal employee leads to the failure of all safety systems, exposing this group of visitors to the dinosaurs as a severe storm hits the island. The dinosaurs featured in the film were created using a combination of CGI and life-size animatronic figures, something that brought great acclaim to the production. Considering revenues from the film's initial release in 1993, and the re-release in 3D in 2013, Jurassic Park grossed $1.1 billion worldwide.
2 Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom — $1.310B
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom represents the fifth installment of the franchise, and it was directed by J. A. Bayona. This production, which carries on the Jurassic World trilogy, stars Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, BD Wong, and Jeff Goldblum reprising their roles from previous films and incorporates Toby Jones, Ted Levine, Rafe Spall, Justice Smith and Daniella Pineda to the cast.
A few years have passed since Jurassic World was destroyed, and Isla Nublar is now populated solely by the surviving dinosaurs, who are no longer controlled by humans. But when Owen Grady and Claire Dearing learn that a volcano on the site is about to erupt, they set out on a mission to go back to the island and rescue the remaining dinosaurs, risking their own lives with it. This 2018 film grossed $1,310 billion worldwide.
1 Jurassic World — $1.672B
Coming in at the top of the list with a worldwide gross of $1.672 billion is Jurassic World, a film that upon its release became the third highest-grossing film of all time. In 2015, this highly acclaimed production turned into the fourth movie of the franchise and kicked off its second trilogy. The director in charge this time around was Colin Trevorrow, who also worked on the screenplay along with Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver and Derek Connolly. Jurassic World stars Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Vincent D'Onofrio, Ty Simpkins, Nick Robinson, Omar Sy, BD Wong, and Irrfan Khan.
Set 22 years after the events that took place in Jurassic Park, the movie takes the audience back to Isla Nublar, where a wildly successful dinosaur theme park, just like the one Hammond had dreamed of, has been running for several years. Since people are getting tired of watching the same creatures over and over again, the park's management commissions the creation of a transgenic dinosaur that is set to become the highlight of the site. Unfortunately, this dangerous animal escapes from its compound, endangering a new group of characters who will struggle to get out of the park alive.