Industry analysts expected heads to roll at Warner Bros. now that chief David Zaslav is surveying his kingdom. Toby Emmerich's appears to be the latest executive to walk.
Will Smith’s departure from Independence Day: Resurgence required Roland Emmerich to make some major changes to the sequel.
We visited director Roland Emmerich’s offices to screen select footage from his new disaster film, Moonfall, and to learn about how he created the movie's mysterious villain.
Halle Berry is about to save the earth from a massive Moonfall, and it looks stunning.
Halle Berry and Josh Gad play part of the team sent to stop the moon from crashing into Earth in director Roland Emmerich's next sci-fi disaster epic, Moonfall.
The Oscar winner joins Roland Emmerich's next disaster epic.
Josh Gad is the first to join the next disaster epic from Roland Emmerich.
Disaster film extraordinaire Roland Emmerich has once again set his sights on space with his upcoming action thriller Moonfall, about (you guessed it) the moon falling to Earth. As reported by THR, the first person cast in the ensemble picture is Frozen II’s Josh Gad, and to be perfectly honest, there’s no better candidate for a suicide mission into space. We can only hope he sings the moon a powerfully earnest song to knock it back into orbit in time to save humanity. [caption id="attachment_869682" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via HBO[/caption] Emmerich, whose past big-…
With the release of his new film Midway, we take a look back at Roland Emmerich's best and worst movies, from 10,000 B.C. to Independence Day.
The director sought to provide some nuance to the pivotal World War II battle.
Exclusive: Midway director Roland Emmerich agrees with legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese’s highly controversial take on Marvel movies.
We interview Midway director Roland Emmerich about his inspiration for making the World War II drama and staging the battle sequences.
2016’s Independence Day: Resurgence was many things. In addition to superlatives like “20 years too late” and “wholly unnecessary,” the film’s critics also heaped phrases like “boring” and “lame” on the big-budget sequel. Resurgence, the long-awaited follow-up to 1996’s mega hit Independence Day that it turns out nobody was actually awaiting, fell behind the original in another key factor - the presence of Will Smith. Independence Day was the movie that turned Smith into an international box office star, and his omission in the film is explained by a still photograph of a jet explosion. …
Netflix’s upcoming comedy Space Force just recruited another batch of cast members. Noah Emmerich from FX’s The Americans, Fred Willard of Best in Show and Modern Family, and Jessica St. Clair of Playing House and American Housewife have just been added to an already-impressive cast led by Steve Carell. Space Force, created by Carell and The Office and King of the Hill co-creator / developer Greg Daniels, follows General Mark R. Naird (Carell), who has been tasked by the White House to create a brand-new branch of the Armed Forces to protect American interests in space. […
German-born filmmaker Roland Emmerich is sometimes referred to as “the master of disaster,” after directing a string of blockbuster disaster films like Independence Day, Godzilla, and The Day After Tomorrow, a global warming horror film released in 2004. The affable 63-year-old received a career tribute at The Zurich Film Festival, where The Day After Tomorrow was screened alongside several new films with a strong environmental message, including the Antarctic documentary Sanctuary, featuring Javier Bardem, and Watson, a film about eco-warrior Paul Watson directed by An Inconvenient Truth producer Lesley Chilcott. Meanwhile, Emmerich’s new film, the …