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Disaster movie offers audience front row seat to the end of Earth...taken as rapid changes in the Earth's climate become unavoidable. John Cusack plays the lead role as Jackson Curtis, a writer in Los Angeles dealing with family issues. Chiwetel Ejiofor ("Four Brothers") plays geologist Adrian Helmsley,... In this article: Crash, John Cusack, The Day After Tomorrow, It's the End of the World as We Know It, Roland Emmerich, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Independence Day, and R.E.M. |
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Popular Mechanics | November 12, 2009
The Anatomy of a Disaster Scene in the Movie, 2012
...massive earthquake that rips California apart. In this three-minute sequence, failed science-fiction writer Jackson Curtis (John Cusack) drives through Los Angeles as the city crumbles around him. In the past, Emmerich might have filmed on...
In this article: Roland Emmerich, Marc Weigert, John Cusack, Independence Day, Jay Leno, and The Day After Tomorrow
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Reuters | November 09, 2009
Disaster flick 2012 is preposterously fun
...bring off a series of wonders. The movie hits its peak early on, when Cusack drives a limo through the streets of Los Angeles as freeways and skyscrapers crumble all around him from the shock of a 10.5 earthquake. The preposterous flying...
In this article: Roland Emmerich, John Cusack, Titanic, Thomson Reuters, Amanda Peet, The Day After Tomorrow, Oliver Platt, and The Station Agent
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HitFix | November 12, 2009
John Cusack faces the apocalypse in '2012'
...a career, I don't want to do that." So for some viewers, there's something unsettling about seeing John Cusack racing through a crumbling Los Angeles in a limo or dodging fireballs in a small plane. I mean, what would Lloyd Dobler think?
In this article: John Cusack, Roland Emmerich, America's Sweethearts, Say Anything, Martian Child, Jerry Bruckheimer, Chiwetel Ejiofor, War, Inc, and Grace Is Gone
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Arkansas Democrat Gazette | November 13, 2009
Watch out!
...Yellowstone Park. Because Los Angeles is literally cracking up, Jacksona s ex-wife Kate (Amanda Peet)demands that Jackson return them to her and her imminently dispensable plastic surgeon boyfriend Gordon (Thomas McCarthy). They get there...
In this article: Roland Emmerich, John Cusack, Amanda Peet, The Towering Inferno, All rights reserved, and Irwin Allen
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The Salt Lake Tribune | November 12, 2009
'2012': Outrunning Armageddon
...in Columbia Pictures' "2012." When a movie sends Los Angeles sliding into the Pacific, blows up Yellowstone and moves the magnetic south pole to Wisconsin, what hope does a movie critic have to stop it? No, one must accept Roland...
In this article: Roland Emmerich, White House, Yellowstone, Morgan Lily, Danny Glover, 10,000 B.C., John Cusack, and Woody Harrelson
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Movie Review: Roland Emmerich's '2012'
...its disaster to a minimum. We get some concerned scientists squawking, some paranoid raging by Woody Harrelson as a blogger and radio host and a few precarious cracks in the Los Angeles concrete, but that's all. The writers are determined to...
In this article: Roland Emmerich, John Cusack, Independence Day, Day After Tomorrow, Dog, Poseidon Adventure, Popcorn, and Buddhist
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The Japan Times: All Stories | 3 days ago
'2012' star tells of being John Cusack
...slips away in "2012," but will John Cusack survive? "It's no longer the nation's second city (in population; Los Angeles is, now), but Chicago is very creative - was and is," he says. "A lot of talent has come out of it, and it's a very...
In this article: John Cusack, Earth, Hollywood, Being John Malkovich, Chicago, Jeremy Piven, Clint Eastwood, Woody Harrelson, and The Grifters
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Yahoo! News | 7 days ago
Moviegoers make date with disaster film 2012 (Reuters)
...film "2012" at Regal Cinemas LA Live … LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Disaster swept the world during the weekend as the apocalyptic movie "2012" registered the biggest opening for a non-franchise movie. The latest calamity epic from...
In this article: Roland Emmerich, The Da Vinci Code, John Cusack, Independence Day, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Sony Corp, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Columbia Pictures, and Oliver Platt
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ITN Headline News - Showbiz news | November 04, 2009
Disaster movie 2012 premieres in Los Angeles
...once again in new movie 2012. The blockbuster, directed by Roland Emmerich, had its world premiere in Los Angeles, attended by cast members including John Cusack, Thandie Newton and Woody Harrelson. Loosely based on the legend of the...
In this article: Roland Emmerich, Thandie Newton, John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, The Day After Tomorrow, Independence Day, Hollywood, and UK
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Los Angeles (pronounced: /lɒs ˈændʒələs/ ; , Spanish for "the angels") is the largest city in the state of California and the second largest in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over 498.3 sqmi in Southern California. Additionally, the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area is home to nearly 12.9 million residents. Los Angeles is the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated and one of the most diverse counties in the United States. Its inhabitants are known as "Angelenos" (IPA: /ændʒɨˈliːnoʊz|/). In 2008, Los Angeles was named the world's eighth most economically powerful city by Forbes.com, ahead of Shanghai and Toronto but behind Chicago and Paris.
Los Angeles was founded September 4, 1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles del Río de Porciúncula (The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of the river of Porziuncola). It became a part of Mexico in 1821, following its independence from Spain. In 1848, at the end of the Mexican-American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States; Mexico retained the territory of Baja California. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4, 1850, five months before California achieved statehood.
- Name:
- City of Los Angeles
- Also Known As:
- L.A., The City of Angels, The Entertainment Capital of the World
- Type:
- City
- Government type:
- Mayor-Council
- Founding Date:
- September 04, 1781
- Total Area (sq. mi):
- 498.3
- Total Area (km):
- 1290.6
- Land Area (sq mi):
- 469.1
- Land Area (km):
- 1214.9
- Water Area (sq mi):
- 29.2
- Water Area (km):
- 75.7
- Urban Area (km):
- 4319.9
- Elevation (ft):
- 233 (city hall)
- Elevation (m):
- 71
- Urban Population:
- 12175434
- Time Zone:
- PST
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