Posts Tagged ‘Zuko’
Dev Patel defends ‘bender’ phrasing
Monday, August 2nd, 2010 by RohanDev Patel has defended the use of the term “bender” in The Last Airbender.
The film, directed by M. Night Shyamalan, is about a boy who can control the four elements – earth, wind, fire and water. In the movie, the boy is referred to as a “bender” and in one scene, his aunt says: “I knew from the first time I discovered that you were a bender that this would be your destiny.”
Patel, who plays a young prince, said of the term: “When I came onto the movie, I was like, ‘Really’? Benders?’”
Asked why he did not inform the director of the British slang connotation of the word, he told The Times: “It was too integral to the movie. We couldn’t call them fire or air manipulators. It would have been moving too far from the source material.”
The Last Airbender hits the theatres on August 13 in UK.
Source: www.digitalspy.com
Airbender Breaks $100 Million in Week 2
Sunday, July 11th, 2010 by RohanWhether the critics liked or disliked ‘The Last Airbender”, but M.Night Shyamalan’s actioner still attracted lots of people. The box office 
estimates are in for the weekend of July 9-11th, and The Last Airbender has surpassed the $100 million mark after its second weekend! After adding thirty four additional screens to bring its theater count up to 3,203, The Last Airbender dropped an estimated 57.5% from its opening weekend, grossing an estimated $17.15 million.
The film also has additionally made an estimated $10m from overseas markets which makes The Last Airbender worldwide numbers up to $110m.
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.
Despite the negative reviews “Last Airbender” may pass $100M mark.
Monday, July 5th, 2010 by Rohan
According to “Box Office Mojo ” M.Night Shyamalan’s THE LAST AIRBENDER which is at a distant No.2 spot has collected an estimated $40.65m at 3,169 locations ($12,827 per-theater average) in the US/Canada.
The reviews for “The Last Airbender” has been overwhelmingly negative, word-of-mouth has been at best unenthusiastic (a “C” as per CinemaScore), and there have been numerous complaints about Paramount/Shyamalan’s decision to use a white kid in an East Asian role. Yet, the Paramount release starring Noah Ringer, Dev Patel, Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone and Shaun Toub has scored a not inconsiderable $57m after only four days.
It’ll probably cross the $100m mark within the next ten days or so. How far it’ll go above that remains to be seen.
Although it seems THE LAST AIRBENDER won’t get close to recover its $150m production costs in addition to $130m in marketing costs at the North American box office, it will likely not turn out to be a disaster many had been predicting since its release on thursday, July 1st.
Also not to forget the overseas market which should come to the rescue, as big, special effects movies tend to do extremely well in foreign countries, e.g., Iron Man 2, Avatar, Prince Of Persia: Sands Of Time and 2012.
New Last Airbender Posters with Aang and Zuko
Monday, May 3rd, 2010 by SpecterAang and Zuko continue to the the characters that are focused on in the posters for the film. Here is a couple of new ones that both highlight the films conversion to 3-D. Both are spectacular.
Thanks to Wags on the forums, where you can discuss the new posters.
Awesome New Last Airbender Banners featuring Aang and Zuko!
Monday, January 25th, 2010 by SpecterReed sent word that ComingSoon.net has released two new banners for The Last Airbender. Man… these are AWESOME. That is all, enjoy!
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
M. Night talks The Last Airbender
Monday, June 29th, 2009 by SpecteriF MAGAZINE: What was the plan with this film and what were you trying to achieve, to re-invent yourself?
M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN: I have always wanted to develop a long mythology based franchise like THE LORD OF THE RINGS. I always thought about it, but I had, until now, never found a good one where I could also add a little bit of my personal vision. I really wanted to find a franchise where my accent could be complementary to the piece. So this was the best thing that could have happened is that I didn’t have a real agenda, but I was on the look for it and waited for the perfect situation.
I was offered other franchises, but passed. And then this one came from my own family – it was suggested by my children who loved the TV animated series. When I saw the cartoon I thought it was so well thought out in term of mythology. It had Buddhism, and martial Arts, and CGI [and it was] character based. And so I thought we could do a great job by using ILM and do something with lots of emotions and texture. I knew we could do something that wasn’t going to be just a great treat for the eyes, but also for the mind and the soul. This is my approach when it comes to getting into this type of material, to approach it through the characters and keep it grounded. It has also deeper issues at its core, it talks about Genocide and Balance, and the connection to the Planet. And you know from my other movies that I’m interested with these subject matters — it’s an important movie, not just a blockbuster summer movie.
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