Ever since the "Day of the Black Sun" two-part episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender was broadcast on Nickelodeon this past November, fans of the show have waited — often impatiently — for new episodes to air.It didn't help when word spread on the Internet that the following two episodes ("The Western Air Temple" and "The Firebending Masters") had aired in Canada during late December and mid-January, but still hadn't been seen in the U.S.There are supposed to be ten more installments of the popular animated series before it concludes its third(and final) season — and before it heads to movie screens in 2010 as "The Last Airbender", the first in a trilogy of live-action films by M. Night Shyamalan. When can fans expect to see the rest of the story?The powers that be answered this question over the weekend at the New York Comic Con. Saturday night, there was an Avatar panel moderated by Megan Casey of Nickelodeon, and featuring show creators Michael DiMartino and Bry...
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Bad buzz for M. Night Shyamalan's mysterious new film already? Observant wags at Defamer note that Super Bowl ads for The Happening, starring Mark Wahlberg and John Leguizamo, were yanked at the last minute. Instead, the teaser debuted online, on Tuesday. What's especially disheartening is that both the Super Bowl and Shyamalan's film are Fox products, so apparently no amount of corporate synergy could overcome a lack of faith in the product. While the film's concept (an environmentally driven epidemic makes people die and/or kill themselves?) looks interesting, all his films have looked interesting at the outset but have (lately) disappointed. What do you think? Are you willing to give M. Night another shot? Or did you, like me, decide that the moral of Lady in the Water was: "Never see another Shyamalan movie"? In other movie news, Enchanted cutie-pie Amy Adams is game for A Night at the Museum 2, playing an undetermined historical figure who has a crush on Ben Stiller's watchman....
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Ask any kid and they'll likely be able to tell you all about the incredible animated adventure Avatar: The Last Airbender (premiering tonight, 8:30 pm/ET, Nickelodeon). But the youngsters aren't the only ones watching this fable of a boy trying to save the world: One notable proponent is M. Night Shyamalan, who has signed on to direct three live-action movies based on the adventures of Aang and his friends. Avatar has also found a devoted following among fans of Hayao Miyazaki's work (like Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away) and the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Like Tolkien's epic tale, Avatar was always c
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Per Variety, DreamWorks Animation has moved up the release of Monsters vs. Aliens, its first pic produced in stereoscopic 3-D, to May 15, 2009 — a week before James Cameron's 3-D Avatar is set to bow.... John Leguizamo has joined M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening, playing Mark Wahlberg's best friend.... Ron Howard is set to direct an adaptation of The Emperor's Children, Claire Messud's novel about Ivy League grads snobbing up Manhattan.... Oscar-nominated screenwriter Michael Tolkin is penning Rob Marshall's big-screen take on Nine.
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So when exactly is the right time to tell a powerful and moderately unstable studio owner that you are going to screw him over again Is it while he is browbeating a waiter over a late-arriving salad or while hes haranguing a bartender for insisting that he order a cranberry drink Watching Eric try to come clean was certainly making me a squirm a little I had to agree with Vince that Eric looked extremely uncomfortable walking into the club dwarfed literally and figuratively by Harveys intimidating presence I have to figure that Maury Chaykins Harvey Weingard is a spoof on another intimidating and allegedly volatile Hollywood Harvey but I dont want to make any assumptions Luckily for E Harveys short temper got him escorted from the nightclub and Johnny took the opportunity to add some fuel to the fire by telling Harvey about the broken Medellin deal Somehow I dont think weve seen the last of Harvey and I have a
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