When M. Night Shyamalan burst onto the scene in 1999 with modern horror classic The Sixth Sense, he was quickly anointed as Hollywood’s latest filmmaking wunderkind. It looked like he was going to live up to that potential, too, when he followed it up with the acclaimed Unbreakable and underrated Signs, but the wheels soon started to fall off.
Shyamalan’s subsequent work was characterized by self-indulgence and after the trifecta of The Happening, The Last Airbender and After Earth, his name had become reduced to a punchline. A reinvention was desperately needed, and 2016’s Split looked to have provided it after earning solid reviews and raking in almost $280 million at the box office on a budget of just $9 million.
Revealed to be a secret Unbreakable sequel right at the very end, James McAvoy was lauded for his incredible performance as a troubled man suffering from a severe case of Dissociative Identity Disorder.
Shyamalan’s subsequent work was characterized by self-indulgence and after the trifecta of The Happening, The Last Airbender and After Earth, his name had become reduced to a punchline. A reinvention was desperately needed, and 2016’s Split looked to have provided it after earning solid reviews and raking in almost $280 million at the box office on a budget of just $9 million.
Revealed to be a secret Unbreakable sequel right at the very end, James McAvoy was lauded for his incredible performance as a troubled man suffering from a severe case of Dissociative Identity Disorder.
- 9/23/2020
- by Scott Campbell
- We Got This Covered
Given that the summer blockbuster season has been a bust as theater chains shut down while cases of the deadly coronavirus rose. Studios continue push openings of highly anticipated films into the fall, next year and beyond. Warner Bros. seems determined to open “Tenet,” Christopher Nolan‘s new big-screen spectacular that involves a secret agent who is tasked to stop World War III. For now, it is expected to play in selective cities and auditoriums in the U.S. starting on September 3.
But more and more titles are turning to VOD or streaming services as options to serve a cinema-starved audience, including Spike Lee‘s “Da 5 Bloods,” Judd Apatow‘s “The King of Staten Island” and “Greyhound,” a war film starring Tom Hanks.
The lack of multiplex visits during these steamy summer days has made me nostalgic for the when I was a movie critic and basked in the...
But more and more titles are turning to VOD or streaming services as options to serve a cinema-starved audience, including Spike Lee‘s “Da 5 Bloods,” Judd Apatow‘s “The King of Staten Island” and “Greyhound,” a war film starring Tom Hanks.
The lack of multiplex visits during these steamy summer days has made me nostalgic for the when I was a movie critic and basked in the...
- 8/1/2020
- by Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
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