Trailer: The Burning Sea (Nordsjøen) 2021)
Norway’s Fantefilm team is on a roll. First came The Wave, then The Quake, and now we have The Burning Sea. Originally released in Norway in October 21, The Burning…
Sneak Peek: Moonfall (2022)
Lionsgate Pictures has released the first scene of Roland Emmerich’s upcoming Moonfall, which tells the story of a mysterious force knocking the moon out of its orbit and sending it…
Trailer: Don’t Look Up (2021)
At last we have the trailer for Adam McKay’s latest, a comedy disaster movie called Don’t Look Up. You have to see the cast for this one (deep breath in):…
Trailer: Moonfall (2022)
We now have the trailer for Roland Emmerich’s latest, Moonfall, which tells the story of a wayward Moon, a plucky astronomer, and conspiracy theories galore. Emmerich has been the present-day…
Trailer: Underground (2020)
After debuting at the December 2020 Whistler Film Festival, director Sophie Dupuis’ mining disaster movie, Underground, is now being released on a limited basis in the U.K. Underground tells the…
News Roundup for July 3
Teaser Trailer for North Sea Released, Film Sold for U.K. Fantefilm has released a teaser trailer for their latest production, Nordsjøen (North Sea), which explores the consequences of 50 years…
Teaser trailer: Sinkhole (2021)
The first teaser trailer for South Korean disaster movie Sinkhole has been released. Sinkhole tells the story of Park Dong-won (Kim Seong-gyoon; Nameless Gangster), who has just moved his family…
Trailer: The Tunnel (2019)
The 2019 Norwegian hit The Tunnel (Tunnelen) is finally being released in the U.S. Here’s the scoop: A tank truck crashes in a tunnel in the ice-cold Norwegian mountains, brutally…
Norway Sells Another Disaster Movie
Norway is rapidly becoming a hub for disaster movies, it seems. On Day 1 of Berlin’s all-virtual European Film Market (EFM), being held in conjunction with the 71st Berlin International…
Trailer: Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
Maybe what the world needs right now is to see big monsters punch each other in the head. At least that’s what Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures are betting…
News Roundup for Jan. 18
Casting News Oscar-nominee Stanley Tucci has been forced to step down from the role of car dealer Tom Lopez in Roland Emmerich’s upcoming Moonfall because of government-imposed travel restrictions on…
2020: The Year in Disaster Movies
And we thought last year was a year. We had no idea what was coming for 2020, did we? It seems a bit irrelevant to talk about disaster movies when…
Trailer: Skyfire (2019)
At long last, China’s first big-budget asteroid disaster movie is coming to the U.S. On January 12 of next year, Screen Media Films is bringing director Simon West’s (Con Air,…
Disaster Movies Take Top Chinese Acting Prizes
Two disaster movies garnered acting prizes at the Golden Rooster Awards, held November 28 in Xiamen, in China’s Fujian Province. First, Huang Xiaoming and Yin Xiaotian won the Best Actor…
Jan de Bont on Twister Reboot: Bigger Isn’t Always Better
Earlier this year, Universal Pictures announced that they were remaking the iconic Twister (1996), with Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick) in talks to direct. In an interview with Collider, the…
The Tunnel Finds US Distributor
The Tunnel, Pal Oie’s Norwegian disaster movie, has finally found distributors for release in the U.S. and elsewhere. Samuel Goldwyn Films now has the US rights to the film. TrustNordisk…
On this Day in 1979…
An eyewitness describes the night of April 15, 1912 in the North Atlantic. Incredible. #OnthisDay 1979: Frank Prentice, an assistant purser on the Titanic, described how he survived the sinking…
Jurassic World: Dominion Back in Business
Director Colin Trevorrow has tweeted that production on Jurassic World: Dominion has resumed on the film as of Friday, posting a photo of three original Jurassic Park stars—Sam Neill, Laura…
Tucci, Bradley Join Roland Emmerich’s Moonfall
Stanley Tucci and John Bradley have joined the cast of Roland Emmerich’s next disaster movie, Moonfall. Bradley (Game of Thrones) has been cast as K.C. Houseman, the eccentric genius who…
All-Star Cast Named for Adam McKay’s Asteroid Movie
It’s not often you see a disaster-movie cast that has 7 Oscars, 3 Emmys, and multiple Grammys among them. And oh, yeah, the director has an Oscar and two Emmys….