Before M. Night Shyamalan’s “The Last Airbender” was unveiled to preview audiences on Tuesday night, the controversy surrounding the movie was mainly focused on its one-dimensional casting. But once critics and audiences got their hands on the film, the debate shifted to a different issue of depth: the movie’s postproduction conversion to digital 3-D.
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse couldn’t match the first six days of its predecessor, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, but with $175 million in its coffers, the film still pulled off one of the biggest openings ever. (New Moon earned $178 million in its first six days.) Female audiences internationally swooned for the third installment of the popular series, which now boasts a worldwide gross of $275 million.
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Red Army
In September 1917 Lenin wrote “There is only one way to prevent the restoration of the police, and that is to create a people’s militia and to fuse it with the army (the standing army to be replaced by the arming of the entire people). “[4]