Cleveland Heep (Paul Giamatti) has been quietly trying to disappear among the burned-out lightbulbs and broken appliances of the Cove apartment complex. But on the night that irrevocably changes his life, Cleveland finds someone else hiding in the mundane routine of the modest building – a mysterious young woman named Story (Bryce Dallas Howard), who has been living in the passageways beneath the building’s swimming pool. Cleveland discovers that Story is actually a “narf” – a nymph-like character from an epic bedtime story who is being stalked by vicious creatures determined to prevent her from making the treacherous journey from our world back to hers. Story’s unique powers of perception reveal the fates of Cleveland’s fellow tenants, whose destinies are tied directly to her own, and they must work together to decipher a series of codes that will unlock the pathway to her freedom. But the window of opportunity for Story to return home is closing rapidly, and the tenants are putting their own lives at great risk to help her. Cleveland will have to face the demons that have followed him to the Cove – and the other tenants must seize the special powers that Story has brought out in them – if they hope to succeed in their daring and dangerous quest to save her world...and ours.
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February 14, 2007: Night's Green review:
Let's recap M. Night Shyamalan's spec script story so far: While taking his daily mid-morning nap in his favorite jammies inside his homemade incubator, Shams is hit with
an idea for an epic film in which Mother Nature takes revenge on us hurtful,...
January 31, 2007: M. Night update:
Last week we mentioned a brand-spanking new, original nature-based disaster flick M. Night Shyamalan has been shopping around to studios currently to no avail as, after LADY IN THE WATER, Shams has been bumped up to Yellow on the Box Office Terror Alert....
January 24, 2007: Night's Green Planet?:
Teddy from over at M. Night Fans recently alerted us to some news he'd picked up from TMZ and Latino Review that M. Night Shamaglock recently sent out an original screenplay titled GREEN PLANET to several studios and so far, has been given a big ass pass...
January 22, 2007: Razzies '07 nominees:
At the start of every year, amidst the plethora of award shows that basically amount to Hollywood giving itself a congratulatory handjob, one award show dares to spotlight the absolute worst that Hollywood fed to us the previous year. I'm speaking, of course,...
August 17, 2006: Late but cool Lady posters:
I've yet to see LADY IN THE WATER but, for the moviegoing public in general, the movie's run in theaters came, sadly fizzled, and then promptly went. If it really is the P.O.S. that a lot of people say it is, then we can at least always take solace in the fact...
August 18, 2006: C'mon Hollywood #99:
... M. Night isn’t finished…yet.
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Remember in 1999 when the SIXTH SENSE came out? It caused quite a stir and everyone was super fast to praise M. Night Shyamalan as the “next...
July 20, 2006: INT: Paul Giamatti:
The Giamatti I interviewed for LADY was very much different from the Giamatti I interviewed for SIDEWAYS. Back then you practically had to pry the words out of his mouth. But with a leading role in a summer blockbuster comes a certain amount of confidence...
July 19, 2006: INT: Bryce Dallas Howard:
I fully expected to see Bryce Dallas Howard show up for her LADY IN THE WATER press looking very much like Gwen Stacy, her character in SPIDER-MAN 3. But, rather, she showed up looking very much like, well, Bryce Dallas Howard. Her blonde locks were gone...
July 14, 2006: See Lady/Water early!:
CATCH AN EARLY
LADY IN THE WATER SCREENING IN MONTREAL!!
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to see LADY IN THE WATER on Wednesday, July 19th in Montreal ?
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July 4, 2006: Hopkins is Tolstoy:
Anthony Hopkins, Meryl Streep and Paul Giamatti have signed on to star in director Michael Hoffman's feature adaptation of Jay Parini's Leo Tolstoy biopic THE LAST
STATION. Hopkins takes up the role of Tolstoy in a story that cobbles together the diaries...
June 27, 2006: Zombie talks Halloween:
Rob Zombie recently stopped by the Jimmy Kimmel show and waxed a little bit about his plans for the
upcoming reboot of the HALLOWEEN franchise. He first mentioned that it wasn't even his idea to update the franchise. Bob Weinstein apparently gave him a...
June 26, 2006: Early Lady review!:
A few weeks ago, I was one of the lucky few invited to see an early screening of LADY IN THE WATER in New York. M. Night Shyamalan was putting the finishing touches on the sound mix and decided to screen the movie to a small crowd. The screening was held right...
June 13, 2006: Shams talks Lady:
M. Night Shyamalan recently teamed up with Amazon.com on a video where he reads the actual "bedtime story" novel that accompanies his horror thriller LADY IN THE WATER . As most of you probably know, the intial spark to do this
film was borne out of the...
May 12, 2006: New Lady Poster:
Take a gander to the right and you'll notice a nifty new poster for M. Night Shyamalan's LADY IN THE WATER . While the low-res version clearly doesn't show it, there is a lot going on in that poster that only has little to do with the
gargantuan size...
May 11, 2006: Lady site updated:
The official site for M. Night Shyamalan's LADY IN THE WATER recently
received a healthy dose of content in the form of tons of new pictures. We get to see most, if not all, of the supporting players (including Shama-rocks himself) and a lot of
good...
May 9, 2006: Full Lady trailer:
Call me crazy but wasn't M. Night Shyamalan's LADY IN THE WATER being
initially marketed as a "bedtime story"? Because if the full trailer Yahoo
recently posted is any indicator, this is more of a bedtime nightmare . I realize "thriller" and...
January 25, 2006: Lady in Water review:
Most of us around here are quite looking forward to M. Night Shama-glock's fantasy drama LADY IN THE WATER so it was disconcerting to read this mostly negative review that the folks over at "Ain't It Cool News" recently posted. Granted,
it's from...
January 6, 2006: Top 20 of 2006 2/2:
Top 20 Most Anticipated of 2006
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Trust us when we say that when you start separating Tom Cruise the batshit crazy Scientology lunatic incessantly yapping...
January 5, 2006: Top 20 of 2006 1/2:
Top 20 Most Anticipated of 2006
We're very passionate about our movies so we'll admit, we were intially reticent in accepting 2006 for fear that she would bring only disappointment and failed opportunities. We've been burned too many times so...
December 28, 2005: The Lady in the Water!:
The folks over at Blairwitch.de just snagged themselves the very first look at the Lady from M. Night Shyamalan's LADY IN THE WATER . In the film, Paul Giamatti's character, Cleveland Heep, is a
super at an apartment building who finds this enchanting...
December 14, 2005: Lady in Water poster!:
We're
all pretty huge fans of M. Night Shyamalan on this site, so it's
with great pleasure that we present his next film's very cool teaser
poster. The film is called LADY
IN THE WATER and if you...
December 6, 2005: '06 WB preview pics!:
Our official 2006 Warner Bros. preview will be up soon, but in the meanwhile I wanted to pass along a few new pics of some of their higher profile films for your perusal. There's a little movie called SUPERMAN RETURNS, as well as the latest Shyamalan flick and...
November 22, 2005: M. Night trailer hits!:
"How many of you are
there?"
That's a small quote that you'll hear
at the very end of M. Night Shyamalan's latest movie teaser trailer,...
November 21, 2005: Lady In Water site:
Unfortunately for me, I was late to see HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF
FIRE and only managed to catch the very end of the teaser for M. Night Shyamalan's upcoming "bedtime story" LADY IN THE WATER . All I heard was Paul Giamatti say in a freaked...
November 14, 2005: Superman trailer details!:
UPDATE - Just to clarify something below, the teaser for SUPERMAN RETURNS will not be attached to GOBLET OF FIRE. It is officially classified by Warner Bros. as an "accompaniment" like LADY IN THE WATER. This is likely to prevent early reports of the...
November 1, 2005: Shyamalan says f*ck you!:
I'm
not exactly sure how I feel about this topic personally, but I'm
glad at least one Hollywood director has the balls enough to speak
up against some of the massive greed going on in Hollywood these...
August 11, 2005: Shyamalan casting:
Even though there hasn't been much news out in the public about M. Night Shyamalan's next film LADY IN THE WATER, the director has been working diligently behind the scenes to get the project ready for a shoot later this month in Philadelphia. That, of course,...
March 30, 2005: Shyamalan gets cast:
Just days after a formal announcement about his next project, LADY IN THE WATER, M. Night Shyamalan has set his lead roles for the film. Paul Giamatti and Bryce Dallas Howard will star in the film for Shyamalan with an August start date set. Giamatti will star...
March 24, 2005: Shyamalan's next is...:
I'm a big fan of M. Night Shyamalan and his movies. While I didn't hate THE VILLAGE like many people did, I would agree it was his weakest effort (but I'll take his weakest movie over most "scary" movies any day of the week). I'm not surprised that following...
kevmoley
on Jan 3 2006, 1:24:24 PM writes: M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN is the best writer/director in Hollywood today... Unlike the many writers/directors in hollywood, he does not add a 2 to the end of any of his movies nor does he remake movies that were already classics back in 1933
