Nothing like a good disaster movie to bring in a lot of coin at the box office.
Fifty story-high tidal waves engulfing entire cities, miles-wide meteors on a collision course with Earth, homicidal alien invaders with pulverizing technology -- nothing beats a good old disaster epic.
A little knowledge stretches a long, long way in the latest blockbuster from disaster-prone director Roland Emmerich ("Godzilla," "The Day After Tomorrow").
CNN's JD Cargill catches up with the stars of "2012" at the film's world premiere in Los Angeles.
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He's been called a "popcorn" director, a master of popular appeal who's big on effects but short on substance.
Roland Emmerich gives Revealed a tour of his Los Angeles home.
For Roland Emmerich, the easy choice would have been to join the family business.
Let's say you were making a film. Which do you think would be harder? A. Coordinating a mass alien invasion B. Invoking tidal waves and tornadoes C. Telling a prehistoric love story.
Steven Strait's mission takes him to the Lost Valley where they take on the terror birds that hunt like sharks.
Not all goes to plan when engineers attempt to reconstruct a woolly mammoth at the premiere of Roland Emmerich's "10,000 BC"
Apparently in Hollywood, the hair's the hardest. Not styling it, but creating it, in this case on the back of an imaginary mammoth.
Screenwriter/composer, Harald Kloser is brainstorming with director Roland Emmerich on a new film.
"We have our characters landing, or they have to land. It's an emergency; they make it in the last moment. And they're very happy they're still alive. So the next moment, they realize there are hundreds of airplanes all around. So, wow, there is something bigger going on ..."
Amid the devastation of World War I, French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau famously proclaimed, "War is far too important to be left to the generals."
Irwin Allen's disaster movies never had a message, unless it was "Never use cheap wiring!"
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