Shyamalan Will Be A Keynote Speaker at the 3D Summit
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010 by Rohan |Bob Dowling, President of The Bob Dowling Group, and Unicomm, LLC, a leading event management company, announced today that Writer 
Director M. Night Shyamalan (The Last Airbender; Sixth Sense) and Chris Cookson, President of Sony
Pictures Technologies, will be joining Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of DreamWorks Animation SKG, as Keynote Speakers at the 3rd annual 3D Entertainment Summit presented in association with Variety. The two-day conference is scheduled for September 15-16, 2010 at the Hilton Los Angeles/Universal City, CA.
“Using new creative techniques to tell stories with fierce and brilliant intelligence has been the hallmark of M. Night Shyamalan’s remarkable career,” said Dowling, “and we look forward to his insights into the immersive narrative possibilities of 3D as one of our Keynote Speakers.” M. Night Shyamalan wrote and directed the 1999 breakout hit Sixth Sense, which was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay; other notable films include Unbreakable (2001), Signs (2002), The Happening (2008) and the current box office hit, The Last Airbender.
“As President of Sony Pictures Technologies, Chris Cookson’s mandate is to oversee the use of hardware and software in the service of content creation and creators across Sony’s vast entertainment space,” Dowling said. “Few executives can speak more authoritatively than Chris about the critical importance of company-wide integration of technology and creativity to maximize audience response to 3D in all its platforms.”
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I just hope nothing happens during this event that might make M. Night like bad. Like a crazy fan of the series shouting that he sucks.
Unbreakable came out in 2000.
I’m a little surprised that they asked him to speak. Not to sound too negative, but wasn’t the 3D conversion of The Last Airbender pretty universally panned?
I’m with Wags. Very surprised.
And how is the 3d Conversion his fault? lol It’s a “conversion”. It wasn’t created to BE in 3d. I really don’t like 3d, period. They are going over board with all these movies in 3D this and 3D that. Seriously, most movies are PERFECT without a 3D conversion. All the conversion does is take time and money away that could have gone to the movie instead.