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John Cusack and Morgan Lily are among those on the run in the disaster movie "2012." Roland Emmerich has issues.

Roland Emmerich says he can't top disaster epic 2012, writes Antony Lawes. As disaster films go, 2012 is about as big as it gets: floods, tidal waves, earthquakes, volcanoes - it's got everything you'd expect in a film about the end of the world.

Published: Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 8:15 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 8:15 a.m. It's the end of the world as we know it, and Hollywood feels fine.

SHOULD THE WORLD kick it come 2012, let's hope it goes out in the crazy, grandiose fashion director Roland Emmerich imagines.

It's the end of the world as we know it, at least according to the Mayans. Or maybe not.

Completing his multi-film vendetta against the world's tourist trade, German-born director Roland Emmerich sends the mother of all storms to level the Washington Monument , the Eiffel Tower and a priest-filled Vatican City , among other locales, in his newest end-times thriller, 2012 .

Roland Emmerich's much-anticipated disaster flick 2012 hasn't even come to theaters yet and already there are talks of it being adapted for the small screen.

The world isn't going to end in 2012. You wouldn't know it to look at the movie 2012, or online, where doom and "End Times" theories roam free.

Breaking news -- the world won't be ending soon. So then, what's with all the 2012 fretting? It's all hocus-pocus, and a little good old capitalist hustling.

Capsule reviews of films opening this week: "Fantastic Mr. Fox" - With George Clooney, Meryl Streep and Bill Murray leading the top-notch voice cast, director Wes Anderson has found an ideal story and medium - stop-motion animation - to bring his cockeyed vision to the cartoon world.

Review: The end not soon enough for `2012' Nov. 10, 2009 8:09 PM ET By JAKE COYLE Cataclysmic disaster and apocalyptic doom, as foretold by Hollywood, have a way of bringing together broken families, revealing the unseen heroism of deadbeat dads and neatly disposing of their rivals.

Have the ads for the disaster porn movie "2012" worked you to a tizzy? Are you wandering around the house, fretting about the Mayan calendar? Are you hoarding tin foil, constructing not just hats, but entire suits, including wee little ones for the 14 cats you own? If so, you're a nutball .

IT IS a monster of a movie, boasting epic computer-generated effects of entire coastlines crumpling, sets built with movable floors to simulate earthquakes and a US$200 million budget.

Gino Goes One On One With '2012' Star Amanda Peet

If you rolled every disaster movie into one spectacular package, you would wind up with something close to "2012," Roland Emmerich's latest apocalyptic fantasy.

Movies Have a craving to see the White House destroyed? How about the Vatican? Well, director Roland Emmerich is here to help with his latest film, "2012." The Mayans believed that the world would come to an end in 2012, but in Emmerich's version, surely John Cusack and Amanda Peet will make it through alive.

Why? Because this occurs during the end of the world in a massive destruction. This kind of sensationalism, we reasoned, is standard fare for director Roland Emmerich: he is the guru of the 'blow 'em up' genre of movies.

Thandie Newton says she has strong friendships with men because she doesn't flirt.

Roland Emmerich professes to be tired of blowing up the world. It's an ironic thought here, in the shadow of the Grand Tetons, the outer reaches of the Yellowstone Park super-volcano that some day will erupt in an extinction-level event.

Good news, everyone! The Jay Leno Show was funny this week. There were some funny guests, genuinely funny comedy correspondent moments, and another Real Housewives quiz show, this time with the ladies from Atlanta.