Posts Tagged ‘M. Night Shyamalan’
Night makes appearance at Nickelodeon’s Upfront
Thursday, March 11th, 2010 by Specter
M. Night Shyamalan made an appearance at Nickelodeon’s Upfront in New York. There is no word on if he showed any new footage from his Avatar: The Last Airbender adaptation that is coming this summer. At the event, Nickelodeon presented their new and returning properties to exhibitors and different media.
Nickelodeon got its Thursday-morning upfront pitch rolling with an extended cameo by director M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense), who is helming the theatrical The Last Airbender for Nickelodeon Movies. Based on Nick’s animated strip Avatar: The Last Airbender, Shyamalan’s live-action flick opens July 2.
Ask M. Night: A Roundtable Discussion with M. Night Shyamalan
Friday, March 5th, 2010 by Specter
Have a question for Night about THE LAST AIRBENDER that you want an answer to? Well, LastAirbenderFans.com’s Nightbender has been invited to a roundtable discussion with Night, and wants your questions submitted so that he can choose the best to potentially ask while at the round table. Night will be answering the questions on video, to be posted on the website sometime later on.
For more details, follow this link: Roundtable Discussion w/ M. Night Shyamalan, Pt. 1
And for those wondering why I’m not going, to be honest, I don’t know. But I’ve been pretty busy with marriage prep. You see, I proposed to my girlfriend of four years on the set of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. You can read about it at that link. I’ve had the opportunity to meet Michael Apted, now twice, as well as Andrew Adamson and many other amazing people. Someday, the opportunity to meet Night will present itself. If you see him, put in a good word for me.
C’mon Hollywood …don’t give up on Shyamalan yet!
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 by Specter
From JoBlo.com: Drinking with co-workers the other night, the topic of movies came up (as it always does) and my buddy Adam started listing what he felt were the best movie twists of all time. It was by no means a long list, but was summed up with his favorite being Edward Norton’s character turn in PRIMAL FEAR and then second favorite being that Bruce Willis was actually dead in THE SIXTH SENSE. I agreed with both choices and it got me thinking about M. Night Shyamalan. Shyamalan is now a household name, but his genius when it comes to films is split down the middle for most people (and in some cases resting more on the negative side). With a slew of films on the horizon, I’m hoping he can turn that around.
3 Reasons to Watch for Last Airbender Actress Nicola Peltz
Monday, February 1st, 2010 by Specter
You may not know her name, but 15-year-old actress Nicola Peltz – who stars in the upcoming M. Night Shyamalan fantasy The Last Airbender in the role of Katara – could be changing that very soon. Here’s why, according to People.com:
• M. Night gives her a rave review.
“I told the studio I didn’t want to make this movie without her,” Shyamalan tells PEOPLE. “I said that only once before in my career, and that was when I met Haley [Joel Osment] in the Sixth Sense auditions.” They’re buds off-camera, too: He came to Peltz’s 15th birthday party with his daughters.
M. Night Compares Last Airbender to The Matrix, Star Wars
Monday, February 1st, 2010 by Specter
We know that he’s previously called the Last Airbender trilogy his Lord of the Rings. Now he’s also comparing it to Star Wars and The Matrix with good reason to do so.
For M. Night Shyamalan, it was his then 7-year old daughter who hooked him on the Nickelodeon series “Avatar: The Last Airbender.”
“She made us watch as a family and all four of us were hooked, “ Shyamalan said. “I was like, ‘This would make a killer movie. And my wife who really has been kind of in neutral about my career was insane about it. Insane about it: ‘You have to do it. This is it. This is the one.’ ”
The Last Airbender Ad During Super Bowl XLIV
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 by Dr Malcolm CroweAccording 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.
New Last Airbender Photos and Screenshots from Empire Mag
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 by SpecterThe 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.
‘Paranormal Activity’ director Oren Peli talks Shyamalan
Monday, December 28th, 2009 by SpecterParanormal 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.
Read the rest at DNA India
More join cast of Shyamalan-produced ‘Devil’
Sunday, October 18th, 2009 by SpecterLogan 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.
Chris Messina makes deal to star in Shyamalan produced ‘Devil’
Thursday, October 15th, 2009 by SpecterUniversal 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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