<Li> Terence Yin as Xien </Li> <P> The budget for the film was $95 million (less than the first film's $115 million budget), and like the first film, it was financed through Tele München Gruppe . The picture was also distributed internationally by Japanese company Toho - Towa . </P> <P> Filming lasted for three and a half months, which included six - day shoots on location in Hong Kong, Santorini, Llyn Gwynant in North Wales (doubling for mainland China), and a two - week stint in Kenya for shooting at Amboseli and Hell's Gate, with the remainder of the picture filmed on soundstages in the United Kingdom . One scene in the film was set in Shanghai, but it was shot on a set and not on location . </P> <P> The film also featured the new 2003 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon, first seen when Lara parachutes into the moving vehicle in Africa and takes over the wheel from Kosa . As part of Jeep's advertising campaign, it was specially customised for the film by Jeep's design team along with the film's production designers, with three copies constructed for filming . 1,001 limited - run Tomb Raider models were produced--available only in silver like the film version and minus its special customisations--and put on the market to coincide with the release of the film . Jeep vice president Jeff Bell explained, "(The ad campaign) is more than just a product placement...the Jeep Wrangler Rubicon is the most capable Jeep ever built, so the heroic and extreme environment in which Lara Croft uses her custom Wrangler Rubicon in Tomb Raider is accurate ." In the end, Lara's Rubicon had less than two total minutes of screen time in the finished film . </P>

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