LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — Michael Crichton, who helped create the TV show “ER” and wrote the best-sellers “Jurassic Park,” “The Andromeda Strain,” “Sphere” and “Rising Sun,” has died in Los Angeles, his public relations firm said in a news release.
Michael Crichton, here in 2005, was a director and best-selling author. He co-created the TV series “ER.”
Crichton died unexpectedly Tuesday “after a courageous and private battle against cancer,” the release said.
He was 66... Read Full Story
I remember a time when you would go to a junket for a
movie and find out little stories about that movie. These days, though, it seems
that they just serve to springboard a mostly unrelated project to the
forefront.
Producers
Frank Marshall and
Kathleen
Kennedy recently talked to
Coming Soon
about their brand new film in theaters this month called
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button , but the
headline seems to be another
Jurassic Park movie, as in, there won't be another... Read Full Story
Jurassic Park is a 1990 science fiction novel written by Michael Crichton. Often considered a cautionary tale on unconsidered biological tinkering in the same spirit as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein , it uses the mathematical concept of chaos theory and its philosophical implications to explain the collapse of an amusement park showcasing certain genetically recreated dinosaurspecies. It was adapted into a blockbuster film in 1993 by director Steven Spielberg. Read Full Story
Jurassic Park IV ? Don't count it out yet, I guess.
Director Joe Johnston , brought in by Universal to take over The Wolfman from Mark Romanek, helmed the third and least appealing Jurassic Park about a decade ago, and he tells Ain't It Cool News he would consider answering the bell again. Unless I missed something this year, the producers of the trilogy have not warmed to the idea yet, so this could be hypothetical.
"There is a great story for the fourth one that I would be interested... Read Full Story
The Dinosaurs will soon be rushing on big screen. The Jurassic Park IV: The Extinction is expected to be released this year 2008 . Of course the dinosaurs are still there but they will no longer terrorize the jungle. In the fourth sequel of the Jurassic Park the dinosaurs will be seen on city. Does this movie looks like the Godzilla movie or the King Kong who will destroy each buildings or houses that will block their way? Laura Dem is still be on this movie as Dr. Ellie Satler. William... Read Full Story
Hasbro just announced today that they were set on developing a new line for their Jurassic Park toyline. Plans to re-unleash the legendary dinosaurs from Universal Pictures’ Jurassic Park . This fall, under a licensing agreement with Universal Partnerships & Licensing, Hasbro plans to launch a new action figure line based on the film’s prehistoric predators exclusively at Toys”R”Us stores across the country.
“Jurassic Park is one of the most successful film franchises of all time and has... Read Full Story
Just days after I wrote about how there should be some consideration on bringing back Jurassic Park there lands some news on Steven Spielberg and Michael Crichton.
According to USA Today , Spielberg is currently putting together a film based on the novel Pirate Latitudes from the late author, Michael Crichton. Back in April it was annouced that Crichton had 2 books that were to be published posthumously as well as receive film options. Pirate Latitudes was finished and the other, a... Read Full Story
dinosaur
A massive hoard of fossilised eggs found in India, being hailed as a “Jurassic treasure trove” could help explain the mystery of how the dinosaurs became extinct, scientists believe.
Geologists uncovered hundreds of clusters of the football-sized eggs by chance while investigating the site of an ancient riverbed in the state of Tamil Nadu.
The eggs, estimated to be 65 million years old, were found in layers suggesting that it was a major nesting site for leaf-eating sauropod... Read Full Story
urassic Park is a 1993 science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. The film centers on the fictional island of Isla Nublar, where scientists have created an amusement park of cloned dinosaurs. John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) invites a group of scientists, played by Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern, to inspect the park prior to its public opening. Sabotage sets the dinosaurs loose, and the technicians and visitors... Read Full Story
Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs is directed by Carlos Saldanha and produced by 20th Century Fox (Fox Star Studios India). The credit for ventriloquism(Voices) of Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs goes to Queen Latifah - Ellie, (Voices) Ray Romano, Manny and others. This movie was released in July 09 and comes in animation genre. Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs synopsis : Looks like we have quite an audience waiting for the multiplex-producers strike to get over soon! And leaving aside the regular... Read Full Story
