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HitFix Interview: '2012' director Roland Emmerich
6 hours ago | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
It's the end of the world as we know it, but Roland Emmerich feels fine. And he should feel fine. No filmmaker of his generation has made more money off of destroying the world, one internationally famous landmark at a time. Between "Independence Day," "Godzilla" and "The Day After Tomorrow," Emmerich's disaster oeuvre has yielded more than $1.7 billion in worldwide box office (that doesn't take into account films like "Stargate," "10,000 B.C." and "The Patriot"). On Friday (Nov. 13), Emmerich's latest global destroyer hits theaters. Given the other names on his resume, it's hard to believe, but... »
- Daniel Fienberg
Secret Area 51 (Movie) Documents Released to the Public
9 hours ago | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Last month we reported that Paranormal Activity director Oren Peli was starting production on his next big screen project Area 51. For those living in a cave or under a rock, Area 51 has long been the focus of much extraterrestrial conspiracy theory. Famed for being a hotbed of alien activity, whether it be spaceships or alien beings, Area 51 holds a special place in modern day pop lore (thanks in part to movies like Independence Day).
Well the script was supposed to be one of the secrets that no one would ever crack. *Snicker* Come on now! This is the 21st century; home to the internet (thanks Al Gore), Facebook, Twitter and 24 hour non-stop news, sports and games. Did they really think that a leak of some sort wasn’t going to happen? Our co-horts in cinema at Latino Review were visited in the night by an “owl” (named »
- Paul Young
Box Office: 2012 Pirates on a Dead Man's Chest
13 hours ago | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Christmas came a little early allowing the animated 3D film A Christmas Carol to lead the box office, but not by as large a margin as many had expected. The Box was the only one of last week's wide releases to miss the top five, landing in sixth place. Here's the top five:
1. A Christmas Carol: $30 million
2. Michael Jackson's This Is It: $13 million
3. The Men Who Stare at Goats: $12.67 million
4. The Fourth Kind: $12.2 million
5. Paranormal Activity: $8.2 million
We've got two new flicks fighting for your dollars this week:
2012
What's It All About: They say the world will end with not a bang but a whimper, but director Roland Emmerich seems pretty sure it will happen with several kabooms and a motherload of digital effects. John Cusack stars as a man determined to keep his family alive during a global cataclysm predicted by the Mayan calendar. »
- Matt Bradshaw
Greatest Moments in Disaster Porn Finally Revealed!
13 hours ago | Fandango | See recent Fandango news »
From the Urban Dictionary, the definition of Disaster Porn is as follows: "A movie with lots of destruction and explosions and disasters. For example: Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, 2012. This weekend 2012 hits theaters, and based on the commercials and trailers it looks to be the biggest and baddest disaster porn ever assembled in the history of films where lots of cities and monuments and parks and famous buildings blow up for no other reason than to get the kid in the third row to go "Whoa!" And while you probably think filmmaker Roland Emmerich is all to blame (I mean, he did give us the trifecta of Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow and 2012), think again. Those end-of-the-world fanatics over at Moviefone's Inside Movies blog...
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We Have To 'Go Intergalactic' After '2012,' John Cusack Says
15 hours ago | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
From MTV.Com: The first time we see John Cusack in "2012," he says he's about to be killed: The guy's late to pick up his kids for a camping trip and his ex-wife is not the forgiving type. About 30 minutes later — and really, for the next two hours — that hyperbolic sentiment becomes frighteningly real when Los Angeles (and then the rest of the planet) disintegrates into a fiery, tsunami-swept wasteland.
Director Roland Emmerich has made disaster movies aplenty ("Independence Day," "The Day After Tomorrow") but Cusack argued in a recent MTV News interview that "2012" is no disastrous flick.
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- Adam Rosenberg
Q&A: Roland Emmerich Doesn't Actually Want to Destroy the World—Just the State of Maine
16 hours ago | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »
2012 director Roland Emmerich at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. By Javier Etxezarreta/Efe/Sipa Press. Roland Emmerich has effectively destroyed the world three times. The German-born director of Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow ups the apocalyptic ante in 2012, which is both his latest movie and the year the Maya calendar predicts the world will come to an end. He's not shy about depicting tsunamis in Asia and collapsing twin skyscrapers in the United States—events that, yes, feel all too familiar. He’s also not shy about where he feels the blame should go for the real-life problems that plague the world: squarely on the shoulders of our 43rd president. Emmerich’s pleasant demeanor disappears when the subject of Maine’s recent vote repealing the legalization of gay marriage is discussed. Emmerich, who is openly gay and a staunch supporter of gay rights, perhaps feels his own »
10 Movies That Changed The (End Of The) World
18 hours ago | Rotten Tomatoes | See recent Rotten Tomatoes news »
This week's 2012 sees director Roland Emmerich getting back to doing what he does best -- or worst, depending on which side of the argument you fall -- as he uses Mayan prophecy as a loose pretext for laying waste to the planet in a way that would shame even his previous Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow. Of course, movie-makers have been depicting the end of the world since the dawn of cinema, so we decided to take a look back at 10 of the landmark films of the disaster genre. Have a nice apocalypse, kids... »
Before the World Ends, Matt Heads to Wyoming for 2012 and Interviews the Cast
20 hours ago | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Last month, I was lucky enough to be invited to Jackson Hole, Wyoming to cover the press junket for Roland Emmerich’s upcoming disaster flick 2012, which opens this Friday. Some people reading this may be thinking, “Lucky to go to Wyoming? Har har!” These people (in addition to laughing oddly) have never been to Jackson Hole, Wyoming because it is an absolutely gorgeous landscape. There are forests, grassland, and mountains all grouped together and it provides a feeling of complete tranquility to the area. It’s isolated but when you stop to think about how most of us are bombarded on a daily basis by technology and communications that isolation turns into an oasis.
I also got to see Roland Emmerich destroy the world real good and then talk about it with Emmerich and stars John Cusack, Amanda Peet, and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Hit the jump for what they had to »
- Matt Goldberg
2012 review (1 ½ out of 5) - A two and a half hour “nuke the fridge” moment
11 November 2009 5:50 AM, PST | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
2012 is supposed to be The End Of The World as the Mayans knew it, but yet again, it’s The End Of The World as Roland Emmerich knows it. The writer/director of Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow is back in pretty familiar apocalyptic territory: the working class everyman just trying to get his family to safety, the wizened old man who wants to reconnect with his family in the final moments, the President of the United States who delivers inspiring messages when we need it, and the destruction of national and world monuments that make the perfect images for the trailer. But Emmerich has perhaps forgotten what made Independence Day a big hit. The explosion of the White House got us into the theater, but it was Will Smith and Bill Pullman fighting the aliens that kept the film in our memories. Independence Day was about the »
2012 sparks interest in Mayan calendar - but is it wrong?
11 November 2009 4:43 AM, PST | Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news »
It’s not often that the Mayan calendar muscles into conversation here at Boxwish (and by not often, we mean never). However, that might not be the case for much longer with new disaster epic, 2012 looming on the horizon (it hits cinemas this Friday). The action blockbuster starring John Cusack looks at the Mayan calendar’s prediction that the world will end on this date and as such director Emmerich (who loves trashing humanity with past efforts including Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow) has really gone to town, laying siege to a number of international landmarks, with the Himalayas wiped out by a tsunami and L.A. saying sayonara thanks to a colossal earthquake (though an Islamic place of worship avoids onscreen destruction, see Related Content, right). But is this destruction actually true to the prediction? Some experts say a big fat no. »
2012 Premiere - Interviews with the Cast and Director
11 November 2009 4:00 AM, PST | movies.about.com | See recent movies.about.com news »
John Cusack stars as a divorced novelist who finds out the world is going to end and tries to save his family from a series of disasters in the action epic 2012 from writer/director Roland Emmerich. Emmerich's no stranger to telling big stories having helmed Stargate, Independence Day, and The Day After Tomorrow, but according to the veteran action director, this is likely to be his last huge production for a while. On the special 'black' carpet in downtown La, Emmerich told me he's ready to try something smaller. "I will not up the bar in my next movie," said Emmerich. "No, I'll just do a small, little movie, very different."
Check out these interviews from the disaster-free La premiere of Columbia Pictures' 2012:
John Cusack and His Onscreen Kids Talk 2012
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Beatrice Rosen, and Chin Han on Action Films and 2012 Prophecies
Interviews with Writer/Director Roland Emmerich »
2012 La Escape Clip
10 November 2009 11:03 PM, PST | toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news »
Sony Pictures recently released this new movie clip “La Escape” from the upcoming film “2012″ by director Roland Emmerich (All Quiet on the Western Front, Fantastic Voyage) and starring Thandie Newton (W.), John Cusack (Stopping Power, 1408), Amanda Peet and Danny Glover as President Wilson. Click Here for more photos, news and videos from 2012. Synopsis: Disaster movie maven Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow) crafts this apocalyptic sci-fi thriller following an academic researcher who opens a portal into a parallel universe, making contact with his double in an effort to prevent the catastrophic prophecies of the ancient Mayan calendar from coming to pass. According to the Mayan calendar, the [...] »
- Brian Corder
Adam Lambert Exclusive Video Interview 2012
10 November 2009 10:39 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Opening this Friday is director Roland Emmerich’s 2012. As most of you have seen in commercials and trailers, 2012 is about a global cataclysm that causes massive destruction to our planet. If you’re keeping count, this is Emmerich’s third time blowing up our planet (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow) and I think he’s learned from his previous efforts to deliver his biggest spectacle yet. Trust me, this movie is loaded with some of the craziest special effects you’ll see this year and if you want to have some fun, grab a popcorn and soda and hit a theater this weekend.
To help promote the film, our partners at Omelete were invited to the international press day and they sent me to cover it. So after the jump you can watch my interview with American Idol runner up Adam Lambert. He provided a song for the film. »
- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
The Good, The Bad And The Wtf: Clashing News, Wolves and All
10 November 2009 6:57 PM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
Things to know about at this week: the first Clash of the Titans teaser, Steve Guttenberg still hanging onto his 80's glory, toy movies are still wanted, and the fantastic piece of news that is the death of the Oldboy remake. What's that? That's right. Read along.
The Good
• A very good poster for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland was posted on the Mad Hatter's official Facebook page. Two more are coming, presumably on the Red Queen and White Queen pages.
• A selection of props from Duncan Jones' Moon are up for auction on eBay, including Gerty himself! It's the actual full-size thing, measuring 83” x 33” x 27.5" and even signed by the director himself. As of writing it's still bidding at £1,000, so totally affordable if you're a collector.
• After being impressed by the new trailer for The Wolfman that was released a couple of weeks back, now I'm even more impressed by the posters. »
- Arya Ponto
Emmerich Planning ‘2012′ TV Spin-Off
10 November 2009 1:48 PM, PST | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »
Roland Emmerich is already planning his next disaster. The director of Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, and the upcoming 2012 has publicly said he is done making destruction movies, calling this one the “mother of all disaster films.”
However, Emmerich is not ruling out a post-apocalyptic continuation on the small screen. According to Entertainment Weekly, Roland Emmerich is working on “2013″ with the movie’s executive producer Mark Gordon. “It’s about what happens after the disaster,” Emmerich said last week. “It is about the resettling of Earth.”
The team has already entered into discussions with ABC to develop the drama, which may focus on survivors on a small island building a new world. Obviously someone lives through the “end of the world,” otherwise there wouldn’t be a need for a sequel of any kind. Way to spoil your own movie, Emmerich.
It will likely depend on how the public perceives the movie this weekend. »
- Jeff Leins
Steven Spielberg/Will Smith Oldboy Adaptation Dead; Smith Considering Flowers For Algernon
10 November 2009 12:53 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
When you’re Will Smith and you’re not currently attached to any film, life is good. It’s a little less good when the news comes out that your potential Oldboy adaptation with Steven Spielberg is dead and the entire Internet cheers. But you pick yourself up, say a hearty, “Awhellnaw”, and move on to then next project, which could be another adaptation of Daniel Keyes’ novel Flowers for Algernon. Hit the jump to pull a hammer out of your skull and raise your Iq.
Latino Review reports the joyous news that Steven Spielberg and Will Smith’s planned adaptation of the Japanese manga Oldboy, which was turned into the intensely-loved 2003 film of the same name, will not be happening. Mandate Pictures and DreamWorks pictures were to secure the rights together, they didn’t see eye-to-eye, walked away, and that breeze you felt was every film lover breathing a sigh of relief. »
- Matt Goldberg
Five Favorite Films with Roland Emmerich
10 November 2009 8:17 AM, PST | Rotten Tomatoes | See recent Rotten Tomatoes news »
We're fairly certain Roland Emmerich's movies hold the record for combined body count. Such a feat is a result of career built around movies like Independence Day, Godzilla, and The Day After Tomorrow, bombastic, crowd-pleasing disaster movies that frequently leave the planet in runs. His latest effort is 2012, opening this Friday and starring John Cusack, Amanda Peet, and Chiwetel Ejiofor as survivors in a world tearing apart at the seams and submerged in water. Rotten Tomatoes spoke to Emmerich to get his Five Favorite Films, and on the following page you can read our interview, where he discusses the... »
The Morning Meme Tuesday, November 10, 2009
10 November 2009 5:42 AM, PST | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
Stuff happens, when you're either sleeping or or living the fabulous and fashionable life we know you have. So we're starting your days with a few tidbits to keep you the sparkling conversationalist your friends expect you to be.
According to TheTorchOnline.com, that kid who runs around naked onstage wasn't the hero of the Harry Potter books, it was actually the old dead gay dude. While it's an impressive argument, I think he should fear for his life, because child fans are a vicious bunch.
Jensen Ackles of Supernatural fame is engaged. To a red head. It's a woman. sniff - hold on, I can finish this post, I'm Ok. It's just I always felt he, Misha Collins, me, and a hot tub were destined to ride out the rapture in a hot tub in Key West.
Photographer Jeff Sheng is starting a new project related to Don't Ask, »
- lostinmiami
2012 - Movie Review
10 November 2009 3:46 AM, PST | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Roland Emmerich.s up to his familiar old ways . .My films are bigger, louder and splashier than yours are!. and while that may be true, it doesn.t make them good or worthy. Emmerich has never been able to get out of his own way in making films . he requires jothing less than total annihilation of earth. They.re about sound, fury and shallow anthology storylines that signify nothing much. His overused End of Days scenario is as tired as this film is long; he has nothing to say that he didn.t already sayd in Godzilla, 10,000 B.C., Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow. Disaster epics are so mid- nineties, the golden era of CGI, when computer geeks »
- Anne Brodie
John Cusack: '2012' Isn't Just A Disaster Flick, It's An 'Apocalypse Movie'
10 November 2009 3:06 AM, PST | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
'You've got to go intergalactic [for a follow-up] because the Earth is pretty much covered on this one,' Cusack laughs.
By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Josh Horowitz
Lily Morgan qnd John Cusack in "2012"
Photo: Sony Pictures
The first time we see John Cusack in "2012," he says he's about to be killed: The guy's late to pick up his kids for a camping trip and his ex-wife is not the forgiving type. About 30 minutes later — and really, for the next two hours — that hyperbolic sentiment becomes frighteningly real when Los Angeles (and then the rest of the planet) disintegrates into a fiery, tsunami-swept wasteland.
Director Roland Emmerich has made disaster movies aplenty ("Independence Day," "The Day After Tomorrow") but Cusack argued in a recent MTV News interview that "2012" is no disastrous flick.
"This is more of an apocalypse movie!" he declared.
Cusack plays Jackson Curtis, a struggling fiction writer who catches wind »
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