12 Rounds is a 2009 English-language Action Crime film written by Daniel Kunka and directed by Renny Harlin and produced by Becki Cross Trujillo, Mark Gordon, Renny Harlin, Mike Lake, Josh Mclaughlin and Vince Mcmahon under the banner of WWE Studios in collaboration with Fox Atomic. Uniformed New Orleans PD officer Danny Fisher earns his promotion to detective to his near-rather lucky, albeit brave, arrest of ruthless terrorist arms-dealer Miles Jackson, whose girlfriend Erica Kessen got accidentally killed during the dirty FBI-operation. Exactly a year later, Miles has escaped and blows up Danny's house as foretaste of a Herculean race to accomplish twelve near-impossible tasks against the clock, otherwise his kidnapped wife Molly will be killed. Yet at the end, another master-plan is suspected. Written by KGF Vissers. 12 rounds features John Cena, Aidan Gillen, Ashley Scott, Steve Harris, Brian J. White, Brian White and Lynette Zumo. The music was composed by Trevor Rabin. Cinematography was done by David Boyd and editing by Brian Berdan. The movie has a running time of 109 minutes. It was released on 26th March 2009. 12 Rounds was made on a budget of $22 million and at the box office it grossed only $17 million. Distribution rights for the film were acquired by 20th Century Fox.