For the film industry, the first couple months of each year are basically one long marathon of high fives. In glitzy ceremony after glitzy ceremony, filmmakers congratulate themselves and each other for making such awesome movies. It can all feel like a bit much after a while, even for the most enthusiastic of awards season…
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Sony is developing a fourth Men in Black film, but it may not be able to rely upon Will Smith to play the charming lead. While Smith led audiences into the world of a secret government bureau incorporated to police galactic aliens on Earth, and acted as the franchise center for three films, he's not so…
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Dave, Devindra, and Laremy (author of Film Critic) discuss some great new films screening at SIFF, muse on the greatness of Linklater's Before franchise, and wonder which timeline Community season 4 came from. Be sure to check out Rachel Sklar's piece on Afternoon Delight, Nick Schager's take on M. Night's absence, and Laremy Legel's review of After Earth. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or…
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After Earth has been slammed by critics for many reasons, from Jaden Smith's lackluster performance to the plodding pace to the shoddy CG work. But Buzz Aldrin has to be one of the few folks whose grievances stem from personal experience with outer space travel. While the astronaut stated that he enjoyed the M. Night…
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A Will Smith movie without charisma is like an M. Night Shyamalan movie without a twist. It sounds interesting or different going in, but this one ultimately doesn't deliver. Much as Shyamalan made his career on surprise twists, Smith made himself the biggest star in the world by focusing his talent and charm. Over his…
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Trailers! Who has time to watch them all? There are something like forty wide releases due out this summer alone. If you assume each trailer runs about two minutes, that's about an hour and half of your life you'll never get back. That's time you could've spent actually watching one of these movies. If you…
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M. Night Shyamalan's new film and potential comeback After Earth has been moved up one week from June 7 to May 31. It's a good move on Columbia's part, as the Will Smith movie can very likely dominate that late May weekend, which is otherwise occupied by Now You See Me and The Purge. After…
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By definition, the apocalypse can only really happen once. But in the movies, it seems to crop up every few weeks or so. Today we have three TV spots that face the end of the world in very different ways. In M. Night Shyamalan's After Earth, Will Smith and Jaden Smith struggle for survival on…
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Once upon a time, when M. Night Shyamalan was making a movie, his name was promoted above the title. Then he did The Happening and The Last Airbender. For his latest release, After Earth, his name is barely visible with a microscope. Which is probably a good thing when the film has one of, if not the biggest…
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The first trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's After Earth was a pretty tightly controlled thing, showing characters played by Will and Jaden Smith stranded on Earth in a future that has seen evolution turn decidedly against humans. This second trailer gives more context to the story, showing a bit of what the two guys were…
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M. Night Shyamalan's stock as a director has steadily declined since his breakout The Sixth Sense, but with some luck After Earth could be the film to turn that trend around. For one thing, it's tough to go lower than the 6% RT score he got for The Last Airbender. For another, the marketing materials…
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While we won't know if the sci-fi film After Earth is a return to form for M. Night Shyamalan for a few months, we do know one thing. The world the filmmaker has created around the movie is incredibly rich and thoughtout. That much is obvious with the launch of the film's official website. The site…
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Here's the international trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's sci-fi picture After Earth, which stars Will Smith and son Jaden Smith as a father and son who are stranded on an Earth that has returned to a sort of wild, prehistoric state. The trailer opens with a hell of a sequence, and then settles into a…
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Neither M. Night Shyamalan, Will Smith or Jaden Smith showed up at San Diego Comic-Con this past weekend, but their new movie did. After Earth had a subdued, small panel Saturday morning featuring screenwriter Gary Whitta (Book of Eli) and director of photography Peter Suschitzky (The Empire Strikes Back) talking about the world in which the 2013 sci-fi action…
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Buried in the incredibly busy Saturday schedule for San Diego Comic-Con 2012 is a panel concerning M. Night Shyamalan's latest film, After Earth. The sci-fi film, which stars Will and Jaden Smith, seems like a natural fit for Comic-Con, but neither the director or its two leads will be in attendance. Instead, the panel will be…
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One word can be used to described the Saturday schedule of San Diego Comic-Con 2012: "Wow." Whereas Thursday and Friday are merely peppered with highlights, Saturday is jam-packed full of presentations sure to make your heat spin. We'd heard Warner Bros. would be bringing The Hobbit and Pacific Rim to the Con, but they're also…
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Comic Con kicks off in San Diego on July 11, and with the show only a month away we haven't had too much concrete news about what will appear, and what is likely to miss the show. We know that The Dark Knight Rises won't be there, as Warner Bros. and Christopher Nolan have avoided…
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M. Night Shyamalan recently started shooting his new film After Earth, in which a family crash lands on Earth one thousand years after humanity has vacated the planet. Will Smith plays a father who is captured by an Earth-dwelling force after the landing, leading his son (Jaden Smith) to mount an effort to save him.…
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M. Night Shyamalan, Will Smith and Jaden Smith are currently in Costa Rica shooting the Summer 2013 blockbuster After Earth and it seems like the trio are dead set on keeping the fans involved in the action. Shyamalan has been posting several behind the scenes shots at the film's jungle location and Smith's camp is…
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M. Night Shyamalan is mere weeks away from getting back in the director's chair for his Will Smith/Jaden Smith sci-fi epic After Earth and he's already begun to use social media to tease us all about it. The director of Unbreakable and The Sixth Sense recently tweeted two photos from the production offices of the…
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Gore Verbinski's The Lone Ranger was forced to make some changes when Disney balked at its $250 million price tag, but happily, it doesn't seem the cuts have stopped the project from continuing to land some solid talent. Deadline reports that rising star James Badge Dale is now the frontrunner to join the cast in…
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M. Night Shyamalan's next film, After Earth, came pre-packaged with its two leads: Will and Jaden Smith. The pair will play a father-son duo whose spaceship crash lands on Earth 1,000 years after humans were forced to leave the planet. Now The Hollywood Reporter says the ladies in their lives are close to being cast…
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Polarizing director M. Night Shyamalan recently joined Twitter and revealed a few things about his upcoming collaboration with Will Smith. Back in April, it was announced Shyamalan would direct both Will and his son Jaden Smith in a movie tentatively titled One Thousand A.E. about what happens when a young boy and his father's spaceship…
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