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Roland Emmerich Unveils Independence Day Sequels

By Gage Henry on 4:00 PM on November 20, 2009

There’s just something about the idea of the world being ripped to pieces that gets the box-office bees buzzing, no matter how exhausted the story arcs may be. Roland Emmerich doesn’t give cinema anything new with his latest disaster flick, 2012, and he plans to keep that trend alive as he looks to make a couple more sequels to his 1996 blockbuster, Independence Day.... read more

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Roland Emmerich Plans to Bring 2012 to TV

By Emily Riemer on 3:00 PM on November 11, 2009

Roland Emmerich’s much-anticipated (and sometimes maligned) disaster flick 2012 hasn’t even come to theaters yet and already there are talks of it being adapted for the small screen.... read more

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Watch Some Hilarious Promo Footage of Roland Emmerich's 2012 With the Special Effects Removed

By Michael Saba on 9:52 AM on October 8, 2009

Director Roland Emmerich certainly loves himself some CGI-fueled spectacle. Independence Day, Godzilla, The Day After Tomorrow; for the last 15 years, almost all of his movies have banked heavily on a cornucopia of special-effects eye candy. And his upcoming disaster-porn movie 2012 looks to carry on that grand tradition of famous U.S. landmarks being destroyed by apocalyptic disasters. ... read more

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Emmerich lands rights to Asimov trilogy, 2012 delayed

By Jeffrey Bloomer on 2:17 PM on January 22, 2009

The late sci-fi master Isaac Asimov has had a particularly unfortunate run of it in Hollywood. For as prolific a writer and thinker as he was, it’s no surprise the industry has sought to mine his work, but the bloated studio efforts that have resulted so far—I, Robot and Bicentennial Man, most famously—haven’t exactly honored the legacy he carved out for himself.... read more

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John Cusack signs on for Roland Emmerich's 2012

By Meghan Jones on 7:52 AM on May 22, 2008

It seems John Cusack's film focus may be shifting from romantic comedies to the suspenseful and supernatural. What with his most recent films being Martian Child and the Stephen King-adapted 1408, it may come as no big surprise that he just got on board with... read more

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