Lara Croft July 2010. Yahoo! Movies and IGN credit Jolie's role in the first "Tomb Raider" film with significantly raising her profile and propelling her to international super-stardom, respectively. Jolie commented that young children would ask her to sign objects as Lara Croft. After filming for the first movie at the Cambodian temple Ta Prohm, the local inhabitants called it the "Angelina Jolie Temple" and local restaurants served Jolie's favourite alcoholic beverage advertised as "Tomb Raider cocktails". IGN's Jesse Schedeen described Croft as one of few characters to receive a decent videogame-to-movie adaptation. By 2008, the first "Tomb Raider" movie was the
Lara Croft game in 2018. Beginning in 1997, the character regularly appeared in comics by Top Cow Productions. Lara Croft first appeared in a crossover in Sara Pezzini's "Witchblade", and later starred in her own comic book series in 1999. The series began with Dan Jurgens as the writer, featuring artwork by Andy Park and Jon Sibal. The stories were unrelated to the video games until issue 32 of the "Tomb Raider" series, which adapted "Angel of Darkness"s plot. The series ran for 50 issues in addition to special issues. Other printed adaptations are "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Amulet of Power",