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A group of scientists crash-land on an island inhabited by dinosaurs.
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Jurassic Park III, following the summer pattern for blockbusters (Shrek excepted), opened big, then dropped like a stone. No wonder. JPIII...
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Return to dino island, where the inhabitants are bigger, badder and smarter than ever. Story Paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) vowed never to return to the now-quarantined Jurassic
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Born and raised in Austin, Texas, Joe Johnston originally intended to become a commercial artist, but a summer job drawing sketches and storyboards for George Lucas' "Star Wars" (1977) altered the
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Dubbed “The Father of the Techno Thriller,” author Michael Crichton first established himself as a physician and lecturer before turning his expertise to books, films and television. Though he penned
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Perhaps the western world's most famous living filmmaker, Steven Spielberg succeeded in combining the intimacy of a personal vision with the epic requirements of the modern commercial blockbuster.
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Certainly one of the most powerful women in contemporary Hollywood, Kathleen Kennedy has been associated with a startling percentage of the top 20 highest grossing American films. In 1984 she
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Writer-director Alexander Payne has shown a remarkably interesting vision with his films, in which the often quirky set-up is merely a seriocomic stage through which to explore human foibles. With
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One of the few actors who comes off as both sexy and grown-up on screen, Sam Neill gravitated slowly to an acting career despite his onstage theatrical experiences following college. Born on September
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