The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 apocalyptic science-fiction film that depicts the catastrophic effects of both global warming and global cooling . It was once part of the top 50 grossing film of all time , with total revenue of US $542,771,772. It is the second highest grossing movie not to be #1 in the US box office . The movie was filmed mostly in Montreal , and is the highest grossing Hollywood film in history to be filmed in Canada .The Day After Tomorrow premiered in Mexico City on May 17 , 2004 but it was also shown to contestants on the reality television series Big Brother Australia beforehand, which is not classified as the premiere for the movie. It was released worldwide from May 26 to May 28 except in South Korea and Japan where it was released June 4 and June 5 , respectively. The film was originally planned for release in summer 2003. The film made $110,000,000 in DVD sales, bringing its total film gross to $652,771,772.
The movie opens with Jack Hall in Antarctica with two colleagues, Frank and Jason, drilling for ice core samples on the Larsen Ice Shelf for NOAA . The ice shelf cracks and breaks off from the rest of the continent, nearly killing Jack. He travels to a United Nations conference held in New Delhi, India on global warming . Diplomats from several countries, particularly the vice-president of the United States, are unconvinced by Jack's theory. The idea, however, resonates with Dr. Terry Rapson of the Hedland Climate Research Centre in Scotland. Shortly after Dr. Rapson arrives back in Scotland from the conference, two buoys in the North Atlantic simultaneously show a massive drop in water temperature. Rapson concludes that the melting of the polar ice has begun to disrupt the North Atlantic current and calls Jack to see if his paleoclimatological weather model could be used to predict what will happen, and when it will occur. Jack is surprised because he predicted that the events would not happen in his lifetime, but rather in a hundred or a thousand years in the future.Across the world, violent weather causes mass destruction and chaos. A hailstorm strikes Tokyo, Japan , devastating the city. In Los Angeles , a tornado warning is issued, due to a sudden outbreak of telltale funnel-systems. The first tornado strikes a residential area. Another tornado destroys the Hollywood Sign as seen by a news helicopter . In Downtown Los Angeles , a huge tornado, presumably an F-5 , devastates the entire area. A news van reporting on the storm spots two large tornadoes in Los Angeles International Airport apparently merging as they devastate planes. As the news crew travels through the city, they narrowly avoid being struck by vehicles thrown through the air by the tornadoes in the Greater Los Angeles. A separate news report shows the Los Angeles Skyline being destroyed. The on-scene news reporter is killed by a flying billboard, and the Capitol Records Building is shown being torn apart. Eventually, it is shown that most of the city has been leveled.The US President authorizes the FAA to suspend all air-traffic over the United States, although the order comes too late, as two planes are brought down by severe turbulence (including an Avianca Boeing 707). Not long after, three RAF helicopters that were supposed to carry the Royal Family to safety are flying through one of three massive hurricane-like superstorms when they enter the eye, only to almost immediately encounter a massive and phenomenal temperature drop lower than −150 °F (−101.1 °C) that instantly freezes their fuel lines and their rotors causing them to crash. Later one of the flight crews opens the door on the damaged craft, only to get instantly frozen.Meanwhile, Jack's son, Sam, is traveling to New York City for an academic competition with his friends, Brian and Laura, and arrives before the airports are shut down. On the flight over, there is severe turbulence, and Sam grabs Laura's hand in fright. The weather becomes increasingly violent with strong winds and torrential rains. After the competition, Sam and his friends are stuck in New York, as all flights were canceled. Sam calls his father, promising Jack that he'll be on the next train home. Sam and his friends, meanwhile, stay with a new friend, J.D., and take a tour of New York. The group take shelter in J.D.'s apartment for the night while the storm worsens, forcing subways to close due to flooding, which shuts down Grand Central Station. J.D. offers to give them a ride to Philadelphia, where they can continue to Washington by other means.As the four walk to J.D.'s car, a storm surge surges toward Manhattan. The massive wave blankets the island, lifting a bus up and leaving the streets under several feet of water. Sam and his friends barely make it to the shelter of the New York Public Library. In Scotland, Rapson and his coworkers are trapped in their research lab by the deepening snow. They are last seen drinking scotch as the power supply fails.Survivors are forced to flee to the Southern, Southwestern United States, and Mexico. Jack decides to make the dangerous journey to Manhattan to find his son. Frank and Jason accompany him. Along the way, Frank falls through the glass roof of a shopping mall covered in snow.Inside the library, Sam and the other survivors use advice Sam received from his father to outlast the cold. They burn books to keep warm and break the library's vending machines for food. The same night, Sam finds Laura having a fever. He confessed his true feelings to Laura, and they kiss. The following day, after Laura is found to be afflicted with severe blood poisoning, Sam, Brian, and J.D. decide to search for penicillinin a Russian cargo ship that drifted inland during the storm. While within the ship, the three are attacked by a pack of hungry wolves. While the three escape, J.D. suffers a bite wound. During the escape, however, the eye of the superstorm begins to pass over the city with its −150 °F (−101.1 °C) instant freeze. Sam sees it freezing the Empire State Building, so the three hurry back to the library with the medicine.Jack and Jason soon arrive in New York City, passing the now frozen Statue of Liberty and continue towards Manhattan. Eventually, they find the library nearly buried in a snow drift. They manage to find everyone inside the library alive and signal for help, but by then the storms are already dissipating for unknown reasons. Jack, Jason, Sam, and all the people inside the library are rescued by a group of UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters. As they leave, they see people on the rooftops of buildings with Blackhawk and Chinook helicopters approaching to evacuate them. The movie ends with a satellite view of the Earth from the International Space Station, revealing that the entire northern hemisphere has been covered in ice. A couple of astronauts in orbit look down on the planet and report that skies have never looked more clear
The movie opens with Jack Hall in Antarctica with two colleagues, Frank and Jason, drilling for ice core samples on the Larsen Ice Shelf for NOAA . The ice shelf cracks and breaks off from the rest of the continent, nearly killing Jack. He travels to a United Nations conference held in New Delhi, India on global warming . Diplomats from several countries, particularly the vice-president of the United States, are unconvinced by Jack's theory. The idea, however, resonates with Dr. Terry Rapson of the Hedland Climate Research Centre in Scotland. Shortly after Dr. Rapson arrives back in Scotland from the conference, two buoys in the North Atlantic simultaneously show a massive drop in water temperature. Rapson concludes that the melting of the polar ice has begun to disrupt the North Atlantic current and calls Jack to see if his paleoclimatological weather model could be used to predict what will happen, and when it will occur. Jack is surprised because he predicted that the events would not happen in his lifetime, but rather in a hundred or a thousand years in the future.Across the world, violent weather causes mass destruction and chaos. A hailstorm strikes Tokyo, Japan , devastating the city. In Los Angeles , a tornado warning is issued, due to a sudden outbreak of telltale funnel-systems. The first tornado strikes a residential area. Another tornado destroys the Hollywood Sign as seen by a news helicopter . In Downtown Los Angeles , a huge tornado, presumably an F-5 , devastates the entire area. A news van reporting on the storm spots two large tornadoes in Los Angeles International Airport apparently merging as they devastate planes. As the news crew travels through the city, they narrowly avoid being struck by vehicles thrown through the air by the tornadoes in the Greater Los Angeles. A separate news report shows the Los Angeles Skyline being destroyed. The on-scene news reporter is killed by a flying billboard, and the Capitol Records Building is shown being torn apart. Eventually, it is shown that most of the city has been leveled.The US President authorizes the FAA to suspend all air-traffic over the United States, although the order comes too late, as two planes are brought down by severe turbulence (including an Avianca Boeing 707). Not long after, three RAF helicopters that were supposed to carry the Royal Family to safety are flying through one of three massive hurricane-like superstorms when they enter the eye, only to almost immediately encounter a massive and phenomenal temperature drop lower than −150 °F (−101.1 °C) that instantly freezes their fuel lines and their rotors causing them to crash. Later one of the flight crews opens the door on the damaged craft, only to get instantly frozen.Meanwhile, Jack's son, Sam, is traveling to New York City for an academic competition with his friends, Brian and Laura, and arrives before the airports are shut down. On the flight over, there is severe turbulence, and Sam grabs Laura's hand in fright. The weather becomes increasingly violent with strong winds and torrential rains. After the competition, Sam and his friends are stuck in New York, as all flights were canceled. Sam calls his father, promising Jack that he'll be on the next train home. Sam and his friends, meanwhile, stay with a new friend, J.D., and take a tour of New York. The group take shelter in J.D.'s apartment for the night while the storm worsens, forcing subways to close due to flooding, which shuts down Grand Central Station. J.D. offers to give them a ride to Philadelphia, where they can continue to Washington by other means.As the four walk to J.D.'s car, a storm surge surges toward Manhattan. The massive wave blankets the island, lifting a bus up and leaving the streets under several feet of water. Sam and his friends barely make it to the shelter of the New York Public Library. In Scotland, Rapson and his coworkers are trapped in their research lab by the deepening snow. They are last seen drinking scotch as the power supply fails.Survivors are forced to flee to the Southern, Southwestern United States, and Mexico. Jack decides to make the dangerous journey to Manhattan to find his son. Frank and Jason accompany him. Along the way, Frank falls through the glass roof of a shopping mall covered in snow.Inside the library, Sam and the other survivors use advice Sam received from his father to outlast the cold. They burn books to keep warm and break the library's vending machines for food. The same night, Sam finds Laura having a fever. He confessed his true feelings to Laura, and they kiss. The following day, after Laura is found to be afflicted with severe blood poisoning, Sam, Brian, and J.D. decide to search for penicillinin a Russian cargo ship that drifted inland during the storm. While within the ship, the three are attacked by a pack of hungry wolves. While the three escape, J.D. suffers a bite wound. During the escape, however, the eye of the superstorm begins to pass over the city with its −150 °F (−101.1 °C) instant freeze. Sam sees it freezing the Empire State Building, so the three hurry back to the library with the medicine.Jack and Jason soon arrive in New York City, passing the now frozen Statue of Liberty and continue towards Manhattan. Eventually, they find the library nearly buried in a snow drift. They manage to find everyone inside the library alive and signal for help, but by then the storms are already dissipating for unknown reasons. Jack, Jason, Sam, and all the people inside the library are rescued by a group of UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters. As they leave, they see people on the rooftops of buildings with Blackhawk and Chinook helicopters approaching to evacuate them. The movie ends with a satellite view of the Earth from the International Space Station, revealing that the entire northern hemisphere has been covered in ice. A couple of astronauts in orbit look down on the planet and report that skies have never looked more clear
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