Archive for the ‘The Happening’ Category
Shyamalan talks The Happening & The Last Airbender in recent interview
Monday, October 6th, 2008 by Dr Malcolm CroweA couple journalists recently had the opportunity to sit in on a mini-conference call with M. Night Shyamalan. MovieWeb.com’s Brian Gallagher was one of those journalists.
Q: Is there anything you can tell us about The Last Airbender?
M. Night Shyamalan: It is gonna be really cool (Laughs). I’m at the stage where we have pre-vized the last act of the movie. Because my normal approach to filmmaking is almost like making an animated movie, you take out every shot and analyze everything, it kind of lays out really nicely for a big CGI movie. That is such a helpful thing in the process with all the pre-viz. I feel like I’m making the movie right now. I’m editing it and stuff because doing the pre-viz, if you were here, I could show you the last 30 minutes of The Last Airbender in animatic form. It’s an amazing and emotional experience, just to watch that.
I highly recommend checking out the full interview. They talk a lot about The Happening and the process of getting it made. They also touch a little bit more on The Last Airbender and an Unbreakable sequel.
[Via MovieWeb]
M. Night planning new original film for after The Last Airbender
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 by Dr Malcolm CroweBloody-Disgusting.com recently sat down with M. Night Shyamalan to talk about The Happening coming to DVD & Blu-ray Disc next week and somehow got him to tease the notion of him directing an original idea after The Last Airbender.
“In my head I have three ideas that are fighting to be the next spec,” Shyamalan explains. “One is more straight up scary, one is more light hearted scary – kind of more in the Signs vein, which I had a great time doing the lighter end on that one – the other one isn’t… well, it’s not Gothic… but I am always in that world when I am working on original ideas. I will be shooting that one in 2010, so I have some time to decide.”
[via Bloody-Disgusting]
The Happening DVD Artwork and Special Features
Friday, August 8th, 2008 by Dr Malcolm Crowe
As we announced earlier, Fox Home Entertainment has scheduled an October 7th release date for The Happening on DVD and Blu-ray. We recently got hold of the Special Features to be included with the releases.
- Anamorphic Widescreen presentation
- English Dolby Digital 5.1 audio
- Deleted Scenes with introductions from M. Night Shyamalan
- Behind-the-scenes Featurette: (The Hard Cut, A Day for Night, Elements of a Scene, Visions of The Happening: A Making of, I Hear You Whispering)
- Gag Reel
Fox Prepares ‘The Happening’ For Blu-ray
Thursday, August 7th, 2008 by SpecterThe Happening, M. Night Shyamalan’s latest opus, has been scheduled for release this October.
Fox has set an October 7 Blu-ray release date for the Mark Wahlberg-starrer (day-and-date with the standard DVD).
Tech specs are Fox’s standard BD-50 dual-layer presentation, with1080p/AVC MPEG-4 video and audio in English DTS-HD Lossless MasterAudio 5.1 Surround, with additional English, French and Spanish DolbyDigital 5.1 Surround (640kbps) and subtitle options.
Happening on Blu-ray to feature Shyamalan “BonusView”
Friday, July 25th, 2008 by SpecterBlu-ray.com has learned early details of the Blu-ray Disc for “The Happening” which will feature a quasi-commentary track by Shyamalan. Is this the first in a new trend for Shyamalan? Let’s hope to see more for “The Last Airbender.”
UPDATED: The Happening rises to $50.7 million in US; $107.7 million worldwide
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 by Dr Malcolm CroweThe Happening continues to bring in the money at the box-office as the new weekend actuals place it in the Top 5 Films with $10.4 million for the weekend. That brings its domestic total to $50.7 million, making it the 3rd biggest rated-R movie of the year. ComingSoon.net has posted the new overseas figures, which show The Happening taking in $14.2 million over the weekend in 64 different markets. Worldwide figures now stand at $107.7 million.
‘The Happening’ Grosses Estimated 62.6 Million Worldwide on Opening Weekend
Sunday, June 15th, 2008 by BenKimOverseas, “Happening” narrowly beat “Hulk” in grossing an estimated $32.1 million from 5,714 runs. “Hulk,” playing in far fewer locations, grossed $31 million from 3,165.
“Happening,” bowing in 2,986, also made the record books. The horror-thriller, playing in 2,984 runs, is the second-best June opening for an R-rated film after raunchy laffer “Knocked Up,” which opened last year to $30.7 million. Not many R-rated films debut in June, considering its prime season for all-audience summer films.
And now the Weekend Box-Office Estimates are in
Sunday, June 15th, 2008 by Dr Malcolm CroweBoxOfficeMojo.com has now posted the studio box-office estimates for the weekend of June 13th-15th, and the figures for The Happening put it as Shyamalan’s 3rd biggest opening weekend ever at $30.5 million. A couple other sources estimate the weekend take at $32.3 million – but we’ll have to wait til Monday afternoon to get the official numbers. All in all, this is pretty encouraging news considering some insiders predicted an opening of only $18 million.
Looks like The Happening will be a bounce back for Night after the financial disappointment of Lady in the Water.
The Happening Friday Box-Office Estimates are in!
Saturday, June 14th, 2008 by Dr Malcolm CroweBoxOfficeMojo.com has posted the industry daily box-office estimates for Friday, June 13th… and The Happening is performing well above analysts’ predictions! Estimates place the opening day box-office take for Shyamalan’s newest thriller at $12,800,000. If the box-office take follows its typical patterns, The Happening should have a weekend total of over $30,000,000 – making it Shyamalan’s third biggest opening ever, and placing it well over insider predictions of $25 million dollars.
On TV Today: Late Night Talks Show Galore…
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 by Dr Malcolm CroweToday (June 11th) the stars of The Happening will be out in full force on a variety of talk shows. Zooey Deschanel will be the first guest on the Late Show with David Letterman, airing on CBS @ 11:30pm ET/PT.
Then, Spencer Breslin will be Jay Leno’s second guest on the legendary Tonight Show, airing on NBC @ 11:35 ET/ 10:35 CT.
To end the night, Mark Wahlberg will make an appearance on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, airing on NBC @ 12:35 ET/ 11:35 CT.
And if you forgot to catch/tape The Happening: Taking Fear to a New Level, Fox Movie Channel will be airing repeats @ 12:34am ET, 7:34pm ET and 11:45pm ET. We recommend recording the program on your TiVo, DVR or VCR and watching it after you have seen The Happening – which of course is in theaters FRIDAY!
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