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Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (or just Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life) is a 2003 action movie directed by Jan de Bont, starring actress Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft. It is the second movie based on the famous Tomb Raider series, the first being Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
.

Filming locations include

Hong Kong - see List of movies set in Hong Kong
Greece - Several scenes were shot on the Greek island Santorini
North Wales

Plot summary

Lara Croft returns in the sequel to the original video game based film. This time, she is trying to find Pandora's Box, which supposedly contains one of the deadliest plagues on Earth, before evil scientist Jonathan Reiss can get his hands on it. The key to finding the Box, which is hidden in the mysterious Cradle of Life, is an orb that is supposed to be some type of a map. When Croft goes to get the orb, it is stolen by Reiss' henchman and so she recruits an old friend, Terry Sheridan, a former mercenary who had spend his last couple of years in prison in Siberia, to come to help. Lara and Terry embark together on an adventure that spans continents in an attempt to regain the orb...

Main cast

Angelina Jolie
- Lara Croft
Gerard Butler
- Terry Sheridan
Ciarán Hinds
- Jonathan Reiss
Chris Barrie
- Hillary
Noah Taylor
- Bryce
Djimon Hounsou
- Kosa

Budget

Story rights and screenplay: $4 million
Producers: $4 million
Director (Jan de Bont): $5 million
Cast: $17.25 million
* Angelina Jolie: $12 million
* Extras: $250,000
* Other (inc. Angelina's perks): $5 million
Production costs: $67 million
* Set design and construction: $17.8 million
Visual Effects: $13 million
Music: $3.3 million
Editing: $3 million
Post Production costs: $1.5 million

Total: $118 million

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Trivia

Originally planned to be the second in the line of three movies, its poor performance in the box office and critically, resulted in a planned third movie to be scrapped. Jolie (after some initial reservation) stated that she was willing to do a third movie.
The box office underperformance of this movie, and other female-led action films released around the same time, created something of a ripple effect that resulted in production of several similar films being cancelled, including a James Bond spin-off featuring Halle Berry
.
Paramount Pictures blamed the failure of The Cradle of Life on the latest and critically panned iteration of the video game series released just shortly earlier, Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness. However, the first twenty minutes of Cradle of Life follows, nearly scene-for-scene, the first twenty minutes of another Paramount film, Raiders of the Lost Ark; this may also have been a factor in the film's poor box office showing.
Despite being filmed in Hong Kong, the final movie was banned in China after the government complained that it portrayed their country as having "secret societies."

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