Oh boy. Any hope you may have of Roland Emmerich either disappearing off the face of the earth or directing a film that doesn’t obliterate society has probably been shattered. 2012 has made some serious bank: $225 million worldwide, which Variety calls the fifth best international opening of all time.
This is sort of surprising, considering [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
All of you disaster movie junkies better listen up, because here’s a new featurette on the making of 2012. It’s not just the making of the newest Ronald Emmerich film, but of the special effects that go into the film. In actuality it’s just centering on the special effects of the tidal waves that envelop [...]
The city of Los Angeles is falling apart in a big way with an exclusive five minute clip from Ronald Emerich’s latest disaster-piece 2012. Starring John Cusack and Amanda Peet, the most recent take on who would survive the end of the world in this situation is coming to theaters on November 13th. Using to his [...]
Sony, in an effort to grab more of an audience with the Roland Emmerich/John Cusack disaster film 2012, will “roadblock” televisions with a two-minute advertising sequence from the film on October 1st.
Similar to what Universal did with Dawn of the Dead several years ago only on a broader scale, the advertisement will put footage of [...]
Happy times all right! Who doesn’t get fuzzy with the overly used up plot device of inevitable world destruction by some random natural disaster? If you don’t, then Ronald Emmerich did not hear you one bit thanks to the creation of his latest disaster piece (possibly in more ways than one) 2012. Starring the likes [...]
It just seems to be a good week for trailers! Yesterday we had 2012 and The Day the Earth Stood Still. Today we had Watchmen and now we have yet another awesome trailer for the upcoming Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
What more can you ask for on a Friday?? Enough talk [...]
