M. Night was honored at ShoWest as Director of the Year for 2005 which is interesting since he didn't have a movie out last year. The ShoWest honor might have something to do about his vocal disapproval on early release dates on DVD's.

M. Night along with theater owners worldwide have not been very happy with the practice of most studios to release most movies on DVD within a couple of months after it's big screen debut cutting down on potential income to theater chains.

For the movie studios its damned if you do, damned if you don't. With movie piracy at an all time high and most movie titles available illegally online within hours of opening day, studios are scrambling to save their bottomline.

Pro's of releasing a movie on DVD quickly after it's big screen debut is that the studios save millions of dollars of P and A (prints and advertising). You can literally piggy back a domestic DVD campaign while the movie is just finishing it's worldwide theatrical release. You don't have to spend as much money to bring awareness back to public specially if they just spent millions and millions of dollars on its theatrical run, plus they get profits back quicker. Well enough of internal movie industry politics and what nots, back to ShoWest.

M. Night spent a few minutes with the IESB discussing his latest opus, Lady in the Water and also revealed that he is already planning his next twisted tale. Did you know that he makes fun of old people? Okay, okay he really doesn't makes fun of old people as much as he and his kids have fun at the expense of others including old people. He also mentions how much he actually got accomplished when he was hired to write Indiana Jones 4, seven notes. You got to watch our quick video interview to understand what we are talking about, pretty funny.

Click on links below for our video interview with M. Night

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Synopsis: From writer-director M. Night Shyamalan ("The Village," "Signs," "Unbreakable," "The Sixth Sense") comes "Lady in the Water," a story originally conceived by Shyamalan for his children.

Fate won't let you hide forever.

Cleveland Heep (Paul Giamatti) has been quietly trying to disappear among the burned-out lightbulbs and broken appliances of the Cove apartment complex. But on the night that irrevocably changes his life, Cleveland finds someone else hiding in the mundane routine of the modest building - a mysterious young woman named Story (Bryce Dallas Howard), who has been living in the passageways beneath the building's swimming pool. Cleveland discovers that Story is actually a "narf" - a nymph-like character from an epic bedtime story who is being stalked by vicious creatures determined to prevent her from making the treacherous journey from our world back to hers. Story's unique powers of perception reveal the fates of Cleveland's fellow tenants, whose destinies are tied directly to her own, and they must work together to decipher a series of codes that will unlock the pathway to her freedom. But the window of opportunity for Story to return home is closing rapidly, and the tenants are putting their own lives at great risk to help her. Cleveland will have to face the demons that have followed him to the Cove - and the other tenants must seize the special powers that Story has brought out in them - if they hope to succeed in their daring and dangerous quest to save her world...and ours.

Stay tuned to the IESB for further updates!