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Exclusive Airbender Clip at the MTV Movie Awards

Posted to Movie News on June 03, 2010 8:42 AM by NightBender

According to our friends at MTV Splash Page, exclusive new footage from M. Night Shyamalan's upcoming live-action adaptation The Last Airbender will air during the MTV Movie Awards Pre-Show, which begins at 8pm EST on June 6th.

The 2010 MTV Movie Awards will be hosted by Parks and Recreation funny man Aziz Ansari. Presenters this year include Adam Sandler, Tom Cruise, Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Steve Carell, Jessica Biel and more! So mark your calenders for June 6, 2010 at 8pm EST to catch an exclusive new clip from The Last Airbender.

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'30 Ninjas' Interview Aasif Mandvi - Part One

Posted to Movie News on June 02, 2010 6:58 AM by NightBender

A couple weeks ago 30Ninjas did a two part interview with the director of The Last Airbender, M. Night Shyamalan. Recently these lucky ninjas have been talking to Aasif Mandvi, who is playing Commander Zhao in The Last Airbender. In the first half of this two part interview they talk about how Aasif got the role, the Shakespearean nature of the story, and (of course) martial arts!

30 NINJAS: Night said something like that in our interview with him. He said it’s a very Shakespearean story.

AASIF: Night doesn’t know what the f#&$ he’s talking about. (laughs) No, it is. I got cast as Zhao, and people might be like, “Oh, he is this comedy guy, doing this villainous character.” And the truth is, what I think that Night liked about my audition and stuff was that he said, “I don’t want Zhao to just be this sort of caricature of an evil villain that [you see] in a lot of movies. I want the guy to have a real intelligence and a real point of view, that you may fundamentally disagree with.” But he has a real point of view, you know? I mean, when I read the script, I thought, “This is a very interesting social -- there’s a sort of spiritual and social message here.” You know, it’s about imperialism--

30 NINJAS: Oh, sure.

AASIF: It’s about colonialism. It’s about aggression. I mean, the thing is that the Fire Nation, as it is seen in this movie, really represents a sort of a hybrid of the Japanese Empire, the British Empire, the Nazis, the American Empire, this kind of imperial aggressive force in the world. And not to touch too much on the race stuff, but what I will say about it is if you just look at it as brown people versus white people, you are reducing it a little bit. It is a little bit more complicated than that. Because when you look at the Fire Nation as created in this film, it is kind of a hybrid of a lot of different influences, Eastern, Western, European[...]

Be sure to head over to 30Ninjas.com to read the full interview, but use caution - Aasif is quite funny and vulgar. And stick tuned for part two.

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3 New HQ Images from The Last Airbender

Posted to Movie News on June 01, 2010 9:06 AM by NightBender

Thanks to our friends over at JacksonRathboneSource, we have 3 new ultra-high-quality images from The Last Airbender. Each photo features Jackson Rathbone as Sokka, but they also include characters like Katara, Aang and Princess Yue. Check em out:



Click on the images above to view in HQ.

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New Japanese Trailer for Airbender is Made of Win

Posted to Movie News on May 30, 2010 10:28 PM by NightBender

The title pretty much says it all. This is the final Japanese trailer for The Last Airbender. It's the longest of any of the trailers so far, and it's also the most epic. I'm not going to waste any more of your time telling you how cool I think it is, so just watch it for yourself:


See The Last Airbender playing in Real-D, Digital 3D, and 2D theaters starting July 2!