UNITED KINGDOM: A pregnant Bryce Dallas Howard attends European premiere of "Lady in the Water"
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UNITED KINGDOM: A pregnant Bryce Dallas Howard attends European premiere of "Lady in the Water"
- Title: UNITED KINGDOM: A pregnant Bryce Dallas Howard attends European premiere of "Lady in the Water"
- Date: 10th August 2006
- Summary: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (AUGUST 8, 2006) FANS WAITING/PAN TO CINEMA BLUE CARPET BEING ROLLED OUT WIDE OF FANS FANS LOOKING TO TAKE PHOTO BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD WALKING ON BLUE CARPET PAUL GIAMATTI SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS (SOUNDBITE) (English) PAUL GIAMATTI, SAYING: "Nice very nice. I've never been to a premiere in the city (London), it's very nice." BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS (SOUNDBITE) (English) BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD, ABOUT WHETHER SHE HAD A FAVOURITE BEDTIME STORY AS A CHILD, SAYING: "I don't have any favourites. My parents made up some pretty fantastic stories, nothing like this to be honest, but there were many memorable nights. QUESTION: AND YOU ARE PREGNANT, DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS: "Oh I'm so superstitious, I'm trying not to talk about it at all honestly." PAN UP HER PREGNANT TUMMY VARIOUS OF M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS SHYAMALAN WALKING OVER TO SIGN BOOK CUTAWAY OF HIS WIFE BHAVNA (SOUNDBITE) (English) M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN, SAYING ABOUT HIS TWO DAUGHTERS WHO WATCHED THE FILM: "They've seen it four times, they saw the soundcheck that was the first time they saw it and they were totally in awe of the movie, they could not believe it, it's meant for families to see it and it's meant to be the most emotional movie that a little kid has seen, and it's scary also so they're probably going through the most emotion in their lives in a movie for their families' sake and they were just taken on a ride and they loved it and they went and saw it two more times at the premiere in the US and then at a family screening and then they went and saw it in a movie theatre and the crowd was there and it was good because the crowd made a standing ovation." LUCKY FOR YOU THEY DIDN'T CHANGE THEIR MINDS! "Yeah I know, they want to see it again, they were dying to come today but we will show it to them again." CUTAWAY SHYAMALAN TALKING TO PRESS (SOUNDBITE) (English) M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN, SAYING ABOUT POOR U.S. BOX OFFICE PERFORMANCE: "The great thing is I'm the only one who really knows what I'm gonna do next, I'm writing another one now and no one really knows what it is and it could be about midget bowlers they really don't know but it's exiting because I find it exciting to unveil it to the studios and go here it is here is my next idea and then you spend the next two years making a huge movie and getting everybody excited about it." CUTAWAY SHYAMALAN TALKING TO PRESS (SOUNDBITE) (English) M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN, SAYING ABOUT MAYBE MAKING A MOVIE IN INDIA, "Definitely, in fact I had a whole opening scene of 'Signs' that was originally gonna be in India with a family waking up and finding a crop circle there and then we go to Mel Gibson's family in Pennsylvania but I never ...I thought ah I gotto go on a plane etc so we just went to Mel's family." BUT IT COULD BE ON THE CARDS? "Yeah definitely, one day I definitely wanna do something like that." CUTAWAY SHYAMALAN TALKING TO PRESS BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS
- Embargoed: 25th August 2006 13:00
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- Location: United Kingdom
- Country: United Kingdom
- Reuters ID: LVAANHN7AQZSRJZ7Q30RDZHD8K52
- Story Text: Writer-director M. Night Shyamalan's latest venture into the paranormal, 'Lady in the Water,' has had its European premiere in London on Tuesday (August 8).
A pregnant Bryce Dallas Howard walked the blue carpet but when asked about the baby she said she was too superstitious to talk about it:
"Oh I'm so superstitious , I'm trying not to talk about it at all honestly."
Fellow actor Paul Giamatti was also there and Shyamalan, attended with his wife, Bhavna.
'Lady In The Water' tries to locate extraordinary events within the ordinary and everyday. The setting is an apartment complex, Cove Apartments, surrounding a swimming pool in suburban Philadelphia. Living, breathing creatures from a child's bedtime story lurk within its confines.
The plot revolves around Story (played by Bryce Dallas Howard), who is a 'narf,' a creature from the water, and her vicious adversary, a "scrunt," which when it finally becomes visible is a cross between a hyena and wild boar with matted, spiky fur and a really bad temper. The bedtime tale insists that several humans in the area where the narf appears have powers, unknown to themselves, that will enable them to protect and guide her to her destination.
The thread of the film emerged from a bed time story that Shyamalan used to tell his two daughters. He told Reuters Television that they saw the movie no less than four times and gave it their thumbs up.
"They've seen it four times, they saw the soundcheck that was the first time they saw it and they were totally in awe of the movie, they could not believe it, it's meant for families to see it and it's meant to be the most emotional movie that a little kid has seen, and it's scary also so they're probably going through the most emotion in their lives in a movie for their families' sake and they were just taken on a ride and they loved it and they went and saw it two more times at the premiere in the US and then at a family screening and then they went and saw it in a movie theatre and the crowd was there and it was good because the crowd made a standing ovation."
Unlike Shyamalan's daughters, U.S. audiences were not too impressed with his latest offering and box office numbers were poor. Asked whether that could mean that his next project may be more controlled by the studios and whether that would be on his mind, Shyamalan said:
"The great thing is I'm the only one who really knows what I'm gonna do next , I'm writing another one now and no one really knows what it is and it could be about midget bowlers they really don't know but it's exiting because I find it exciting to unveil it to the studios and go here it is here is my next idea and then you spend the next two years making a huge movie and getting everybody excited about it."
Shyamalan's films, taking place in twilight zones far afield from all other Hollywood science-fiction, fantasy and horror, have earned 2 billion U.S. dollars in box office and video sales. Whether Europe will be his "Lady in the Water"s saving grace remains to be seen.
In the Meantime, the Indian-born director is not excluding shooting one of his next ventures in his native India.
"Definitely, in fact I had a whole opening scene of 'Signs' that was originally gonna be in India with a family waking up and finding a crop circle there and then we go to Mel Gibson's family in Pennsylvania but I never ...I thought ah I gotto go on a plane etc so we just went to Mel's family."
"Yeah definitely, one day I definitely wanna do something like that."
Lady in the Water opens in the UK on August 11. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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