1521.   Tomb Raider Chronicles - KORN ALBUM ATTACKED BY MUSIC FANS

Fans attacked Korn's last album, 2002's Untouchables, for being too slickly produced, and it wound up being the band's lowest-selling album to date. Korn seems to have taken those opinions into consideration when writing its sixth album, due this fall. Did My Time is featured in the movie Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life -- but it doesn't appear on the soundtrack. The song opens with a raw guitar riff before switching to the heavy, bass-driven sound that has spawned many an imitator since Korn's debut nine years ago.

Last Updated: Aug 12, 2003  

1522.   Tomb Raider Chronicles - LARA CROFT CHARGED WITH AD CAMPAIGN

Lara Croft needs help. Pursued by a monster in Tomb Raider, she reaches out of her animated world to the real-life player of the game. What happens next is a cliff-hanging drama in the virtual and real world. Grab your lifeline and hang on!

Last Updated: Aug 11, 2003  

1523.   Tomb Raider Chronicles - 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  

1524.   Tomb Raider Chronicles - 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  

1525.   Tomb Raider Chronicles - 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