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'2012': The Greatest Irwin Allen Movie Never Made

14 November 2009 9:03 PM, PST | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »

Imagine taking every big disaster film ever made, from The Towering Inferno and Earthquake, to The Poseidon Adventure, and squishing them all together into one film. You'd essentially have Roland Emmerich's 2012, a movie so shapeless of plot and devoid of meaning, that it's actually half way entertaining. If — and here comes the caveat — you remember to check your brain at the concession stand, the film's ridiculously simple premise and mind-numbingly overwrought effects are actually kind of fun.

The story begins with the usual scientists-discovering-an-imminent-cataclysmic-event scenario, which coincidentally ties to the Mayan civilization's "prediction" that the world will end on December 21, 2012. (The Mayans actually never made such a prediction—but that's a whole other topic. And even if they had, they apparently didn't have the foresight to predict that the Spanish would conquer them...so, so much for "predictions.")

Of course, the "science" in the film is scientific gobbledygook—something »

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A Problem-Solver's Guide to Copycatting

21 October 2009 8:00 AM, PDT | Fast Company | See recent Fast Company news »

Instead, look for the folks who have already solved them.

Your business has a big problem. You've thought about it, but you can't seem to crack it. So you consult your colleagues -- to no avail. Then you turn to the big guns -- your industry's top experts. They've got nothing. (Well, to be precise, they've got 40 PowerPoint slides worth of nothing, and you've got $225,000 less of something.) Now what?

You might take some inspiration from Pete Foley, associate director of the cognitive science group at Procter & Gamble, who was looking for an inspired solution to challenges faced by P&G's feminine-care business unit. Its R&D staff had pursued several approaches, but none of them offered the breakthrough that Foley craved. So he did the next logical thing: He took his team to the San Diego Zoo.

The zoo is developing a specialty in biomimicry, a discipline that tries »

- Dan Heath & Chip Heath

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'Pandorum': Two Parts Existentialism, One Part Zombie Flick

26 September 2009 9:10 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »

In the new horror film Pandorum, astronaut Corporal Bower (played by Ben Foster) abruptly awakens in a hibernation chamber, scared out of his wits. It's a sequence that's supposed to scare the audience out of their wits, too, and for the most part, it does.

Bower comes to the realization that he's on some sort of spaceship, but it's of little practical help to him—he has no idea who he is, where the ship is located, or its heading. Soon he comes upon another astronaut, Lieutenant Payton, played by Dennis Quaid. The two have no memory of liftoff or any knowledge of what their mission was supposed to be. Yet a couple of leaps of logic later, they decide to seek out the ship's reactor and reinitialize it.

Winding his way through a claustrophobic warren of dark metallic corridors, Bower quickly encounters other passengers, in particular Nadia (Antje Traue »

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Weekly Ketchup: The Story of Kong Before He Was King

31 July 2009 6:30 AM, PDT | Rotten Tomatoes | See recent Rotten Tomatoes news »

This Week's Ketchup sees an unusual number of pairs: two remakes, two prequels to beloved sci-fi movies, two movies based on recent video games and two movies based on 1971 children's books with environmental themes. In this Noah's Ark of industry related news, there are some gems, a handful of puzzlers, and maybe one or two that might leave one at a loss for words (whether in a good way or bad way remains to be seen). Oh, and of course, there's the Rotten Idea of the Week, which this time involves a possibly unnecessary adaptation that's indicative of the... »

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New Jersey: Teaching the World to Steal, in Perfect Harmony

27 July 2009 12:10 PM, PDT | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »

Much has been made of the arrest last week of 44 public and religious officials around New Jersey and New York, in a massive corruption bust that came after a two-year federal investigation. The feds charged three mayors, five rabbis and dozens of other local officials with crimes including bribery, money laundering, extortion, conspiracy, and trafficking in human organs and fake handbags. But while people are busy expressing shock at the discovery that New Jersey has a corruption problem, it seems the most striking aspect of this story has been largely ignored. There is a silver lining here. This enterprise required a great deal of cooperation between an extraordinarily diverse group of people. A merry band of walking stereotypes worked together, in perfect harmony, and remains together, united by their depravity. Indeed, the string of perp walks last week turned Newark’s federal courthouse into a veritable Noah's Ark of criminal archetypes. »

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Director Says 2012 is a Noah's Ark Story

27 July 2009 6:36 AM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »

It was already obvious from the trailers that 2012 is going to be one of the most over-the-top disaster films ever made, and four minutes of additional footage shown at Comic-Con did little to dispel that impression. On the contrary — as one observer over at /Film put it, there's "more destruction in that four-minute sequence than in the entire movie Independence Day." This apocalyptic roller-coaster ride provoked an amusingly appropriate response during the Q&A, as director Roland Emmerich was asked why he hated the world so much. Without missing a beat, he replied:

I love the world! I destroy it so much because I love it so much! Hmm. In any case, he says it's not just about the end of the world anyway. It's really a retelling of Noah's ark, a modern retelling. For me it's not only a disaster movie. Disaster movies have to have another extra element that makes it special. »

- Bill Stouffer

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‘2012′ Trailer Promises Greatest CGI Animated Film Of The Year

18 June 2009 11:30 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

Let's get one thing straight right up front... Roland Emmerich's new movie 2012 is going to be incredibly stupid.  Mayan prophecies predicting the end of the world, the laws of physics thrown out the window, an insufferably sappy family at risk, iPhone's capable of redirecting earthquakes... this movie is going to be bad with a capital Shit. And I cannot wait to see it on the big screen. Why?  Emmerich may suck at drama and real human emotions (with the strange and singular exception of The Patriot), but the man knows large-scale destruction.  The new trailer for 2012 has just gone online and it is a visual feast of mayhem, disaster, and epic devastation.  Click below to check it out. Sweet.  Even the naysayers among you have got to admit the effects in the first half of the trailer look incredible.  From the Brazilian Jesus statue crumbling to the meteorites to the roads buckling... effing »

- Rob Hunter

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Sarah & Matthew Join a Roster of Celebs Using Surrogates

2 May 2009 8:45 AM, PDT | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »

Expanding their brood, Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick announced this week they are welcoming twin girls via a surrogate. By not revealing any details about why they chose a surrogate, Parker, 44, and Broderick, 47, have left many of their well-wishing fans with questions. For example, what is a surrogate? They are women, often with children of their own, who offer to carry the babies of couples who experience infertility. The most common variety, known as a gestational carrier, carries an embryo provided by the couple, and has no genetic relationship to the child in question (the womb-for-rent scenario). Other surrogates »

- Elaine Aradillas

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Korea's Bong Joon-ho updates on his vision for Pa adaptation Transperceneige

19 March 2009 7:28 PM, PDT | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »

We first reported on The Host director Bong Joon-ho's interest in adapting Jean-Marc Rochette's famous post-apocalyptic comic series waaay back in May but since then there's not been much in circulation on the project. Of course it goes without saying that we here at Qe are relishing the idea of this talented young taking up the gauntlet and giving this French story a decidedly Asian feel. Well in some recent interviews with both Yonhap News Service and Collider Joon-ho went into some Juicy details on his vision for the film.

"The story will be in a tone similar to Noah's Ark... This train has enraptured me. I believe everyone has a fantasy about trains giving off chugs and puffs, and landscapes viewed from the window... What you can see from the window in this story, however, is only the world icebound, with minus 80 degrees outside."

"Survivors live in the train, »

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Ang Lee Helming Adaptation of Yann Martel's Life of Pi

18 February 2009 2:12 AM, PST | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

Not to be confused with Monty Python's Life of Brian, Yann Martel's novel "Life of Pi" is set to be adapted by Taiwanese director Ang Lee. The story follows an Indian boy named Piscine "Pi" Molitor Pate who is the lone survivor of a sunken freighter that winds up sharing a lifeboat with a hyena, an injured zebra, an orangutan and a hungry Bengal tiger. So it's kind of like The Jungle Book and Noah's Ark combined, or at least that's my initial perception. The project is being developed at Fox 2000 and while there are older scripts around, including one by M. Night Shyamalan, Lee will find and hire a new writer to adapt. Fox producer Gil Netter, who has a very sketchy track record with films like Phone Booth, Flicka, Eragon, and Marley & Me to his name, is producing. Ang Lee is currently finishing his Taking Woodstock film, »

- Alex Billington

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2009 | 2008

10 articles from 2009

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