Movie News: M. Night and Night at the Museum
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. -
Mickey O'Connor
