The Last Airbender was bent and smashed by Critics!

I dont know what happened and not sure if I really want to see it with my own eyes. The Last Airbender was literally bent and smashed by critics at Rotten Tomatoes on Opening Day and the numbers speaks alone…

I was surprised by the fact that it got 9%…yeah, 9% percent of approval at the time of writing this post. It means that 90 critics voted against it while only 9 approved it. The RT community also gave bad numbers for this movie…48% of approval.

Consensus:  Despite flashy special effects, The Last Airbender squanders the potential of its popular source material on an incomprehensible plot, laughable dialogue, and a joyless sense of detachment.

We still need to wait for more numbers, but this was, surely, a bad opening for this kind of movie. Guess The Karate Kid has a better chance for a sequel.

Japanese remake of “Ghost” Movie!

We are not talking about “Ghost in the Shell”…This is a project for a “Ghost” remake with a japanese flavour in it!

The studio is also starting to dub more US movies, such as “Shutter Island,” into Japanese to lure elusive young audiences, an unusual step in a country where most foreign fare, apart from kids’ films, is shown with subtitles.

Hollywood studios are increasingly eyeing the potential of local-language production, particularly in the $2 billion Japanese market where once-dominant American movies have been outgunned by local films the past three out of four years.

Warner Bros is already an established player in Japan’s local-language game and recently saw its animated movie “Gintama” grace the box office top 10 for five weeks.

Fox International Productions, part of News Corp.’s 20th Century Fox film studio, is planning a Japanese remake of the Cary Grant classic “An Affair to Remember,” show business newspaper Variety reported.

“We have this great property” in our library, Paramount Japan marketing director Hisamichi Kinomoto said of “Ghost.”

“If the essence of that story appeals to Japanese, we should use it to attract new audiences.”

“Ghost” was a smash hit in 1990 with its universal tale of a love that knows no boundaries such as real life and the after life. Swayze portrays a murdered man who must warn his loving wife (Demi Moore) that she is in danger, and it is most memorable, perhaps, for its scene of Moore making pottery as Swayze wraps his arms around her while the song “Unchained Melody” plays in the background.

The new “Ghost,” is set for release in Japan this autumn. It will star Japanese actress Nanako Matsushima (“The Ring”) in Moore’s role and South Korean heartthrob Song Seung Heon (TV drama “East of Eden”) in Swayze’s part.

Hollywood ruled Japanese box offices for two straight decades into the mid-2000s, but has since struggled to compete as tastes change and audiences favor local films based on familiar “manga” comic books and TV series over the recent slew of US superhero movies.

Imported movies accounted for 43 percent of Japan’s 206 billion yen box office last year, far off a peak of 73 percent hit in 2002, according to the Motion Pictures Producers Association of Japan (MPAAJ).

Kinomoto said another reason for the decline may be an aversion to subtitles among the younger generation, which has grown up watching dubbed movies on DVDs and TVs that provide language-setting options.

“To those who are so used to watching dubbed movies at home on DVD, reading subtitles on the screen is somewhat of a hassle,” he said, citing research that teenagers in particular find that subtitles make it hard to focus on the action.

Source: Telegraph

Japanese likes supernatural stories and romance…This could probably work…but only time will tell if They can match the quality of the original.

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