Oct 6 2009 '2012' Has Some Great Performances
What happens when you cut out all the effects shots from a five-minute clip of Roland Emmerich's newest disaster film, 2012? You get a sad, shouty minute-and-a-half acting reel composed of John Cusack doing a Conan-driving-his-desk Late Night sketch:
Jul 23 2009 '2012' One-Sheet Guarantees Sinking Landmasses!
Finally, a movie involving a global catastrophe of some nature! I was getting worried I'd have to go back to the first half of the decade, or to NBC's recent television event Meteor, starring Christopher Lloyd and Seinfeld's Jason Alexander, to see fictional disasters happening. But no, there's also this.
'2012' Poster [Yahoo]
Jun 18 2009 '2012' Trailer: The Day All This Random, Terrible Stuff Happens
Roland Emmerich, director of such regular-people-and-a-few-government-people-coping-with-apocalyptic-events films as Independence Day, Godzilla, and The Day after Tomorrow, has a new regular-people-and-a-few-government-people-coping-with-apocalyptic-events film coming out this November, and this time the danger is more real, and more vague than ever. It's not monsters, aliens, nor global warming or cooling--this time it's just crazy shit happening, dudes!:
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Mar 12 2009 '2012' Viral Marketing Becoming Too Feasible
No, I'm not buying the disaster film's websites that claim life on Earth is ending in the year 2012, but I would believe these videos of Woody Harrelson ranting about living on a super volcano were real if he didn't begin them by introducing himself as Charlie Frost. I think I'll follow along with the series just in case it devolves to Woody shouting about the worth of hemp products. Then we'll know he's just lost it.
Feb 16 2009 How to Live Beyond 2012 (the Movie)
Thanks to Kim for passing along this email from Sony Pictures. They're getting all cute and J.J. Abramsey for that 2012 movie, and have set up a site that explains (with visuals!) how the triple-threat of solar flares, crystal displacement, and Planet X will destroy Earth. I knew we shouldn't have displaced those crystals in 2011:
IHC - Institute for Human ContinuityGreetings,
Thank you for registering for the lottery and for your interest in survival and the Institute for Human Continuity. As a holder of a lottery number, I wanted to inform you of the launch of the comprehensive website for the Institute for Human Continuity where you can find out more information regarding the IHC lottery and what to do concerning survival.
The information contained on the site represents the culmination of years of thinking by the world’s most prominent people and outlines the ambitious initiatives the institute is developing in its efforts to preserve mankind beyond 2012.
In the weeks ahead, we will continue to update the site with new findings and valuable information. So please be sure to visit the site regularly to stay informed.
We need your help to insure a future beyond 2012.
Sincerely,
Dr. Sorën Ulfert, PhD
Communications Director
The Institute for Human Continuity
Twitter: sorenulfert
Email: s.ulfert@TheIHC.com
A lottery for survival is a cute idea, but let's face it, if humanity is ever faced with extinction, it won't be a chance drawing that determines who carries on our species. It's all going to come down to who's invested in personal rocket crafts, which I assume will be only the Japanese. They'll probably be driving to work in personal rocket crafts by 2012, so try to get a Japanese businessman as a pen pal now if you don't want to be human fuel.
Dec 9 2008 First Look at 'Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs'
Sony has released the first image from their adaptation of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and it is full of pastel iced cream. What do you guys think? I'm kind of liking the vaguely clay-like appearance, but I think I'd like the guy's character design more if it were less blatantly a youthful Inspector Gadget with roots for hair:
Gadget seems alright with the issue, and impressed with my Photoshop finesse.
First Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs Image [Cinema Blend]
Nov 13 2008 '2012' Teaser Trailer is a Documentary from the Future
Roland Emmerich, director of Independence Day, Godzilla, and The Day After Tomorrow, has made another movie on his favorite subject: some kind of disaster destroying Earth. The trailer suggests doing a "Google search" on "2012" (the trailer's main goal is confusing grandparents with terms they don't understand), so I did that. Results reveal that Sarah Palin is stoking speculation she'll run again in 2012 (that's a real apocalypse, ya know!?), AND THAT THE MAYAN CALENDAR WILL END ITS 13th CYCLE, which many crazies interpret as meaning humans will die, be elevated to a higher level, or "that Biaviian aliens will allow passage aboard their Great Mother Ship." Ancient civilizations and crazy people have never been wrong about anything before, so we should probably just take this movie a fact. However John Cusack survives is how we will survive as a people.
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Aug 12 2008 J.J. Abrams Re-Making 'Cloverfield' with Earthquake Instead of Monster
J.J. Abrams has announced he's finally jumping on that late-'90s disaster movie bandwagon and making something about an earthquake. From THR:
[Abrams] and David Seltzer, the screenwriter of the original "Omen," are working together to shake up audiences with a disaster flick for Universal involving an earthquake. The project is untitled and not intended to be a remake of Universal's 1974 movie "Earthquake."Details of the story are being kept in a seemingly tremor-proof vault, though as is Abrams' modus operandi, relationships will be at the core of the project. Abrams arguably rewrote the rules for disaster flicks with "Cloverfield," which thrust the big story to the background by making the audience see the bedlam through the prism of a personal relationship.
In true Abrams form, he's already started viral marketing:
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