Independence Day (also promoted as ID4) is a 1996 American science fiction action film directed by Roland Emmerich, written ...

Director Roland Emmerich, writer Dean Devlin, and others involved in the hit movie chatted with The Hollywood Reporter for an oral history of Independence Day. Devlin revealed that the original idea ...

After its release in 1996, the Hollywood blockbuster — you know, the one where a rag-tag team of humans led by Will Smith courageously repel an extraterrestrial threat? — has become as synonymous with ...