PRODUCTION BEGINS ON UNIVERSAL PICTURES' AND
AMBLIN ENTERTAINMENT'S JURASSIC PARK III


    Universal City, California, September 8, 2000...Principal photography
has commenced on Universal Pictures' and Amblin Entertainment's Jurassic
ParkIII, the third installment in the studio's most successful film
franchise ever.  Jurassic Park III is scheduled to be released July 18,
2001.

    Joe Johnston (October Sky, Jumanji) will direct, with Kathleen Kennedy
and Larry Franco producing.  Steven Spielberg will serve as executive
producer.  The screenplay was written by Peter Buchman, based on characters
created by Michael Crichton, and Stan Winston and the Oscar-winning visual
effects wizards at Industrial Light & Magic will once again create amazing
dinosaur effects, including new and even more astonishing creatures.

    Sam Neill returns in the role of Dr. Alan Grant, which he originated
inJurassic Park, and is joined by William H. Macy (Fargo), Tea Leoni (The
Family Man), Alessandro Nivola (Love's Labour Lost), Michael Jeter (The
Green Mile) and Trevor Morgan (The Patriot).  The production will begin
shooting on locations in Hawaii, including an Army base in Oahu and the
Wailua River in Kauai. and continue on locations in Southern California and
on sound stages on the Universal lot.

    Jurassic Park III will continue the series begun in 1993's Jurassic Park
and its 1997 sequel The Lost World: Jurassic Park.  The first two Jurassic
Park films have generated more than $1.5 billion in combined worldwide box
office revenue.  Based on Michael Crichton's best-selling novel, Jurassic
Park was directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Michael Crichton
and David Koepp.  Released in 1993, the film grossed $913,000,000 worldwide.

    The 1997 sequel, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, was also directed by
Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by David Koepp, based upon Michael
Crichton's novel The Lost World.  Its four day Memorial Day weekend gross of
$90.4 million remains the biggest opening in movie history, and the film
went on to gross more than $600,000,000 worldwide.

    Universal Pictures is part of Universal Studios
(www.universalstudios.com), a unit of The Seagram Company Ltd., a global
entertainment and beveragecompany.

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