EXCLUSIVE: Big-canvas connoisseur Roland Emmerich is in Cannes this week to reveal his vision for latest epic Moonfall. Emmerich took part in a packed buyers session this afternoon in which he laid out his vision for the $150M sci-fi film, the biggest-budget project on sale at this year’s market. Hundreds of buyers…

Roland Emmerich was at the helm of one of the biggest movies at last year’s Cannes market in the shape of WWII action pic Midway, which is due for release later this year. Make that back to back Croisette biggies for the Independence Day director who will be on the Riviera to drum up support for big canvas feature Moon…

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…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has set Nov. 8 for the opening of Roland Emmerich’s $100M World War II epic Midway. Next year Veterans Day,  which has always been a bountiful holiday at the box office, falls on a Monday, giving Midway a four-day run. Deadline has followed the development of this project for quite some time…

EXCLUSIVE: Roland Emmerich’s big-budget epic Midway is ready to hit the high seas with Aaron Eckhart, Keean Johnson, Tadanobu Asano, Dennis Quaid and Nick Jonas among those joining the project. Luke Evans, Woody Harrelson, Mandy Moore, Ed Skrein, and Patrick Wilson have already been revealed for the strong ensemble…

EXCLUSIVE: Patrick Wilson is coming aboard Midway, the WWII action film directed by Roland Emmerich. Wilson will play Edwin Layton, the rear admiral in the U.S. Navy who was a key intelligence officer during WWII. Woody Harrelson and Mandy Moore were already set at the time that AGC International, the international…

Coming out of their inaugural Cannes market, AGC International, the international sales and distribution division of Stuart Ford's AGC Studios, has closed a slew of deals on Midway, the World War II action film from Roland Emmerich. Michael Rothstein and his sales team concluded deals with Lionsgate in the UK…

EXCLUSIVE: In what will be one of the biggest movies on sale at Cannes, Stuart Ford’s recently minted AGC Studios will be enticing buyers with Roland Emmerich’s WWII action epic Midway, which we understand has Woody Harrelson and Mandy Moore in negotiations to star as part of a strong ensemble cast. Wes Tooke’s script…

EXCLUSIVE: Roland Emmerich’s Centropolis Entertainment and Voltage Pictures are set to produce the flimmaker’s Maya Lord, a story set against the Mayan culture and conquistador era of the early 1500s. Maya Lord follows a soldier, Guerrero, and a priest, Aguilar, who survive a violent shipwreck in the Yucatan Peninsula…

Independence Day filmmaker Roland Emmerich and entrepreneur and producer Marco Weber are diving deep into virtual reality by launching the virtual reality company VRenetic, which will specialize in “accessible, social-media enabled 360-degree streaming.” The company is privately held and headquartered in West…

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate just made a splashy acquisition here at the Toronto Film Festival, landing U.S. distribution rights to Midway, the Roland Emmerich-directed drama about the seminal WWII battle that is a co-production between The Mark Gordon Company and Emmerich’s Centropolis Entertainment. Bona Film Group leads…