Concerns that the multicultural characters of Marvel Comics' Runaways would become slightly more white in their upcoming movie incarnations have been lessened after Marvel Studios released a statement assuring worried fans, and updated casting notices to ensure that their intentions were good. How did this happen?
And this is why moviemakers have PR people. M. Night Shyamalan went a little off the approved script at a The Last Airbender press conference in Mexico when someone said that audiences had lost faith in his work following movies like The Lady In The Water, and the whole thing was caught on video.
It’s (semi) official. M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender currently holds the lowest Rotten Tomatoes ranking of the year. Paramount’s $280 million live-action version of the beloved Nickelodeon series received only a 6% rating based on a ranking system that pools the reviews of film critics into a tidy little score. This means that out [...]
It’s finally opening day for The Last Airbender, the epic Avatar adaptation that arrives under a gloom of mean-spirited and short-sighted reviews, many outraged about the racial issues surrounding its casting. More on that a bit later with my review.
Airbender week: It’s finally here.
Driving down Los Angeles’s lovely Pico Blvd., I saw that The Last Airbender billboard had been defaced thusly:
Tuesday, Mar. 30, 2010
Thursday, Mar. 25, 2010
I have to say, this looks pretty damn cool. M. Night Shyamalan critics, say what you will, but The Last Airbender might be in the running for one of the summer’s top flicks. (Read it: The Last Airbender, the New Shyamalan?)
Friday, Feb. 5, 2010
Okay, so here’s the deal: M. Night Shyamalan is a name that polarizes many film fans. There are those who continue to love The Sixth Sense – which, let’s be honest, we all loved the first time around – and then the haters who now think that the twist ending was a cop-out. There are [...]
