WEIRDLAND: The day after tomorrow - 40th top grossing film

Friday, May 29, 2009

The day after tomorrow - 40th top grossing film

Jake Gyllenhaal in "The Day After Tomorrow" NYC Premiere, on May 24, 2004, NY.Jake and Dennis Quaid in "The day after tomorrow" premiere in Tokyo, Japan, on 31th May, 2004.

"2004 - 20th Century Fox releases the sci-fi disaster film The Day After Tomorrow, directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum, Sela Ward, and Ian Holm, is released to theaters worldwide. The film was inspired by the book The Coming Global Superstorm by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber. Produced on a budget of US$125,000,000, the film will gross in its opening weekend. Worldwide, it’s the 40th top grossing film of all time, with total revenue of US$542,771,772, and it’s the second highest grossing movie not to be number one in the US box office, behind My Big Fat Greek Wedding. The film is most notable for the excessive dramatization of the effects of global warming in a quasi-scientific manner".
Source: thegreatgeekmanual.com

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