Although the films primarily take place on islands, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) sees the dinosaurs relocated throughout the world, including the U.S. The process is accomplished by extracting ancient DNA from mosquitoes, which sucked the blood of dinosaurs and then became fossilized in amber, preserving the DNA. The dinosaurs, created as theme park attractions, are cloned through genetic engineering. The Jurassic Park franchise focuses on resurrected dinosaurs which wreak havoc on humans.
The movie was successful, becoming the first film to gross over $500 million worldwide in its opening weekend, and grossed over $1.6 billion through the course of its theatrical run, making it the third highest-grossing film at the time.
In 2015, a second trilogy of films began with the fourth film in the series, Jurassic World. Subsequent films in the series, including Jurassic Park III (2001), are not based on the novels. A 1995 sequel novel, The Lost World, was followed by a film adaptation in 1997. The film received a theatrical 3D re-release in 2013, and was selected in 2018 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The book was successful, as was Steven Spielberg's 1993 film adaptation. It began in 1990 when Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment bought the rights to Michael Crichton's novel Jurassic Park before it was published. Jurassic Park, later also referred to as Jurassic World, is an American science fiction media franchise centered on a disastrous attempt to create a theme park of cloned dinosaurs.