Return to the Lost World
Return to the Lost World is a 1992 film directed by Timothy Bond and starring John Rhys- Davies, Eric McCormack, David Warner, Nathania Stanford, Darren Peter Mercer, and Tamara Gorski.
It is a sequel to the film" The Lost World", which was released the same year.
Harry O. Hoyt
Harry O. Hoyt( August 6, 1885 – July 29, 1961) was an American screenwriter and film director whose film career began in 1912, during the silent era.
He graduated with a degree in literature from Yale University in 1910.
His 1925 film" The Lost World", based on the book by Arthur Conan Doyle, is notable as a pioneering effort in the use of stop- motion animation.
His brother, actor Arthur Hoyt, also appeared in" The Lost World".
In November 1912, he married the former Florence Stark in Norwich, Connecticut.
Together they had a son, Devereux Gerrard Hoyt, and daughter Daryl Hoyt.
Anselmo Duarte
Anselmo Duarte( April 21, 1920 – November 7, 2009) was a Brazilian actor, screenwriter and film director.
His film" O Pagador de Promessas"( 1962)( also" The Given Word" and" The Keeper of Promises") won the Golden Palm at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival, becoming, to date, the only Brazilian feature film to be so distinguished and the first Cannes' Southern Hemisphere Golden Palm for best feature film.
The film was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
In 1962" O Pagador de Promessas" was also awarded best film and best musical score at the San Francisco international film festival and best film at the Acapulco( Mexico), Cartagena( Colombia), Karlovy Vary( Czechoslovakia) and Edinburgh( Scotland) international film festivals.
His 1964 film ¨ Vereda da Salvação The Obsessed of Catule" was entered into the 15th Berlin International Film Festival.
He also was a freemason.
The President of Brazil, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, awarded Duarte the Order of The Cultural Merit, Brazil's highest cultural civilian honor, and the Governor of São Paulo, José Serra, awarded Duarte the Order of Ipiranga, which is the state's highest civilian honor.
Duarte was awarded titles of merit citizenship by numerous Brazilian municipalities including Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Salto, his birthplace.
In 2009, the municipality of Salto inaugurated a multimillion- dollar cultural and educational center named" Centro Cultural e Educacional Anselmo Duarte", housing a 500 audience amphitheater for film and theatrical events.
The center also displays for public view the original" Golden Palm" awarded to Duarte at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival.
In 2008, at 88, Duarte founded a cultural organization( Instituto Anselmo Duarte) dedicated to restoring selected Brazilian films and creating special, free of charge, educational projects aimed at young filmmakers to improve their technical filmmaking skills.
After his death, his son, Ricardo Duarte, 69, became the institute's president.
Upon being diagnosed by suffering Alzheimer's dementia in 2002, Duarte spent his last 7 years of life under the care of his son, Ricardo, and his grandchild, Daphne, a preeminent Brazilian artist.
Anselmo had 4 children.
Reaching stage 6 on his Alzheimer illness condition a bladder cancer was detected which led to a severe blood hemorrhage, precipitating a heart stroke.
Although both the bladder cancer and heart conditions had been successfully treated, a sudden massive hemorrhagic brain stroke left the legendary Brazilian actor and filmmaker in a coma for 6 days.
Duarte died on November 7, 2009, due to complications from a stroke.
Jurassic Park III
Jurassic Park III is a 2001 American science fiction adventure film and the third installment in the "Jurassic Park" film series.
The film stars Sam Neill, William H. Macy, Téa Leoni, Alessandro Nivola, Trevor Morgan, and Michael Jeter.
It is the first film in the series Steven Spielberg did not direct; neither was it based on a book by Michael Crichton, although numerous scenes in the film were taken from Crichton's novels "Jurassic Park" and "The Lost World".
Events depicted in the film take place on Isla Sorna, an island off Central America's Pacific coast, where a divorced couple have tricked Dr. Alan Grant into helping them find their son.
The film features the Spinosaurus, replacing the Tyrannosaurus rex as the main antagonist.
After the success of Spielberg's film "Jurassic Park", Joe Johnston expressed interest in directing a sequel.
Spielberg gave Johnston permission to direct a third film in the series, if there was to be one.
Production of "Jurassic Park III" began in 2000, and the film was released in July 2001.
Despite mixed reviews from critics, the film was successful at the box office, grossing $368 million worldwide.
The next film in the series, "Jurassic World", was released in June 2015.
The Lost World (1998 film)
The Lost World is a 1998 direct- to- video film, loosely based on the book of the same name by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg( born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker.
He is considered one of the founding pioneers of the New Hollywood era and one of the most popular directors and producers in film history.
Spielberg started in Hollywood directing television and several minor theatrical releases.
He became a household name as the director of" Jaws"( 1975), which was critically and commercially successful and is considered the first summer blockbuster.
His subsequent releases focused typically on science fiction/ adventure films such as" Close Encounters of the Third Kind"( 1977)," Raiders of the Lost Ark"( 1981)," E.T. the Extra- Terrestrial"( 1982), and" Jurassic Park"( 1993), which became archetypes of modern Hollywood escapist filmmaking.
Spielberg transitioned into addressing serious issues in his later work with" The Color Purple"( 1985)," Empire of the Sun"( 1987)," Schindler's List"( 1993)," Amistad"( 1997), and" Saving Private Ryan"( 1998).
He has largely adhered to this practice during the 21st century, with" Munich"( 2005)," Lincoln"( 2012)," Bridge of Spies"( 2015), and" The Post"( 2017).
He co-founded Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks Studios, where he has also served as a producer or executive producer for several successful film trilogies, tetralogies and more including the" GremlinsBack to the FutureMen in Black", and the" Transformers" series.
He later transitioned into producing several games within the video game industry.
Spielberg is one of the American film industry's most critically successful filmmakers, with praise for his directing talent and versatility, and he has won the Academy Award for Best Director twice.
Some of his movies are also among the highest- grossing movies of all- time, while his total work makes him the highest- grossing film director in history.
His net worth is estimated to be more than$ 3 billion.
The Lost World (1992 film)
The Lost World is a 1992 film, based on the book of the same name by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The movie is set in Africa rather than the book's setting of South America, and the character of Lord John Roxton has been replaced with a female character played by Tamara Gorski.
It was followed by a sequel the same year," Return to the Lost World", with the same director and main cast.
King of the Lost World
King of the Lost World is a 2005 film produced by The Asylum.
The film is adapted loosely from" The Lost World" by Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, but the film bears a closer resemblance to the remake of" King Kong" released in the same year, particularly as both stories center on a giant ape.
Hence," King of the Lost World" is a mockbuster of said film, a tradition that" The Asylum" usually undergoes.
The Obsessed of Catule
The Obsessed of Catule is a 1965 Brazilian drama film directed by Anselmo Duarte.
It was entered into the 15th Berlin International Film Festival.
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
The Lost World: Jurassic Park is a 1997 American science fiction adventure film and the second installment in the" Jurassic Park" film series.
A sequel to 1993's" Jurassic Park" and loosely based on Michael Crichton's 1995 novel" The Lost World", the film was directed by Steven Spielberg and written by David Koepp.
The film stars Jeff Goldblum, returning as the eccentric chaos theorist and mathematician Ian Malcolm, as well as Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, Vince Vaughn, Vanessa Lee Chester, and Arliss Howard.
Four years after the events of the original film, John Hammond( Richard Attenborough) sends a team, led by Malcolm, to Isla Sorna, the second island Hammond's company InGen used to make the dinosaurs, to study the animals while coming into conflict with a team led by InGen to bring some of the dinosaurs back onto homeland.
After the original novel's release and the first film's success, fans pressured Crichton for a sequel.
Following the book's publication in 1995, production began on a film sequel.
Filming took place from September to December 1996, primarily in California, with a shoot in Kauai, Hawaii, where the first film was shot.
" The Lost World" s plot and imagery is substantially darker than" Jurassic Park".
It makes more extensive use of computer- generated imagery to depict the dinosaurs, along with life- sized animatronics.
Released on May 23, 1997, the film received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the visuals and action sequences, but criticized the writing and character development.
The film was a box office success, grossing over$ 618 million worldwide, becoming the second- highest- grossing film of 1997.
It earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects.
A sequel," Jurassic Park III", was released on July 18, 2001.

Question: Do both films The Obsessed of Catule and The Lost World: Jurassic Park have the directors from the same country?
Answer: no