Film "2012" tops weekend reservations

Hollywood movie pic "2012" continued to remain the most-anticipated film on the Korean box office into its second week of release, scoring the most advance reservations for the upcoming weekend on all ticket websites on Wednesday.

As of 10 a.m., the film's reservation rate stood at 62.84 percent on the website for the Korean Film Council and accounted for 63.23 percent of movie ticket sales on Ticket Link, 43.24 percent on Max Movie and 52.57 percent on Interpark.

The movie, starring John Cusack and Amanda Peet, had made a successful bow on the Korean box office last weekend, attracting over 1.3 million viewers and a total of more than 1.6 million viewers since its release on November 12.

The disaster-action flick was inspired by an old Mayan prediction that the world will come to an end in the year 2012.

The film held a much-hyped world promotion tour in September, including a press conference in Seoul which was attended by main character and top Hollywood actor John Cusack, director Roland Emmerich of "Independence Day" and producer Harald Kloser of "Day After Tomorrow".

Jessica Kim jesskim@asiae.co.kr