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Jump-Tomorrow The ultimate "virtual road trip" website where anything can happen and real life romance might be right around the corner! Jump-Tomorrow is skillfully crafted to parallel IFC FILMS upcoming motion picture release, JUMP TOMORROW, which recently premiered at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. This undeniably unique site offers more to users than just the average ride. It is a virtual road trip that allows users to glide their 3D character through an endless array of visually striking, borderless pages that lead to unexpected destinations. Once on board this fantastic journey, visitors are able to enjoy very innovative features including chatting with another user, sending a postcard, and following clues that lead to new adventures and perhaps an unexpected romance. The site was built by today's hottest developers Hi Res!, the creative gurus behind two of the most acclaimed film sites to date -- Webby nominee for Artisan's Academy-Award nominated Requiem for A Dream, and their latest accomplishment for Artisan, the website for Wayne Wang's Center Of The World. The ultimate virtual road trip where surprises lie at every turn and real-life romance can transpire serves as the online companion to IFC Films anticipated release of "Jump Tomorrow." The feature film debut from award-winning NYU film school grad Joel Hopkins, "Jump Tomorrow" is a wry romantic road comedy focusing on the travails of a group of wildly disparate young foreigners -- one of the most culturally and racially mixed bunch depicted on screen -- who are trying to do exactly what people all over the world dream of doing: finding their soul mate. |
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But unlike many headline-grabbing actresses, Jolie is even more interesting on-screen than off. The dangerously screwed-up beauties she has played in George Wallace, Gia, Playing by Heart, Pushing Tin and Girl, Interrupted have all been tangible, believable creations. In her first big-budget thriller, The Bone Collector, she easily matched the skill and intensity of Denzel Washington. She's likely to stun audiences as the take-no-prisoners action heroine Lara Croft in Tomb Raider, a fantasy adventure adapted from the video game by director Simon West (see story on p. 54). And who isn't looking forward to watching her later this summer when she plays the sex-obsessed femme fatale who enraptures Antonio Banderas in Original Sin? When Angelina Jolie greets me for this interview, she strikes me as someone fully capable of doing all that she has done offscreen and all that she's expected to do on-screen as Lara Croft. She's dressed in a black T-shirt and black leather jacket, and she looks like she might throw a mean right if provoked. "Call me Angie," she says, reaching out to shake my hand. I can tell she is indeed something like her father--intense, focused. And I have little doubt that, like her father, she'll be original in her thinking. For Lawrence Grobel's interview pick up the June issus of Movieline. PAGE 1 | 2 |