Roland Emmerich Articles

Michael Fassbender in Steve McQueen's Shame The Artist — Michel Hazanavicius, Toronto Premiere — Hollywood 1927. George Valentin is a very successful silent movie star. The arrival of talking pictures will mark the end of his career. Peppy Miller, a young woman extra, becomes a major movie star. Starring Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, Malcolm McDowell, James Cromwell and John Goodman. Shame — Steve McQueen, North [...]

  Roland Emmerich's The Zone, a low-budget sci-fier that was to have been directed by the man responsible for megabudgeted fare such as Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, and 2012 has been shut down, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The $5m, docu-style, "lost footage found" sci-fier may have been killed by The Weinstein Company's recent acquisition of Brian Miller's screenplay Apollo 18, another "lost [...]

Daniel Radcliffe in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Jaap Buitendijk / Warner Bros.) (top); Sam Worthington in Avatar (WETA / 20th Century Fox) (middle); Kirsten Stewart, Robert Pattinson in The Twilight Saga: New Moon (Kimberley French / Summit Entertainment) (bottom) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, starring Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson, was the biggest worldwide box-office hit in 2009, grossing $929.4 [...]

Roland Emmerich’s apocalyptic actioner 2012 destroyed its competition at the North American box office this weekend with a solid $65 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. Sony’s 2012 opened at 3,404 locations Friday, scoring an explosive average of $19,095 per theater while easily beating the $35.8 million opening gross of Emmerich’s previous film 10,000 B.C. Starring John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, [...]