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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…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Peña, Carolina Bartczak, Maxim Roy and Stephen Bogaert are on board for the Roland Emmerich-helmed sci-fi epic Moonfall, joining an A-list ensemble that includes Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, John Bradley, Eme Ikwuakor, Charlie Plummer and Donald Sutherland. The space drama takes off with a…

EXCLUSIVE: Donald Sutherland (Ad Astra) and Eme Ikwuakor (Marvel's Inhumans) are joining Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, Stanley Tucci, John Bradley and Charlie Plummer in Roland Emmerich's sci-fi epic Moonfall, which has started principal photography in Montreal. The $136M-budgeted independent film will see a mysterious…

EXCLUSIVE: Stanley Tucci and John Bradley will star alongside Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, and Charlie Plummer in Moonfall, Liongate’s space epic from director and screenwriter Roland Emmerich. Slated to begin production this month in Montreal, the plot is set off by a mysterious force that knocks the Moon from its…

Will the movies ever let religion back into the mainstream? It doesn't seem likely,  given the secular bent of most critics, festivals, and film awards. But the question could certainly occur to any thoughtful viewer of Marco Pontecorvo's Fátima, which is set for release by Picturehouse in theaters and via PVOD on…

Halle Berry has signed on as the female lead for Moonfall, the Roland Emmerich-helmed sci-fi epic that was acquired by Lionsgate late last year. The pic follows a mysterious force that knocks the moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it. With mere weeks…

Roland Emmerich and Centropolis Entertainment’s $150 million sci-fi movie Moonfall is getting funding and Chinese distribution from Huayi Brothers. The big-canvas project is scheduled to go into production this spring and casting is underway. The Huayi deal was negotiated by AGC International, the international sales…