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Independence Day

Independence Day
1996
 145 minutes (2 hrs 25 mins)

Director and Cast Quickview

Directed by

Starring

Will Smith · Bill Pullman · Jeff Goldblum · Mary McDonnell · Judd Hirsch · Robert Loggia

Full cast & crew

Release dates

US release date US release: 3rd July 1996
Canada release date Canada release: 2nd July 1996
Jamaica release date Jamaica release: 3rd July 1996

Box Office Quickview

UK box office

  • Debut box office: 9th Aug '96
  • Debut position: 1
  • Highest position: 1
  • Debut gross: £7 Million
  • Total chart weeks: 10

US box office

  • Box Office debut: 5th Jul '96
  • Debut position: 1
  • Highest position: 1
  • Debut gross: $96.1 Million
  • Total chart weeks: 19

Chart position history

UK box office

9 Aug, 1996
1
16 Aug, 1996
1
23 Aug, 1996
1
30 Aug, 1996
1
6 Sep, 1996
1
13 Sep, 1996
1
20 Sep, 1996
1
27 Sep, 1996
6
4 Oct, 1996
9
11 Oct, 1996
13

US box office

5 Jul, 1996
1
12 Jul, 1996
1
19 Jul, 1996
1
26 Jul, 1996
2
2 Aug, 1996
2
8 Aug, 1996
4
16 Aug, 1996
5
23 Aug, 1996
6
27 Sep, 1996
6
4 Oct, 1996
9
25 Oct, 1996
13
15 Nov, 1996
11
22 Nov, 1996
12
29 Nov, 1996
13
6 Dec, 1996
15
13 Dec, 1996
15

Global box office

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Certificates

US
PG-13

PG

K-12

7+

12

T

Total grosses

UK total gross
United Kingdom Flag  £25.6 Million
US total gross
United States Flag  $306.2 Million
Global total gross
Global Flag  $817.4 Million

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Check out the new trailer for upcoming movie Karate Kid Legends which can be viewed in full if you scroll down this page.

Movie breakdown

  • The movie is directed by Jonathan Entwistle
  • It stars Ben Wang (Independence Day: Resurgence) and Ming Na-Wen (Karate Kid Legends) among others.
  • The movie also stars Jackie Chan, Ralph Macchio and
  • The release date in the UK is 30th May 2025
  • While the North American release date is set for 30th May 2025

Synopsis for Karate Kid Legends

Kung fu prodigy Li Fong is uprooted from his home in Beijing and forced to move to New York City. When a friend needs his help, Li enters a karate competition. Li's teacher Mr. Han enlists original Karate Kid Daniel LaRusso for help.

Check out the Salty Popcorn movie page for more information on this upcoming film.

Director Roland Emmerich has given us some of the biggest event movie in cinema from Independence Day to Stargate, and his latest movie, Moonfall has been given a 12A age rating from the BBFC for distribution in the UK.

The movie stars Halle Berry who was last seen starring and directing Bruised in 2020 and Patrick Wilson who is best known for starring in The Conjuring series of movies.

As mentioned the movie is directed by Roland Emmerich.

Movie Synopsis

The world stands on the brink of annihilation when a mysterious force knocks the moon from its orbit and sends it hurtling toward a collision course with Earth. With only weeks before impact, NASA executive Jocinda "Jo" Fowler teams up with a man from her past and a conspiracy theorist for an impossible mission into space to save humanity.

BBFC certificate breakdown.

  • Title: Moonfall
  • BBFC age rating: 12A Certificate
  • Reason: infrequent strong language, moderate threat, violence, drug misuse
  • Release date: 4th February 2022
  • Runtime: 130m (2 hour 10 minutes)
  • Director:
    • Roland Emmerich
  • Starring:
    • Halle Berry
    • Patrick WilsonJohn Bradley

BBFC movie page

Director Roland Emmerich made his name with distare movies like Independence Day and high concept action movies like Stargate, and he returns to that style of genre with his latest movie Moonfall which gets its first teaser today.

Judging from the teaser it takes the director back to his roots and there is definitely a feel of the 1996 hit movie Independence Day and oddly there is a distinct tone of Armageddon from director Michael Bay, again another 90's disaster movie.

The trailer plays heavily on the idea that the human race visited the moon on the 1960's, and now the moon is coming to visit us, and some sort of alien is involved as we get a quick shot of something with tentacles in the trailer.

The movie stars Halle Berry and Patrick Wilson and we will most like be drop fed more info as the next six month go by, the release date is February 2022.

Director Roland Emmerich has been quiet since his 2016 sequel movie Independence Day: Resurgence, but he's back this year with Midway which has been given a 12A age rating in the UK.

Midway is a World War II true life drama about the Battle Of Midway starring Ed Skrein, Patrick Wilson And Luke Evans.

The movie has been given A 12A rating by the BBFC for moderate violence, threat, bloody images, infrequent strong language and it has a runtime of 138 minutes (2 hours and 18 minutes) and it was passed uncut.

The UK and US release date is 8th November 2019.

BBFC film link

The web slinger marks the first MCU film post Avengers: Endgame in Spider-Man: Far From Home which makes its debut at the top of the US box office on its debut weekend.

Spider Man: Far From Home

Making its debut at the top is the web slinger which has a opening weekend take of $93.6 Million.

The film opened mid-week which also took on American Independence Day so including previews the films total gross rises to $185 Million.

Toy Story 4

The Pixar toon movie fell to number 2 this weekend with a gross of $34.3 Million which pushes its total US gross to $306.5 Million.

Yesterday

Danny Boyles homage to the Beatles slips to number 3 this week with a weekend take of $10.7 Million which takes its total US gross to $36.8 Million after a fortnight.

Annabelle Comes Home

Registering its second weekend of release the Conjuring movie falls to 4th this week with a take of $9.7 Million for a total cume of $50.1 Million.

Aladdin

The bg early summer smash hit starring Will Smith is at 5 this week with $7.6 Million pushing the films total US gross to $320.7 Million after 7 weeks of release.

Midsommar

Second highest new film of the week is director Ari Aster follow up to Hereditary which lands lower than expected at number 6 this week.

The film got high praise from critics but audiences were not so happy with the film, with previews the film has taken $10.9 Million.

Avengers: Endgame

11 weeks on and the MCU film is still inside the top 10, this week the film sits at number 9 and has a US gross of $847.8 Million.