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The Day After Tomorrow grossed $552,639,571 worldwide during its theatrical run, against a production budget of $125 million. DVD sales added approximately $110 million, bringing the total to more than $652 million.
The Day After Tomorrow is based on the 1999 book The Coming Global Superstorm, co-written by Coast to Coast AM host Art Bell and Whitley Strieber. Strieber also wrote the film's novelization.
The film had its world premiere in Mexico City on the 17th of May, 2004. It was released to theaters in the United States on the 28th of May, 2004.
Scientists widely criticized the film's scientific accuracy. Harvard paleoclimatologist Daniel P. Schrag and NASA meteorologist J. Marshall Shepherd both acknowledged climate change is real but said the film's depiction of events occurring over hours instead of decades or centuries was not credible. Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute argued the film nonetheless created an opportunity to discuss genuine risks around ocean circulation changes.
The Day After Tomorrow contains 416 visual effects shots, produced by nine effects houses including Industrial Light and Magic and Digital Domain, with more than 1,000 artists working on them for over a year.
The Day After Tomorrow held the record for the highest opening weekend for a natural-disaster film for twenty years, from 2004 until 2024, when Twisters surpassed it. Its four-day Memorial Day opening grossed $85,807,341 domestically.