Independence Day (1996 film)
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| Directed by | Roland Emmerich |
| Produced by | Dean Devlin |
| Written by | Dean Devlin Roland Emmerich |
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| Music by | David Arnold |
| Cinematography | Karl Walter Lindenlaub |
| Edited by | David Brenner |
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| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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145 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $75 million |
| Box office | $817.4 million |
Independence Day is a 1996 American science fiction action film directed and co-written by Roland Emmerich. The film focuses on disparate groups of people who converge in the Nevada desert in the aftermath of a worldwide attack by an extraterrestrial race of unknown origin. Along with the rest of the world, they launch a last-ditch counterattack on July 4 – Independence Day in the United States.
While promoting Stargate in Europe, Emmerich came up with the idea for the film when fielding a question about his own belief in the existence of alien life. He and Dean Devlin decided to incorporate a large-scale attack having noticed that aliens in most invasion films travel long distances in outer space only to remain hidden when reaching Earth. Shooting began in July 1995 in New York City, and the film was officially completed on June 20, 1996.
Now considered to be a significant turning point in the history of the Hollywood blockbuster, the film was released wide on July 3, 1996, but began showing on July 2 (the same day the film's story begins) on limited release as a result of a high level of anticipation among moviegoers. The film grossed over $817.4 million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1996, and briefly, the second highest-grossing film worldwide of all time behind 1993's Jurassic Park. As of June 2016[update], it ranks 55th on the list of highest-grossing films, and was at the forefront of the large-scale disaster film and sci-fi resurgence of the mid-1990s. The film has an approval rating of 61% on Rotten Tomatoes, which in its critics' consensus criticized the characterization and plot but said that the film "delivers" as a summer blockbuster. It won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing. A sequel, Independence Day: Resurgence, was released on June 24, 2016.
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