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Roland Emmerich is a German and American filmmaker. He is known for his science fiction and disaster films and has been called a "master of disaster" within the movie industry. His films, most of which are English-language Hollywood productions released to mixed reviews, have made more than $3 billion worldwide, including just over $1 billion in the United States, making him the 19th-highest-gross…
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s starting point was a suitcase full of Mao statues that Emmerich picked up in Shanghai. He then approached film set designers and artists to realise his own designs, employing scenic artist Jim Gemmill to draw the murals that pepper the house, and a posse of prop and model makers to fabricate everything from the life-size papal waxwork to the coffee table dioramas.
Awarded GLAAD Stephen F. Kolzak Award (2015).
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“s starting point was a suitcase full of Mao statues that Emmerich picked up in Shanghai. He then approached film set designers and artists to realise his own designs, employing scenic artist Jim Gemmill to draw the murals that pepper the house, and a posse of prop and model makers to fabricate everything from the life-size papal waxwork to the coffee table dioramas.”
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The Guardian: Moonfall review – lost in space with master of disaster Roland Emmerich
The Guardian: Moonfall review – Roland Emmerich’s bad moon rising… and I mean really bad
The Guardian: Roland Emmerich’s Moonfall premiere party turned disaster into opportunity
The Guardian: One small step, once every few years: when will Roland Emmerich stop going to space?
It was announced that Emmerich's next film project would be entitled Moonfall, released in 2022 by Lionsgate
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The Guardian: Roland Emmerich: ‘I like to say I was driven out of Germany by the critics’
Awarded GLAAD Stephen F. Kolzak Award (2015).
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Awarded Sitges Grand Honorary Award (2014).
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Sony Pictures had purchased a pitch for Emmerich's project Singularity, a sci-fi epic about a man composed of nanomachines
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Emmerich directed 2012, an apocalyptic disaster film based on the conspiracy theory that the ancient Mayans prophesying that the world would end on 21 December 2012
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Emmerich directed 10,000 BC, a film about the journeys of a prehistoric tribe of mammoth hunters
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Awarded Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg (2007).
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On behalf of the LGBT community, he held a fundraiser at his Los Angeles home for Democratic Party presidential candidate Hillary Clinton
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Pledged $150,000 to the Legacy Project, a campaign dedicated to gay and lesbian film preservation
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Awarded Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1998).
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Awarded European Film Award - People's Choice Award for Best Director for Godzilla (1998).
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That became the first film to gross $100 million in less than a week and went on to become one of the most financially successful films of all time, at one point having been the second-highest-grossing film in terms of w
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Founded Centropolis Film Productions (now Centropolis Entertainment) in partnership with his sister, producer Ute Emmerich, and directed his major film debut, a fantasy feature named Joey
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Wrote and directed the full-length feature The Noah's Ark Principle, which was screened as the opening film of the 34th Berlin International Film Festival in 1984
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Studied at University of Television and Film Munich (1977).
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Began attending University of Television and Film Munich with the intention of studying to become a production designer
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Born 1955-11-10.
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About a young writer having to take control of a film set, another about a conquistador, and a third about the death of Marilyn Monroe
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