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Disaster struck at the box office this weekend, again and again.

Roland Emmerich’s CG-heavy apocalypse movie 2012 starring John Cusack and Amanda Peet had a huge opening weekend in the US and abroad, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Balancing its 0 million budget with its US earnings of million and the foreign box office of 0 million will please Sony who claim that 2012 opened top of each of the markets it played.

While not entirely surprising this success can only lead to other, similar successes and we can expect all manner of digital disasters coming our way, and this certainly will be good news for those looking forward to 2013, the proposed TV sequel and also the expected Independence Day sequels Emmerich recently discussed.

According to the Reporter Sony distribution president Rory Bruer said, “I felt the Earth move…Audiences responded to the amazing images they were seeing throughout the film’s campaign. This movie really did raise the bar, even for Roland Emmerich.”