Tag: The Day After Tomorrow
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Roland Emmerich Knew Independence Day Had To Beat Mars Attacks! To Theaters
Roland Emmerich’s made a lot of disaster movies over the years, but “Independence Day” is still the best, probably because it had clear villains. Both “The Day After Tomorrow” and “2012” had their disasters be the fault of Mother Nature. That made for some great action sequences, but it also led to endings that just…
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Jake Gyllenhaal Seems to Forget Dennis Quaid Played His Dad in ‘Day After Tomorrow’
Disney’s latest animated adventure “Strange World” brings together Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal as father and son. But canny viewers of Roland Emmerich’s 2004 disaster movie “The Day After Tomorrow” will recall that Quaid and Gyllenhaal played father and son before, even while not sharing much screen time — which is why you’d be forgiven…
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Kenneth Welsh, ‘The Aviator’ and ‘Twin Peaks’ Star, Dies at 80
Kenneth Welsh, a prolific Canadian actor who appeared in over 240 movies and TV projects including “The Aviator,” “The Day After Tomorrow” and “Twin Peaks,” has died. He was 80.Welsh’s death was announced by the Canadian acting union Actra in Toronto on Friday, calling him “one of Canada’s all-time great performers, with hundreds of memorable…
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Roland Emmerich: Marvel Movies and ‘Star Wars’ Are ‘Ruining Our Industry a Little Bit’
Roland Emmerich, the blockbuster filmmaker behind “Independence Day,” “The Day After Tomorrow” and the upcoming “Moonfall,” credited “Star Wars” and superhero movies pumped out by Marvel and DC as “ruining” the film industry. Emmerich’s “Moonfall,” backed by Lionsgate and made on a reported budget in the $140 million range, is the increasingly-rare example of an…
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Celebrate Moonfall With Roland Emmerich’s Conspiracy Theory Himbo Shakespeare Movie
I long for the days when the public perception of conspiracy theories was based in nonsensical fun like whether or not Bigfoot is real, and not this current timeline where people gather en masse at Dealey Plaza awaiting the “return” of the very dead JFK Jr. so he can become the vice presidential running mate…
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Watch The Moon Fall In The First Five Minutes Of Moonfall
After blowing up the White House in “Independence Day,” flooding New York City in “The Day After Tomorrow,” and unleashing all sorts of natural disasters in “2012,” how else can director Roland Emmerich wreak havoc on our poor little planet? Why, having the moon attack Earth, of course! That’s the setup for the filmmaker’s next…
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Moonfall Trailer: This Is The Wrong Kind Of Moon Landing
Aliens are so last season. Now, it’s the celestial bodies themselves that are invading in the new trailer for Roland Emmerich’s upcoming disaster movie “Moonfall.”Though Emmerich might not be the most esteemed director working in Hollywood, there’s no denying that his style has come to shape the modern big-budget disaster epic. In “Independence Day,” the…
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Roland Emmerich to Receive Zurich Film Festival Tribute
“Independence Day” director Roland Emmerich will be honored with a special tribute at the Zurich Film Festival.The Swiss event will screen a retrospective of Emmerich’s work and give him its “A Tribute to…” award Sept. 29. The screenings will include the director’s debut movie, “The Noah Ark Principle,” which played in competition at the 1984…
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Disaster Movie Guru Roland Emmerich to Helm Historical Epic ‘Maya Lord’
Roland Emmerich, the master of blowing shit up, is tackling a historical epic. Emmerich will helm Maya Lord, a project being compared to Dances With Wolves, Braveheart and The Patriot. So long, exploding buildings. Hello, period costumes! While primarily known for directing big disaster movies like Independence Day, 2012, and The Day After Tomorrow, Roland…