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The Day After Tomorrow(2004)
Released
2004 · FILM

The Day After Tomorrow

Paleoclimatologist Jack Hall races against political denial and escalating superstorms to prove his theory that climate change will trigger a new ice age, before humanity’s inaction seals the planet’s frozen fate.

“Where will you be?”

Directed by
Roland Emmerich
Written by
Roland Emmerich, Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
123 min
ActionAdventureSci-Fi
Streaming on
  • AMC+
  • Fubo

Synopsis

Paleoclimatologist Jack Hall presents his concerns about the onset of a new Ice Age to UN officials, but his warnings are largely ignored. His research later proves accurate when a superstorm emerges, triggering catastrophic natural disasters around the globe. Determined to reach his son, Sam, who is trapped in New York City with his friend Laura and others, Jack and his team embark on a journey to rescue him before it's too late.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 54+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by David BrennerShot by Ueli SteigerScored by Harald KloserDesigned by Barry Chusid

Box Office

2004 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.4× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$552.6M

Budget$125.0M
Worldwide gross$552.6M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $186.7M — 34% of worldwide · International: $365.9M (66%)

Opening weekend: $68.7M — 37% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $100.6M — 54% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,425 theaters

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Also known as

  • The Day after Tomorrowde
  • Jour d'aprèsfr
  • Le Jour d'aprèsfr
  • The Day After Tomorrow - L'alba del giorno dopoit

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