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Jun 7, 2019 · He’s long wanted to make a film about the Battle of Midway, and “Midway” will finally arrive in theaters on Nov. 8. We’ve got an exclusive first look at the movie’s poster, and Emmerich ...
Jan 27, 2022 · Emmerich, 66, wanted to make the project for years, initially selling the concept to Universal, where it languished for a few years. When he regained the rights, Emmerich took it to Cannes and ...
Oct 26, 2020 · Roland Emmerich announces his new disaster movie Moonfall has begun filming. Emmerich’s reputation as the modern master of disaster movies of course began with the blockbuster success of his alien invasion epic Independence Day, which grossed $817 million worldwide in the summer of 1996. Emmerich would in fact never quite match the success of ...
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- Independence Day (1996) Independence Day is the gold standard for disaster movies, with one iconic scene of action after another. Whether it's the image of the UFO's shadow enclosing over New York, or the raging flames that descend through the streets as the aliens execute their attack, there are too many memorable moments to count.
- The Patriot (2000) With The Patriot, Emmerich took a brief hiatus from the disaster genre to film a Revolutionary War epic. Gibson plays a war veteran living in colonial America whose family is torn apart by a brutal British commander, played by Jason Isaacs, against whom he vows to get revenge.
- Stargate (1994) Gifted a budget of $55 million, more than double that of Universal Soldier, Stargate was Emmerich's biggest and most ambitious sci-fi film yet.
- The Day After Tomorrow (2004) When you spawn a South Park episode, you have to be doing something right (or horribly wrong). Emmerich does more than a few things right in his 2004 blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow, which was one of pop culture's first attempts in tackling climate change.
Nov 8, 2019 · Actually, 20 years ago when I first wanted to make the movie, I talked to William Goldman about it. He actually wanted to write it, but at that time I had a big Columbia deal and Columbia had just been bought by Sony, and so Sony wasn’t very happy to be making a $130-million-plus movie about a battle they lost!
Box office. $552.6 million [1] The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 American science fiction disaster film [2] conceived, co-written, co-produced, and directed by Roland Emmerich, based on the 1999 book The Coming Global Superstorm by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber, and starring Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sela Ward, Emmy Rossum, and Ian Holm.
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Jun 22, 2024 · "The message of the film is important here and I wanted to reach as wide an audience as possible to have an impact — and a blockbuster achieves that." From Emmerich's perspective, to succeed the ...
