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The last few decades have been filled with a lot of original content that became extremely profitable, so studios decided to bank on that success with unwarranted sequels or reboots. One of those franchises includes Independence Day.

The 1996 sci-fi film marked one of Will Smith's breakout roles and won an Oscar for Best Visual Effects. The movie was extremely successful at the box office, becoming the highest-earning film that year, so two decades later, Independence Day: Resurgence followed, starring The Hunger Games star Liam Hemsworth in the leading role.Independence Day: Resurgence wasn't the same hit as the original was, but it's now becoming a success on streaming, FlixPatrol reports.

Independence Day: Resurgence has just debuted in the Top 10 overall charts on HBO Max in the United States. At the top of the charts, Sinners continues its dominance, followed by And Just Like That..., Matt Damon and Pedro Pascal's creature featureThe Great Wall,...

MGM+ has announced the titles coming to the premium linear channel and streaming service during the month of May. The MGM Plus May 2024 lineup includes new Beacon 23 Season 2 episodes and the films French Girl and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning.

MGM+, an Amazon company, is a premium linear channel and streaming service delivering a broad lineup of exclusive original series and docuseries, the latest movie releases, and classic film franchises—all available in the U.S. on TV, on-demand, online, and across devices.

MGM+ is a destination for premium content, with original series including sci-fi horror series From, Emmy-winning series Godfather of Harlem, the Western adventure Billy the Kid, the anticipated new series Hotel Cocaine and Emperor of Ocean Park, the limited series A Spy Among Friends, and cinematic dramatic series Rogue Heroes, War of the Worlds, and Beacon 23.

The network is also the home of acclaimed docuseries,...

For fans of rom-coms, it can be a struggle to find a new one that puts a fun, unique spin on all the tropes and twists that go hand-in-hand with the genre, while also respecting that said twists should not come at the expense of what makes the genre so beloved. In the case of French Girl, in theaters now, writer-directors James A. Woods and Nicolas Wright take the story to Quebec City, Canada, and follow Sophie (Évelyne Brochu), a French-Canadian chef living in the States, who travels home with her American boyfriend Gordon (Zach Braff) when she gets an opportunity to interview for a prestigious restaurant at the Château Frontenac. Only problem? Head chef and restaurant owner Ruby (Vanessa Hudgens) is also Sophie's ex-girlfriend. And she wants her back.

The love triangle in French Girl is unique and set in a beautiful, unique setting of French Canada. The comedic aspect of Ruby's character brought a fun dynamic to the movie, especially in scenes with Gordon. Evelyne Brochu felt connected to her role as a French girl and expressed a desire to be part of the Orphan Black world forever.

French Girl follows Gordon, whose life seems nearly perfect working as an English teacher in Brooklyn with a beloved girlfriend, Sophie. However, things get flipped on their heads when Sophie is offered the opportunity to land her dream job as an executive chef at a new restaurant in her hometown, Quebec City. When they visit her home, Gordon makes a startling discovery about Sophie's friend Ruby, who set up the job opportunity, and their history as more than just friends.

Zach Braff (Scrubs), Vanessa Hudgens, and Evelyne Brochu lead...

Who said romantic comedies are dead? Dating back to the 1990s and beyond, of course, the crowd-pleasing genre remains a perfect date-night excuse to remain couchbound and watch lovers quarrel, reunite, kiss, make up, and more. French Girl, a new small-budget feature from co-writer-directors James A. Woods and Nicolas Wright, isn't exactly the most groundbreaking content out there, but it successfully puts a unique little spin on the common love-triangle tropes often seen in modern-day romantic comedies. Zach Braff's age certainly shows here, but his reliably humorous physical comedy might just bring you back to the glory days of Scrubs.

French Girl R 3/5 Release DateMarch 15, 2024DirectorJames A. Woods, Nicolas WrightCastZach Braff, Vanessa Hudgens, William Fichtner, Charlotte AubinRuntime106 MinutesMain GenreComedyWritersJames A. Woods, Nicolas Wright ProsGood slapstick comedy from BraffBrochu is charming as the central love interestActors all have nice chemistry, whether romantic or otherwiseConsNot a particularly new or fresh storyThe...

Zach Braff returns to rom-coms in French Girl, playing a romantic trying to keep his love alive despite a job offer that separates him from his girlfriend. French Girl is a heartwarming romantic comedy that explores the cultural clash between the U.S. and Canada. While there is currently no Scrubs reunion or movie in development, both creator Bill Lawrence and Zach Braff believe it is inevitable and that fans want to see it happen.

Scrubs star Zach Braff makes a return to rom-coms in French Girl, for which we’ve gotten our hands on the first trailer, poster, and a new batch of images. French Girl finds Braff in charmingly familiar territory as a hopeless romantic whose proposal plans are put in jeopardy when his girlfriend gets swept away to Canada by a job offer from her ex. Of course, he’s determined to keep them together, and leaves Brooklyn,...

The new romantic comedy feature “French Girl" is written and directed by James A. Woods and Nicolas Wright, starring Zach Braff, Evelyne Brochu, Luc Picard, Antoine Olivier Pilon, Isabelle Vincent, Charlotte Aubin, Muriel Dutil, with William Fichtner and Vanessa Hudgens, releasing March 15, 2024:

“….’Gordon’, a hopeless romantic, finds his proposal plans are thrown into chaos when his girlfriend is swept away to Quebec by a job offer from her ex, a sophisticated celebrity chef.

“Determined to keep their love alive, Gordon leaves Brooklyn for her hometown, only to find himself hilariously out of his depth in attempting to charm her hard-to-impress, French-speaking family.”

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Had there been a sequel to 1994's Stargate, the franchise would have moved beyond Egyptian extra-terrestrials.

During an interview with Yahoo! Entertainment, franchise producer and co-creator Dean Devlin discussed his and film collaborator Roland Emmerich's abandoned sequel plans for Stargate, as well as for 1996's Independence Day and 1998's Godzilla. The duo found so much mainstream success starting with Stargate that they planned to make a trilogy, with the second installment asking, "[W]hy are there pyramids in Mayan culture" and the third installment bringing the entire mythology together. "The third one was going to tie everything together," Devlin said. "We were gonna have the Yeti, we were gonna have the Loch Ness Monster. It was all going to make sense how these things are tied together."

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Exclusive: Zach Braff, Vanessa Hudgens, Evelyne Brochu and William Fichtner are set to star in the indie comedy French Girl.

Written & directed by James A. Woods & Nicolas Wright, the pic is a fish out of water comedy which follows Gordon Kinski (Braff) a high school teacher living in Brooklyn, who accompanies his girlfriend & chef Sophie Tremblay (Brochu) to her hometown of Quebec City where she is testing for a Michelin 3 star restaurant at the Chateau Frontenac, owned by wunderkind super-chef Ruby Collins (Hudgens.)

The pic is produced by Valerie D’Auteuil, Andre Rouleau through Caramel Films & Anders Bard through aBard Production. Paramount Global & Elevation Pictures are handling distribution worldwide. Production is currently underway in Montreal & Quebec City.

Braff is repped by CAA, Management 360 and attorney Ken Richmond, Hudgens is repped by CAA, Untitled Ent. and Ziffren Brittenham, Brochu is repped by Thruline Entertainment, Agence Goodwin and As Talents. Fichtner is repped by Principal Entertainment LA,...

Bloods star Jane Horrocks is joining the cast of another Sky original in the UK.

She has been cast in the third season of explosive political drama series Cobra, playing populist Defence Secretary Victoria Dalton in the UK government, opposite Robert Carlyle’s returning Prime Minister Robert Sutherland and his Chief of Staff, Anna Marshall (Victoria Hamilton).

Horrocks, also known for BBC comedy Absolutely Fabulous, has most recently been appearing opposite Samson Kayo in Sky paramedics comedy Bloods.

The latest six-part season of Cobra is titled Rebellion and will follow the aftermath of an unforeseen environmental disaster that reveals itself as a crisis of corruption in the arms industry and the rise of shadowy corporate security firms, challenging Sutherland to decide what he is willing to sacrifice to stay in power.

Production has begun ahead of a 2023 debut on Sky Max and streamer Now in the UK.

David Haig (Killing Eve...

In the year 2000, the late literary critic James Wood put forth the concept of “hysterical realism,” a then-emergent micro-genre in which the delirious overstimulation of modern life is expressed through a hoarder-caliber accumulation of detail. At the time, he was talking about the likes of Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, and Zadie Smith, and their doorstopper works’ endless minutiae on land surveying or tennis strategy or the ethics of lab rat usage.

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Fox has given a put pilot commitment to Bastards, a single camera comedy from The Mindy Project's Ed Weeks, Independence Day: Resurgence writers Nicolas Wright and James A. Woods, Friends alum Andrew Reich and The Mayor and Black-ish director James Griffiths. ABC Studios and 20th Century Fox TV are producing. Co-penned by actors-writers Wright, Woods and Weeks, Bastards is about a philandering game show host who dies, leaving his mansion to his three children, each of…...

Director Roland Emmerich and producer Dean Devlin have been planning a new Stargate reboot for years. The project was said to be a trilogy that allowed them to finish the story that they started with the original film. I was actually kind of interested to see what they would do with it, but the project is no longer happening.

During an interview with Empire, Devlin explained that the reason why they aren't doing it anymore is because he's scared they are going to screw it up. He said:

“It looked good for a couple of months, but now it’s not looking so good. There are just a lot of things that have to fire at the same time, and there was a moment where I thought it was all firing at the same time, and then it all kind of fell apart.“It’s one of the reasons I prefer to work independently.

Before filmmakers Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin joined forces on the 1996 blockbuster Independence Day, they also wrote the 1994 sci-fi film Stargate, which Roland Emmerich directed. The film was a modest success, earning $71.5 million at the domestic box office and $196.5 million worldwide. The movie would spawn a big franchise on the small screen with the launch of Stargate Sg-1 in 1997, but it never got a big screen sequel. A few years ago, it was reported that the filmmakers were returning to work on a reboot trilogy. Now it seems that may not happen anymore.

Empire recently spoke with Dean Devlin, who was promoting the third season of his TNT TV series The Librarians, where he offered an update on the Stargate reboot. While the project was looking promising for quite some time, Dean Devlin says it is no longer happening. Here's what he had to say below.

"It looked good for a couple of months,...

It’s fairly amazing that it took five men — Nicolas Wright, James A. Woods, Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich, James Vanderbilt – to conceive the story and pen the script to Independence Day: Resurgence when it trod no new ground and felt like the worst rehash of the original film and many other Sf flicks from the preceding twenty years.

The original ID4 was an unassuming popcorn thriller with implausible science and predictable actions but leavened with strong performances and quirky, fun characters. They were having fun fighting the alien invaders and we had memorable lines and Will Smith punching out an alien with “Welcome to Earth”.

Somehow, these five, including Devlin and Emmerich who gave us the first, left out the fun. Instead, for two hours we see a mix of familiar and unfamiliar figures watch an even larger alien ship arrive, intent on destroying Earth either as an act of...

Halfway through both the summer movie season and the year of 2016 as a whole, sequels have been hit or miss. Follow-ups such as Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, X-Men: Apocalypse, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Now You See Me 2 and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows couldn't capture the box office magic of its predecessors. Of course, the biggest movie of the year right now is a sequel, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, but last week, a follow-up 13 years in the making, Finding Dory, opened huge with $135 million, breaking Shrek the Third's record for biggest animated opening weekend ($121.6 million). As expected, this forgetful fish staved off three newcomers this weekend, 20th Century Fox's Independence Day: Resurgence, Sony's The Shallows and Stx Entertainment's Free State of Jones, repeating atop the box office with $73.2 million.

Finding Dory's opening weekend haul not only breaks Shrek the Third's...

You could generously call the decision to hide Independence Day: Resurgence from critics an “unconventional” choice. 20th Century Fox initially wasn’t screening the movie at all before it opened, then opted to only show it earlier today at a press screening hours after it hit screens, that’s not much of a sign of confidence. It’s odd too, considering how well regarded the original is and how well nostalgia worked for Jurassic World last year. Well, I hate to be the one to say it, but they were right to hide this one. It’s out now and likely will do strong business, but the quality drop between Independence Day and Independence Day: Resurgence is staggering. What a shame too. I’m sure everyone knows what this flick is about, but just quickly, I’ll state the obvious that it’s a sequel to the disaster epic that...

Somehow – despite Roland Emmerich’s obsessive focus on Earth’s destruction – Independence Day found a way to bottle raw human fortitude in a way that its sequel, Independence Day: Resurgence, clumsily fumbles. In the most generic, fan-servicing, sequelitis-stricken way, this sci-fi doomsday franchise charges back into theaters like a bull in an intergalactic China shop. The entire films is basically one big “Here we go again!” moment on repeat, as Emmerich prays that nostalgia is enough to distract from the nothingness that’s occurring on screen. Look! There’s a heroic poster of Will Smith! Or over there! It’s that crazy doctor who totally should be dead! And Jeff Goldblum! You guys still love him, right?!

Yes, Mr. Emmerich, we do still love Jeff Goldblum – but not when he’s reduced to making silly faces like a rejected Tim & Eric sketch. Granted, I’d pay good money for a...

All the movie buffs out there have a very exciting weekend to look forward to. 24th of June marks the date of some exceptional movie release that cannot be missed. From watching our personal favourite Nawazuddin in a dark avatar in Raman Raghav 2.0 to to Dhanak that is based on the concept of celebrating life, there’s a variety of movies to choose from.

Here are 5 movies you need to watch this weekend with your friends and family:

7 Hours To Go: 7 Hours To Go is an power-packed thriller written & directed by Saurabh Verma starring Shiva Pandit, Sanddepa Dhar, Natasha Stankovic and Varun Badola. The movie is inspired by real life events that take place on a regular basis in Mumbai. 7 Hours To Go revolves around a hostage crisis and the whirlwind of events that take place within 7 hours after that incident. The intensity of the concept and the hard...

All the movie buffs out there have a very exciting weekend to look forward to. 24th of June marks the date of some exceptional movie release that cannot be missed. From watching our personal favourite Nawazuddin in a dark avatar in Raman Raghav 2.0 to to Dhanak that is based on the concept of celebrating life, there’s a variety of movies to choose from.

Here are 5 movies you need to watch this weekend with your friends and family:

7 Hours To Go: 7 Hours To Go is an power-packed thriller written & directed by Saurabh Verma starring Shiva Pandit, Sanddepa Dhar, Natasha Stankovic and Varun Badola. The movie is inspired by real life events that take place on a regular basis in Mumbai. 7 Hours To Go revolves around a hostage crisis and the whirlwind of events that take place within 7 hours after that incident. The intensity of the concept and the hard...

After several weeks of underperforming sequels, including Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, X-Men: Apocalypse, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Pixar's Finding Dory helped breathe new life into the summer box office with a whopping $135 million opening weekend. This weekend, the lovable yet forgetful fish squares off against four new movies all opening in wide release, 20th Century Fox's Independence Day: Resurgence, Sony's The Shallows, Stx Entertainment's Free State of Jones and Broad Green Pictures' The Neon Demon. While Independence Day 2 will put up the biggest fight, Finding Dory will most likely prevail at the box office for a second week in a row.

Finding Dory's opening weekend haul breaks Shrek the Third's $121.6 million record as the biggest debut for an animated movie, while also surpassing Toy Story 3's $110.3 million mark for the biggest debut in Pixar history. Finding Dory, which features a star-studded voice cast including Ellen DeGeneres,...

Back in the mid-1990s, the team of director Roland Emmerich and writer/producer Dean Devlin were responsible for two of the biggest sci-fi films of the period - "Stargate" and "Independence Day".

Twenty years on, Emmerich delivers a sequel to the latter with "Independence Day: Resurgence" opening next week. Out doing promotional rounds for it, Devlin confirmed to Variety that the pair are turning their attention towards a reboot of, rather than a sequel to, the "Stargate" franchise. Speaking about how the idea for the reboot came together, he says:

"At the time that we made it, every single studio in Hollywood had told me that science fiction was dead... And Roland and I really love science fiction, so I think that's partly why it worked and resonated. It wasn't a cynical attempt to try and make something that was crowd-pleasing."

He also confirms that the plan is to...

Two years before their epic blockbuster Independence Day shattered box office records in the summer of 1996, Dean Devlin co-wrote the sci-fi cult classic Stargate with director Roland Emmerich. While the film put up decent numbers at the box office, taking in $71.5 million domestically and $196.5 million worldwide, it became an even bigger hit on the small screen with the launch of Stargate Sg-1, which ran for 10 seasons and spawned numerous spinoffs. Now that their sequel Independence Day: Resurgence is set to hit theaters next weekend, both Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich are eyeing a reboot trilogy of their original movie.

We first reported on this Stargate reboot in 2014, with a report surfacing the following year that Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich's Independence Day sequel was put on hold so they could make Stargate. That obviously never happened, with Independence Day: Resurgence moving ahead instead, but in an interview with Variety,...

The idea of filmmakers rebooting a franchise in order to finish telling their original story may seem antithetical, but it's exactly what producer Dean Devlin and director Roland Emmerich are planning for Stargate. The duo originally planned for their 1994 movie to be the first part in a trilogy, but, as Devlin says, "because of what happened with the rights and changes at the studio and all kinds of strange things, we never got to do parts two and three.”

Variety sat down with him and asked about his plans for the reboot and why they didn't just take the same approach they did with Independence Day: Resurgence and pick up where they left off:

“It’s not a story that can take place 20 years later. So the only way to really tell that trilogy is to go back from the beginning and start the story all over again. It was taken away from us,...

Not long before Independence Day made Roland Emmerich into a blockbuster king, he channelled his sci-fi interests into a little movie called Stargate. The 1994 sci-fi underdog made a decent profit at the box office, raking in around $200 million, which led to a number of TV spinoffs and straight-to-video sequels.

With plans for a rebooted Stargate universe on the horizon, producer Dean Devlin talked to Variety about what purpose they serve. It’s all about wrapping up their initial franchise plans, because even though the original film’s success spawned more titles, none were based on Emmerich and Devlin’s designs.

“At the time that we made it, every single studio in Hollywood had told me that science fiction was dead. And Roland and I really love science fiction, so I think that’s partly why it worked and resonated. It wasn’t a cynical attempt to try and make something that was crowd-pleasing…...

20th Century Fox announced that they will re-release director Roland Emmerich's 1996 sci-fi blockbuster, "Independence Day", as a special double feature in front of this summers "Independence Day: Resurgence" on Thursday, June 23rd.

Emmerich directed the original "Independence Day", which starred Will Smith, and this year's sequel. The screenplay is written by Emmerich, Dean Devlin, James Vanderbilt, James A. Woods, and Nicholas Wright.

The sequel stars Jeff Goldblum, Vivica A. Fox, Judd Hirsch, Bill Pullman and Brent Spiner from the original film. The additional cast includes Liam Hemsworth, Jessie Usher, Maika Monroe, Sela Ward and Charlotte Gainsbourg.

After "Independence Day" redefined the event movie genre, the next epic chapter delivers global spectacle on an unimaginable scale. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare us for the aliens’ advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity...

20th Century Fox is excited to announce a live streamed Q&A from the set of Roland Emmerich's sequel Independence Day 2, today at 6 Pm Pt / 9 Pm Et. See the cast answer questions about this upcoming project and tune in for an exciting reveal, with host Jake Roper of VSauce3, and participating talent that includes director Roland Emmerich along with cast members Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Judd Hirsch, Vivica A. Fox, Brent Spiner, Angelababy, Maika Monroe, Sela Ward and Jessie Usher. Fans can also ask questions directly to the cast and director by tweeting to the @IndependenceDay twitter account and using the hashtag #IndependenceDayLive.

We always knew they were coming back. After Independence Day redefined the event movie genre, the next epic chapter delivers global spectacle on an unimaginable scale. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet.

We may be buzzing about the possibility of a different woman in the White House by the time Independence Day 2 opens in 2016, but for now, the Roland Emmerich-directed sequel has just added Sela Ward to its cast in the key role of President Lanford.

Ward, known best for her role on CSI: NY, has a history with Emmerich – they last worked together on The Day After Tomorrow, which stands as one of the helmer’s biggest hits. Though Ward has done more work on the small screen since playing Dr. Lucy Hall in that disaster extravaganza, she last appeared as Sharon Schieber in David Fincher’s Gone Girl.

She joins a cast that includes some familiar faces, like Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman and Vivica A. Fox, all of whom starred in Independence Day way back in 1996, as well as newcomers to the franchise like Liam Hemsworth (The Hunger Games...

Independence Day had Bill Pullman’s President Thomas J. Whitmore around to rally humanity and fight the aliens. But unless the universe in which the film takes place has very different rules governing Us presidents, he can’t still be the leader of the free world 20 years later. And indeed it’s true – Sela Ward will be President Lanford in Independence Day 2.She’ll be the White House incumbent – we assume the place has been rebuilt since the original attack – for the story of Earth having to fend off the next wave of extra-terrestrial invasion attempts. Ward is one of the new faces for the franchise, joining the likes of Liam Hemsworth, Maika Monroe, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jessie Usher, Travis Tope and Joey King, alongside returning cast members Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Vivica A. Fox, Judd Hirsch and Brent Spiner.Emmerich has been developing this one for a while now, working...

Just one day after we reported that Independence Day star Vivica A. Fox will return for Independence Day 2, Boardwalk Empire actor Travis Tope is in negotiations to join the cast. The actor will play a character named Charlie, although no further details were given. Independence Day star Will Smith is not returning, although Bill Pullman (Thomas Whitmore) and Jeff Goldblum (David Levinson) are reprising their roles from the original, alongside Vivica A. Fox.

The new cast members coming on board for the sequel include Liam Hemsworth, Jessie Usher and Charlotte Gainsbourg. When Jessie Usher was originally cast, it was revealed that he is playing the son of Will Smith's Stephen Hiller. However, The Wrap reports that he is actually playing Jasmine Dubrow's son Dylan, originally played by Ross Bagley in Independence Day. In the original movie, Hiller was dating Dubrow, but he was not the father of Dylan.

The latest addition to Roland Emmerich’s long-gestating sequel Independence Day 2 is a little less unexpected than last week’s newbie. Vivica A. Fox, who portrayed Will Smith’s stripper girlfriend Jasmine Dubrow in the 1996 original, has officially signed on to reprise her role.

Emmerich announced the news via Twitter today:

Exciting news… just officially closed @MsVivicaFox for #IndependenceDay! Here’s the pic! pic.twitter.com/hXVjnqOFaD

— Roland Emmerich (@rolandemmerich) March 24, 2015

Fox’s character had a pivotal role in the first outing that involved reuniting the First Lady with the President. Whether or not she will grapple with something a bit meatier – i.e. taking out the aliens – is unknown. One thing is for certain, whatever she does she’ll have family alongside her. No, she didn’t marry Smith’s cocky pilot and he’s definitely not returning. Throughout her story arc in the original she was accompanied by her son,...

Charlotte Gainsbourg, who most recently starred in director Lars von Trier's controversial Nymphomaniac Volume I and Nymphomaniac Volume II, is in negotiations to join the cast of 20th Century Fox's sci-fi action sequel Independence Day 2. No details were given for her character, but if a deal is finalized, she will join Jessie Usher, Liam Hemsworth and Jeff Goldblum, who reprises his David Levinson role from 1996's Independence Day. While Will Smith is not returning as Air Force pilot Stephen Hiller for the follow-up, it is believed that Bill Pullman will be back as Thomas Whitmore.

We reported earlier this month that Jessie Usher is playing the son of Will Smith's Stephen Hiller, but in the original Independence Day, it was never revealed that Hiller had a son. His girlfriend, Jasmine Dubrow (Vivica A. Fox) did have a young son named Dylan (Ross Bagley), but Hiller was not the father.

In one of the most interesting pieces of casting news to land this week, THR reports that Charlotte Gainsbourg has entered talks to appear in sci-fi sequel Independence Day 2. The actress is known for her aggressively method performances in Lars Von Trier’s back catalogue of works including Nymphomaniac, Antichrist and Melancholia, so stepping away from character-driven pieces and into the realm of blockbuster fare is certainly an unexpected move for Gainsbourg.

The long-gestating follow-up to Roland Emmerich’s 1996 box office behemoth has hit headlines in recent weeks due to an influx of new cast members. In addition to today’s news, Emmerich – who’s back at the helm – took to Twitter not long ago to announce Jeff Goldblum’s return as scientist David Levinson. Along with original star Will Smith (who won’t be reprising his role), Goldblum knocked out the alien threat by administering a digital virus...

"Nymphomaniac" star Charlotte Gainsbourg is in talks to join the "Independence Day" sequel at 20th Century Fox.

Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum and Jessie Usher also star in the Roland Emmerich-directed film which both takes place and is set twenty years after the original movie hit cinemas.

James A. Woods and Nicolas Wright wrote the most recent draft. Details of Gainsbourg's role are unknown.

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When Independence Day exploded onto the big screen in 1996, it became a box office smash hit. Its effective mix of science fiction, ground-breaking special effects, and disaster movie themes turned it into the quintessential summer blockbuster, and paved the way for director Roland Emmerich to wage cinematic war on countless iconic landmarks in subsequent movies, such as Godzilla, The Day After Tomorrow, 2012 and White House Down. Surprisingly, a sequel has been slow to develop – but the wait is almost over now, as finally, almost two decades later, Independence Day 2 is on its way – with Jessie Usher now cast.

Plot details are, of course, tightly under wraps, but we can surmise from the casting that a high level of continuity can be expected. Jeff Goldblum will apparently reprise his role as codebreaker and day saviour, David Levinson, and Jessie Usher is set to play the son of Will Smith’s Independence Day character,...

Nicolas Wright and James A. Woods are said to be in "final negotiations" to write the first of a trilogy of Stargate films, accordingn to The Hollywood Reporter. Roland Emmerich is expected to direct it. He previously directed the 1994 film that kicked off the franchise. Dean Devlin will produce. He originally co-wrote the 1994 film. Writer and Woods recently worked on Devlin and Emmerich's Independence Day 2, and clearly left a good enough impression to be hired to work on their next project. A small group of Us troups and an Egyptologist use an ancient device found in 1920's Egypt to transport themselves to a distant planet where humans resemble ancient Egyptians. Actors: Kurt Russell, James Spader, Jaye Davidson & Viveca Lindfors * Director: Roland Emmerich...

Looking back at the cinematic calendar for 1994 and the quantity of modern classics released within those 365 days is staggering. Pulp Fiction, Four Weddings And A Funeral, Forrest Gump… all mainstream hits that enraptured both audiences and critics. If you brush aside the popular chaff you’ll find a handful of genre gems; in particular, Roland Emmerich’s underrated sci-fi flick, Stargate.

Emmerich, currently gearing up to relaunch his blockbuster franchise Independence Day, is hard at work on simultaneously kickstarting the Stargate brand. The in-development movie – which is heralded as the beginning of a new trilogy – has now found its writers. According to a report from THR, Emmerich appears to be employing those with whom he’s already familiar. Nicolas Wright and James A. Woods, who helped ID2 land the greenlight thanks to their script, are now on board to pen the first Stargate instalment.

The duo have struck up a...

The Lost City of Z: Charlie Hunnam (above in Pacific Rim), who was cast in the lead role for Fifty Shades of Grey before dropping out, now finds himself in the opposite situation: he's replacing Benedict Cumberbatch in a lead role in The Lost City of Z. Based on a true story about an explorer searching the Amazon, the adventure also stars Robert Pattinson and Sienna Miller, and will be directed by James Gray. [The Hollywood Reporter]   Stargate: The proposed remake of 1994's Stargate is moving forward. Nicolas Wright and James A. Woods are in final negotiations to write a new screenplay; they previously worked with director Roland Emmerich on the upcoming sequel Independence Day 2. The Stargate remake is intended to be the first installment of a trilogy. [Heat...

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Last year we learned that Warner Bros. and MGM were going to develop a Stargate trilogy with director Roland Emmerich and producer Dean Devlin. They've been working on developing a new Stargate film for years, and it's continuing to move forward. 

Nicolas Wright and James A. Woods are in final negotiations to write the script for the first film of the trilogy. The two writers recently worked together with Emmerich on Independence Day 2.  They obviously all had a good experience working with each other since they are teaming back up.

I've enjoyed the Stargate franchise over the years, from the first film to the several SyFy Channel series' that followed. The original plan for the first film was to turn it into a trilogy but they never got to make the other two films. I imagine this new set of movies will start from scratch and reinvent the franchise.

Roland Emmerich’s new Stargate movie, a remake of his own 1994 film of the same name, has set its sights on a pair of writers. Meanwhile, Oculus director Mike Flanagan’s upcoming film Somnia now has a release date, and Vampirella fans have a new comic book to look forward to, including a cover drawn exclusively for Box of Dread subscribers.

Stargate Reboot: According to The Hollywood Reporter, Nicolas Wright and James A. Woods are set to scribe Roland Emmerich’s upcoming Stargate reboot, the first in a projected trilogy that Emmerich will direct with Dean Devlin producing the projects. Wright and Woods both penned the screenplay for Emmerich’s Independence Day 2, scheduled for a June 24th, 2016 release.

Featuring a wormhole that takes an assembled team to a distant world, the original Stargate starred Kurt Russell and James Spader and spawned a number of television series, including Stargate Sg-1,...

While Independence Day 2 is gearing up for production, with Liam Hemsworth being the latest potential addition to the cast of the sequel from director Roland Emmerich, one of the filmmaker's other properties getting the reboot treatment is making progress as well. As we learned last summer, Emmerich will be at the helm of a Stargate reboot, which is intended to be a trilogy, and now THR reports it will be Independence Day 2 writers Nicolas Wright & James A. Woods scripting the first film. The duo is relatively new to Hollywood, but it was their draft that got ID4-2 off the ground, so they must be doing something right. As of now, there are no details as to how this reboot will change things up, but the original film followed the discovery of a device that creates a wormhole to another world. Once activated, the government sends a military...

Nicolas Wright and James A. Woods are in final negotiations to pen the script for the proposed reboot of the "Stargate" franchise at MGM and Warner Bros. Pictures.

The original film followed the discovery of a device that creates a wormhole allowing scientists and military person access to a distant world. There, they discover an enslaved people who are descendants from ancient Egyptians and worshipping an alien 'Ra'.

The new film is intended to be the first of a trilogy that original 1994 "Stargate" film director Roland Emmerich is slated to helm. Dean Devlin, who co-wrote the original movie with Emmerich, is producing.

Wright and Woods have familiarity with reviving a famed 1990s sci-fi franchise, the pair recently worked with Emmerich on the script for the "Independence Day" sequel at 20th Century Fox. Their draft is the one that got the studio excited enough to green light that movie.

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The idea of a Stargate remake became less of a rumour and more of a reality last year, when the news arrived that Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin were looking to revisit their portal-filled film as the potential launch of a new trilogy that would expand upon the original story. Now we know who will get first crack at the script, with Nicolas Wright and James A. Woods hired for the job.The pair is still relatively unknown, but has forged a real bond with Emmerich after his Centropolis company bought an arctic-set action thriller script from them, which led to them landing the task of re-writing the Independence Day sequel that had seen work from Carter Blanchard. According to The Hollywood Reporter, it was their draft that led to 20th Century Fox officially gearing up the film.What form the new Stargate adventure will take has yet to emerge: the 1994 original starred Kurt Russell,...

Independence Day 2 screenwriters Nicolas Wright and James A. Woods are reteaming with director Roland Emmerich to write the screenplay for his Stargate reboot. MGM announced back in May that Roland Emmerich will direct a whole new Stargate movie trilogy, that "reimagines" the original 1994 movie that starred Kurt Russell and James Spader. 20th Century Fox recently gave the green light for Independence Day 2, based on Nicolas Wright and James A. Woods' recent draft of the script.

The original Stargate centered on the discovery of a device that created a wormhole, which allows scientists and military personnel to enter a distant world. They discovered an enslaved race of people who are direct descendants of ancient Egyptians. No details were given on the reboot, but Nicolas Wright and James A. Woods are writing the first in a proposed trilogy.

Roland Emmerich will direct, with Dean Devlin, who co-wrote the original Stargate with the director,...

Stargate, the relaunch of the 1990s Roland Emmerich sci-fi film property from MGM and Warner Bros., has found its writers. Nicolas Wright and James A. Woods are in final negotiations to pen the script of what is intended to be the first of a trilogy that Emmerich is slated to direct. Dean Devlin, who co-wrote the original movie with Emmerich, is producing. The duo are relatively new writers and they recently worked with Emmerich writing on Fox’s Independence Day 2, with the studio greenlighting the movie off their draft. Emmerich warmed up to Wright and Woods when his

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When it hit theatres in 1996, Independence Day (tagged ID4) was a box office smash with a lasting impact in Hollywood. It made a star – a bigger star, lets say – of Will Smith, who at that point was still the Fresh Prince to many. It reinvigorated the disaster flick by mixing it with the alien invasion genre, giving us something along the lines of Earthquake meets War Of The Worlds. And it seared the image of the White House exploding into the minds of movie-goers everywhere, an image that remains iconic to this day.

Others have come along and tried a similar approach, notably Cloverfield, which attempted to do with the Statue of Liberty what Independence Day did with the home of the American President.

A strong cast ensured that even with a rather hokey plot and frankly braindead ending (a computer virus coded in a human programming...

Not somebody you'd necessarily call idle, Roland Emmerich is currently scheming an Independence Day sequel and the political drama Stonewall. But there's apparently room for one more project on his slate, since he's just picked up a spec script by Nicolas Wright and James A. Woods. The as-yet untitled action film is set on "a diving ship in the Arctic".It's yet another example of the spec script making something of a comeback in recent years, after its multimillion dollar '90s heyday and subsequent decline. Safer properties (books, comics, sequels) replaced specs in recent years, but a recent article in the La Times reveals that, while just 67 spec scripts were sold in Hollywood in 2009, the number rose to 154 in 2012 and 182 last year. Crazy paydays like the ones previously enjoyed by Shane Black and Joe Esterhasz are still thin on the ground, however.The script - which we'll call we'll...

Exclusive: Roland Emmerich has been at the center of some of the biggest spec script deals I have ever written about. Usually, he’s the co-writer and some studio is peeling off millions of dollars and making huge gross commitments to one of his global-scale adventure films. Today, Emmerich has completed a spec script deal, but this time, he’s the buyer. I hear his Centropolis Entertainment has acquired rights to an untitled action thriller scripted by actor-writers Nicolas Wright and James A. Woods. Centropolis executive Marco Shepherd, who brought the project to the company, will produce. The film is set on a diving ship in the Arctic. This is a script that Emmerich will likely eye as a potential directing assignment, but that hasn’t been determined and he’s plenty busy. He’s prepping to next direct Stonewall, a Jon Robin Baitz-scripted drama about a young man...

Anchor Bay Entertainment will release "Hellhounds", the 2009 Syfy fantasy adventure, on DVD, directed by former "Silver Spoons" actor Ricky Schroder, starring Scott Elrod, Adam Butcher and Amanda Brooks :

"...a Greek warrior must travel to the 'Underworld' and battle killer 'hellhounds' in order to rescue his dead bride from the clutches of 'Hades'..."

Filmed in Bucharest, Romania, cast also includes James A. Woods, Andrew Howard, Olivia Nita, Marius Chivu, Indra Ové, Ana Popescu, Ben Cross and Oltin Hurezeanu.

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Exclusive: Comedy Central has given a pilot order to Almost Vacant, created by and starring Canadian actors Nicolas Wright and James A. Woods. The project follows the misadventures of two inept friends, Jim (Woods) and Nic (Wright), as they work at a low-end budget hotel in upper New York. The two are constantly working as hard as they can to do the least amount of work, while a cast of awkward and ineffectual co-workers and friends make their lives more difficult but exponentially more interesting. Wright and Woods, who are writing partners, penned the script and are executive producing the pilot, with Matthew Shewchuk producing. Wright and Woods co-starred together in the award-winning 2003 Canadian indie Hatley High and the IFC comedy The Business. In 2004, Wright, repped by Wme and McKeon/Myones, received the most promising newcomer award at Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival for his short film, Toutouffe. In the U.