A global cataclysm brings about the end of the world in 2012.

User Review:- I am a serious movie buff. Not just because I watch a ton of movies, but because I LIKE watching movies. I have read the Critic’s reviews and User reviews for most of the new movies that have come out in recent years, and I have to say, most of them come off as ADHD spoiled brats. Movies are for story telling and entertainment. Not everything has to be an Oscar worthy movie, in order to be enjoyable. The Critics HATED Transformers 2… Was it the best film in the world? No, of course not. Was it fun, did I enjoy myself? YES. It’s giant robots fighting each other and blowing stuff up. Our toys and beloved cartoons come to life and looking very real. What’s not to love.

2012 is a film about what it might be like if the worst case scenario plays out. Does ANYONE really know what that would be like? Nope, but I think that they did a pretty good job imagining it. Yes it is 2 1/2 hours long, but I don’t remember checking my watch ONCE during the movie. It was fun, it was exciting, funny, and disturbing. In short, it was a great movie. Will it win any Oscars for Best Actor, or Best Story? Probably not, but I don’t think that was the point. Make up your own mind and don’t let a bunch of spoiled movie haters bully you into missing out on a fun movie. Full Review

Harris’ jubilation was understandable.

Set to further expand its run this weekend from 1,945 locations to around 2,400, and having grossed $65.1 million through Wednesday on a sub-$15,000 production budget, “Paranormal” has already exceeded the film it is most often compared to, “The Blair Witch Project,” as the most profitable movie of all time.
“Blair Witch’s” $248.6 million worldwide haul a decade ago – juxtaposed against its $60,000 production costs – represented an almost unthinkable 414,233 percent return on investment.

Doing the same basic ROI math on “Paranormal” (65.1 million minus 15,000 divided by 15,000 times 100) yields an equally unfathomable result of 433,900 percent.

Harris was perhaps as relieved as he was giddy Sunday that the distribution strategy for the film fulfilled the hype surrounding Paramount’s viral marketing campaign.

The little film picked up steam in late September when a social-media initiative helped it make an impressive $77,900 out of a dozen midnight shows.

Almost from the beginning, Harris said he and his team resisted industry pressure to roll the movie out wide faster.

Since Paramount had spent less than $10 million to create awareness for “Paranormal,” Harris believed that a slow, methodical roll-out would be better.

“Everybody else thought we should be going faster than we were,” he told TheWrap. “But I thought we were doing a pretty good job of seeding the ground as we went. I don’t know that we would have done a lot more last weekend if we would have added a bunch of runs then.”

Indeed, while increasing venues from 12 to 33 to 160 to 760 to last weekend’s 1,945, “Paranormal’s” platform expansion was even more gradual than that of “Blair Witch,” which went from 27 to more than 2,000 in a span of four weeks in the middle of the 1999 summer blockbuster season. Full Story

The Bigger Picture: An early scene with Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) flirting with a Muggle in London sets the tone: The kid wizards have more on their minds than that buzz kill Voldemort. And that’s a good thing.

After the rather hurried Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, this newest installment is tempered, more assured and relaxed. It’s the closest the films have come to feeling like we’re just hangin’ out with our favorite trio—Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint—and it’s a little bit magical.

But even with a longer running time, terrific effects and great dollops of humor and emotion, Half-Blood Prince still feels overstuffed.

Headmaster and grand pooh-bah wizard Albus Dumbledore (Michael Gambon) tells Harry he must befriend the new potions teacher at Hogwarts, Professor Slughorn (a touching Jim Broadbent). See, Big D has been collecting the memories of young He Who Must Not Be Named, hoping to find a way to defeat the Dark Lord.

And when li’l Tom Riddle, aka Voldemort (Hero Fiennes-Tiffin, nephew of Ralph Fiennes, who plays the adult Riddle), was attending Hogwarts, Slughorn had a revealing conversation with him.

Can Harry piece together the clues? And can he use his magical superstar status for more than just free butterbeers?

Incidentally, with Slughorn now teaching potions, what will dear old Prof. Snape (Alan Rickman) do? At long last, he has claimed the cursed “defense against the dark arts” post. This is good for Snape, bad for Harry and terrific for Potter fans who know this marks the beginning of the end for the series. While Half-Blood Prince might be book six, it feels like part one of what will be the series’ three-part finale. (The final novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, will be adapted into two films in 2010 and 2011.)

For now, though, Prince treats viewers to superb effects work, haunting art direction and great casting. Once again, Rickman seems to do so much with little screen time. And it’s been a joy to see Radcliffe, Grint and Watson grow up before our eyes. To that end, there’s plenty of teen angst and romantic subplots here. Their hormonal struggles for happiness are heartfelt and oftentimes hilarious.

The 180—a Second Opinion: This is a very touchy-feely Potter flick, though never quite One Tree Wizard. Those looking for everything you need to know about the Dark Lord should read the book instead. Or again.

The weekend box office was the domain of Prince Harry Potter and the Half-Blood, which followed the large opening Wednesday with $ 79.5 million big Friday-Sunday, by the estimates, pushing its total take $ 159.7 million. 

Baron Cohen ‘s Bruno Sacha, meanwhile, sales of the ticket of the Sierra plunges 73 percent from last weekend, a drop that puts the comedy in the inglorious company of such absolute self-fallers Cancun like true adventures of Pluto Nash and condemnation of the bust of the video game.

Here ‘s how Prince Half-Blood of the stack up against their elders Harry Potter (and, for these increases in pressure, burning twilight Edward Cullen, too):

After five days, the Prince of the Half-Blood is the film’s high-potter wins total so far (or so short) in its operation.

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About the only film that makes the Half-Blood Prince looks like a slacker is the dark knight. Compared to a year ago, when the Batman film had $ 158.4 million (!) The principle of Friday-Sunday this weekend ‘business box office was down the s of nearly 40 percent.

The Bruno didn ‘t do much to lift Hollywood ‘ s fund In its second weekend, the button-pushing comedy dropped from first to fourth, from $ 30.6 million to $ 8.4 million.

Box Office Mojo for the setback of the second-weekend for Bruno ‘s was of the exact 72.7 percent, placing 31st in the list of stumblers absolute second-weekend, right between the condemnation and Rodney Dangerfield ‘sparks Wally meeting s.

As bad as the look, Bruno is Austrian for Gigli. For one thing, that infamous comedy by Jennifer Lopez-Ben Affleck took the third-biggest plunge of death in the history of Hollywood (the 81.9 per cent). For others, Gigli took a $ 54 million budget and gave back $ 6 million in bulk, while Bruno has taken the Universal ‘s $ 42.5 million investment and has given back $ 49.6 million in bulk ($ 85.9 million worldwide).

The return of the survey on which Bruno was nothing like Borat was correct. After two weekends, Borat had won a total of $ 67.1 million.

Megan Fox was ranked among the greats. Transformers: Revenge of the fallen livestock in total another $ 13.8 million, and moved to thirteenth place among the champions of absolute Hollywood ‘s the box office with $ 363.9 million total incredible.

Among the R-rated movies top-earners in total absolute surf ($ 8.3 million) bridging the Beverly Hills cop and exorcist, and moved to third with $ 235.9 million total. Only matrix reloaded ($ 281.6 million) and support the passion of Christ ($ 370.8 million) between comedy and Vegas bleepin a ‘crown.

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs ($ 17.7 million) spent $ 150 million mark overall.

Perhaps Cameron Diaz didn ‘t open my sister ‘ s responsible for the ($ 2.8 million) at No. 1, but it ‘s the film remained the top 10 for four weekends, and helped weepie to $ 30 million to take a $ 41.5 million.

Still as Ben ‘s Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian ($ 760,000) outputs the top 10 after eight weekends. The film cost $ 150 million released to date, it ‘s were $ 171.8 million, so the box office-wise, it ‘ s a bit like my sister ‘s responsible for the statues that talk.

In limited release, days of the comedy of the emo 500) (summer were bigger than Harry Potter, winning a total of $ 837,588 in 27 theaters for a weekend-best average per-screen of $ 31,022.

Here ‘the full weekend ‘ the look of the SA top-earning films in total s based on Friday-Sunday estimates as compiled by Exhibitor Relations:

1.Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, $79.5 million
2.Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, $17.7 million
3.Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, $13.8 million
4.Brüno, $8.4 million
5.The Hangover, $8.3 million
6.The Proposal, $8.29 million
7.Public Enemies, $7.6 million
8.Up, $3.1 million
9.My Sister’s Keeper, $2.8 million
10.I Love You, Beth Cooper, $2.7 million

A bigger-than-expected Sunday box office delivered Star Trek a $75.2 million opening weekend, per final numbers today from Exhibitor Relations. That gross is nearly $3 million greater than the weekend estimate of $72.5 million.

The retooled Trek’s four-day, Thursday-Sunday haul now stands at just under $80 million, or $79.2 million, to be tricorder precise.

Figured on making about $18 million on Sunday, Trek ended up with about $21 million instead.

Two weekends ago, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which picked up about as many bad reviews as Trek picked up good ones, felt the sting of the final numbers when its projections came up $2 million shy of reality.

Action movie Max Payne, starring Mark Wahlberg, topped the US box office with takings of $18m (£10.2m), beating Oliver

Stone’s political movie W.
W, which is based on President George W Bush and stars Josh Brolin, opened in fourth place after taking $10.6m (£6m) in its

first weekend.
Family comedy Beverly Hills Chihuahua was number two, followed by adventure drama The Secret Life of Bees.
Rounding off the top five was Shia LaBeouf’s Eagle Eye.
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Stone’s last movie, World Trade Center, debuted with takings of $18.7m (£10.7m).

NORTH AMERICA BOX OFFICE
1. Max Payne – $18m
2. Beverly Hills Chihuahua – $11.2m
3. The Secret Life of Bees – $11.1m
4. W – $10.6m
5. Eagle Eye – $7.3m
6. Body of Lies – $6.9m
7. Quarantine – $6.3m
8. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist – $3.9m
9. Sex Drive – $3.6m
10. Nights in Rodanthe – $2.7m
However, the 2006 film was shown in nearly 3,000 cinemas, about 900 more than W.

“For me, an Oliver Stone film about George Bush doesn’t necessarily scream big box office,” said Paul Dergarabedian, from box.
“A film like this is very tough to gauge, but this is exactly what I thought it would do.”
The decision was made to release the movie two weeks before the US presidential election, said Steve Rothenberg, from

distribution firm Lionsgate.
“We felt it was very important to release the film after the presidential debates but before the election.”

Rider redo got off to a slow start last night, scoring only 7.3 million viewers, Nielsen Media Research estimates said.
On a Wednesday night last September, the same network’s Bionic Woman redo started off with 13.9 million viewers—and Nielsen watchers should remember how that story ended. (Recap: Badly, it ended badly.)
In the 8 p.m. time slot, Knight Rider ran third in viewers, behind ABC’s Ted McGinley-shunning Dancing With the Stars (15.6 million) and Fox’s Bones (9.6 million). The show likewise ran third among 18- to 49-year-olds.
The car-powered series did perform better among men ages 18-49 and 18-34. But it struck out with teenagers who treated the 26-year-old property as if it were a CBS comedy about middle-aged divorcees.
Knight Rider even suffered in comparison to itself, or rather to the TV movie that relaunched the franchise last February. That show finished the week in the top 10 with 12.7 million viewers.
If there was a bright side to Knight Rider’s dark night, it was that the show wasn’t called Gary Unmarried (6.8 million).
The new Jay Mohr sitcom, one of the aforementioned CBS shows about middle-aged divorcees, tanked, right alongside its comedy-block companion, The New Adventures of Old Christine (6.7 million), which presumably longed for its old Monday-night time slot.
Elsewhere, a speech by President Bush messed with the 9 p.m. hour, at least in the time zones where the address was aired in prime time. Basically, though, CBS ruled the hour with Criminal Minds (15.1 million).

The fall box office sure fell all right.

After a $4 billion-grossing summer, Hollywood slogged through its worst weekend of the year, per studio estimates compiled today by Exhibitor Relations.
The weekend was distinguished, if not defined, by Bangkok Dangerous, the new Nicolas Cage action movie, which finished first with the lowest gross for a No. 1 movie in five years ($7.8 million).
If estimates hold, the $45 million Bangkok Dangerous will barely have had enough fire power to outgross the debuts of 2008 bombs such as Mad Money ($7.7 million) and Space Chimps ($7.2 million).
Adding insult to injury, the movie, a remake of the 1999 Thai shoot-’em’-up of the same name, goes down as Hollywood’s smallest No. 1 movie since David Spade’s Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star debuted with $6.6 million over the same weekend in 2003.
For Cage, Bangkok Dangerous is another box-office miss in a hit-and-miss career—a movie that failed to match his last September opener: the viral-video-celebrated Wicker Man, which, bear suit, bees and all, opened with $9.6 million over Labor Day weekend in 2006.
For those keeping score in Hollywood, the holiday movie season begins after only eight more potentially long weekends.

The last $100 million is the hardest.
The Dark Knight yesterday became only the second movie in Hollywood history to gross $500 million or more. It now stands within $100 million of toppling Titanic as the biggest-ever film at the domestic box office.
Elsewhere, Tropic Thunder made it three wins in a row at the weekend box office, with a $14.3 million four-day, holiday take, per studio estimates today from Exhibitor Relations.
The Dark Knight’s estimated Sunday gross of $3.3 million put the Batman movie over the $500 million mark only 45 days into its release, per Box Office Mojo stats.
For the Friday-Monday, Labor Day weekend, the Christopher Nolan film made $11 million. Its overall take now stands at $504.7 million.
Titanic rules the all-time box-office chart with a domestic gross of $601 million.
While The Dark Knight has made its money in lightning-fast time, it is not expected to have enough left in the tank to get to $600 million.
Not that $500 million won’t get you pretty far.

Drilling down the box-office standings:
# Tropic Thunder has now been the No. 1 weekend movie for more weeks (three) than any film besides The Dark Knight (four).
# Despite its run at the top spot, the $90 million-ish comedy has yet to make back its budget. As of today, it’s made an estimated $86.6 million overall.
# Dollar for dollar, Pineapple Express (ninth place, $3.5 million Friday-Sunday; $4.5 million Friday-Monday) remains the R-rated comedy hit of the summer. Made for $27 million, it’s made $80.9 million at the box office.
# The $25 million House Bunny  (fourth place, $8.3 million Friday-Sunday; $10.5 million Friday-Monday) held up well in its second weekend, and brought its cumulative total to $30 million.
# The spoof movie is sputtering. Disaster Movie (seventh place) earned $6.2 million Friday-Sunday, well behind this year’s Superhero Movie ($9.5 million) and Meet the Spartans ($18.5 million).
# Vin Diesel’s box-office career is sputtering, too. Yes, his Babylon A.D. ($9.6 million Friday-Sunday; $12 million Friday-Monday) finished a close second to Tropic Thunder, but its debut was far smaller than that of The Pacifier ($30.6 million) and The Chronicles of Riddick ($24.3 million), to name his two most recent wide releases.
# The new Steve Martin-hatched spy movie, Traitor (fifth place), starring Don Cheadle, actually outgrossed Tropic Thunder, theater for theater. It earned $7.9 million from Friday-Sunday, and $10 million from Friday-Monday.
# In its second weekend, Rainn Wilson’s The Rocker played in more theaters than The Dark Knight, something you’d never know by looking at the numbers: $1 million Friday-Sunday; $1.3 million Friday-Monday.
# Hamlet 2′s another comedy unable to crack the Top 10. In its second weekend, the critically praised satire broke wide…and flopped: $1.7 million Friday-Sunday; $2.1 million Friday-Monday.
# Debuting at 2,123 theaters, the new comedy College ($2.1 million Friday-Sunday; $2.6 million Friday-Monday) flopped harder.
# The Japanese spaghetti Western Sukiyaki Western Django killed. At one theater, it made $10,236 Friday-Sunday ($14,000 Friday-Monday) for the weekend’s highest per-screen average.
# Keifer Sutherland’s Mirrors ($2.7 million Friday-Sunday; $3.5 million Friday-Monday; $25.5 million overall) and Star Wars: The Clone Wars ($2.7 million Friday-Sunday; $3.5 million Friday-Monday; $30.4 million overall) both fell out of the Top 10 after two weekends.
# The first Mummy movie cost about $80 million, and made $155.4 million. The third one, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor ($2.6 million Friday-Sunday; $3.5 milion Friday-Monday) cost about $145 million, and has made $98.7 million so far.

Here’s a recap of the top-grossing weekend films based on Friday-Sunday estimates compiled by Exhibitor Relations:
# Tropic Thunder, $11.5 million
# Babylon A.D., $9.6 million
# The Dark Knight, $8.6 million
# The House Bunny, $8.3 million
# Traitor, $7.9 million
# Death Race, $6.3 million
# Disaster Movie, $6.2 million
# Mamma Mia! $4.4 million
# Pineapple Express, $3.5 million
# Vicky Cristina Barcelona, $2.8 million

It was an awesome film. I have my own sort of rating system. I call it the watch system. The more times I look at my watch, the worse the movie. Titanic was a five-watch movie. Terrible, in my opinion. Dark Knight was a one-watch movie. Lots of action, twists and turns.
“Heath Ledger owned his part as The Joker, just as Christian Bale now owns Batman. (Director) Christopher Nolan does a wonderful job keeping true to the Batman story.
“Maggie Gyllenhaal replacing Katie Holmes as Rachel Dawes was a good choice. Aaron Eckhart fit the bill as District Attorney Harvey Dent/Two Face. There’s a very nice touch at the end for the tribute of Heath Ledger and Comway Wickliffe, one of the stuntmen on the film. If I get a chance, I may go see it again.