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Roland Emmerich Has Way More Money Than You
9 December 2009 8:18 AM, PST
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Director Roland Emmerich better hope and pray his apocalyptic thrill-ride 2012 doesn't come true. That would only leave him two years to spend the reported $100 million dollars he'll be seeing as part of his directing deal (according to The Wrap). Emmerich signed a $20 million advance against 20% of the film's gross profits, which basically means he's now reached Scrooge McDuck levels of wealth. Time to move to Duckburg, Roland, and invest in a diving board so you can jump off and swim around in all your loot. He's not just rich, he's EmmeRICH.
While 2012 did well in the Us (not great, but very good with $149 million and counting), the toppling of buildings and exploding of cities apparently knows no language barrier, causing the film to rack up a staggering $450 million dollars in its current theatrical run overseas. While the movie hardly seems sequel-ready, Emmerich has made some noise about continuing the 2012 adventures-in-running-away-from-stuff-blowing-up as a television series.
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- John Gholson
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Watch This: A Montage of New York City Biting the Dust on Film
1 December 2009 1:02 PM, PST
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Being one of the largest cities in the world comes with its own set of problems. Sure, dense populations tend to lead to higher rates of crime and homelessness, and maintaining the general welfare of any major metropolis is a gargantuan undertaking, but being a globally recognized city overflowing with landmarks means you've also got a cinematic bullseye on your back; and there is no bigger bullseye than New York, New York. Anyone with a big effects budget and a rampaging [insert name of monster, alien, meteor, or climate disaster here] is going to want to see NYC burn to the ground in their film. And if the box office haul of massive disaster pictures is any indication, most movie goers are also going to want to see NYC burn to the ground.
But why wade through the savagely long run time of 2012 (only to not even be treated to a NYC demolition) or the cinematic sadness that is Godzilla
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- Peter Hall
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Broderick's Wonderful World Gets A Trailer
24 November 2009 2:47 PM, PST
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Matthew Broderick has disappointed us time and time again. The worst part about actors like him is that we know they're capable of so much better. For every The Producers, there are two or three versions of Godzilla. For every Ferris Bueller, there.s an Inspector Gadget.
Broderick.s latest, Wonderful World, seems to be taking him down a better road. While it looks to be taking equal parts from The Visitor and every other sentimental indie flick about a middle-aged man released in recent years, it has Matthew showing off his ability in ways that we haven.t seen in a long time. The flick follows a cynical divorcee who, when a friend falls ill, is forced to re-examine worldview and make some important decisions about his life.
Apple brings us the first trailer of the flick, and as always, it can.t be embedded. I.ll tell you
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Roland Emmerich’s Godzilla Blu-ray Review
21 November 2009 8:01 AM, PST
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Recently, I reviewed Waterworld. Now I’m talking about 1998’s disaster opus Godzilla. These are two of the biggest flops of the 1990’s. Overhyped and overproduced, and expensive as all get out, perhaps they’re hitting Blu-ray in the hopes of eeking out profits. Someone thought they might have had something here, but when Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin came off of Independence Day, this was going to be the next big thing, but instead they misfired. My review of 1998’s Godzilla after the jump.
Mathew Broderick stars as Dr. Niko Tatopoulos, a scientist who studies the effects of nuclear mutations. He’s brought in by the American government when Godzilla begins fucking things up. At first, Godzilla is outside of Tokyo, but then he comes to New York. Long swim. Emmerich stages everything like ID4, so there’s some moments, but the destruction doesn’t take your breath away.
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- Andre Dellamorte
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Director Roland Emmerich Give Us Something to Look Forward to in 2012
19 November 2009 6:53 PM, PST
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Judging by a short conversation with him, director Roland Emmerich doesn't seem megalomaniacal. In fact, he seems so down-home and unassuming, that you just want to grab him, a beer -- being the good German that he is -- and sit in rapt attention as he tells how he destroyed the world -- again.
You see, Emmerich is the great manipulator who has ravaged cities and continents thanks to the wonders of cinema. He destroyed New York via his remake of Godzilla and had world's capitals blasted through an alien invasion in Independence Day. The 54-year-old former painter and sculptor has ravaged this planet in other ways; he even had it frozen under sheets of ice when he produced and directed The Day After Tomorrow.
But now he's gone all out shuffling all the continents into the oceans; in
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- Brad Balfour
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Disaster movie 2012 opens with $225m tidal wave at global box office
17 November 2009 4:37 PM, PST
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The End Of The World proved to be a massive attraction for moviegoers as Roland Emmerich's 2012 opened this weekend with an earth-shattering $225million at the worldwide box office.
Ticket sales in the Us and Canada brought in $65million, with the foreign tally of $160million from 105 countries, led by France.
Sony's Columbia Pictures said the film scored the highest worldwide opening for an original film not based on an established franchise, brand or best-seller.
In global terms, it ranks No 9 for film openings, behind (from No1 to 8) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Spider-Man 3, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and The Da Vinci Code.
It surpassed June's worldwide opening for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
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- David Bentley
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Pullman Not Sure If He'll Be Back As Independence Day President
16 November 2009 5:16 PM, PST
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Movie president Bill Pullman is trying not to think about a rumoured Independence Day sequel - because he fears he won't be a part of it.
The actor played President Thomas J. Whitmore in the 1996 blockbuster and accepts the U.S. leader would only have been able to serve in office for eight years - and so he cannot revisit the role 14 years later.
But he has heard whispers about reviving his character for director Roland Emmerich's planned follow-up.
He tells BlogTalkRadio.com's Let's Do Lunch!, "Somebody has been sending me links to conversations Roland's been having about it and what ideas they have for it. I haven't talked to him about it but it's a complicated legal thing getting involved with creative control and it's an expensive movie.
"I don't know if it's a role I'll revisit, because, in term limits, I think we've gone beyond 12 years - but maybe there's some side of it that he's angling. He works with writers and they try to find the best idea and I've heard a couple of scenarios that would include me and some that wouldn't so I can't control it so I don't think about it."
Emmerich, the man behind The Day After Tomorrow, Godzilla and new hit disaster epic 2012, tells MTV News he plans to follow up Independence Day, explaining, "One day we will do it."
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Emmerich Plans Independence Day Sequels
16 November 2009 11:11 AM, PST
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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, which took a massive haul of $225 million (£140.6 million) in its first three days of release (13-15Nov09).
Emmerich, the man behind The Day After Tomorrow and Godzilla, now plans to follow up his much-hyped epic by revisiting another of his blockbusters and reviving Will Smith's 1996 hit Independence Day for a second and third installment.
Scripts have yet to be written for the sequels, but Emmerich already has big plans.
He tells MTV.com he wants to make two more Independence Day films to provide "a bigger arc", adding about the plotline, "It's always about the Earth, and the Earth gets invaded.
"One day we will do it."
Smith has yet to be linked to any Independence Day sequels.
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Ooops — strike '2012' off your Oscars best-picture list
13 November 2009 3:06 PM, PST
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Since part of an Oscar pundit's job is to jump off cliffs, bravely and spectacularly, we salute New York Post film critic Lou Lumenick for daring to forecast a best-picture nomination for "2012," the upcoming apocalypse thriller from Roland Emmerich, director of "The Day After Tomorrow," "Godzilla" and "Independence Day." One of the chief reasons the academy expanded its best-picture list to 10 nominees from five was to include big popcorn pix that used to get nommed in the good ole days ("The Towering Inferno," "Jaws") but now are slighted. Unfortunately, alas, it looks like poor Lou will go splat against the Oscar rocks, according to Variety's gloomy review of "2012."
The trade paper predicts the doomsday thriller will strike lots of ticket gold: "This simultaneously spectacular and risible concoction looks likely to trigger a worldwide B.O. tsunami for Sony." But don't expect much academy gold: "On any level other than as sheer visual sensation,
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Anti-Catholic '2012' is a disaster movie in every sense (IrishCentral)
13 November 2009 6:27 AM, PST
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Niall O'Dowd / '2012' is anti-Catholic / Click here
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John Cusack may have sabotaged the rest of his flailing career by appearing in "2012" this dog from director Roland Emmerich.
Whatever the box office says the Irish American actor has descended to the lowest plane of his career in the type of movie that makes the "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes," an Oscar-winning proposition.
Instead of tomatoes we have sun demons, huge fireballs that catapult to earth and destroy all the living and the undead (which is pretty much everyone) in a movie which has as much suspense as "Daddy Day Care."
John Cusack is the "Daddy Day Care" figure at the beginning of this movie, driving his daughter to his ex-wife's when the world suddenly starts to end.
It turns out that
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Fat Guys at the Movies Ep. 140 – 2012 Pounds
13 November 2009 4:00 AM, PST
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On This Week's Show: Kevin and Neil meet up in the Magical Studio in the Sky for an epic show about the end of the world. They gush (sort of) over Roland Emmerich's movies and dance a jig around how awesome Fantastic Mr. Fox is. And Neil takes to the high seas in support of Pirate Radio while Kevin grumbles after not being offered a press screening. They lay down a Fat Guy Five about Roland Emmerich's best movies, examine the box office numbers and even read an iTunes review and listen to a listener voice mail, proving that the phone number does work. Save us, John Cusack!
Films Reviewed this Week: 2012, Pirate Radio and Fantastic Mr. Fox
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Episode Schedule:
Segment 1 [8:50] - Review of 2012
Segment 2 [10:40] - Review of Pirate Radio and Fantastic Mr. Fox
Segment 3 [12:45] - Box office recap, listener feedback and the Fat Guy Five: Roland Emmerich's Five Best Movies
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- Kevin Carr
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Movie Review: 2012 (2009)
13 November 2009 1:24 AM, PST
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Special effects are the star in 2012
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Roland Emmerich brought in aliens to destroy the world in 1996 with Independence Day. In 1998 he gave the keys to a giant mutant lizard trying to destroy New York City in Godzilla. Weather was to blame in 2004 when he directed The Day After Tomorrow and now, in 2009, the sun is the culprit as the Earth's core is heating up and 2012 will no longer be known as just another a year as much as it will be the year the Mayans predicted the world will end and Roland Emmerich gladly obliged for no less than two hours and 38 minutes.
2012 is a victim of its own ability to entertain. For 90 minutes of its running time it is a wild and insanely entertaining thrill park where limousines can outrun eroding fault lines and drive straight through crumbling skyscrapers just in time to make it to
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- Brad Brevet
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Brandon's Word: 2012 Will Send Your Eyes and Brain to War
12 November 2009 10:15 PM, PST
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"It's the end of the world as we know it… [again]." -R.E.M. (Except that last part, of course.)
I'm very tempted to make this review comprised of a single sentence. That review would read: 2012 is delicious candy for the eyes, brain-boggling insanity for your mind, and tooth-rotting idealism for your superego; and it's a film not to be missed in theatres.
Since you all are so used to my verbosity, though, (and because 2012 does actually deserve more than a single sentence) I won't leave it to just that line. So let's get to it, shall we? This is Roland Emmerich's third, and reportedly last, film in his "disaster trilogy" that began in 1996 with Independence Day. Sure, you could include Godzilla in there, but Emmerich's Big Three are ID4, The Day After Tomorrow, and, now, 2012. And what each of those previous films had, the destruction, the familiar character archetypes,
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- Brandon Lee Tenney
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Independence Day sequel talk turns to sequels
12 November 2009 3:51 PM, PST
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Say what you want about Roland Emmerich, but the man has made a couple of decent films. I loved the Mel Gibson charged war movie, The Patriot. Sure, he followed that goodie up with Godzilla and 10,000 B.C., but I am a forgiving person. He’s inconsistent, that’s all. I’m not too sure what to say about his most recent end-of-the-world extravaganza, 2012, but I’m sure it can’t be all that bad, right? At least it has some pretty cool computer-generated graphics.
Read more on Independence Day sequel talk turns to sequels…
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Exclusive Interview: Roland Emmerich
12 November 2009 9:40 AM, PST
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Roland Emmerich has probably killed more people that any director in the history of humanity. Whether it's unleashing a giant lizard on New York in Godzilla or freezing the Eastern seaboard in The Day After Tomorrow, he's got a thing for destruction on a mass scale-- and he knows you like it too. With 2012 he's giving disaster movie fans all they ever wanted, death and destruction on a scale bigger than anything he, or anyone, has ever attempted.
What like about Roland Emmerich, aside from the over-the-top enjoyment his movies bring, is he's a frank, straightforward interview, happy to talk about his plans for Independence Day 2 (you can watch that video here), his experience writing Day After Tomorrow when 9/11 happened, and why, as a filmmaker with millions of dollars to do whatever he wants, he chooses disaster movies. You may be surprised to learn that it's not all about the
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Fearless Forecast - Nothing Will Stop '2012'
12 November 2009 9:22 AM, PST
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Like it or not, director Roland Emmerich makes big-ass movies people generally want to see.
Even Godzilla made big money. But he's coming off probably his most disappointing film, 10,000 B.C.,
but it was modestly budgeted as these things go (around $100 million). Still, that flick got horrible reviews and
turned a profit.
That shouldn't be a problem with the explosive end-of-the-world picture,
2012. Yeah, it's got one of those
production costs you can't believe studios still get behind (rumored to be around $200 million), but it should do
half that much in the Us alone, and Columbia/Sony has exploited the global stage before this year with Angels &
Demons. The Dan Brown adaptation didn't light it up in America, but in international territories it took in
almost 300% of its domestic gross. Expect similar results here.
There's no true competition to steal its audience away, and it's a movie about death and destruction.
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The Week in Film: Oscar Bait
12 November 2009 9:02 AM, PST
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Why, hello, folks! Another week means another week closer to December, which
means it’s another week closer to Oscar bait movies. Aren’t you curious? I know
you are, so let’s begin!
First up, we have 2012. It’s one
of those natural disaster movies, but this time, on a global scale. The whole thing is based on the end of the world that
in turn is based on the Mayan calendar. Expect super visual effects in the
likes of things blowing up, giant tsunamis, raining meteors, skyscrapers
collapsing, and Godzilla. Oh wait, scratch that last one.
Okay, sure this isn’t Oscar bait. But still, if you’re feeling like July in
November, go for it! Oh, yeah, 2012
stars John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor,
Oliver Platt, and Amanda Peet.
The second of the two wide releases this week is Pirate Radio. In the 1960s, a bunch of DJs went on a boat,
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See How Roland Emmerich Blew Up Yellowstone in ‘2012′
12 November 2009 7:43 AM, PST
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Last night we sent Dr. Cole Abaius off to behold the 3-hours of destruction porn that is Roland Emmerich's latest film, 2012. Having already seen it earlier this week, I prepared him for the ridiculous amount of near-misses, the spectacle of explosion and as always, the trademark Emmerich schmaltz thanks to every character having to say a teary goodbye to anyone and everyone they are leaving behind. It's the exact sort of film that you'd expect from the German director.
No matter what you think of his work though, there is not one of you who can deny that Roland Emmerich usually shows us something impressive. Even in his work on Godzilla, we were shown something larger than life -- a level of destruction unparalleled in its time. This new film is no exception. Emmerich does everything from dropping California into the Pacific Ocean to taking out the White House with the U.S
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Director explains why New York escapes demolition in 2012
12 November 2009 4:35 AM, PST
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If viewing new disaster flick 2012 is part of your plans this weekend (it hits cinemas from tomorrow), be prepared for non-stop cinematic carnage. Director Roland Emmerich has a proven flair for the destructive (Independence Day, Godzilla, The Day After Tomorrow) and is again giving the world a mighty ass-kicking in his latest blockbuster, with the likes of everything from the Washington Monument to the Christ the Redeemer statue coming off second best against the elements (though interestingly not Islamic site, the Kaaba in Saudi Arabia, read more about that in Related Content, right). But it’s not just those local to the Kaaba that are breathing a sigh of relief as the German director has revealed another familiar corner of the globe that hasn’t attracted his onscreen ire – New York City.
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2012 Reviews
12 November 2009 12:53 AM, PST
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Advance buzz for director Roland Emmerich's 2012 has not been very good, but it seems that if you don't take his third blow-up-the-world pic too seriously, it isn't bad.
"This is fun. 2012 delivers what it promises, and since no sentient being will buy a ticket expecting anything else, it will be, for its audiences, one of the most satisfactory films of the year."
— Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"...God forgive me, but I enjoyed the nerve-racking silliness of this newest, loudest exercise in destruction."
— Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
"If you rolled every disaster movie into one spectacular package, you would wind up with something close to 2012, Roland Emmerich's latest apocalyptic fantasy."
— Stephen Farber, Hollywood Reporter
"On any level other than as sheer visual sensation, 2012 is a joke, for the simple reason that it has no point of view; the film offers no philosophical, metaphysical, intellectual and certainly no religious perspective on the cataclysm,
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