#Roland Emmerich

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Video thumbnail — Godzilla (1998) teaser A - 'Museum'
Movies 1997–2000

Godzilla (1998)

"Size Does Matter." TriStar spent a year hiding its new Godzilla behind teasers of a foot crushing a T. rex skeleton and Taco Bell chihuahua ads, then opened it over Memorial Day weekend 1998 to $44 million and a collective shrug. The monster ran from missiles, nested in Madison Square Garden, and was eventually renamed "Zilla" by its own Japanese owners.

Video thumbnail — STARGATE (1994) | Official Trailer | MGM
Movies 1994

Stargate

Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin's 1994 hit: a metal ring dug up at Giza in 1928 turns out to be a wormhole, and Kurt Russell's grieving colonel and James Spader's dismissed Egyptologist walk through it to a desert planet where a body-snatching alien is worshipped as Ra. Critics shrugged, it opened to an October record, and it spawned three live-action television series.