Where was 2012 filmed
2012
Year: 2009
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Film was filmed as a globe-spanning disaster thriller following scientists and ordinary people as they realize a chain of extreme geological events is underway. The plot moves between government crisis planning, scientific warnings, and a family’s urgent attempts to stay together while infrastructure collapses and evacuation plans are kept secret.
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Locations
Times Square (Broadway & 7th Avenue corridor, West 42nd–47th Streets), Manhattan
In movie
Scene where large-scale street-level chaos and crowd movement in a recognizable Midtown crossroads, using the bright signage and tightly packed blocks to sell the sense of a major city being overwhelmed as the wider catastrophe escalates.
Real
Scene was shot the real Times Square in Midtown Manhattan, a dense commercial and transportation hub known for giant digital billboards, heavy pedestrian traffic, and major theater venues along Broadway, centered around the Broadway–7th Avenue intersection zone.