Theatrical
Jurassic Park premiered at the Uptown Theater (Washington, D.C.) on June 9, 1993,[109][110] in support of two children's charities.[111] The film had previews on 1,412 screens starting at 9:30 pm EDT on Thursday, June 10, and officially opened on Friday in 2,404 theater locations and an estimated 3,400 screens.[112][113][114] Following the film's release, a traveling exhibition called "The Dinosaurs of Jurassic Park" began, showcasing dinosaur skeletons and film props.[115] The film began its international release on June 25, in Brazil before further openings in South America and then rolling out around most of the rest of the world from July 16 until October.[116] The United Kingdom premiere helped save the Lyric Theatre in Carmarthen, Wales from closure, an event chronicled in the 2022 film Save the Cinema.[117]
Re-releases
In anticipation of the Blu-ray release, Jurassic Park had a digital print released in UK cinemas on September 23, 2011.[118] It wound up grossing £245,422 ($786,021) from 276 theaters, finishing at eleventh on the weekend box office list.[119]
Poster for the 2013 3D re-releaseTwo years later, on the 20th anniversary of Jurassic Park, a 3D version of the film was released in cinemas.[120] Spielberg declared that he had produced the film with a sort of "subconscious 3D", as scenes feature animals walking toward the cameras and some effects of foreground and background overlay.[121] In 2011, he stated in an interview that Jurassic Park was the only one of his works he had considered for a conversion.[122] Once he saw the 3D version of Titanic in 2012, he liked the new look of the film so much that he hired the same retrofitting company, Stereo D. Spielberg and cinematographer Janusz Kamiński closely supervised the nine-month process in-between the production of Lincoln.[121][123] Stereo D executive Aaron Parry said the conversion was an evolution of what the company had done with Titanic, "being able to capitalize on everything we learned with Jim [James Cameron] on Titanic and take it into a different genre and movie, and one with so many technical achievements". The studio had the help of ILM, which contributed some elements and updated effects shots for a better visual enhancement.[124] It opened in the United States and seven other territories on April 5, 2013,[125] with other countries receiving the re-release over the following six months.[126] In 2018, the film was re-released in select theaters to celebrate its 25th anniversary.[127][128][129] On August 25, 2023, the 3D version of the film was re-released in theaters to celebrate its 30th anniversary.[130]
Home media
Jurassic Park was first released on VHS and LaserDisc on October 4, 1994.[131] With 17 million units sold,[132] Jurassic Park is the fifth-best-selling VHS tape ever.[133] Three years later, a THX certified Widescreen VHS was released on September 9, 1997.[134][135]
The film was also first released as a Collector's Edition DVD and VHS on October 10, 2000, in both Widescreen (1.85:1) and Full Screen (1.33:1) versions, and as part of a box set with the sequel The Lost World: Jurassic Park and both movies' soundtrack albums.[136][137] It was the 13th-best-selling DVD of 2000 counting both versions, finishing the year with 910,000 units sold.[138] Following the release of Jurassic Park III, a new box set with all the films called Jurassic Park Trilogy was released on December 11, 2001.[139] It was repackaged as Jurassic Park Adventure Pack on November 29, 2005.[140]
The trilogy was released on Blu-ray on October 25, 2011,[141] debuting at number five on the Blu-ray charts,[142] and nominated as the best release of the year by both the Las Vegas Film Critics Society[143] and the Saturn Awards.[144] In 2012, Jurassic Park was among twenty-five films chosen by Universal for a box set celebrating the studio's 100th anniversary,[145] while also receiving a standalone 100th anniversary Blu-ray featuring an augmented reality cover.[146] The following year, the 20th anniversary 3D conversion was issued on Blu-ray 3D.[147]
The film, alongside The Lost World, Jurassic Park III and Jurassic World, was released as part of a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray box set on May 22, 2018, in honor of the original film's 25th anniversary.[148]
Television premiere
Jurassic Park was broadcast on television for the first time on May 7, 1995, following the April 26 airing of The Making of Jurassic Park.[149] Some 68.12 million people tuned in, garnering NBC a 36 percent share of all available viewers that night. Jurassic Park was the highest-rated theatrical film broadcast on television by any network since the April 1987 airing of Trading Places.[150] In June–July 1995, the film aired a number of times on the Turner Network Television (TNT) network.[150]
