 Jurassic Park became the highest grossing film released worldwide up to that time . Following $ 3 @.@ 1 million from midnight screenings on June 10 , the film earned $ 47 million in its first weekend , with the $ 50 @.@ 1 million total breaking the opening weekend record set by Batman Returns the year before . By the end of its first week , Jurassic Park had grossed $ 81 @.@ 7 million , and stayed at number one for three weeks . It eventually grossed $ 357 million in the U.S. and Canada . Box Office Mojo estimates that the film sold over 86 @.@ 2 million tickets in the US in its initial theatrical run . The film also did very well in international markets , breaking opening records in the United Kingdom , Japan , India , South Korea , Mexico , and Taiwan , ultimately earning $ 914 million worldwide , with Spielberg reportedly making over $ 250 million from the film . It surpassed Spielberg 's own E.T. the Extraterrestrial as the highest grossing film ever worldwide , and became second to E.T. in North America earnings . Jurassic Park 's record was only surpassed in 1998 by Titanic , the first film to gross over $ 1 billion . 
