2012 (2009) on Netflix
PG-1320092h 38mActionAdventureSci-Fi
Geologist Adrian Helmsley learns a solar flare is warming the Earth's core. Writer Jackson Curtis takes his children camping at Yellowstone, where Charlie Frost tells him the world ends in 2012.
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- IMDb5.9/10427,057 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes39%
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Plot summary
Geologist Adrian Helmsley learns in India that a neutrino released by a solar flare is warming the planet's core, and he carries the evidence to Carl Anheuser at the White House and to President Thomas Wilson. More than forty-six countries, with the G8 and China leading, build nine arks in Tibet, raising money by selling places to the rich at a billion euros each. In Los Angeles, struggling science fiction writer Jackson Curtis drives for Russian billionaire Yuri Karpov and takes his children, Noah and Lilly, camping at Yellowstone National Park.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about 2012 (2009)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The film's promotional website let visitors register for a lottery number to be part of the small population rescued from the global destruction. David Morrison of NASA received over 1,000 inquiries from people who thought it was genuine, including teenagers who said they were contemplating suicide because they did not want to see the world end.
- 2012 became the first film ever to gross more than $700 million worldwide without making $200 million domestically, earning $625.1 million overseas against just $166.1 million in North America.
- As a marketing stunt, Comcast broadcast a two-minute scene of Los Angeles's destruction simultaneously across 450 American television networks and 89 cable outlets in a single ten-minute window, reaching an estimated 90 percent of households watching ad-supported TV, or nearly 110 million viewers.
- The film destroys landmarks including Christ the Redeemer and the Vatican, and Emmerich said the Kaaba was considered for selection too, but Kloser was concerned about a possible fatwa against him.
- Executive producer Mark Gordon pitched a television series about how the survivors would build a new world after the film's disaster, aimed at the opening ABC would have in disaster-related programming after Lost ended, but plans were canceled for budget reasons.
