Jeff Goldblum posts a video tease for Independence Day Resurgence

Posted 11 years ago

In the wake of our set-visit preview of INDEPENDENCE DAY RESURGENCE (you can check out some video here), it looks like the film's biggest star has taken to social networking to throw a few tidbits our way. Thanks to Jeff...

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Celebrate Independence Day with our IDR set visit preview!

Posted 11 years ago

A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to be invited to the New Mexico set of INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE for an absolutely amazing set visit. While everything, including interviews with the cast and director Roland Emmerich, is under embargo...

Roland Emmerich discusses Will Smith and Independence Day Resurgence

Posted 11 years ago

Our own Chris Bumbray is currently visiting the set of INDEPENDENCE DAY RESURGENCE in New Mexico and seeing all kinds of cool shit, some of which he’s been able to share and some of which is held under embargo. Today,...

Dreamworks lands ghost story pitch from Independence Day 2 scribe

Posted 11 years ago

Dreamworks has their eyes set on the spirits of the dead as the studio recently snatched up an original ghost story pitch from Carter Blanchard, the scribe who most recently rewrote what is the shooting draft of INDEPENDENCE DAY 2,...

Dean Devlin on why they’re doing only one Independence Day sequel for now

Posted 11 years ago

Last month the long-rumored INDEPENDENCE DAY sequel finally got the greenlight from Fox, so I guess we can start prepping now for a second invasion. But you may recall that when producer Dean Devlin and director Roland Emmerich first started...

The second invasion comes earlier as Fox bumps up Independence Day 2 release

Posted 12 years ago

The long-awaited sequel to the 1996 blockbuster INDEPENDENCE DAY is doing the release date shuffle yet again, and now we've learned that the second invasion will come a bit earlier than previously announced. INDEPENDENCE DAY 2 was originally penciled in...

Fox’s Independence Day sequel finds new writer in Carter Blanchard

Posted 12 years ago

We've been keeping an eye on Fox's long-awaited sequel to Roland Emmerich's 1996 blockbuster INDEPENDENCE DAY, and now we've learned that the film has tapped a new writer to come onboard the project. Deadline is reporting that Fox has hired...

Carter Blanchard to rewrite Independence Day 2 script

Posted 12 years ago

Last fall Roland Emmerich said he and James Vanderbilt were preparing two screenplays for ID4EVER, just in case Will Smith decided to return for the INDEPENDENCE DAY sequel. Will Smith won't be back as Captain Steven Hiller though, and it...

Mark Millar’s Kindergarten Heroes set for the big screen with writer Carter Blanchard

Posted 13 years ago

Today I learned that Mark Millar wrote a children’s book. That said, this book is hitting the big screen after Carter Blanchard delivered the winning pitch for Fox. Millar wrote the book with Curtis Tiegs, who he met on the...