John Cusack

...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...

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...wasteland. Director Roland Emmerich has made disaster movies aplenty ("Independence Day," "The Day After Tomorrow") but Cusack argued in a recent MTV News interview that "2012" is no disastrous flick. "This is more of an...

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...blockbuster 2012. The whole globe, in fact, gets the Emmerich treatment, from a 10.5 Los Angeles quake from which Jackson Curtis (John Cusack) flees with his family to a mile-high tsunami that drowns the lower Himalayas. It's the epic...

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...we wanted to make so super real that people buy into it." The movie opens in the UK on November 13. John Cusack, Thandie Newton and Woody Harrelson attend the global premiere of 2012 in Los Angeles - the movie about the end of the world.

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...the world is about to end due to a massive and sudden increase in its core temperature; and a down-on-his-luck divorced dad (John Cusack) trying to save his family when California starts to sink into the Pacific. It's your typical...

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...driver (John Cusack). And lucky for him, the apocalypse doesn't affect cell-phone coverage, so he can call his ex-wife (Amanda Peet) and get her to pile the kids into the limo just seconds before their house crumbles. Also piling in, to his...

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...and he's been given an award for his loyalty to the Windy City. Death, destruction, despair: Another city slips away in "2012," but will John Cusack survive? "It's no longer the nation's second city (in population; Los Angeles is,...

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...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...

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..."2012" (Reuters) Moviegoers make date with disaster film "2012" Reuters - Cast member John Cusack arrives for the premiere of the film "2012" at Regal Cinemas LA Live … LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Disaster swept the world during the weekend...

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