M. Night Shyamalan Fans

According to Advertising Age, Paramount Pictures has purchased ad time during this year’s Super Bowl for The Last Airbender. Paramount also bought time for their other summer tent-pole film, Iron Man 2, as well as Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island. Last year’s Super Bowl pulled in an impressive 97 million viewers. That is a huge amount of exposure of Airbender if the ratings this year are the same. The commercial will likely only be between 30 and 35 seconds long, and will air sometime during the first or second quarter. Super Bowl XLIV will air February 7th on CBS.

The Last Airbender is one of my most anticipated films of 2010, and not just because M. Night Shyamalan directed it.  I’m a big fan of the series, and have watched the entire run a few times.  Now, courtesy of LastAirbenderFans.com comes pictures of some incredible stuff we’re going to be seeing in the film.  Seriously, this is going to be epic.

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Paranormal Activity director Oren Peli was interviewed by DNA India, and mentioned Shyamalan.  Not only that, but listed all of Shymalan’s films seemingly off the top of his head.

Have you seen any Bollywood movie? Which Indian actor/director do you like and why?
Not the exact Bollywood film but I am a true fan of Indian-born film director M. Night Shyamalan and have seen all his films be it The Happening, or Lady in the Water, or The Village, Signs, Unbreakable, The Sixth Sense, Wide Awake or Praying with Anger. I love the way he has some sort of twist in the end or surprise ending in his films and often use an event from the main character’s past as a major connection to what is happening in the present.

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“The Sixth Sense” director M. Night Shyamalan has a pretty good track record for launching child stars in his thrillers, but “The Last Airbender” (which bows next July) posed a special challenge since it was based on Nickelodeon’s popular “Avatar” cartoon.

“Typically I’ll find the actor and then mold the part to fit the child, but this was a pre-existing character, and I had to hope that this person existed,” Shyamalan tells Variety.

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Logan Marshall-Green, Jenny O’Hara, Jacob Vargas and Matt Craven are to dance with John Dowdle’s “Devil” movie shoot in Toronto, part of M. Night Shyamalan’s three-film slate with Media Rights Capital.

Also rounding out the ensemble cast ahead of an Oct. 24 production start are Chris Messina, Bojana Novakovic, Bokeem Woodbine, Geoffrey Arend and Caroline Dhavernas.

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Universal Pictures has set Chris Messina to star in “Devil,” a horror-thriller based on an M. Night Shyamalan story that will be directed by John Erick Dowdle and Drew Dowdle (“Quarantine”).

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“I’m sure he’s pulling his hair out somewhere in an edit room, but that’s the process,” laughed Aasif Mandvi, who plays Zhao, a nefarious member of the Fire nation and the rival to Dev Patel’s Prince Zuko.

“There’s a lot of martial arts, there’s a lot of really cool special effects and CGI and action,” explained Mandvi, who stopped by to chat with MTV News during the red carpet premiere of the Jude Law-starring “Hamlet” production on Broadway.

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CraveOnline interviewed Cliff Curtis about his work on the tv series Trauma and The Last Airbender came up.  Here’s a portion of that interview.

CraveOnline: How was shooting The Last Airbender?

Cliff Curtis: It was wonderful. It was really great and it’s also great that I’m going to be able to work the two. I’m not giving up film. I’m just doing another job that happens to be on television.

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The Sixth Sense actress Mischa Barton in her first in-depth interview since being placed under alleged “involuntary psychiatric hold” at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in July.

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M. Night Shyamalan is renowned for shooting his films in (and around) the Philadelphia area. Since Wide Awake, the filmmaker has filmed each of his movies around the city of brotherly love — bringing in an estimated $375 million to the local economy. For his latest project, a film titled Devil, this will all change. The financiers of the project (which is being produced by Shyamalan) could no longer wait for legislators to approve the film tax credits and decided to move the production to Toronto, Canada. Carrie Rickey of Philly.com reports:

“Last week, at the 11th hour, Devil withdrew its application for credits because of uncertainty with respect to whether film tax credits would be in the state budget,” Jane Saul, director of the Pennsylvania Film Office, said yesterday. “This is an obvious sign that without the film tax credit in place, we lose film business, and in turn, jobs.”

Devil is being developed under Shyamalan’s Night Chronicles production company with Media Rights Capital. The film is a supernatural thriller to be directed by siblings John and Drew Dowdle. The script will be written by Brian Nelson and based on an original idea from Shyamalan. Thanks to Sri HK in the forums for the tip!