- Title: USA: FILM PREMIERE OF 'JURASSIC PARK 3'
- Date: 28th June 2001
- Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (JULY 16) (REUTERS) ZOOM OUT TO GUESTS ARRIVING FOR PREMIERE ZOOM IN DIRECTOR JOE JOHNSTON SPEAKING WITH REPORTERS CU CREATOR OF LIVE ACTION DINOSAURS STAN WINSTON SPEAKING WITH REPORTERS SVS SAM NEILL, TEA LEONI AND HUSBAND DAVID DUCHOVNY SPEAKING WITH REPORTERS (2 SHOTS) TV PAN WILLIAM H. MACY AND ALESSANDRO NIVOLA SPEAKING WITH REPORTERS (SOUNDBITE) (English) TEA LEONI RESPONDING TO MOST EXCITING PART OF MAKING MOVIE SAYING: "I would say working with Joe Johnston, this director. After I saw "October Sky" I really did want to work with Joe. I was surprised that it came in this venue. And Sam Neill and Bill Macy have always been on a very short dream list." (SOUNDBITE) (English) SAM NEILL SAYING: "Probably the most exciting thing was working with Tea Leoni who is easily the sexiest woman in the modern cinema". (SOUNDBITE) (English) WILLIAM H. MACY RESPONDING TO MOST EXCITING PART OF MAKING MOVIE SAYING: "It was watching all this technology come together to tell a story. I'm a bit of a gear head so I just love that stuff." (SOUNDBITE) (English) TREVOR MORGAN SAYING: "I'm mean getting to work with Sam Neill, William H. Macy, Tea Leoni and then Joe Johnston, our director, who did a phenomenal job. It was all a great experience. I'm still taking it in. It was a dream come true." (SOUNDBITE) (English) TEA LEONI SAYING: "This movie absolutely does stand on it's own. I mean in the other films I think probably, two points, that the other cast of characters were really on an adventure or joyride or sort of a fun hunt. We're not. We're out there on a real mission. And as a mother I loved this. I loved playing this. I wanted to be a mom who doesn't know how to kick ass but really intends to." TV SAM NEILL TALKING TO REPORTERS CU JURASSIC PARK BANNER ZOOM OUT TO TREVOR MORGAN SPEAKING WITH REPORTER VARIOUS OF ROB LOWE AND WIFE WALKING RED CARPET
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- Location: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES AND FILM LOCATIONS
- Country: USA
- Reuters ID: LVA56455QS3YV5W7AC16S70POPHC
- Story Text: With the series creator Steven Spielberg taking a back seat this time, the cast and crew of the new action/adventure "Jurassic Park 3" attended the film's World Premiere on Monday, July 16 in Los Angeles. Sam Neill, William H. Macy and Tea Leoni were among the stars.
When Steven Spielberg's "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" opened with a 92 million dollar weekend and went on to earn almost 230 million dollars in the U.S. alone in 1997, another sequel in the series about cloned dinosaurs running amok on an island off the coast of Costa Rica seemed inevitable. But Steven Spielberg himself was determined not to direct it.
Instead, he phoned an old friend and collaborator named Joe Johnston and asked him to sit in the director's chair.
Spielberg and Johnston started their professional relationship back in 1981 when Johnston acted as visual effects art director on Spielberg's classic "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
Johnston went on to direct the films "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids," "Jumanji" and, most recently, "October Sky."
Johnston actually approached Spielberg in 1993 after seeing the first "Jurassic Park" and offered to direct the sequel. Seven years later, Spielberg finally made the offer.
Sam Neill returns in this third instalment, again playing the world renowned palaeontologist Dr. Alan Grant, the character who survived the first film. Grant is hired by a wealthy couple played by William H. Macy and Tea Leoni to fly over the island on a chartered flight. But soon, the plane is crash landing and Grant finds out they're real motivation for the trip is to rescue their young son, who was lost in the vicinity eight weeks earlier.
Also along for the ride are Grant's protégé, played by Alessandro Nivola, a hired mercenary played by Michael Jeter, and the young boy they're trying to rescue, played by newcomer Trevor Morgan. One of the co-stars from the first film, Laura Dern, returns in a small but crucial cameo appearance as Grant's former colleague Ellie Sattler.
There are also new characters amongst the dinosaur ranks as well. Two of the most notable are the Spinosaurus, which is an even bigger and more fierce predator than the T-Rexes in the previous films, and the Pteranodon, a fictional flying reptile based on the ancient creature called a Pterosaur. The Velocoraptors are also back, this time with even more heightened intelligence and cunning and even an ability to communicate with each other.
Another crucial member of the "Jurassic Park 3" team is creature creator Stan Winston, who previously designed and built the live action dinosaurs for the first two films, as well as creatures for movies ranging from "Aliens" and "Batman Returns" to "Terminator 2" and "Edward Scissorhands." This time out, he wanted to make his robotic creations even more real and capable of "acting" opposite their human counterparts in several key scenes.
Once again, as in the first two films, the filmmakers mixed Winston's on-set robotic creations, animated by a team of puppeteers, with cutting-edge computer generated imagery rendered by the leading effects house Industrial Light and Magic.
"Jurassic Park 3" opens in theatres throughout the United States on Wednesday, July 18. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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