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‘Independence Day’ Sequel to Take Two Films

‘Independence Day’ Sequel to Take Two Films

Well, it looks like the possibility of a sequel to Independence Day is more than just a rumor. In a recent interview with MTV News, director Roland Emmerich revealed that, while there’s no script as of yet, there is definitely an idea for what the sequel will entail.
Emmerich plans on the sequel having a much [...]

2012 Annihilates Box Office Numbers

2012 Annihilates Box Office Numbers

Oh boy. Any hope you may have of Roland Emmerich either disappearing off the face of the earth or directing a film that doesn’t obliterate society has probably been shattered. 2012 has made some serious bank: $225 million worldwide, which Variety calls the fifth best international opening of all time.
This is sort of surprising, considering [...]

Plus 1’s “2012″ review

Plus 1’s “2012″ review

The day of the screening I was joking around with some friends at my day job and came up with this snazzy catchphrase regarding the new movie 2012: “Only John Cusack can outrun disasters of massive proportions but not be able to stop the disaster that was his character’s marriage.” I knew that Amanda Peet [...]

2012 Review — John’s Take

2012 Review — John’s Take

 
There’s more human suffering on display in Roland Emmerich’s 2012 than any other film I’ve seen. Emmerich raises the stakes of his own game, creating a level of destruction that outdoes anything seen in Independence Day or The Day After Tomorrow. Where he succeeds most brilliantly is in forming a perfectly satisfying piece of coherent [...]

ID4…2?

ID4…2?

It often happens that movies that seem to end on a nicely wrapped up note still leave that slight dangling thread from which a sequel could potentially be weaved. This does not, however, mean that filmmakers should grab the opportunity to do so.
Independence Day is one such film that should be left alone. In 1996, [...]

2012 Will Roadblock Your TV

2012 Will Roadblock Your TV

Sony, in an effort to grab more of an audience with the Roland Emmerich/John Cusack disaster film 2012, will “roadblock” televisions with a two-minute advertising sequence from the film on October 1st.
Similar to what Universal did with Dawn of the Dead several years ago only on a broader scale, the advertisement will put footage of [...]

2012 has a teaser trailer

2012 has a teaser trailer

The first teaser trailer for what is already being named an “epic” for Roland Emmerich’s 2012 has just hit the web! And of coarse we have it for you!
Besides the shear awesomeness of what happens in the clip below, it is exactly what it is, it’s a teaser trailer. And boy did they do it [...]