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Earlier today we told you that Sony was hot to make a deal for a new Roland Emmerich project with the working title Singularity. Well, we were right. The studio just confirmed the title and the release date: May 17, 2013. Harald Kloser, who co-wrote with Emmerich the Sony-released 2012 and 10,000 BC, also co-wrote this script with Emmerich and is co-producing. CAA made the deal.

How secret is the project? Well, the disaster movie master is only weeks away from shooting.

...in the years after INDEPENDENCE DAY's release, there were unconfirmed rumors that a sequel to that picture would involve a second alien invasion of our planet - but the aliens arrive to find Earth has back-engineered and hybridized the alien tech left behind in the first film, resulting in a far more technically advanced human civilization than those bastard invaders bargained for.

Roland Emmerich’s thriller about a global cataclysm opened at No. 1 with a higher-than-expected $65 million in ticket sales.

Sony Pictures is saying this morning its 2012 opened as a runaway No. 1 with $23.7 million Friday, including $1M in Thursday midnights, for what's looking like a $61+M weekend.

After "Antichrist," his art house mash up of the slasher horror genre, Danish director Lars von Trier is moving into Roland Emmerich territory with his next project -- a psychological disaster film titled "Planet Melancholia."

The summer blockbuster schedule just got a little emptier. According to Variety, Sony has delayed Roland Emmerich’s apocalyptic action flick “2012” from July 10 all the way back to November 13. While such a decision seems to suggest that the effects-laden film won’t be ready, or that the studio lacks confidence in the film, Sony insists ...