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Box Office: '2012' explodes with $65M!
2 hours ago | screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news »
Weekend of November 13 – 15, 2009: Emmerich's action flick destroys everything!
Roland Emmerich’s apocalyptic action spectacle “2012” destroyed its competition at the North American box office this weekend with a solid $65 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Sony’s “2012” opened at 3,404 locations Friday and scored an explosive average of $19,095 per theater this weekend, easily beating the $35,8 million opening gross of Emmerich’s previous film “10,000 B.C.”
Starring John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt and Danny Glover, the action adventure follows a group of individuals trying to survive a series of cataclysms as the world is coming to an end. »
- Franck Tabouring
Film review: 2012 and why it really is an epic disaster
6 hours ago | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
The whole world disappears into yawning chasms and beneath thundering tsunamis in Roland Emmerich's $200million disaster movie 2012.
Unfortunately, so does characterisation, originality and good writing.
The computer-generated carnival of calamity makes for great spectacle but becomes brain-numbing and boring.
And yet you find yourself looking forward to the next set piece of destruction because the rest of the movie is so dull. The entire experience is woefully unengaging. Spoilers ahead...
Even the basic premise is flawed. The Mayan calendar does Not say the world will end in 2012; it merely comes to the end of a cycle in that year and continues well beyond it.
John Cusack (pictured below) is the central character, a novelist and limo driver who becomes caught up in the events and, in a story about mankind building giant arks, has a son called Noah. Funny.
At times, Emmerich seems to be telling the story with a wry smile, »
- David Bentley
Emmerich's disaster epic 2012 opens with a massive $65 million.
11 hours ago | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
Love his films or loath them, Roland Emmerich is the master of disaster with "2012" bringing in a gargantuan $65 million in U.S. sales on its debut weekend. Worldwide, the film starring John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Woody Harrselson, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover and Oliver Platt has already brought in over $225 million. This one's going to be big folks and clearly a year for Sony after the success of "District 9" and "Zombieland" among others. Doing well in its sophomore weekend, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures' "A Christmas Carol" sang up 14% of the weekend gross with $22.3 million added, making the animated film's total over $63 million so far. JIm Carrey, Gary Oldman, Crispin Glover and Robin Wright Penn star in the Robert Zemeckis-directed and adapted family animated adventure. Overture Films' comedy "The Men Who Stare At Goats," starring George Clooney, Ewan McGregor and Jeff Bridges, showed a 51% change in its »
Featurette: 2012 Volcanic Eruption
14 November 2009 2:36 PM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
To coincide with the release of Roland Emmerich’s 2012, which is in UK cinemas Now, Columbia Pictures have released a new featurette based around the volcanic eruption in Yellowstone Park. I’ve embedded the featurette below or head over to Yahoo to view in HD.
2012 stars John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt and Thandie Newton.
Synopsis: Never before has a date in history been so significant to so many cultures, so many religions, scientists, and governments. 2012 is an epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors.
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- David Sztypuljak
Movie Review: “2012”
14 November 2009 12:46 AM, PST | screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news »
Seen on: November 13, 2009
The players: Director: Roland Emmerich, Writers: Roland Emmerich, Harald Kloser, Cast: John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt
Facts of interest: None, really.
The plot: As the world comes to an end in the year 2012, a group of brave people try to survive the cataclysms surrounding them.
Our thoughts: Roland Emmerich’s latest apocalyptic big-screen spectacle works best as a comedy. The film boasts a number of excellent laughs, and that’s the main reason I found it moderately enjoyable. Other than that, it’s nothing more than yet another utterly ridiculous, overblown sci-fi action piece about the end of the world. »
- Franck Tabouring
Review: ‘2012′
13 November 2009 9:00 AM, PST | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
There are several things that director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow) doesn’t seem too concerned about in the bloated, CGI-laden disaster movie 2012. These include, but are not limited to: plot, character development, plausibility, restraint, and subtlety. I kind of understand why he chooses to ignore these elements. If you get bogged down with all these pesky details, how are you supposed to focus on The Spectacle?
The Spectacle is the star of this film, and clearly every resource available was used to ensure that this movie looks good, everything else be damned. 2012 is a full 2 1/2 hour visual assault of CGI, destruction, chase scenes, and every natural disaster a geophysicist could possibly imagine. It’s chalk full of action movie clichés, right down to the brooding and estranged ex-husband who happens to be near his old family when disaster strikes, and must lead them to safety. Not »
- Shannon Hood
'2012': The End Again, By Kurt Loder
13 November 2009 6:00 AM, PST | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
Global warning.
A scene from "2012"
Photo: Sony Pictures
Even if most of the Earth were to be destroyed by a natural cataclysm predicted long ago by the ancient Mayans (or Hopis, or even the I Ching — take your pick), director Roland Emmerich would surely survive, if only to crawl back and polish off what little was left.
Going in to Emmerich's "2012," I was prepared to set my brain on spin-cycle and just roll with it — who doesn't enjoy a good CGI soak now and then? And there is in fact some snazzy digitalia on display here: a monster tsunami crashing over the Himalayas; a spectacular White House takedown (yet again); and some monster-wave ship-twirling that's truly, uh, titanic. An L.A. freeway buckles and falls, Las Vegas craps out, and the coast of California rears up and slides right into the ocean. All that, plus lots of collapsing high-rise real estate, »
Review: 2012
13 November 2009 6:00 AM, PST | Slackerwood | See recent Slackerwood news »
If disaster porn is your thing, you'll like 2012. If, however, you like to have something, anything plausible to suspend your disbelief on, don't bother with 2012. Not even the roster of normally outstanding actors can save it.
Under the premise that the cataclysmic events associated with the Mayan calendar are true, 2012 assumes that solar flares will cause tectonic plate shifts, scientists rush to save the world with a little over two years til D-Day, aka December 21, 2012. An earnest geologist, Adrian (Chiwetel Ejiofor) meets with a peer in India (Jimi Mistry, who rates lower in the credits than two brothers in their first role who can't act). Dr. Satnam Tsurutani (Mistry) melodramatically opens a hatch to show boiling ground water. Much gravitas and the requisite losing of cool at an official at a fundraiser, and "Call me Adrian" is suddenly leading the charge to save civilization. Said official, Anheuser (Oliver Platt), gets »
- Jenn Brown
Plus 1’s “2012″ review
13 November 2009 5:18 AM, PST | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »
The day of the screening I was joking around with some friends at my day job and came up with this snazzy catchphrase regarding the new movie 2012: “Only John Cusack can outrun disasters of massive proportions but not be able to stop the disaster that was his character’s marriage.” I knew that Amanda Peet played Kate Curtis, the separated wife of Cusack’s Jackson Curtis and I had a feeling that by the end of the movie their long lost love would be reunited by the events of the movie. Boy was I right, and I didn’t need the Mayans to predict this like they allegedly have predicted the disaster that is 2012.
Director and Screenwriter (gotta give credit where credit is due) Roland Emmerich managed to create what will be this season’s greatest comedy. I don’t think that is what he set out to do upon drafting, »
- Plus1
2012
13 November 2009 4:08 AM, PST | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
2012
Directed by: Roland Emmerich
Cast: John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover, Woody Harrelson
Running Time: 2 hrs 38 mins
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: November 13, 2009
Plot: The world is about to end. Turns out the Mayans were right. A select few people are in on the ground work of saving the human race, while others, like Jackson Curtis (Cusack), are trying to desperately save their families from the mass destruction of the entire planet.
Who’S It For? This film doesn’t even allow you to turn off your brain. Just like 10,000 BC and The Day After Tomorrow there are enough head-scratching moments, if you want to laugh at the film. But If all you live for is special effects, I can’t stop you.
Expectations: Who doesn’t love John Cusack? Not me. I don’t not love Cusack. Plus, I’m a big fan of Ejiofor and Peet, »
- Jeff Bayer
Movie Review: 2012 (2009)
13 November 2009 1:24 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Special effects are the star in 2012
Photo: Columbia Pictures Roland Emmerich brought in aliens to destroy the world in 1996 with Independence Day. In 1998 he gave the keys to a giant mutant lizard trying to destroy New York City in Godzilla. Weather was to blame in 2004 when he directed The Day After Tomorrow and now, in 2009, the sun is the culprit as the Earth's core is heating up and 2012 will no longer be known as just another a year as much as it will be the year the Mayans predicted the world will end and Roland Emmerich gladly obliged for no less than two hours and 38 minutes.
2012 is a victim of its own ability to entertain. For 90 minutes of its running time it is a wild and insanely entertaining thrill park where limousines can outrun eroding fault lines and drive straight through crumbling skyscrapers just in time to make it to »
- Brad Brevet
Review: 2012
13 November 2009 12:29 AM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
You know how movies with ticking bombs almost always have the climactic scene where the good guys work feverishly to disarm the explosives before they detonate? They're sweating and frantic, the music is pumping, the countdown clock is only a second or two away from zero, and... they deactivate the bomb right before it would have exploded. Timer stops at 00:00:01. Everybody breathes a sigh of relief. The end. Roland Emmerich's 2012 is twenty-seven of those scenes stretched across two and a half hours. It's 2009 (that's right, it's now!), and a young Indian scientist notifies his American counterpart that evil neutrinos from the Sun are heating up the Earth's core at an alarming rate. Dr. Adrian Helmsley (Chiwetel Ejiofor) rushes back to Washington and warns his superiors that the world is heading towards an unavoidable, Emmerichian event that will "cause life as we know it to cease to exist." As »
- Rob Hunter
The Reject Report Preps for the End of the World in 2012
13 November 2009 12:24 AM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Well, the end of the world is coming to a theater near you this weekend, and that will be the main focus here at the Reject Report. Yes, the long-awaited disaster epic 2012 is finally upon us and it is sure to be one big hit. That's pretty much the main order of business beyond a few limited releases this weekend. There is, though, one other wide release besides 2012 this weekend. It is Pirate Radio, and it stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy and Rhys Ifans in a story about a jolly band of rebel deejays. It's set in the era of those outlaw pirate radio stations that used to broadcast to the British Isles from boats in the North Sea in the Sixties. Fun stuff. Richard Curtis writes and directs. Personally, I'm probably more interested in seeing Pirate Radio this weekend, mainly because I'm a sucker for anything British from the Sixties, whether »
- John Cairns
2012 Review
12 November 2009 10:53 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Short Version: If you’re looking for some wicked-cool visuals and destruction on a scale that even Emmerich has never put on screen before, then 2012 is for you. Plot and character development? Move along, nothing to see here.
Screen Rant reviews 2012
That picture right there? That’s why you go see 2012. Heck, lately that’s why you go see any Roland Emmerich film – destruction on a massive scale. The man has taken what Irwin Allen used to do and multiplied it by 100.
2012 actually starts in 2009 – well first it starts out in space, showing us a few different shots of our solar system and the planets lining up all in a row, with the sun at the end of that line. When we get to good old Earth, we’re in India where geologist Adrian Helmsley (Chiwetel Ejiofor, the assassin from Serenity) is meeting a fellow scientist at the Institute of Astrophysics. »
- Vic Holtreman
2012 - Review # 2 (3.5/5) - Emmerich's films will never receive bouquets from critics, but he clearly does not care for that acclaim
12 November 2009 9:38 PM, PST | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
Roland Emmerich is back in the disaster film business with his new flick “2012”. He previously mined this genre with the wildly successful “The Day After Tomorrow”. That film dealt with the devastating effect of global warming on our planet. In “2012”, there is nothing humans could have done to stop the inevitable. The Mayans even predicted that this would happen many years ago. “2012” apparently cost over $200 million to make and it shows. The special effects are fantastic to watch and a sight to behold. This is one wild ride that is sure to please audiences around the globe. “2012” starts three years before the fateful year. An Indian scientist discovers that the planet is headed for disaster in the near future. Dr. Adrian Helmsley (Chiwetel Ejiofor in another strong role) rushes to tell the White House chief of Staff Carl Anheuser (Oliver Platt). The U.S. alerts other countries of the situation »
2012 Review — John’s Take
12 November 2009 9:25 PM, PST | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »
There’s more human suffering on display in Roland Emmerich’s 2012 than any other film I’ve seen. Emmerich raises the stakes of his own game, creating a level of destruction that outdoes anything seen in Independence Day or The Day After Tomorrow. Where he succeeds most brilliantly is in forming a perfectly satisfying piece of coherent bubble gum B-movie, where Michael Bay, given a comparable amount of funding, will produce utter chaos.
The only well-rounded character in 2012 is the calamity itself: unprecedentedly huge solar flares are causing the core of the earth to heat up and weaken the crust of the earth. This is making the tectonic plates of the earth shift around, causing earthquakes, tidal waves, volcanoes and the bisection of the occasional grocery store. Emmerich takes about a half an hour to warm up the audience for impending doom, which makes 2012 incredibly lengthy when it doesn’t need to be. »
- John Cooper
Watch "2012" Movie Review! It's of Massive Proportions!
12 November 2009 7:58 PM, PST | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »
First, to read my "2012" movie review, click here. Otherwise, take a look at my critique of director Roland Emmerich's opus!
Here's more info on "2012" from Yahoo:
Action/Adventure, Science Fiction and Thriller
November 13, 2009
Rated PG-13 for intense disaster sequences and some language.
Starring
John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover and Woody Harrelson
Directed By
Never before has a date in history been so significant to so many cultures, so many religions, scientists, and governments. A global cataclysm brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors.
Also Known As:
Two-thousand Twelve
Production Status: In Production/Awaiting Release
Genres: Action/Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy and Thriller
Release Date: November 13th, 2009 (wide)
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for intense disaster sequences and some language.
Distributors:
Sony Pictures Releasing
Production Co.:
Centropolis Entertainment, Mark Gordon Company
Studios:
Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, »
- Manny
‘2012′ Movie Releases New Special Effects Featurette Trailer
12 November 2009 3:55 PM, PST | OnTheFlix | See recent OnTheFlix news »
'2012' movie releases new special effects featurette trailer. Columbia Pictures has released a new "behind the scenes," special effects featurette (below) for it's "2012" movie that's coming out this weekend. The movie stars: John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover, and Woody Harrelson. This clip covers the Yellowstone corruption. They start off showing a few scenes from the movie. Then, it cuts to behind-the-scenes commentary from producers and directors who worked on the film. »
- Andre@ontheflix
The Week in Film: Oscar Bait
12 November 2009 9:02 AM, PST | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
Why, hello, folks! Another week means another week closer to December, which means it’s another week closer to Oscar bait movies. Aren’t you curious? I know you are, so let’s begin!
First up, we have 2012. It’s one of those natural disaster movies, but this time, on a global scale. The whole thing is based on the end of the world that in turn is based on the Mayan calendar. Expect super visual effects in the likes of things blowing up, giant tsunamis, raining meteors, skyscrapers collapsing, and Godzilla. Oh wait, scratch that last one.
Okay, sure this isn’t Oscar bait. But still, if you’re feeling like July in November, go for it! Oh, yeah, 2012 stars John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Oliver Platt, and Amanda Peet.
The second of the two wide releases this week is Pirate Radio. In the 1960s, a bunch of DJs went on a boat, »
- Raiden251
See How Roland Emmerich Blew Up Yellowstone in ‘2012′
12 November 2009 7:43 AM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Last night we sent Dr. Cole Abaius off to behold the 3-hours of destruction porn that is Roland Emmerich's latest film, 2012. Having already seen it earlier this week, I prepared him for the ridiculous amount of near-misses, the spectacle of explosion and as always, the trademark Emmerich schmaltz thanks to every character having to say a teary goodbye to anyone and everyone they are leaving behind. It's the exact sort of film that you'd expect from the German director. No matter what you think of his work though, there is not one of you who can deny that Roland Emmerich usually shows us something impressive. Even in his work on Godzilla, we were shown something larger than life -- a level of destruction unparalleled in its time. This new film is no exception. Emmerich does everything from dropping California into the Pacific Ocean to taking out the White House with the U.S »
- Neil Miller
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