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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…

EXCLUSIVE: Pixomondo, the VFX firm responsible for the dragons in Game of Thrones, has come on board the Roland Emmerich-produced feature film adaptation of Mozart's The Magic Flute. The company, which also won an Academy Award for its work on Martin Scorsese's Hugo, is joining the project alongside German film fund…

Following a solid opening of the WWII pic Midway, Lionsgate is re-teaming with the film’s director Roland Emmerich by acquiring the North American distribution rights to his upcoming sci-fi feature Moonfall. Set to go before the lens in 2020, the pic will be directed by Emmerich based on a script he penned with…

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…

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…

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: 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…