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New on DVD: 'Push' 'Knowing' 'The Unborn'
7 July 2009 5:18 PM, PDT | From Fandango | See recent Fandango news
Kind of a quiet week for DVD releases, with only a couple of sci-fi actioners and a horror flick (or was that a horror comedy?) new on the shelves today. Knowing Nicolas Cage stars in this intriguing yet ultimately disappointing action thriller as a professor who discovers a numerical pattern that predicts every major human disaster past and future, and gets caught in a race against time to stop the next worldwide catastrophe. Picture M. Night Shyamalan directing National Treasure, and that's about what you get. Push Convoluted, lightning-paced and photogenic, Push may leave you completely confused as to what's going on--a secret government agency is transforming people into psychic soldiers and punishes anyone not willing to go along with the program--but it's fun to watch...
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New on DVD: 'Push' 'Knowing' 'The Unborn'
7 July 2009 5:18 PM, PDT | From Fandango | See recent Fandango news
Kind of a quiet week for DVD releases, with only a couple of sci-fi actioners and a horror flick (or was that a horror comedy?) new on the shelves today. Knowing Nicolas Cage stars in this intriguing yet ultimately disappointing action thriller as a professor who discovers a numerical pattern that predicts every major human disaster past and future, and gets caught in a race against time to stop the next worldwide catastrophe. Picture M. Night Shyamalan directing National Treasure, and that's about what you get. Push Convoluted, lightning-paced and photogenic, Push may leave you completely confused as to what's going on--a secret government agency is transforming people into psychic soldiers and punishes anyone not willing to go along with the program--but it's fun to watch...
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New on DVD: 'Push' 'Knowing' 'The Unborn'
7 July 2009 5:18 PM, PDT | From Fandango | See recent Fandango news
Kind of a quiet week for DVD releases, with only a couple of sci-fi actioners and a horror flick (or was that a horror comedy?) new on the shelves today. Knowing Nicolas Cage stars in this intriguing yet ultimately disappointing action thriller as a professor who discovers a numerical pattern that predicts every major human disaster past and future, and gets caught in a race against time to stop the next worldwide catastrophe. Picture M. Night Shyamalan directing National Treasure, and that's about what you get. Push Convoluted, lightning-paced and photogenic, Push may leave you completely confused as to what's going on--a secret government agency is transforming people into psychic soldiers and punishes anyone not willing to go along with the program--but it's fun to watch...
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Weekend Movie News Wrap Up: July 5th, 2009
5 July 2009 6:21 PM, PDT | From ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news
This week:
Revenge of The Fallen meets Dawn of the Dinosaurs; it’ll take 6 years to see the last Airbender; Adams looks on as Batman fights Marky Mark; George Clooney leaves Warner Bros; The Green Hornet is delayed and Tony Scott, Denzel Washington and Chris Pine are stoppable.
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Transformers 2: Revenge of The Fallen and Ice Age 3-D: Dawn of the Dinosaurs fought it out over the weekend to see who would get the top spot. The fight was so close that it’ll take final numbers on Monday to see who the box office champion is. Both films should bank about $43 million over the July 4th weekend. Tranformers 2’s total currently stands at just under $300 million. Public Enemies should bank about $25 million from Friday to Monday giving the Johnny Depp starrer a pretty decent $40 million over five days. The Michael Mann film appears to have
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Niall Browne
M. Night Shyamalan talks Airbender effects
5 July 2009 5:01 PM, PDT | From Filmonic.com | See recent Filmonic news
M. Night Shyamalan is mostly known for his twist endings and supernatural plots, however with The Last Airbender he has to get a bit more technical and delve deeper into the world of special effects and green screen. VFX World had the chance to visit The Last Airbender set and they spoke to the director [...]
Liam
The Last Airbender Teaser Trailer in HD
5 July 2009 12:00 AM, PDT | From toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news
Now in glorious HD, here’s the latest teaser trailer for the upcoming film “The Last Airbender”, based on the hit Nickelodeon cartoon series “Avatar: The Last Airbender”. “The Last Airbender” by director M. Night Shyamalan (The Happening) stars Jackson Rathbone (The Twilight Saga: New Moon), Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire), Cliff Curtis (Push) and Seychelle Gabriel (The Spirit). Click Here for more photos, news and videos from Avatar: The Last Airbender. Synopsis: The film is set in a fantasy world where the four elements of earth, air, water, and fire can be controlled through martial arts called bending, and the ruthless flame-manipulating Fire Nation is waging war to control the other nations [...]
Brian Corder
Twilight stars Kellan Lutz and Jackson Rathbone take to the Northeast U.S.A.
3 July 2009 10:07 AM, PDT | From Twilight Examiner | See recent Twilight Examiner news
The Twilight Saga: New Moon and The Last Airbender star Jackson Rathbone has been spotted on-set, once more. According to The Morning Call, a few fans caught Rathbone (with co-star Dev Patel and director M. Night Shyamalan) on-set, and he was, as usual, more than accomodating to his fans. Says The Morning Call, .... For a 12-year-old Towamensing Township girl, it was a chance of a lifetime .... Rathbone's co-star (who finished his portion in A Nightmare on Elm Street in Chicago right after the MTV Movie Awards), Kellan Lutz, is also hitting the northeast. Says Explore Li, Cover couple Kellan Lutz (“Twilight”) and Lydia Hearst are teaming up to host a “Gatsby-themed” July 4 party in Water Mill on Saturday night. The duo are photographed together for the new issue of “Social Life” magazine. Lutz, a former Abercrombie
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"The Green Hornet" Gets New Release Date!
3 July 2009 6:43 AM, PDT | From Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news
Sony has switched up its 2010 slate. Now, "The Green Hornet" starring Seth Rogen and Stephen Chow is set for release on July 9, 2010. It was scheduled for release on June 25.
Meanwhile, to imitate Warner's success with "The Hangover," Sony is releasing its buddy comedy starring Adam Sandler called "Grown Ups" in the summertime. Initially slated for a March opening, "Grown Ups" is now set to open in the middle of summer, much like "The Hangover."
But there are other interesting films set to open during the June-July window next year. Some of them are:
"Twilight Saga: The Eclipse" -- June 30
"The Last Airbender" -- July 2
"Despicable Me" -- July 9
"Predators" -- July 9
It will be an interesting time at the box-office. No one can doubt the power of a "Twilight" movie, and M. Night Shyamalan's "The Last Airbender" is getting major buzz. Meanwhile, we have to wait and see for
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No Back-to-Back Shooting for 'The Last Airbender' Trilogy
2 July 2009 9:42 PM, PDT | From Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news
The planned trilogy of "The Last Airbender" won't be filmed back-to-back and may take as long as six years to complete. Speaking up about the matter was producer Frank Marshall who told Starlog that the filmmakers will be working on the trilogy project one by one. "We're shooting them one at a time, because they're being written one at a time," insisted the five-time Academy Award-nominated producer.
Ruling out the possibility for the three parts of "Airbender" shot like Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings", Marshall noted that director/scribe M. Night Shyamalan is currently in the process of developing the second film. "Night is now working on the script for the second movie, but he hasn't had time to write the second or third ones," he explained. "He's looking at the arc of all three."
"One of the things we'll be doing is using the sets, ships
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A Full Rundown and Update on The Last Airbender Trilogy
2 July 2009 3:36 PM, PDT | From firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news
Exactly one year from today, M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender will hit theaters. Today, however, we've got a rundown for you covering all-things-Airbender -- everything we know up until this point about Shyamalan's feature film adaptation of the hugely popular, critically lauded, award winning Nickelodeon series Avatar: The Last Airbender. Here's what you need to know: Avatar aired from February of 2005 to July of 2008 and spanned three seasons. While on air, the series won 2 Pulcinella Awards, 5 Annie Awards, 1 Emmy, a Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Award, and a Peabody. So, to say the least, it's kind of a big deal. Created by Michael Dante Dimartino and Bryan Konietzko, Avatar: The Last Airbender tells the story of Aang, a twelve-year-old who, with the help of his new friends Sokka and Katara, must save the world by defeating the Fire Lord and ending the destructive, worldwide war with the ...
Brandon Lee Tenney
Last Airbender Trilogy Not Being Filmed Back-to-back, May Take Over 6 Years to Complete
2 July 2009 8:00 AM, PDT | From /Film | See recent /Film news
Last Airbender producer Frank Marshall recently confirmed that the trilogy of films will not be filmed back-to-back (Lord of the Rings style), but will instead be shot one at a time. M. Night Shyamalan is still working on the script for the second film, while also sketching out the trilogy's greater mythology. Marshall notes that they still plan to take advantage of the sets and other elements from the first film in the sequels: One of the things we’ll be doing is using the sets, ships and elements for each different nation in this film and incorporating them into movies two and three. We’re not waiting. There just isn’t enough time. Night will finish this movie, then the script and then we’ll prepare for the next one. I think it’ll probably happen over six years. He also confirmed on Twitter that fan-favorite animal characters Appa (a flying bison,
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Adam Sandler to take on 'Twilight Saga: Eclipse' next July 4th
2 July 2009 12:58 AM, PDT | From Hitfix.com | See recent Hitfix news
NBA teams (and some fans) may already be looking forward to the 2010 free agent class that will be battling for dollars a year from now, but the July 4 weekend also a year from now has become one of the more intriguing box office battles in quite awhile.Summit Entertainment's "Twilight Saga: Eclipse" has June 30 staked out and the M. Night Shyamalan adaptation of "The Last Airbender" were already set to open two days later on July 2. This was curious enough that many industry execs wonders whether the "Twilight" Moms would take their kids to "Airbender" or drag...
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The Last Airbender High Quality Photo Featuring Zuko
2 July 2009 12:10 AM, PDT | From toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news
Here’s a high quality movie still featuring Dev Patel as Zuko from the upcoming film “The Last Airbender”, based on the hit Nickelodeon cartoon series “Avatar: The Last Airbender”. “The Last Airbender” by director M. Night Shyamalan (The Happening) stars Jackson Rathbone (The Twilight Saga: New Moon), Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire), Cliff Curtis (Push) and Seychelle Gabriel (The Spirit). Synopsis: The film is set in a fantasy world where the four elements of earth, air, water, and fire can be controlled through martial arts called bending, and the ruthless flame-manipulating Fire Nation is waging war to control the other nations of the world. At the same time a young [...]
Brian Corder
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse already picked to be 'formidable competition' for summer 2010 films
1 July 2009 9:28 PM, PDT | From Twilight Examiner | See recent Twilight Examiner news
Though there's nearly a year left before the film's release, and the dirt hasn't even been shifted on production for the film yet, and The Twilight Saga: New Moon hasn't even hit theatres, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (starring Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner, and directed by David Slade) is already being recognized as a source of 'formidable competition' for 2010's summer film schedule. A recent Variety article highlighted an up-coming Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Kevin James, Rob Schneider, and David Spade film entitled Grown Ups, which is set for release on June 25, 2010. In the article, Variety states that "[f]ormidable competition should come with the opening five days later on June 30 of Summit's 'Twilight: The Eclipse.' Paramount's 'The Last Airbender,' from M. Night Shyamalan, follows
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The Last Airbender: Six-year trilogy plan is unveiled
1 July 2009 6:00 AM, PDT | From The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news
It's Been revealed that director M. Night Shyamalan is already working on the follow-up to next year's The Last Airbender, a live-action adaptation of the animated fantasy series.
The first film, starring 12-year-old Noah Ringer as lead character Aang and Slumdog Millionaire's Dev Patel as evil Prince Zuko, will hit screens on July 2, 2010.
In a world divided into four nations (Earth, Air, Fire and Water), Aang is the only person able to master all four elements and, with the help of two friends, he tries to stop Zuko and the Fire Nation's plan to enslave all the other elemental tribes.
Producer Frank Marshall has now spoken about how they are moving quickly to put together a trilogy.
He said the films would have to be written and shot separately, rather than back to back like the Lord of the Rings series, but they needed to proceed quickly.
Marshall told
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M. Night Shyamalan already working on second Airbender movie
30 June 2009 3:14 PM, PDT | From Filmonic.com | See recent Filmonic news
We are only just starting to get marketing material from M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender which is still a year away, however producer Frank Marshall has revealed that Shyamalan is already working on the second movie, and that they plan on shooting the trilogy over the span of 6 years. From Starlog: Unlike Peter Jackson’s The [...]
Liam
Twilight and New Moon star Jackson Rathbone's newest film The Last Airbender gets a poster
30 June 2009 8:02 AM, PDT | From Twilight Examiner | See recent Twilight Examiner news
The Twilight Saga: New Moon star Jackson Rathbone's newest film The Last Airbender just released its theatrical trailer last week (see here). Now, according to On The Flix, this poster for the film was released by Paramount Pictures. The film stars Rathbone, Nicole Peltz, Cliff Curtis, Dev Patel, Noah Ringer, Jessica Andres, Seychelle Gabriel, Shaun Toub, Aasif Mandvi, and Keong Sim. It is directed by M. Night Shyamalan, and written by Michael Dante Dimartino (also the writer for 61 episodes of the Nickelodeon series upon which the film is based, "Avatar: The Last Airbender")...
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How to Avoid Premature Trailer Fatigue?
29 June 2009 3:02 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news
If it's not trailers, it's teasers; if it's not teasers; it's images. By the time a blockbuster finally arrives, if you haven't heard so much about it that you want to scream -- from overload or delight -- the studio's marketing team hasn't done their job. But how early is too early to begin promoting a movie?
Pointing to this week's release of a teaser trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender, more than a year in advance of its planned theatrical roll-out in July 2010, The Big Money wonders if that's a good strategy: "How do you keep interest high then over the long autumn, winter, and spring? By producing trailer after trailer? Hollywood will watch this strategy closely to see at what point trailer fatigue sets in or whether it needs to build interest even earlier in its expensive summer blockbusters." Of course, as io9 observed, this
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Video: HD Teaser Trailer For ‘The Last Airbender’ From M. Night Shyamalan
29 June 2009 3:01 PM, PDT | From HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news
Chicago – Paramount Pictures has just released the HD teaser trailer for the new M. Night Shyamalan film “The Last Airbender,” which stars Jackson Rathbone, Nicola Peltz, Cliff Curtis, Dev Patel (from the Oscar-winning film “Slumdog Millionaire”), Noah Ringer, Jessica Andres, Seychelle Gabriel, Shaun Toub, Aasif Mandvi and Keong Sim.
“The Last Airbender” is slated to hit theaters on July 2, 2010. In addition to “The Last Airbender,” M. Night Shyamalan has also directed “The Happening,” “Lady in the Water,” “The Village,” “Signs,” “Unbreakable” and “The Sixth Sense”. Watch the new HD trailer for “The Last Airbender” below!
Here is “The Last Airbender” plot description:
Air. Water. Earth. Fire. Four nations are tied by destiny when the Fire Nation launches a brutal war against the others. A century has passed with no hope in sight to change the path of this destruction.
Caught between combat and courage, Aang (Noah Ringer) discovers he is
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The Last Airbender teaser poster
29 June 2009 9:54 AM, PDT | From Filmonic.com | See recent Filmonic news
ReelComix have posted a teaser poster for M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender. You can watch the teaser trailer that was released last week by clicking here! M. Night Shyamalan already working on second Airbender movie The Last Airbender Teaser Trailer First look at The Last Airbender Warped Happening Poster New Sherlock Holmes posters
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