The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
The Day After Tomorrow was the link movie connecting The Guardian and The Substance.
Linked through Sela Ward and Dennis Quaid.
Both Sela Ward and Dennis Quaid appeared in The Day After Tomorrow.
About The Day After Tomorrow
"Where will you be?"
After paleoclimatologist Jack Hall is largely ignored by UN officials when presenting his environmental concerns about the beginning of a new Ice Age, his research proves true when a superstorm develops, setting off catastrophic natural disasters throughout the world. Trying to get to his son, Sam, who is trapped in New York City with his friend Laura and others, Jack and his crew must travel to get to Sam before it's too late.
Directed by Roland Emmerich
Written by Roland Emmerich, Jeffrey Nachmanoff
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Score by Harald Kloser
The Japanese dubbed release features an exclusive theme song, "More Than a Million Miles," by the band Day After Tomorrow. The film's soundtrack, titled The Day After Tomorrow (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), was released on May 18, 2004.
Movie trivia
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The film was inspired by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber's book The Coming Global Superstorm, and Whitley Strieber wrote the film's novelization.
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Roland Emmerich wrote the first draft, brought it to producer Mark Gordon, and Jeffrey Nachmanoff performed rewrites; an auction on May 1, 2002 included a $125 million term sheet with $10 million for Emmerich and 10% of gross, and Fox closed a deal May 3.
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Principal photography ran from November 7, 2002, to October 18, 2003, and was filmed predominantly in Montreal and Toronto with additional footage shot in New York City and Chiyoda, Tokyo.
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The film grossed roughly $552 million worldwide, became the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2004, and its four-day Memorial Day opening of $85,807,341 held the natural-disaster opening-weekend record for twenty years until 2024.
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The Day After Tomorrow features 416 visual-effects shots created by nine effects houses, including Industrial Light & Magic and Digital Domain, with over 1,000 artists working on the effects for more than a year.
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Destruction of New York was built from a 13-block LIDAR-scanned 3D model of Manhattan using over 50,000 scanned photographs for textures; some storm-surge shots required up to three vendors and digital water from Digital Domain or Tweak Films, and miniatures were used for a later underwater bus scene.
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