Roland Emmerich

Director ROLAND EMMERICH is preparing to depict the end of the world on the movie screen yet again, in sequels to INDEPENDENCE DAY. The filmmaker is currently riding high on the huge box office success of John Cusack disaster movie 2012,...

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...I'm sure somewhere they found a way to throw a kitchen sink at the camera. This should be a triumphant day for director for Roland Emmerich - but when Techland caught up with the German hell raiser just before the release of "2012," he...

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...of worlds." Gazing upon the far more massive destruction he wreaks on our planet in his end-of-the-world blockbuster, 2012, director Roland Emmerich must feel an analogous awe. But my guess is he'd express this feeling more pithily. "Rad,"...

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...and I'm assuming a similar reaction played out around the world. Some forms of cathartic goofiness are just universal. Roland Emmerich's "2012" is disaster filmmaking boiled down to a very peculiar essence. It's over two-and-a-half hours...

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CANCUN, Mexico | Roland Emmerich has an ongoing project: destroying the world. In 1996’s “Independence Day,” the German director sent aliens to wipe out the White House. In 1998, he unleashed “Godzilla” to...

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...filmmaker Michael Bay. An airplane tries to survive in 2012, the latest disasterpiece by director Roland Emmerich. Top photo of Emmerich: Joe Lederer. Photos © 2009 Columbia TriStar Marketing Group It's easy to see how he got the...

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...easily accomplishes, and the result is a one-of-a-kind movie that will hopefully bring this chapter in Roland Emmerich's career to an end, forcing him to try something else next time out. I fully expect this will be one of the year's...

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As foretold by the Mayans, Roland Emmerich's apocalypse-thriller 2012 arrives in theaters this Friday featuring John Cusack, an actor not typically known for sharing the screen with tidal waves and explosions. We spoke with Cusack in...

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it's the end of the world as Roland Emmerich knows it Jamie Portman, Canwest News Service Published: Friday, November 06, 2009 Sony "In a sense, this is a modern retelling of Noah's Ark," says director Roland Emmerich of 2012. "There...

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Director Roland Emmerich has made a career out of laying spectacular waste to some of the world's most iconic locales. In Independence Day, aliens imploded the White House by way of a fierce laser beam. In Godzilla, Madison Square Garden...

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