The effect of global warming at American Centre

'The Day After Tomorrow', box office record Hollywood movie, will be screened at 6 pm on Tuesday, April 8 at the American Centre, Colomb-3. Directed by Roland Emmerich, this mega-budget, special-effects-laden epic revolves around the onset of an international series of crises brought on by the long-term results of the greenhouse effect.

Inspired by ‘The Coming Global Superstorm', the New York Academy of Sciences, a book co-authored by Coast to Coast AM talk radio host Art Bell and Whitley Strieber. Strieber also wrote the film's novelization.

At the eye of the storm is a professor dedicated to the study of weather patterns throughout the ages, Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid), who voluntarily takes on the preservation of the world in the dawn of the next ice age and all the disaster that comes along with it -- violent hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, tidal waves, massive floods, etc. Hall must also contact his son, Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal), who was in the middle of an academic competition in New York City when the chaos begun.

The Day After Tomorrow won BAFTA film award, another 3 awards and eight nominations. Worldwide, the film is the 45th top grossing film of all time, with total revenue of US $542,771,772. It is the second highest grossing movie at the US box office.