- Title: USA: "THE LOST WORLD", THE SEQUEL TO "JURASSIC PARK" PREMIERES IN THE U.S.
- Date: 10th May 1997
- Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (MAY 10, 1997) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) JEFF GOLDBLUM SAYING (SOUNDBITE ENGLISH) IT'S A LEAP FORWARD, ISN'T IT? YOU SEE MORE DINOSAURS, THEY'RE JUST AMAZING LOOKING, EVEN MORE REAL, YEAH. THE ONES THAT WERE ON SET, YOU KNOW, HALF OF THEM WERE COMPUTER-GENERATED LATER AND HALF OF THEM WERE ON THE SET THAT STAN WINSTON AND HIS OSCAR-WINNNI
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- Location: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES/ VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS
- Country: USA
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- Story Text: Dinosaurs ruled Los Angeles on Monday (May 19) night when The Lost World: Jurassic Park' had its premiere.
The Universal City Cineplex Odeon's CityWalk entrance was decked out with "Lost World" jungle props, including the new Mercedes M Class SUV featured in the film, enhanced by the ominous sounds of approaching thunder lizards.
Cast members arriving for the screening included Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, Vince Vaughn, Arliss Howard, Vanessa Lee Chester, Richard Schiff, Thomas Duffy and Ariana Richards.
Goldblum described the dinosaurs in the new film as a leap forward' in cinematic effects. "They're amazing. It made it easier because they are more real looking and when you're acting with them they're doing sophisticated and real things." Moore said people were interested in dinosaurs because they were surrounded by a certain mystique. "We don't know what they were precisely. We can go based on the skeletons and what we know about musculature. We sort of know what they are, then on the other hand, they were very real...it lends itself to a real facination," she said.
One of the cast's younger members, Vanessa Lee Chester summed up the appeal of dinosaurs to children: "No human in the 20th century has ever encountered one and I think just the fact that these dinosaurs being in the same picture as humans is like..whoa(." It's been four years since the disaster at John Hammond's Jurassic Park. Now Doctor Ian Malcolm, the unconventional mathematician played by Goldblum, comes upon the startling realization that, indeed, something has survived.
Directed by Steven Spielberg, "The Lost World" is the sequel to "Jurassic Park," one of the most popular and biggest box office hits in history. It's based on the best-selling novel by Michael Crichton, who also wrote the "Jurassic Park" novel on which the first film was based.
"Jurassic Park" is the all-time boxoffice leader with worldwide ticket sales of more than 916 million dollars since its release in 1993. The film continued to break records when it was released on home video, where it holds the title of top-selling live-action motion picture.
In this new film, Goldblum reprises his role as the principal proponent of the chaos theory, while Sir Richard Attenborough makes a cameo appearance as the ambitious entrepreneur, John Hammond.
The story is set in motion when a British family on a pleasure cruise stumble across a small island off the coast of Costa Rica where dinosaurs are living and breeding in the wild.
This island is the home of a former genetic laboratory where experiments and cloning attempts not suited for public exhibition were conducted by scietists employed by the company Ingen, owned by John Hammond.
Several years after the tragedy at Hammond's theme park "Jurassic Park" on a neighboring island, a hurricane has destroyed all semblance of order, and Hammond's mercenary nephew Peter Ludlow has taken over the company and set in motion plans to exploit the dinosaurs still alive there.
Before he can do that, Hammond sends a team to the island to record the creatures and document their existence.
He recruits Malcolm to lead the team and Malcolm's new girlfriend Doctor Sarah Harding (Julianne Moore) to provide her scientific expertise.
Also in the team are wildlife documentarian Nick Van Owen, played by Vince Vaughn and Malcolm's adopted daughter Kelly, played by Vanessa Lee Chester, who accidentally stowes away on the mission.
Director Steven Spielberg said that when making the film he kept its future audience in mind. The audience comes first, even before me. I have my own secret desires, I might make another kind of movie to express those, but really I think of the audience when I think of a "Jurassic Park." Goldblum described Spielberg's desire to please the audience as a passionate responsibility to meet and exceed their expectations.' Audiences expecting to be impressed may not be dissapointed, for in many ways, "The Lost World" is even bigger than its predecessor. There are 44 creatures in this film, some created by computer, and many were constructed to scale on the film's set.
Nine different species of dinosaur are represented, whereas there were only five in the first. The artists at the special effects house Industrial Light and Magic created 52 effects shots for "Jurassic Park" and 85 for the sequel.
The lifesize model of the T-Rex weighs 9 tons and was so big that the film crew were forced to build the different sets around him.
The 74 million U.S. dollar feature opens throughout the United States on Friday, May 23. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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