Disaster Movies: Death, Destruction, Mayhem!
What is it about total carnage that sends people to the theater in droves? I’m totally guilty of this as well, but I’m wondering what exactly it is about disaster movies that make them so awesome (and by “awesome” I mean, totally cheesy, silly fun).
Disaster movies while not high quality, will normally have really good [...]
2012’s Box Office Success Marks The End of the World
Disaster struck at the box office this weekend, again and again.
Roland Emmerich’s CG-heavy apocalypse movie 2012 starring John Cusack and Amanda Peet had a huge opening weekend in the US and abroad, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Balancing its $200 million budget with its US earnings of $65 million and the foreign box office of $160 [...]
Featurette: 2012 Volcanic Eruption
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 [...]
Independence Day: 2 Sequels Promised/Threatened
Fresh from destroying the world in 2012 it seems Roland Emmerich can’t keep away from finding new ways to put the world in peril.
Almost exactly a month ago we reported on Emmerich’s desire to make a sequel to his 1996 Earth vs. Aliens epic Independence Day, a film that was all about the boom and [...]
Review: 2012
2012 is one of those strange movies where you feel like you shouldn’t like it but cant help yourself enjoying and even sometimes laughing at the world’s destruction, either because of it’s slightly cheesy and humorous script or because the effects are so darn good that it just looks fantastic.
If you’ve not been following the [...]
Preview: 2012
Love it or hate it, there’s no denying Independence Day was a big movie, with a place in cinematic history. Roland Emmerich has been the prince of diminishing returns since, but remains the current king of the global disaster movie. With next week’s 2012, he’s hoping to get his career back on track.
10,000 BC was [...]
Competition: Win a 2012 Poster
To celebrate the release of Roland Emmerich’s 2012 next Friday (13th November), Columbia Pictures have given us 10 posters to give away. All the posters will look like the image to the left (click to enlarge) and will look great on any wall!
To be in with a chance of winning, all you need [...]
2012 to be Turned into a TV Series
I was lucky enough to see 2012 last night and my review is nearly finished but will not be published until next week. In the meantime, here’s some news that to me makes perfect sense and I had an incling might happen anyway. There are some content spoilers below so don’t read on if you [...]
Two New Clips from 2012
We’ve just received two new clips from Columbia for Roland Emmerich’s latest disaster movie, 2012. One of the clips we’ve posted parts of before which was the 5 minute clip they released but I’ve embedded it below incase you missed it.
2012 stars John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Danny Glover, Woody Harrelson and [...]
Five Minutes of 2012 in Full HD
You might remember that we posted the five minutes of footage that Columbia Pictures released for 2012 a while ago. Well, they’ve now released that same footage in full HD. I’m talking full 1080p, 1920 *1200px resolution. So, for all those out there with a computer and the facility to hook it up to your [...]
