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LARA CROFT COUNTRY GEARS FOR TOURISTS

North Wales is preparing to welcome a deluge of movie-minded tourists all keen to follow in the footsteps of screen adventurer Lara Croft. The release on August 22 of Tomb Raider 2 is expected to trigger massive interest in Snowdonia, the location of a Chinese village in the film. Nearly a year after Angelina Jolie arrived on the shores of the lake Llyn Gwynant with 150 cast and crew members the area is about to receive international exposure and tourism agencies are at work behind the scenes to ensure that Wales receives recognition as the real star of the sequel.

Last Updated: Aug 10, 2003

PARAMOUNT CITES AOD AS CAUSE FOR FLOP

Paramount Pictures has cited the mediocre performance of Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Angel Of Darkness as possible cause for the failure of Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life at the U.S. box office this weekend where the Angelina Jolie driven motion picture netted just 21.7 million and ranked fourth. The pic, armed with its usual armada of commercial partners to help ensure a degree of success, also came under heavy criticism although most argued the sequel faired marginally better than the original.

Last Updated: Jul 28, 2003

THE CRADLE OF LIFE FAILS AT BOX OFFICE

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over came in first at the box office this weekend with $32.5 million, but the mystery remained which of four contenders would come in second. Two new films - the Angelina Jolie adventure sequel Lara Croft: Tomb Raider The Cradle of Life and the true-life racehorse drama Seabiscuit - became locked in a virtual dead-heat for the follow up slot with the recent releases Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and the action-comedy Bad Boys II.

Last Updated: Jul 27, 2003

ANGELINA JOLIE BRANDS LARA ROLE MODEL

Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie is proud of playing high-flying action hero Lara Croft on screen and believes the character is a role model grounded in reality. Jolie reprises the role in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life opening in the United States on Friday, playing a cultured, yet spectacularly athletic and attractive British adventurer. The Oscar winner in 2000 as Best Supporting Actress for Girl, Interrupted said Lady Croft does not have to be anti-man to be a strong woman. She’s very sexual and she’s very sensual but she doesn’t use it to win, Jolie told Reuters in a recent interview. She’s strong enough. And I think she’s very complete as a woman because she’s a lady and she’s intelligent but she’s also able to get dirty and wild. I think she’s got a nice combination of most of the women I know.

Last Updated: Jul 22, 2003

ACTION TIME FOR LARA CROFT IN TR SEQUEL

Of all the challenges Angelina Jolie faced making the new Lara Croft action movie, the toughest was one she couldn't see. In Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, opening Friday, the video-game archeologist with the killer body battles ruthless villains to find the mythological Pandora's box. If opened, it could destroy the world.

Last Updated: Jul 21, 2003

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