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EXCLUSIVE: Shout! Studios has acquired North American rights to screen adaptation The Magic Flute, which is executive-produced by Roland Emmerich. Directed by Florian Sigl, the movie is a modern reimagining of Mozart's opera classic. Cast comprises Jack Wolfe (The Witcher), Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus)…

Roland Emmerich's big-budget sci-fi disaster pic Moonfall has been set for a March 25 release in China (check out the new poster below). The movie, which released via Lionsgate domestically on February 4, is heavily backed by China's Huayi, so this is an important piece of its recoupment prospects. The China date…

Moonfall director Roland Emmerich thinks Superhero and Star Wars films are ruining the industry. He is among the many actors and directors that have lambasted the state of the movie business because these types of movies exist. He sat down with Den of Geek and while talking about his newest disaster film, he…

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You have to hand it to Roland Emmerich, who clearly loves his toys. After a series of disaster movies like Independence Day and its sequel, The Day After Tomorrow, Godzilla, White House Down, 2012 and large-scale epics like his most recent one Midway, he dives right back in with his special effects team and heads to…

After two weekends without any major-studio wide releases amid Omicron fears, Paramount and Lionsgate will try to lure moviegoers back with Jackass Forever and Centropolis Entertainment’s Moonfall, respectively Exhibition hopefully will see more traffic after the Northeast experienced cabin fever from winter storm…

We’ve seen a number of global cataclysms in previous Roland Emmerich movies like 2012, The Day After Tomorrow and Independence Day, now get ready for destruction of the universe on a whole other level.  Is it a magnetic field that’s smashing space stations, lunar rocks, and everything in its path of out of order? Or…

Lionsgate said Wednesday that Roland Emmerich's sci-fi pic Moonfall will be released on February 4. Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, John Bradley, Michael Peña, Charlie Plummer, Kelly Yu, Eme Ikwuakor, Carolina Bartczak and Donald Sutherland star in the big-canvas film, which at a reported budget of $140 million is the…

Refresh for updates…On Monday, a number of prominent Hollywood figures took to social media to mourn the closure of Arclight Cinemas. “Well this sucks,” tweeted Knives Out and The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson. “Every single person who worked at the Arclight loved movies, and you felt it. Sending love to every…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus) and Stéfi Celma (Call My Agent) are among cast joining the modern reimagining of Mozart's popular opera, The Magic Flute. The film is being executive-produced by Roland Emmerich. Grand Budapest Hotel and Homeland actor Abraham, who famously played Mozart’s adversary…

Tides just aches to be a waterborne Blade Runner crossed with Mad Max, but instead emerges as even more waterlogged than Waterworld. A soupy, post-apocalyptic Europudding that needed more action, greater imagination and a star of some magnitude in the leading role, this tale of an investigation into the possibility of…

EXCLUSIVE: We dialed in with Independence Day filmmaker Roland Emmerich and his longtime producer (and composer) Harald Kloser last week just hours after “the master of disaster” wrapped on new sci-fi movie Moonfall. At $140M, Moonfall is the biggest-budget ‘independent’ movie to shoot in recent years. Almost two…