With major motion pictures like Moonfall, Independence Day, White House Down, The Day After Tomorrow, and Godzilla under his belt, **Roland Emmerich **is a director who has become synonymous with disaster flicks. His movies have raked in hand over fist in cash at the global box office and have given fans some of the very best that the genre has to offer. Of his lengthy career, the helmer’s biggest decade was arguably the 1990s, a time that introduced viewers to timeless classics like Independence Day, Godzilla, *and *Stargate. But there’s another must-watch from the genre; this one is hiding in that same decade, but from a different director who did a “one and done” as far as disaster thrillers are concerned.
In 1998, filmmaker Mimi Leder paired with co-scribes Bruce Joel Rubin and Michael Tolkin as well as Paramount Pictures to deliver a star-studded sci-fi blockbuster survival feature when Deep Impact touched down in cinemas around the world. Featuring leading performances from a stacked ensemble that included Robert Duvall (The Godfather), Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings trilogy), Téa Leoni (Bad Boys), Blair Underwood (Longlegs), Jon Favreau (Swingers), Morgan Freeman (The Shawshank Redemption), Vanessa Redgrave (Call the Midwife) and more, the film followed humanity’s attempts to prevent a comet’s collision course with Earth, which would completely wipe out all living things should it strike.
Along with Paramount, the project was backed by a slew of recognizable companies, including DreamWorks Pictures and Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment, with plenty of folks cheering Deep Impact’s success from the sidelines. And, succeed it did. At the global box office, when all was said and done and the disaster film left cinemas, it had amassed a staggering **$349.5 million against its $80 million production budget. **Even if you never had the chance to see it in theaters, we’ve got terrific news for you, as Deep Impact is slated to leave its mark on the free streaming platform Tubi beginning on June 1.
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
Deep Impact served as Leder’s sophomore foray into feature-length filmmaking, with her 1997 political thriller, The Peacemaker, laying the initial groundwork for her career. While the George Clooney and Nicole Kidman-led pulse-pounding drama didn’t bring in the same dollar signs as Leder’s follow-up, it still proved to pack a profitable punch, earning $110.4 million against a $50 million budget. In the years since those first two major Hollywood swings, Leder has returned to the craft to bring audiences entertainment by way of a wide array of genres through titles like Pay It Forward, Thick as Thieves, and On the Basis of Sex.
Head over to Tubi on June 1 to stream Deep Impact.
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