M. Night Shyamalan has had a very interesting career path. The filmmaker skyrocketed with his third film, “The Sixth Sense,” but quickly faded out of popularity with a series of big-budget critical and commercial duds. Then he seemed to be on a comeback path with a series of low-budget thrillers. Now, a year after he […]
Continue readingHis role as a cherubic 10-year-old with a classic catchphrase made him world famous. He talks about how he coped with the early attention, working with Kevin Spacey, and why he loves playing bad guysHaley Joel Osment thought he was finished for the day. It was 1998 and the 10-year-old was shooting The Sixth Sense, […]
Continue readingM Night Shyamalan’s ghost story terrified me to my teenage core – and ignited a love for clever storytellingRead all the other My favourite film choicesThe best arts and entertainment during self-isolationI turned 12 in 1999. Some film buffs like to say the year was one of the greatest in cinema’s history, spawning storied releases […]
Continue readingIn today’s film news roundup, PETA honors Jon Favreau for “The Lion King,” “Tigers Are Not Afraid” gets a theatrical release, a Kirk Franklin biopic is in development and “The Sixth Sense” gets an anniversary showing in Philadelphia.HonorThe People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is sponsoring a rescued lion to honor director Jon Favreau’s […]
Continue readingThe release of “Glass” this month will close the book on an 18-year journey for writer-director M. Night Shyamalan. The 48-year-old director was following up the blockbuster success of “The Sixth Sense” when he released his original superhero origin story “Unbreakable” in theaters in 2000. Shyamalan always intended to create a franchise with the movie, […]
Continue readingGillian Jacobs, most recently the star of Judd Apatow’s Netflix series Love, will star in Larry, a horror movie being made by Amblin and writer-director Jacob Chase.Azhy Robertson is also starring in the project, which is being described as a two-hander in a similar fashion to the pairing of Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment […]
Continue reading“Crazy Rich Asians” continues to pile up new box-office achievements far beyond its bragging rights as an all-Asian-cast film. Its $22,235,000 third weekend is the biggest gross for the Friday-Sunday of a Labor Day weekend since 2007 (when the remake of “Halloween” opened.) Among holdovers, the last one to better it for this date was […]
Continue readingParamount’s horror hit “A Quiet Place” has topped the $300 million mark at the worldwide box office.“A Quiet Place,” starring John Krasinski and Emily Blunt, had been forecasted to debut domestically with as much as $30 million when it opened on April 6. The film, which premiered at South by Southwest to rave reviews, instead […]
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