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A Box Office countdown to Roland Emmerich's most successful films.Film Director.Worldwide Grosses.
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- 5.2K
- Top 10 Charts
- 10,000 BC
- Moonfall
- Independence Day: Resurgence
- Stonewall
- Moon 44
- Godzilla
- Ghost Chase
- Making Contact
- 2012
- Midway
Although 10,000 BC was a financial success at the box office, it was critically panned for a complete disregard for historical accuracy, not to mention basic logic and coherent storytelling. The prehistoric era epic stars Steven Strait as a woolly mammoth hunter who inadvertently becomes the leader of his tribe and discovers an advanced civilizatio...
Those hoping Moonfall might redeem Roland Emmerich after a series of recent critical failures are likely to be disappointed. The plot of his latest disaster epic combines two of Emmerich’s favorite story elements: an alien invasion narrative and a series of CG-heavy destruction sequences. Unfortunately, it is a poor example of each, muddling the st...
Even Bill Pullman and Jeff Goldblum returning to reprise their roles was not enough to save Independence Day: Resurgence, a sequel that took 20 years to get made. The film’s failures start with the silly screenplay, which begins with an idealized vision of the future in which every nation on Earth has been at peace since the first alien attacks. In...
For years Emmerich discussed the possibility of making a more personal film, but his decision to tackle the 1969 Stonewall riots was quickly met with skepticism from those familiar with his body of work. Although Stonewall is primarily a coming-of-age narrative for protagonist Danny Winters (Jeremy Irvine), a gay teenager from Indiana who travels t...
Despite only being released theatrically in Germany, Emmerich made Moon 44 in English with hopes that it would provide new opportunities in filmmaking. This low-budget sci-fi action film has a nonsensical and overstuffed storyline involving an undercover cop, convicts being used as cheap labor to mine resources from a moon, and an android threat, b...
Godzilla has been successfully revived in recent years, both with new Toho Studio installments and in Legendary's MonsterVerse, and Emmerich’s disastrous adaptation is partially responsible. Toho hated the 1998 Godzilla movie so much that they decided to make Godzilla 2000 as a result, spawning the Millennium series. While Emmerich’s film is not fa...
Released as Hollywood-Monster in Germany before being retitled for American audiences, Ghost Chase is a campy horror-comedy that pays homage to the B-films from past decades. When teenager and aspiring director Fred (Tim McDaniel) discovers his leading actor Warren (Jason Lively) is the beneficiary of an old clock containing the spirit of his grand...
Another German theatrical release, Making Contact is a Poltergeist rip-off with plenty of practical effects. Originally titled Joey, the film follows a young boy (Joshua Morell) who believes he can speak with his deceased father through a toy telephone. At the same time, the child is terrorized by a possessed ventriloquist dummy and develops teleki...
Although 2012 is Roland Emmerich’s second-highest-grossing film, the bloated disaster epic failed to offer anything he hadn’t done better in previous releases. Capitalizing on the Mayan calendar's prediction of the 2012 apocalypse, the film launched a successful marketing campaign while neglecting to create a screenplay with relatable characters. T...
Despite his tendency to alter events to better suit the narrative, Emmerich showed a surprising dedication to historical accuracy in making Midway. The war film is based on the Battle of Midway in the Pacific Theater, told from the American perspective but with an effort to depict the Japanese side of the conflict as well. Though historical accurac...
- 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.
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- The Day After Tomorrow (2004) If you're seeking the quintessential natural disaster movie, look no further than Emmerich's mid-2000s triumph. "The Day After Tomorrow" has it all: super-sized hail, tsunamis, tornadoes, and polar vortexes that immediately freeze everything in the vicinity.
- Universal Soldier (1992) The first of many collaborations between Emmerich and writer-producer Dean Devlin was an early 90s movie that featured the biggest action movie stars of the day — Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren.
- White House Down (2013) Coincidentally released in the same year as the similarly-themed "Olympus Has Fallen," Emmerich's take on a president-rescue scenario pipped its rival at the box office, but has been largely forgotten since due to its lack of sequels.
- Anonymous (2011) You'd be forgiven for thinking that both of Emmerich's forays into historical drama movies must be equally bad, but that couldn't be further from the truth.
7.0 (615K) Rate. 59 Metascore. The aliens are coming and their goal is to invade and destroy Earth. Fighting superior technology, mankind's best weapon is the will to survive. Director Roland Emmerich Stars Will Smith Bill Pullman Jeff Goldblum. 3. Stargate. 1994 1h 56m PG-13.
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Roland Emmerich is a German film director and producer of blockbuster films like The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Godzilla (1998), Independence Day (1996) and The Patriot (2000). Before fame, he originally wanted to be a production designer, but decided to be a director, after watching the original Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977).
