On Afghanistan's independence day in August, my friends in Kandahar were puzzled. Why was the government bothering to celebrate the holiday? With 100,000 or so foreign troops occupying our country, how could we consider ourselves independent? When my American friends and ...Read More
There's cash in cataclysm. At least in Hollywood, which saw the apocalyptic thriller 2012 rake in $65 million, according to studio estimates from box office tracking firm Nielsen EDI. The debut was $5 million more than many analysts projected and finished an ...Read More
Moviegoers said give us the apocalypse now as Sony'send-of-the-world epic
topped the weekend boxoffice with a heaping $65 millionin opening domestic coin.
Directed by Roland Emmerich ("Independence Day"), theeffects-filled actioner cost $200 million to produce. But with a$225 million worldwide haul from ...Read More
LOS ANGELES — Doom spelled dollars at the box office as the global-disaster tale "2012" opened at No. 1 domestically with $65 million and pulled in $225 million worldwide.
The Sony Pictures action saga tells the story of a scramble to ...Read More
Doom spelled dollars at the box office as the global-disaster tale "2012" opened at No. 1 domestically with $65 million and pulled in $225 million worldwide. The Sony Pictures action saga tells the story of a scramble to save remnants of ...Read More
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Moviegoers worldwide welcomed the apocalypse a little early as the disaster movie "2012" swept through theaters during the weekend with one of the best openings of the year.
The latest end-of-days picture from "Independence Day" director Roland ...Read More
GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas authorities did an about face on Saturday and dropped a plan to keep schools in the Gaza Strip open on a Palestinian holiday founded by the rival Fatah faction. An official with Gaza's Education Ministry said schools ...Read More
2012 is Roland Emmerich's best movie since Independence Day. Take that however you please.
The German director is a filmmaking Peter Pan. He won't grow up. Like most kids, he undoubtedly created horrible scenarios with his toy train set. Unlike most ...Read More
More than thirteen years, Bill Pullman gave a goose-bump-inducing Fourth of July speech about freedom, willpower and how a few ugly aliens needed a good beatdown – and honestly I'm still pumped up. On the strength of that patriotic presidential speech ...Read More
We reported last month that the reason we haven't seen a sequel to the mega successful sci-fi blockbuster, Independence Day, is because 20th Century Fox is apparently stalling because of money. Personally, even if the first film's star, Will Smith, ...Read More
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