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The Last Airbender box office update
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 by Rohan
Critics took their turn bashing M.Night Shyamalan’ s THE LAST AIRBENDER and some even stepped outside of the box to bash M.Night Shyamalan personally. Disrespecting the “The Sixth Sense” “Unbreakable” director and chanted that M.Night Shyamalan’s career is over.
However, reviews are often useless when it comes to the box office, which can disgust critics and make studios sign in relief. Even some poorly reviewed movies are box office hits and can save a franchise. The Last Airbender was opened on the Fourth of July weekend and in spite of review rants the film opened big and Shyamalan laughed heading to the bank.
The Last Airbender was opened in a difficult period. Twilight: Eclipse was destroying all competitions in its first weekend, while Toy Story 3 was still doing big business in its third week. All the awful The Last Airbender review scores may ensured that it would get blown by Eclipse, yet that didn’t meant that the film would be a bomb.
According to Deadline Hollywood, the film opened to $16 millions on Friday July, 2, 2010, behind Eclipse’s third day of $28.2 million. Despite all of The Last Airbender review complaints, the film was built in brand name. M.Night Shyamlan himself is still a brand, despite his declining reputation. In addition, the 3D prices also helped boost the numbers, even though most critics stated that the 3D conversion was terrible.
Let’s not constitute the film a bomb. The Last Airbender earned $20.3 million from 45 territories according to Box Office Mojo. It held steady to a $3 million first week take in China and a $4.3 million debut in Mexico. In two months, The Last Airbender earned $122.2 million overseas for a worldwide (domestic plus foreign) total of $252.8 million.
M.Night Shyamalan always planned to make THE LAST AIRBENDER into a trilogy. Now we are waiting for Paramount to green lit the project with a trilogy.
A guide to the world of The Last Airbender
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 by Rohan
The folks at Coventry Telegraph just published an lengthy guide to M.Night Shyamlan’s THE LAST AIRBENDER – adapted from the Nickelodeon animated series – four nations represent the elements of air, water, earth and fire.
The Fire Nation launches a brutal war against the others and a century passes with no end in sight to the destruction.
Then a boy called Aang (Noah Ringer) discovers he is the lone Avatar with the power to manipulate all four elements. He joins forces with a waterbender called Katara (Nicola Peltz) and her brother Sokka (Jackson Rathbone) to restore balance to their wartorn world.
We have been sent a rather handy guide to the world presented in the film and, whether you’ve seen the movie or not, it’s interesting and informative enough to share with you here… read more about the world of The Last Airbender
10 Questions for M. Night Shyamalan
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 by RohanTIME’s “Gilbert Cruz” had the chance to sit with director M.Night Shyamalan one on one as M.Night Shyamalan answered 10 questions from fans around the United States. M.Night talks briefly about race controversy and why he directed The Last Airbender.
Box Office: The Last Airbender closes in on Eclipse with $70M
Monday, July 5th, 2010 by RohanDespite the numerous negative comments and reviews M.Night Shyamalan’s THE LAST AIRBENDER narrowed the gap between
Monday’s No.1 and No.2 movie at the North American box office.
This Shyamalan’s actioner actually grossed $12.65m (vs. $13.54m for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse), according to Box Office Mojo.
While Eclipse, starring the popular combo Robert Pattinson-Kristen Stewart-Taylor Lautner, has been performing a little below expectations, The Last Airbender, has been performing way above expectations. Shyamalan’s actioner went up an estimated 34.7% on Monday (vs. Eclipse‘s 18.4% decrease).
One more drastic Eclipse attendance drop The Last Airbender can reach the top position at the North American box office. To date, The Last Airbender has collected $70.5m about $20 million more than many had predicted. And in order for Paramount to recover its $150m production costs alone not including the $130m spent on marketing, The Last Airbender would have to earn approximately $270-$300m domestically, as studios only get around 50-55% of a movie’s box-office gross.
According to current box office numbers The Last Airbender doesn’t seem at all likely will get that far, but that’s where the overseas market should come to the rescue.
The Last Airbender will open internationally just within few weeks.
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.
Noah Ringer heeds Shyamalan’s call
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 by Specter“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.
Last Airbender Poster featuring All Four Elements Bending
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 by SpecterWow, I can’t wait to see this split up into four separate images of bending!
The upper left quadrant features Aang, airbending. The upper right quadrant features Zuko firebending. The lower left quadrant features Katara waterbending, and Sokka standing beside her. And the lower right quadrant features a mystery earthbender, who is potentially Bumi!
See a larger version at Last Airbender Fans
New Last Airbender Cast Pictures: Aang, Zuko, Sokka and Katara
Monday, July 13th, 2009 by SpecterNew cast pictures have surfaced of each of the primary cast members from The Last Airbender. I’ll post comparison shots later, but for now, here are the four shots.
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- Dev Patel as Zuko
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- Noah Ringer as Aang
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- Nicola Peltz as Katara
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- Jackson Rathbone as Sokka
Images Courtesy Last Airbender Fans, Herr-Der-Elemente.de
“Airbender” Trilogy could take Six Years to Complete
Monday, July 6th, 2009 by SpecterStarlog, a well-regarded Science Fiction magazine, has quotes from Noah Ringer, Dev Patel, director M. Night Shyamalan and producer Frank Marshall regarding The Last Airbender trilogy. They speak about the first film in the trilogy as well as a loose outline for the filming of the trilogy.
‘Airbender’ memories: The Cast Enjoys Philadelphia
Sunday, July 5th, 2009 by SpecterThursday was wrap day for The Last Airbender, the M. Night Shyamalan action flick that spent the last three months in Philadelphia. Herewith, high points of Philly, from six actors: Young Noah Ringer, who stars as Aang, dug the food at Pietro’s Coal Oven Pizza, took in the Liberty Bell and Franklin Institute, and enjoyed a Ride the Ducks tour.
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