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Hollywood's nepo baby directors responsible for the biggest box office flops of 2024

Hollywood's nepo babies directors were responsible for some of the biggest box office flops in 2024. She is the daughter of Oscar nominee M. Night Shyamalan; pictured June in New York City Another was Jake Kasdan, the son of four-time Oscar nominee Lawrence Kasdan, and his Christmas-themed action-comedy flick Red One, which received a theatrical release last month; pictured December …

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2 months ago

Bruce Springsteen Documentary, Halsey Album, Billy Crystal on TV and 'Trap' Thrills

Associated Press

A plethora of new releases awaits your ears and eyes, from captivating documentaries and captivating music videos to thrilling movies and captivating video games. Dive into the world of Bruce Springsteen, Halsey, and Billy Crystal, or explore the gritty world of the 1990s with Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.

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2 months, 1 week ago

Caddo Lake ending: The M. Night Shyamalan movie’s twists, explained.

Slate

Following the knockout success of Trap, M. Night Shyamalan’s latest project is Caddo Lake, Max’s new mystery thriller from Topside directors Logan George and Celine Held. Ellie’s father disappeared when Ellie was a baby, and Celeste wound up marrying a man named Daniel Bennett, who has an 8-year-old daughter, Anna, from a previous relationship. But after feeling odd sensations while …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

How ‘The Sixth Sense’ trapped M. Night Shyamalan in a twist ending forever

LA Times

About midway through “The Sixth Sense,” Bruce Willis’ Malcolm, a compassionate child psychologist, attempts to cheer up Haley Joel Osment’s Cole, a disturbed boy struggling with secrets he’s too scared to reveal. But in “The Sixth Sense,” Malcolm learns something profound about himself — he is so consumed with compensating for having failed a suicidal former patient, he never realized …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ sets a new high mark for R-rated films with $97M second weekend

The Hindu

After 10 days in theaters, Deadpool & Wolverine is already the highest-grossing R-rated movie ever, not accounting for inflation. In its second weekend, the Marvel Studios blockbuster starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman continued to steamroll through movie theaters, collecting $97 million according to studio estimates Sunday. Worldwide, the Shawn Levy-directed Deadpool & Wolverine has quickly amassed $824.1 million in …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Trap is another of M Night Shyamalan's big swings and it's almost a home run

ABC

For better and sometimes worse, no-one makes movies quite like M Night Shyamalan. Within Trap's first few minutes, we're led to believe that Cooper is very much the killer, a revelation that frees up Shyamalan to roam across unexpected terrain. Ishana Night Shyamalan follows in her father's footsteps with The Watchers Photo shows Ishana Night Shyamalan with cast members Olwen …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

With a $97M second weekend, ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ sets a new high mark for R-rated films

Associated Press

NEW YORK — After 10 days in theaters, “Deadpool & Wolverine” is already the highest-grossing R-rated movie ever, not accounting for inflation. That raised its two-week total to $395.6 million, pushing it past the long-reigning top R-rated feature, “The Passion of the Christ,” which held that mark for 20 years with $370 million domestic. Worldwide, the Shawn Levy-directed “Deadpool & …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

M Night Shyamalan’s Trap debuts with 50% rating on Rotten Tomatoes; critics call it a disappointing ‘bait and switch’

Hindustan Times

M. Night Shyamalan, known for his supernatural plots and twist endings, has received ambiguous reactions for Trap, the newest addition to his extensive oeuvre. The film features Josh Hartnett who plays the role of a serial killer, dubbed as The Butcher, and also, Shyamalan’s daughter, Saleka, who wrote, produced, and performed all the songs in the film, as pop sensation …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

M. Night Shyamalan lays his own parent 'Trap,' and it's truly bonkers : Pop Culture Happy Hour

NPR

M. Night Shyamalan lays his own parent 'Trap,' and it's truly bonkers : Pop Culture Happy Hour M. Night Shyamalan's new thriller Trap stars Josh Hartnett as a father attending a pop concert with his teenage daughter. It quickly turns out that the entire concert is surrounded by police who are trying to catch a dangerous serial killer in the …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Movie Review: Josh Hartnett goes big as the serial killer in M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Trap’

Associated Press

In our spoiler phobic culture, movie trailers don’t often offer a lot of information. So it seemed like a particularly bold and even confusing move for “ Trap,” the latest film from M. Night Shyamalan, to reveal so much so soon. Perhaps that something else is that “Trap” really doesn’t take itself that seriously. One thing “Trap” does especially well …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

M. Night Shyamalan's latest movie is a collaboration with his daughter

NPR

M. Night Shyamalan's latest movie is a collaboration with his daughter NPR's Debbie Elliott talks to writer-director M. Night Shyamalan and actor-singer Saleka Shyamalan. ELLIOTT: "The Sixth Sense" was M. Night Shyamalan's first box office hit. You know, in a deeper way, you know, the movie for me when I was writing it was kind of, like, a graphic novel, …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

I really do believe in the original movie: M Night Shyamalan on 'Trap'

Hindustan Times

Los Angeles, Filmmaker M Night Shyamalan says the concert at the centre of his upcoming suspense thriller will feel like a real one as he likes the idea of "cinema as windows within windows". I really do believe in the original movie: M Night Shyamalan on 'Trap' The thriller master's new film was has taken some of its ideas from …

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6 months, 1 week ago

It’s hard not to read a book on Bruce Willis’ legacy as a valediction of sorts, though it’s also a celebration

LA Times

Unlike his fellow action stars, Bruce Willis had range, bopping from blockbusters to comedies to character roles and back again throughout his career, as chronicled in Sean O’Connell’s new book. As Sean O’Connell writes in his new book, “Bruce Willis: Celebrating the Cinematic Legacy of an Unbreakable Hollywood Icon,” Willis showed “that heroes didn’t need to be chiseled from marble …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Review: Who watches ‘The Watchers’? Those who don’t expect that much from a mystery box of a movie

LA Times

Let us consider the dilemma of the Interesting Shot, announcing itself to the viewer as a considered expression of artistic merit, from a conscientious director thinking outside the common realm of composition and wielding perfect design that betrays nothing unwarranted. Lost and carrying the bird — who briefly gets its own POV Interesting Shot — she stumbles upon a severe-looking, …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Dakota Fanning finds a character she is drawn to in Ishana Night Shyamalan’s ‘The Watchers’

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — It can sometimes be difficult for child actors to shed public conceptions of them as a kid, hindering them from being taken seriously in Hollywood as adults. She is, after all, the youngest person to receive a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination — she was 7 at the time — in the show’s nearly 30-year history for …

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8 months ago

The Watchers TRAILER: Dakota Fanning finds herself TRAPPED by unknown captors as she stars in chilling thriller directed by M. Night Shyamalan's daughter Ishana

Daily Mail

Dakota Fanning is headlining a scary new thriller and the first trailer for the film is causing goosebumps. The 30-year-old actress, who still receives birthday gifts from her War of the Worlds co-star Tom Cruise, takes on the role as Mina, an artist in Ireland whose road trip ends when her car conks out in a lush forest. Dakota Fanning, …

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9 months, 4 weeks ago

‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ series review: A step up from the film, yet misses mark by miles

The Hindu

“Let go of the past or you will never have a future.” This is a lesson that Aang, the protagonist of Avatar: The Last Airbender, learns, but it is also something that embodies the journey the live-action adaptation of the insanely famous animated television series of the same name had to take. There are quite a few reasons the animated …

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10 months, 1 week ago

Ooru Peru Bhairavakona review: Vi Anand and Sundeep Kishan's horror film is more Disney than M Night Shyamalan

Hindustan Times

Ooru Peru Bhairavakona review: Vi Anand’s horror comedy film, Ooru Peru Bhairavakona, hit screens this Friday. Ooru Peru Bhairavakona review Look at Vi Anand’s filmography and you see these grand ideas that are innovative, fun and sometimes quite unique, but they don’t always translate into an engaging film. Haunted mansions galore Ooru Peru Bhairavakona has a haunted mansion that will …

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1 year, 6 months ago

India’s Modi brings comedy game to big White House dinner in his honor

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi brought his comedy game to Thursday’s big White House dinner in his honor, cracking jokes about his lack of singing chops, the time President Joe Biden wanted him to eat even though he was fasting and how well Indians and Americans are getting along. “Kids in India become Spider-Man on Halloween and America’s …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Dakota Fanning has signed on to star in Ishana Night Shyamalan's directorial debut The Watchers

Daily Mail

Dakota Fanning has signed on to star in the upcoming thriller feature The Watchers. The news about the 29-year-old actress was revealed on Wednesday, and the movie will also serve as Ishana Night Shyamalan's directorial debut, according to Deadline. Leading lady: Dakota Fanning has signed on to star in the upcoming thriller feature The Watchers; she is seen in 2020 …

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1 year, 10 months ago

M. Night Shyamalan locks multi-year first-look deal at Warner Bros

The Hindu

Filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan has signed a multi-year deal with Warner Bros Pictures Group under which he will be directing and producing films for the studio. According to entertainment website Deadline, the pact comes after Warner Bros. Pictures Group co-chairs and CEOs Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy signed a first-look deal with director Akiva Goldsman and two-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker …

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1 year, 10 months ago

M Night Shyamalan’s daughter Ishana to make directorial debut with ‘The Watchers’

The Hindu

Writer Ishana Night Shyamalan, daughter of filmmaker M Night Shyamalan, is set to direct her first feature film titled The Watchers for production banner New Line Cinema. Ishana, who recently served as writer and director on the critically-acclaimed Apple TV+ series Servant, which was showrun by her father, has adapted her film from the A M Shine novel of the …

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1 year, 10 months ago

‘Knock at the Cabin’ knocks off ‘Avatar’ at the box office

Associated Press

NEW YORK — For the first time in almost two months, the box office doesn’t belong to blue people. 1 spot by the M. Night Shyamalan thriller “Knock at the Cabin” and the octogenarian comedy “80 for Brady.” “Knock at the Cabin,” a home invasion horror film with an apocalyptic riff, dethroned James Cameron’s 3-D sci-fi epic with $14.2 million …

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1 year, 10 months ago

M. Night Shyamalan cannot stop shocking the world

The Hindu

In 1999, a 29-year-old filmmaker — who was born in Mahe, Puducherry to two doctors: a Malayali father and a Tamilian mother — suddenly emerged as Hollywood’s most exciting talent. “I see dead people.” And with those iconic words uttered by Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense, Manoj Nelliyattu ‘M Night’ Shyamalan had well and truly arrived. It has …

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Hollywood's nepo baby directors responsible for the biggest box office flops of 2024

Bruce Springsteen Documentary, Halsey Album, Billy Crystal on TV and 'Trap' Thrills

Caddo Lake ending: The M. Night Shyamalan movie’s twists, explained.

How ‘The Sixth Sense’ trapped M. Night Shyamalan in a twist ending forever

‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ sets a new high mark for R-rated films with $97M second weekend

Trap is another of M Night Shyamalan's big swings and it's almost a home run

With a $97M second weekend, ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ sets a new high mark for R-rated films

M Night Shyamalan’s Trap debuts with 50% rating on Rotten Tomatoes; critics call it a disappointing ‘bait and switch’

M. Night Shyamalan lays his own parent 'Trap,' and it's truly bonkers : Pop Culture Happy Hour

Movie Review: Josh Hartnett goes big as the serial killer in M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Trap’

M. Night Shyamalan's latest movie is a collaboration with his daughter

I really do believe in the original movie: M Night Shyamalan on 'Trap'

It’s hard not to read a book on Bruce Willis’ legacy as a valediction of sorts, though it’s also a celebration

Review: Who watches ‘The Watchers’? Those who don’t expect that much from a mystery box of a movie

Dakota Fanning finds a character she is drawn to in Ishana Night Shyamalan’s ‘The Watchers’

The Watchers TRAILER: Dakota Fanning finds herself TRAPPED by unknown captors as she stars in chilling thriller directed by M. Night Shyamalan's daughter Ishana

‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ series review: A step up from the film, yet misses mark by miles

Ooru Peru Bhairavakona review: Vi Anand and Sundeep Kishan's horror film is more Disney than M Night Shyamalan

India’s Modi brings comedy game to big White House dinner in his honor

Dakota Fanning has signed on to star in Ishana Night Shyamalan's directorial debut The Watchers

M. Night Shyamalan locks multi-year first-look deal at Warner Bros

M Night Shyamalan’s daughter Ishana to make directorial debut with ‘The Watchers’

‘Knock at the Cabin’ knocks off ‘Avatar’ at the box office

M. Night Shyamalan cannot stop shocking the world