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Jesse Ventura Wins Prize For Most Alarming 2012 Fearmongering

As the producer of the documentary film 2012: Science or Superstition (and editor of the book of the same title), I’ve watched more or less all the various TV specials, wacky docs and of course the Hollywood blockbuster from Roland Emmerich … not to mention my ever-expanding library of 50+ 2012-themed books. As a result [...]

NASA Launches WISE To Spot Near Earth Objects

In her book 2012: Science or Superstition, Alexandra Bruce writes:
We’ve been told since childhood that an asteroid extinguished the mighty dinosaurs in a single day. When we look out at our pockmarked celestial neighbors, we know that something similar could happen here again. Recent discoveries at the bottom of the seas seem to bear this [...]

Rare Video Interview With ‘2012: Science or Superstition’ Director Nimrod Erez

The director of the disinformation® documentary film 2012: Science or Superstition, Nimrod Erez, has a hectic schedule working on his next film, so writer/producer Gary Baddeley has been handling most media requests for interviews. Finally, though, Nimrod was coaxed into an interview by Daedelus Howell. Nimrod is the man behind the infamous Disinfo Nation TV series and the documentary film Da Vinci Code Decoded among many others, but he seldom strays from behind the camera. Fans of his work, here he is:

Gary Baddeley/2012 Movie Mash-up

Here an clip from GCB Radio 4 featuring a mash-up of an interview 2012:Science or Superstition producer Gary Baddeley and the new film 2012, direct by Roland Emmerich.  Download here.

Alexandra Talks 2012 on Two New Podcasts. Download here.

Hey guys,
Check out these new interviews with 2012: Science or Superstition author Alexandra Bruce.  Back on Halloween night she appeared on the Barbara Simpson’s Hot Talk on KSFO in San Francisco.  Here’s the link.
Alexandra also appeared on The X-Zone podcast this past week.  Here’s the link.

A Graphic Illustration of 2012 Skeptics Vs. Believers

The Information Is Beautiful blog has a pretty cool visualization of the 2012 debate:

How I Became A Prophet Of Doom

When making our film, 2012: Science or Superstition, I tried to be very mindful of our goal of setting people’s minds at rest about the likelihood of 2012 being the year predictions of an Apocalypse finally come true. I think we did a good job and the film mentions apocalyptic predictions without endorsing them.
So how [...]

Roland Emmerich Credits Graham Hancock

Finally! we always knew that Fingerprints of the Gods author Graham Hancock was one of the first people to write about things 2012. And we knew that Roland Emmerich used Graham’s seminal book for his 2012 movie, but not until now did the ‘master of disaster’ credit Graham. Now he has, in this Time Out [...]

NBC Tackles 2012

Well this is the week that 2012 goes mainstream … I’ll be on Inside Edition on Tuesday and I fear the worst. I’ve already been interviewed by CBS and ABC, but it seems that the third of the dinosaur TV networks here in the U.S. is going in another direction:
NBC set its weekend nightly news [...]

Roland Emmerich Planning ‘2012′ Sequel as TV Series Called ‘2013′

When I first read this, I thought it was a joke. How do you have a sequel when you destroy the world? Let the post-apocalyptic fun begin.
Meredith Woerner writes on io9.com:
Just seconds after telling us that he makes disaster movies because he hates sequels, director Roland Emmerich spilled all about his new ABC TV series [...]