Shyamalan's 'Happening' Lacks a Sense of Direction

He still sees dead people, only now they're the best thing in the movie.

M. Night Shyamalan gets great spurts of energy when he visualizes the dead, in this case victims of a plague of suicide sweeping the Northeast in his new film, "The Happening."

A perfectly pleasant if somewhat distracted young woman plunges a knitting needle into her neck.

Someone carefully places himself in front of a large power mower. (Ugh!)

Scores of construction workers leap eerily to their deaths (a shocking image made more powerful by Shyamalan's insistence on stuntmen rather than dummies so the bodies show spontaneity and plasticity on the way down).

And finally: An old lady smashes her head through a window to cut her own throat.More>>

10 Truths About Tom Cruise

After two years of battling bad PR, courtesy of his own couch-jumping and weirdly devout ways, Tom Cruise's image rehab is officially underway.

Monday's second hour of Oprah's Tom Cruise fest was, well, enh. Unlike Friday's visit to the Colorado Cruise compound (Tom Shales reviewed part one in yesterday's paper) -- complete with a peek inside Tom's inner sanctum and a visit from Suri -- yesterday's in-studio visit had all the charm of an infomercial: enthusiastic sales pitches, marketing posters and an audience of rabid believers.

Still, it isn't every day we get to study the elusive Mr. Cruise for the better part of an hour and, never one to squander a chance to flop in front of a TV for 60 whole minutes, I watched. And, because this is how I work people, I took notes -- resulting in the following list of Tom Cruise Truths, a sort of recitation of realizations about the actor who [brainwashing begin] has been entertaining us for 25 whole years! Please buy the box set![brainswashing end]: More>>

Hollywood stars in movie deal with billionaire Anil Ambani

HOLLYWOOD'S biggest stars have struck a deal with the world's sixth richest man to make movies.

Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Nicolas Cage, above, along with Tom Hanks and Jim Carey will produce10 films with Indian billionaire Anil Ambani.

Film-makers Chris Columbus and Jay Roach have also signed up with Ambani's Reliance Big Entertainment.

Ambani earned £12.2billion last year and is worth £21.5billion.

Arnold Schwarzenegger will not appear in "Terminator 4"

Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins

Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins is the upcoming 2009 fourth installment to the Terminator film series, written by David Campbell Wilson, John Brancato, and Michael Ferris, directed by McG, and starring Christian Bale as John Connor. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, and Claire Danes will not be returning. Shooting of the film is expected to start on April 21, 2008 in Budapest. read more