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There's a lot of hoopla going around about Paramount Pictures' upcoming November movie, "2012." It's yet another disaster movie about the "end of the world," and it's got everyone wondering whether the ancient Mayans were really on to something about December 21, 2012.

"2012" the movie stars John Cusack, who delivers a great performance in the five-minute clip of the movie that Columbia Pictures released a couple of days ago. The cast also includes Amanda Peet, Danny Glover, and Woody Harrelson.

Of course, no one can pull this movie off better than Roland Emmerich, the king of disaster movies. If his name isn't familiar, he's the guy who brought "Godzilla," "Independence Day," and "The Day After Tomorrow" to now-paranoid moviegoers around the world.

The production crew poured in a budget that matches the one used in "Titanic," so it should be a blockbuster waiting to happen. If you can sit through almost 150 minutes of death and destruction, "2012" should be the movie to see next month.

The hype that's surrounding the movie is without a doubt because of the idea that the world is prophesied to end on December 21, 2012. The suggestion came from the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, the one the ancient Mayas used. According to the Mayan calendar, the 5,125-cycle of creation goes full circle on that date.

Of course, what the film's promoters purposely omitted was the fact that the date was also the BEGINNING of a new cycle for the Mayan calendar, which never ends.

So relax and check your paranoia at the door.