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At first blush, I thought that John Ford moment in Roland Emmerich's Midway was surely over-the-top, a parody, like the semi-silly Bruce Lee bit in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. But why interrupt a deadly serious war film with what seemed to be a comic walk-on by a famous movie director, shouting…

UPDATE, writethru: While Warner Bros' Doctor Sleep is snoozing at the domestic and international box office with a global total of just $34.1M to date (and despite good reviews and audience scores), the Burbank studio has a major milestone ahead as Joker closes in on the $1B mark worldwide. Not only will the movie…

4th Update, Sunday AM Final: First of all, it’s a really crappy weekend at the box office overall, with ticket sales down 28% from a year ago with $121.6M. The Veterans Day frame either goes one of two ways: It’s a great place to launch a blockbuster, i.e. 2012’s Skyfall ($88.3M), 2013’s Thor: Dark World (2013), or…

Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson, Christopher Nolan and others have proved that with the right director and approach, there is still great life to be found in stirring World War II movies — from Saving Private Ryan and Letters From Iwo Jima and Hacksaw Ridge to Dunkirk. But in the case of special effects…

Roland Emmerich, the filmmaker behind Independence Day, Midway, 2012, White House Down, and Stargate, will be honored with the VES Visionary Award by the Visual Effect Society. The German-born director-producer-screenwriter will be feted on January 29 at the 18th Annual VES Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Bestowed…

Last weekend didn’t start the fire at the November box office after Paramount/Skydance Media/Fox’s mechanical breakdown with Terminator: Dark Fate, which is set to lose $130 million off an estimated combined $325M production and global P&A cost and $29M stateside opening. This weekend, Warner Bros in a rare move for…

Heads-up, the long-expected man-wave is breaking in and around the film awards season. Those who keep an eye on film festivals and release schedules could see the weather buoys bobbing months ago. Still, it was a jolt to spot that Ford v Ferrari billboard on Lincoln Blvd. the other day, with its tanned, taut images of…

When will the Sleeping Giant wake up? In the second half of every year for the past 10, the grown-up audience has opened its eyes, stretched its legs and gone to the movies in numbers big enough to make a certified hit of at least one non-animated, not-too-scary, non-sequel drama. If ascent to the year-end box office…

Lionsgate on Thursday released the first look at Roland Emmerich’s World War II epic Midway, with a teaser for the pic that the studio picked up in a mega deal during the last Toronto Film Festival. It’s been slated for a November 8, 2020 release — that’s Veterans Day, so a four-day opening for the action pic that…

EXCLUSIVE: The Mob Doctor star James Carpinello is the latest actor to join the cast of Roland Emmerich's big-budget epic Midway. The actor, who has also starred in lead roles in Broadway musicals Saturday Night Fever, Xanadu and Rock of Ages, joins stars including Patrick Wilson, Mandy Moore, Woody Harrelson, Darren…

Brandon Sklenar has been cast in Midway, the Roland Emmerich-helmed WWII drama starring Woody Harrelson, Patrick Wilson, Ed Skrein, Aaron Eckhart, Luke Evans, Mandy Moore, Dennis Quaid, and Nick Jonas. Wes Tooke wrote the script for the film, which is based on the true story of the Battle of Midway, considered to be…

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy nominated for his role as the sociopath who gunned down Gianni Versace in The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, Darren Criss has boarded the Roland Emmerich-directed World War II film Midway. Criss played Andrew Cunanan in Ryan Murphy’s FX limited series. Criss will play Lieutenant…