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'Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters' Writer Dante Harper To Lay 'Foundation' Down For Roland Emmerich

By Kevin Jagernauth
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September 30, 2011 10:58 AM
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Believe it or not, advance word on Roland Emmerich's Shakespeare conspiracy movie "Anonymous" is actually good. We shit you not. And while the movie is a bit of a departure for the usually disaster-happy director, lately he's surrounding himself with projects that are more in line with his established oeuvre. Up next he's got the epic and somewhat secretive "Singularity," which already has a May 17, 2013 release date. And oh yeah, he was also offered "Asteroids" this summer (though it doesn't seem like he's taken it). But alas, on the backburner for a couple of years now has been an adaptation of Isaac Asimov's classic "Foundation" series.

By Kevin Jagernauth
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June 29, 2011 8:57 AM
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Will Hit Theaters On May 17, 2013Roland Emmerich and Shakespeare? That's the question that nearly brought a nation to its knees when it was announced that Emmerich was temporarily putting his pyro gear aside (sort of) and focusing on the conspiracy theory that the Bard didn't really write all those plays. Shocking stuff, we know. And while the trailer for "Anonymous" still showed he can't go through a full movie without at least a few 'splosions, it looks like he wants to go back to delivering them wholesale.

By Kevin Jagernauth
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June 8, 2011 3:15 AM
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Roland Emmerich who has combined his knack for big explosions and doomsday scenarios into a film career, is going to take a stab at something resembling respectability when he delivers the Shakespeare conspiracy theory movie "Anonymous" later this year, but we knew he couldn't stay away from the CGI for too long.

By Simon Dang
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May 4, 2011 3:45 AM
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Two new posters have been unveiled for features on opposites ends of our anticipation scale in Julia Leigh's erotic thriller "Sleeping Beauty" and Roland Emmerich's period conspiracy drama "Anonymous."

By Kevin Jagernauth
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November 9, 2010 11:02 AM
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Even Roland Emmerich Is Bored By Alien Invasion MoviesProduction has been canceled on the low-budget alien invasion flick "The Zone" that was set go in front of cameras this month with Roland Emmerich at the helm.

By The Playlist
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October 31, 2010 8:41 AM
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The Man Who's Blown Up The World's New Project Not That Secret Anymore; Film Will Shockingly Only Cost $5 MillionSupersize filmmaker Roland Emmerich, he of bombastic spectacles like "Independence Day," "Godzilla," and over-the-top disaster porn pics, "The Day After Tomorrow " and "2012" -- pictures that all featured some kind of catastrophe hitting the earth -- is going to attack the world once more. However, this time he's going to be doing it in a much quieter fashion