Lady In The Water

The newest film of M. Night Shyamalan is going to be released this week on Friday, July 21st.

The name of the film is 'Lady in the Water' based on a bed-time story that Shyamalan wrote for his children. The story centers on a apartment building superintendent (played by Paul Giamatti) who saves what he thinks is an ordinary woman from the building's pool. He soon discovers that this "woman" is a character from a children's book, and he begins working with the building's residents to help her return to her world by fighting off those intent on keeping her out of the storybook. Bryce Dallas Howard, the beautiful daughter of celebrated Director Ron Howard is starring as the 'woman', the central character of the story. In fact, Bryce made her debut in Shyamalan's last film 'The Village'.

On August 31st, 2005 Shyamalan started the shooting of this movie. Some of this film was shot in Levittown, Pennsylvania at a Jacobson logistics warehouse site. (Shyamalan has committed to using films sites in PA. Pittsburgh is the place where he grew up). This movie was originally set up at Disney, but Shyamalan departed from the studio over "creative differences", and brought it to Warner Brothers (read our past posting). Disney has produced Shyamalan's previous four films, and the studio's subsidiary Miramax Films also produced 'Wide Awake' (1998) which Shyamalan wrote and directed.

The movie is rated PG-13 for some frightening sequences. Here is the official site: ladyinthewatermovie.com