05 Nov, 2024
Los Angeles, California, United States--Independence Day (also promoted as ID4), a 1996 American science fiction action film directed by Roland Emmerich, written by Emmerich and the film's producer Dean Devlin, stars an ensemble cast of Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch, Margaret Colin, Randy Quaid, Robert Loggia, and Vivica A. Fox; it emerged as a major commercial success at the box-office, grossing over $817.4 million worldwide on a production budget of $75 million and became the highest-grossing film of the year and the second-highest-grossing film ever at the time, setting the world record for the Highest grossing alien-invasion movie, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.