Movie 2012

2012 is a 2009 action film-disaster film based loosely on the 2012 phenomenon and directed by Roland Emmerich. The film has an ensemble cast, including John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Woody Harrelson. The film was distributed by Columbia Pictures. Filming began in August 2008 in Vancouver. The film is set in a modern setting and only brushes on Mayanism and the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar.

In 2009, a huge solar flare erupts on the sun. One of the protagonists, Adrian Helmsley (Chiwetel Ejiofor), an American scientist, travels to a copper mine in India to meet his friend. His friend has discovered that Earth's core temperature is increasing rapidly. Adrian returns to Washington D.C. and submits a report to his supervisor, who immediately takes him to see Thomas Wilson (Danny Glover), the 45th President of the United States. In 2010, Wilson tells other heads of state the situation at the year's G8 summit and billionaires all over the world buy plane tickets for untold sums of money. In 2011 the original version of the Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris is replaced with a decoy, and is sealed away for unknown reasons.

The story jumps ahead to 2012, to Jackson Curtis (John Cusack), a divorced father who works as a limousine driver and writer, and his ex-wife, Kate (Amanda Peet), and children, Noah (Liam James) and Lily (Morgan Lily), who live with Kate's new boyfriend, Gordon (Thomas McCarthy). Jackson takes his children on a camping trip to Yellowstone, where he meets Charlie Frost (Woody Harrelson), who hosts a radio segment that addresses the Mayans' prediction.

Enormous cracks soon develop along the San Andreas Fault, California, and disruptive shaking occurs in the San Francisco Bay area, nearly knocking over a cruise ship. Despite government assurances that all is fine, Jackson grows suspicious.

After hiring a private plane, he drives to Kate's home to save his family and Gordon from the impending earthquakes of the Earth's crust displacement. Jackson quickly collects his family, and Gordon pilots a plane out of the city. Los Angeles then collapses into the Pacific Ocean. When the plane runs low on fuel, they are forced to land in Wyoming. Jackson uses the moment to contact Charlie, regarding a map to ships being built in order to save humanity. They return to Yellowstone to find Charlie, only to discover that he has gone to the mountains to watch the approaching catastrophe.

After getting hold of the map they discover that the ships they are searching for are in China. Jackson and his family leave just in time as Yellowstone Caldera erupts.

In order to get to China they convince a Russian billionaire, Yuri Karpov (Zlatko Buric), to allow them aboard his plane. The group eventually boards an Antonov An-225 at McCarran International Airport, as Las Vegas is destroyed by earthquakes and ravaged by the impeding volcanic ash cloud of Yellowstone.

While in the air, the group learns that the plane does not have enough fuel to reach China: they've passed Honolulu, Hawaii, which has been inundated in lava. As they're about to ditch the plane they discover that they are no longer above the ocean: the Earth's crust has shifted thousands of miles and they are heading towards the Himalayas. During a crash landing on a glacier they manage to escape from the plane safely by using one of the luxury vehicles in cargo as a raft, only to be abandoned by Yuri.

The group eventually find their way to the ships with the help of some locals and are smuggled aboard with the help of a Buddhist monk and his brother, a construction worker. Tsunamis begin to engulf the Indian peninsula, and a giant wave eventually reaches the ships, which turn out to be arks constructed to save the heads of state, hand-picked individuals chosen to repopulate the earth and the rich elite, who could afford to buy tickets (which was earlier mentioned that tickets were €1 000 000 000).

Adrian convinces the captains of the arks to let on more people by quoting Jackson's book which he liked, but the gate on the American ark gets jammed and the ark ends up on a crash course for Mount Everest. Jackson fixes the problem with the help of his son and the ark crashes but slows down enough that the damage is minor. When the flood eventually recedes, the captains of the arks decide upon the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa as a suitable place to reestablish humanity. The movie ends with a view of the world showing the dramatically changed African continent.

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Director Roland Emmerich and composer-producer Harald Kloser co-wrote a spec script titled 2012, which was marketed to major studios in February 2008. Nearly all studios met with Emmerich and his representatives to hear the director's budget projection and story plans, a process that the director had previously gone through with the films Independence Day (1996) and The Day After Tomorrow (2004). The film was shopped around with a production budget of $260 million. Later that month, Sony Pictures Entertainment won the rights for the spec script, planning to distribute it under Columbia Pictures. The studio planned to make the film for less than the estimated budget.

Filming was originally scheduled to begin in Los Angeles, California, in July 2008, but instead commenced in Vancouver in August 2008 and concluded in January 2009. Due to the possible 2008 Screen Actors Guild strike, filmmakers set up a contingency plan for salvaging the film. Uncharted Territory, Digital Domain, Double Negative, Scanline, Sony Pictures Imageworks and others were hired to create visual effects for 2012. Thomas Wander co-wrote the score with Harald Kloser.

Although the film depicts the destruction of several major cultural and historical icons around the world, Emmerich stated that the Kaaba was also considered for selection. Kloser had reservations over including Mecca, saying he did not want a fatwā issued against him.

Goal! 3

Goal! 3 is a forecoming film directed by Jonathan Smith, produced by Mike Jefferies and Matt Barrelle and written by Mike Jefferies and Piers Ashworth. It is the third installment of the footballing trilogy Goal! that also stars Alessandro Nivola and Anna Friel.

The Plot

Santiago Munez is called up for Mexico in the 2006 World Cup

Sidenote

* Goal! III is a Milkshake production for Disney Studios.

* An all new production team, director and writer for Goal! III bring fresh ideas, more stars and a wider ranging international story line centred upon the national teams, dramas and behind the scenes events at the FIFA World Cup 2006.

The film features some of the players from the Mexico and England squads. Filming has taken place in the studio and at various locations in Nottingham, Leicester and Lincolnshire, and new dramatic footage is blended with original film from the German FIFA World Cup tournament shot in 2006. Kuno Becker remains featured within the film plot, however his relationship status is still affecting his game resulting in him being dropped out in the final. He is substituted in the second half of extra time as he then goes on to score the winner against France two minutes before time to give Mexico their second world cup win. Viggo Mortensen (Lord Of The Rings, A History of violence) has always wanted to appear in a sports feature. due to his love for football he had to compete with the likes of Jon Voight and Antonio Banderas for the role of the Mexican head coach. He initially lost the role to Sanli Valdez who later deserted the role to pursue for the G.I Joe movie due in 2009. This was then forwarded to Virgo Mortensen as the rest of the candidates had already dropped out of the race. The world cup final was initially filmed in Stade de Soleil in France instead of the Berlin Stadium in Germany. this was due to the high taxes and surplus production fees to rent the stadium. An estimated 60% of the actors on pitch action scenes were shot against blue or green screen and are cleverly blended with real footage of the world cup.

Some Nottingham University students were used as extras during filming at the Nottingham City stadium and the club's training camp and the Walker Stadium in Leicester doubles as a World Cup venue in several scenes.

The movie was originally planned for release in the Spring/Summer of 2008 but is currently slated for release on March 10th 2009.

Cast

* Kuno Becker as Santiago Munez
* JJ Feild as Liam Adams
* Leo Gregory as Charlie Braithwaite
* Kasia Smutniak as Sophia Rossi
* Nick Moran as Nick Ashworth
* Viggo Mortensen
* David Beckham
* Alessandro Nivola
* Anna Friel as Roz Harmison
* Lucas Barield
* Stephen Dillane
* David Beckham (cameo part)
* Sven-Goran Eriksson (Original 2006 footage)
* Derek Williams (as Sven-Goran Eriksson)

Kuno Becker with Mexico Football Jersey.
This is the official image for Goal!3

Goal! 2: Living the Dream

Plot

The film starts at the beginning of the 2005/2006 season. Barcelona defeats Real Madrid by three goals in the Bernabéu, and Gavin Harris performs poorly in the Spanish league match. Santiago has attracted the interest of Real after his sensational performance in Newcastle last season and on deadline day he signs for them in a swap deal involving Michael Owen. Santi moves in with Roz to whom he is set to get married. He makes his debut in a game against Greek side Olympiakos. With the game tied at 0-0 he comes off the bench to score the winning goal with a fantastic volley to the delight of the home crowd. Meanwhile his friend Gavin Harris is misfiring and has failed to score in 14 matches.

Roz soon has to head home to carry on her studies. Santi continues to impress at Real and the manager and director of Football are seen arguing of whether he should start. However life gets bad for Santi when his half brother turns up and shows him a picture of his mom. Santi's mom left his dad years ago and is now living in Spain with a new husband and a son. Enrique had learnt of this and went to tell Santi. Santi is freaked and drives off. From then on his life goes downhill. He makes his first start in a home game against Valencia and he is sent off after 5 minutes when he hacked down Vicente. He drowns his sorrows at a bar with Jordana Garcia (a journalist he met at Gavin's party).

Things get worse for Santi as he misses the team plane for the game against Rosenborg and he then starts falling out with Roz as he becomes more selfish and arrogant. He sacks his agent Glen Foy who had given him a chance in football. Meanwhile his friend Gavin Harris is scoring again but he loses his house and moves in with Santi. Santi gets injured while playing football with Gavin at home and his coach bans him from returning home for Christmas. Roz begins to think that Santiago is cheating on her.

For New Year's Eve, Gavin organizes a party which Jordana Garica is invited to. Jordana and Santi soon start kissing and the next scene shows Santiago telling Gavin that nothing happened when in fact they kissed. Santi tells Gavin about his brother but seems unable to find him. Enrique and Santi encounter each other again, and Santiago gives Enrique a ride home. After Santi drops Enrique off at home, Enrique quickly grabs Santi's duffel bag containing his warm ups and practice jersey. Santiago, unable to chase Enrique because of his injury, gets back into his car.

Enrique then steals Santi's car and Santi jumps in a cab and orders the Cab to pursue the car. Enrique crashes the car and Santi is interviewed by the police at the hospital where Enrique has been treated. A member of the paparazzi takes a picture of Santi and Santi strikes him, just as the police drag him off he finally sees his mom.

He spends the night in the jail before a member of the club rescues him, however things get worse a magazine shows Jordana and Santi kissing at the bar on New Years Eve. Roz yells at Santi over the phone. Meanwhile Santi finally finds his mom and they talk over what happened where his mom reveals she ran away because a man and Santi's uncle attacked her. Santi plays a game of football with his brother Enrique. He then phones Roz and apologizes for his behaviour. Roz is pregnant but Santi doesn't know.

Harris scores the winning goal against Barcelona in the Champions League. Real Madrid get past Lyon in the Champions League Semi-Finals by goals of Harris and Santi in the Santiago Bernabéu. They play Arsenal in the final and are trailing 1-0 at half time. Santi is brought on to play behind Gavin Harris. Arsenal however score again through Thierry Henry. They then miss a penalty and Gavin Harris pulls one back. Santi hits the bar before scoring himself in injury time and David Beckham scores a free kick to win Real the Champions League.

Plot Notes

* Santiago Munez has been transferred to Real Madrid with Michael Owen moving in the opposite direction (to Newcastle) although in the change rooms the name Owen is still visible.

* Many Real Madrid players had cameos in the last film.

* All the actual footage of football matches came from the group stages in the Champions League. In reality, Real Madrid were knocked out by Arsenal in the first round, losing 0-1 at the Santiago Bernabeu and drawing 0-0 at Highbury.

* Gavin Harris is transferred to Real Madrid with no real reason behind it.

* In the unknown time frame between the movies, Roz and Santiago get engaged.

Cast

* Kuno Becker – Santiago Munez
* Alessandro Nivola – Gavin Harris
* Anna Friel – Roz Harmison
* Stephen Dillane – Glen Foy
* Rutger Hauer – Rudi Van Der Merwe
* Nick Cannon – TJ Harper (Arsenal F.C. Player)
* Frances Barber – Carol Harmison
* Miriam Colon – Mercedes
* Sean Pertwee – Barry
* Elizabeth Peña – Rosa Maria
* Leonor Varela – Jordana Garcia
* Mike Jefferies – Mad Director
* Alejandro Tapia – Julio
* Danny Stepper – American Tourist
* William Beck – Steve Parr
* Emma Field-Rayner – Lorraine
* Kevin Knapman – Jamie Drew

Songs

* Here Without You - 3 Doors Down
* Feeling a Moment - Feeder
* Bright Idea - Orson
* No Tomorrow - Orson
* Ave Maria - Barbara Bonney
* La Camisa Negra - Juanes
* I Like the Way (You Move) - BodyRockers
* Esto Es Pa Ti - Santa Fe
* Nothing - 'A'
* Letting the Cables Sleep - Bush
* Friday Friday - Boy Kill Boy
* Turning Japanese - The Vapours

Goal! The Dream Begins

Beginning

In Goal! The Dream Begins, Santiago is a football fan living in poverty in Mexico. His family escape to Los Angeles in United States of America as illegal immigrants. As Santiago gets older, he becomes a busboy at a Chinese restaurant and joins a local amateur football team.

Glen Foy, a former english player, sees him play and invites him a tryout for Newcastle United. Although all his talent, Santiago's father is against him chasing the dream and takes his hard-earned money to buy a truck for his gardening business. Heartbroken, Santiago loses all hope of chasing his dream as a football player. Amazingly, however, his grandmother uses the family savings to pay for his trip to Newcastle.

Starting life at Newcastle

Santiago Muñez arrives in Newcastle and is introduced to the manager of Newcastle United, Erik Dornhelm. When he goes for his tryout, he doesn't cope with the standard of Newcastle United's reserve players and he has a terrible match. Glen Foy pleaded for Santiago's tryout. Santiago was given a month for training. Fortunately, he passed and was on the reserve team. Santiago met Ros (Anna Friel) in the free clinic where Santiago got his medical papers since he does not have one. He did not tell Ros that he had a Respiratory problem (asthma). For the first game of the reserves, Santiago's inhaler was stepped on, therefore, he could not play well for the match. He was then kicked out of the team. The next day, Harris was late for practice. His car was out of wheels, literally. Gavin Harris rode the same cab Santiago was in first. Harris helped Santiago get back to the club. Erik Dornhelm put Santiago back in the reserves. During the second game for the reserves, Santiago made his career-starting goal and was advanced to the first team. When he made his debut against Fulham, he gives a penalty to Newcastle. Harris scored. The next match that he was in, he scored from a free kick against Liverpool, which gave Newcastle the fourth and final Champions League place, screaming to the top of his lungs.

Real Madrid

He is signed by Real Madrid as a swap for Michael Owen and Ros didn't want to go but Santi persuaded her. He came off the bench on numerous occasions and usually scored. But in his first start versus Valencia was a nightmare. He was sent of for a horror tackle on Vicente. While driving his Lamborghini his brother Enrique runs into the road and throws a picture of his mother Rosa (Elizabeth Pena) at him. He drives off. Soon after Enrique (only ten or eleven years old at the time) drives his Lamborghini and crashes it and a paparazzi photographer follows him to the hospital. He is questioned by the police and while answering their questions the same photographer snaps a shot of him and he smashes his camera and is jailed for a week. He redeems himself but starts on the bench for the champions league final against Arsenal who include TJ Harper and Hughie McGowan who appeared in the first film. They are losing 2-0 at half time thanks to goals by Harper and Thierry Henry. Santiago is put on to partner Gavin Harris. In the second half Arsenal have a second penalty but TJ Harper hits the bar an Santiago clears for Harris to volley over Jens Lehmann. Santiago then scores a belting volley and for the last touch of the game David Beckham scores a trademark freekick. The film ends with to be continued...