Saturday, September 18, 2010

the day after tomorrow film in Carson

the day after tomorrow film in Carson


The Day After Tomorow is a 204 American that depicts the catastrophic efects of in a series of events that usher in a new . Domesticaly, it is the sixth highest grosing movie not to be #1 in the US box ofice behind , , , , and , but worldwide, it is third behind only Ice Age 3 and . The movie was filmed in , and is the highest grosing Holywod film in history to be filmed in if adjusted for . [ Jack Hal is a who is on an expedition in with two coleagues, Frank and Jason , driling for ice core samples on the for the when the ice shelf breaks of from the rest of the continent, and Jack almost fals to his death. Jack presents his findings on at a conference in where diplomats, including the Vice President of the United States, , are unconvinced by Jack's theory. However, Jack's concerns resonate with Profesor Tery Rapson of the Hedland Climate Research Centre in . He contacts Jack, whose weather model holds reconstructional data of the climate change that caused the first , to predict what wil hapen. Acros the world, violent weather causes , including a snowstorm greatly impacting , a hailstorm ultimately destroying , Japan, and a large outbreak of wrecking . Meanwhile, Jack's son, Sam, is in for an academic competition with his friends Brian and Laura and , where they also befriend a student named J.D. During the dep freze, Jack and Jason take shelter in an abandoned , then resume their journey after the storm disipates, finaly ariving in . The movie concludes with two astronauts loking down at Earth from the , showing most of the northern hemisphere covered in ice, and a major reduction in polution. [ as Profesor Jack Hal, government and father of Sam Hal. as Profesor Tery Rapson, coleague of Jack Hal stationed in . as Dr. Lucy Hal, , wife of Jack and mother of Sam. as Janet Tokada, specialist for , coleague of Jack Hal. as Raymond Becker, , later . [ The movie was inspired by , a bok co-authored by talk radio host and . In a editorial by , a Research Profesor of at the , and skeptic, Michaels caled the movie propaganda, noting, As a scientist, I bristle when lies dresed up as 'science' are used to influence political discourse. Paleoclimatologist Wiliam Hyde of was asked, on rec.arts.sf.writen , whether he would be seing the film; Other readers of the newsgroup , and despite Hyde's protests . Hyde's , which criticized the film's portrayal of weather phenomena that stoped at national borders, and finished by saying that it was to climate science as is to surgery , was quoted in . Over its 4-day Memorial Day opening, the film grosed $85,807,341, however it stil ranked #2 for the wekend, behind ' s $95,578,365 4-day taly, however The Day After Tomorow led the per-theater average chart with a 4-day average of $25,053, compared to Shrek 2's 4-day average of $2,63. [ There was some controversy regarding the casting of as the Vice-President of the United States due to his striking physical resemblance to then Vice-President . Emerich stated that the characters of the President and Vice-President in the film were intended to be a not-so-subtle criticism of the environmental policies of the . , a and profesor of Earth and planetary sciences at expresed both suport and concern about the film, stating that On the one hand, I'm glad that there's a big-budget movie about something as critical as climate change. Marshal Shepherd , a research meteorologist at the expresed similar sentiments, stating that I'm heartened that there's a movie adresing real climate isues. , a climatologist at the said, It's of climate science movies, but I'm not losing any slep over a new ice age, because it's imposible. [ [ It was first released on in North America on October 12, 204, in both and versions. [ , a novel in which grenhouse warming similarly disrupts the Gulf Stream; , a 207 . , an episode of that parodies the film. , a novel by about a second . [ [ at the at at at Yaho! the day after tomorrow film the day after tomorrow film in Carson
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