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| name = The Happening
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| image = Thehappening1 large.jpg
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| caption = Danish Theatrical release poster
| director = [[M. Night Shyamalan]]
| producer = [[Barry Mendel]]<br>[[Sam Mercer]]<br>M. Night Shyamalan
| writer = M. Night Shyamalan
| narrator =
| starring = [[Mark Wahlberg]]<br>[[Zooey Deschanel]]<br>[[John Leguizamo]]
| music = [[James Newton Howard]]
| cinematography = [[Tak Fujimoto]]
| editing = [[Conrad Buff]]
| distributor = {{flagicon|USA}} [[20th Century Fox]] <br/> (except India and Netherlands) <br/> {{flagicon|India}} [[UTV Software Communications]] <br/> {{flagicon|Netherlands}} [[Warner Bros.]]
| released = '''[[June 11]] [[2008]]:'''<br/>[[Belgium]], [[France]]<br/>'''[[June 13]] [[2008]]:'''<br/>[[United States]], [[United Kingdom]], [[India]], [[Brazil]]
| runtime = 90 min.
| country = [[United States]]
| language = English
| budget = [[United States dollar|US $]]60 million
| gross = '''Domestic'''</br>$64,505,912</br>'''Foreign'''</br>$98,834,810</br>'''Worldwide'''</br> $163,340,722
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| imdb_id = 0949731
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'''''The Happening''''' is a [[2008 in film|2008]] [[United States|American]] [[Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction|apocalyptic]] film written, co-produced and directed by [[M. Night Shyamalan]]. It stars [[Mark Wahlberg]] and [[Zooey Deschanel]]. Production began in [[August 2007]] in [[Philadelphia]].


==Plot==
The following is a list of playable characters from the fighting game, [[Tekken (Series)|Tekken]].
At the very beginning of the movie, we see a clear sky turn into a dark and overcast sky.


In the [[Northeastern United States]], people inexplicably begin committing suicide en masse. First they become disoriented, then stop moving, and finally find the quickest way to kill themselves. The [[pandemic]] begins in parks, and quickly spreads to nearby population centers. Initially believed to be a [[Bioterrorism|bioterrorist]] attack, it later seems less likely, as the events increase in ever smaller population centers.
The characters are listed in order of the games they debuted in.


Elliot Moore ([[Mark Wahlberg]]) is a [[high school]] science teacher in [[Philadelphia]] discussing with his students the [[Colony Collapse Disorder|sudden disappearance of the honey bee]]. When news of the sudden mass [[suicide]]s spreads, school is cancelled, and he decides to leave the city by train with his wife, Alma Moore ([[Zooey Deschanel]]), his friend and fellow teacher, Julian ([[John Leguizamo]]) and Julian's eight-year-old daughter, Jess ([[Ashlyn Sanchez]]). The train services stop in the small town of [[Filbert]] in western [[Pennsylvania]], after the crew loses contact with "everyone." Julian finds out that the "attacks" have affected [[Princeton, New Jersey]], where his wife was located, and leaves Jess with Elliot while he [[hitchhiking|hitches]] a ride in an attempt to find her. Soon after arriving in Princeton, he and his fellow passengers fall victim to the strange calamity, and promptly commit suicide by crashing their vehicle into a tree.
==Concept and Creation==
==[[Tekken (video game)|Tekken]]==
===Dr. Boskonovitch===
Dr. Boskonovitch originally worked for the Mishima Zaibatsu. During the [[Tekken (video game)|first King of Iron Fist Tournament]], the Manji ninja clan, lead by [[Yoshimitsu (Tekken)|Yoshimitsu]], raid the Mishima Zaibatsu's vault. During the raid, Yoshimitsu lost his arm but was found by Boskonovitch who helped him escape. He was kidnapped by [[Kazuya Mishima]] in the run-up to the [[Tekken 2|King of Iron Fist Tournament 2]] and was forced to work for him. Some of the many projects involved the creation of the bio-weapons [[Roger (Tekken)|Roger]] and [[Roger (Tekken)#Alex|Alex]] and the completion of the [[Prototype Jack]] unit. The doctor's daughter also passed away( But it seems though she is in Tekken 6 Bloodline Rebellion). and he began the "Cold Sleep" project as a means of preserve her body, using [[Nina Williams|Nina]] and [[Anna Williams]] as test subjects. After completing his tasks, and before being executed, Dr. Boskonovitch was rescued by Yoshimitsu.


Meanwhile, Elliot, Alma, and Jess manage to [[hitchhike]] with a [[botanist]] and his wife; the man explains his theory that plants are attacking people as a [[Plant defense against herbivory#Chemical defenses|defense mechanism]]. He elaborates on the complex mechanisms that often seem to appear spontaneously, involving strategies such as attracting predators to kill off specific threats and fostering communication between different species of plants. As they drive, they find themselves surrounded on all sides by affected towns. A number of other cars arrive in the same crossroads, all fleeing places hit by the suicide pandemic. A [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] Soldier, [[Private_First_Class#United_States|Private First Class]] Auster, suggests moving away from the population centers on foot to avoid being affected, as the effect has been occurring in smaller and smaller populations.
Nearly twenty years later, he contracted a rare disease that affects the spine. In order to cure himself and to revive his daughter, he needed the blood of the fighting god, [[Ogre (Tekken)|Ogre]]. He turned to an old friend: [[Yoshimitsu (Tekken)|Yoshimitsu]] for help. Yoshimtsu entered the [[Tekken 3|King of Iron Fist Tournament 3]] and was successful in retrieving a sample of Ogre's blood after it had been killed by [[Jin Kazama]].


The group of survivors splits into two, with Elliot, Alma, and Jess in a smaller group. Auster's group, arguing amongst themselves are caught within the effect, and Elliot, hearing the other group kill themselves one after another with a single pistol, concludes that it is likely caused by an airborne [[neurotoxin]] exuded by the surrounding plants. The larger the group of people, the more likely it is to trigger the defense mechanism. Elliot makes the group split into three smaller ones with Elliot, Alma, Jess, and two teenage boys staying together.
During the [[Tekken 4|King of Iron Fist Tournament 4]], Yoshimitsu found an injured [[Bryan Fury]]. He brought him to the doctor to save him. Boskonovitch explained to Bryan that he would mechanize him and allow him to be completely reborn in a new incarnation. Bryan lays [[Supine position|supine]] in the chair and Boskonovitch held a gun-shaped device containing [[sleeping gas]]. Bidding him sweet dreams, he injected the gas into Bryan. Throughout, he spoke in a very gentle, paternal tone and was very calm. However, the doctor found Bryan's body too complex, and he instead installed a perpetual generator. Bryan proceeded to attack the doctor, as well as Manji Clan members who were with him. When Yoshimitsu arrived to visit Dr. Boskonovitch, he found the lab in ruins, Boskonovitch injured, and his comrades dead. Seeing this, he vowed vengeance on Bryan, and entered [[Tekken 5|The King of Iron Fist Tournament 5]].


While looking for food for Jess, Elliot's group come across a boarded up house with survivors inside, still believing the pandemic to be a terrorist attack. They are unwilling to open the doors, and when the two teenage boys begin to aggressively force an entry, they are shot dead and Elliot's group is forced to leave. They make their way to the house of a woman living in complete isolation; thus, she is ignorant of the pandemic. Though she allows them to stay, she proves to be a harsh and paranoid host. In the morning, Elliot finds himself alone; going downstairs, he hears the voices of Alma and Jess but cannot find them. He inadvertently enters the old woman's room and she angrily insists that they leave immediately.
===Ganryu===
Ganryu was banned from the [[sumo]] ring after he was caught fixing fights in his favor. Blackballed from the only sport that he was capable of fighting in, Ganryu ended up being employed by [[Heihachi Mishima]] in ''[[Tekken (video game)|Tekken]].'' He fights [[Yoshimitsu (Namco)|Yoshimitsu]] who defeats him and steals his ill-gotten money. Later, he works for [[Kazuya Mishima]] in ''[[Tekken 2]].'' Entering the second ''King of Iron Fist Tournament'', Ganryu ended up falling in love with [[Michelle Chang]] - a love that Michelle was oblivious to, believing Ganryu to be a disgusting, woman-crazed madman. After Michelle defeated him, and the disappearance of Kazuya, Ganryu returned to [[Japan]].


The woman storms out of the house into the garden, where she becomes affected, and kills herself by smashing her head through the windows of the house, exposing Elliot to the neurotoxin. Realizing that the defense mechanism has become even more sensitive, affecting individuals, Elliot shuts himself inside the house. Elliot finds himself in a room where he can hear Alma and Jess. He finds a [[speaking tube]], which leads to a [[spring house]] some distance from the house. Conversing with his wife, he decides that if he is to die, he would prefer to spend his remaining time with her. They leave the safety of their buildings, meeting in the yard between the two, but are surprised to find themselves unaffected by the neurotoxin. The effect seems to have abated as quickly as it began.
However, his ban from Sumo was lifted, and he became the youngest ever [[Rikishi]]. Among the dialogue in ''[[Tekken 5]]'', it is stated that Ganryu has never won a championship. After the events of [[Tekken 2]], Ganryu opened a sumo stable and worked as a trainer to other sumo wrestlers. He did this to finally forget about Michelle. One day, while watching a televised showing of the King of Iron Fist Tournament 4, he spotted [[Julia Chang]] as one of the competitors. Remarking how much she looked like his old crush, Michelle, Ganryu decided to enter the fifth tournament, convinced that he would win Julia's heart if he recovered her lost Forest Rejuvenation Data.


Three months later, Elliot and Alma have adjusted to a new life with Jess as their adopted daughter. On television, an environmentalist warns that the pandemic may only have been a warning, like a rash that precedes an infection. Elliot takes Jess to the bus stop for the first day of school while Alma stays at home, timing a home pregnancy test; it is positive. When he returns, Alma greets him with a smile, and they embrace.
During the King of Iron Fist Tournament 5, Ganryu loses his way and gets lost. By accident, he enters the lab of the Mishima Zaibatsu and finds the Forest Rejuvenation data—the very data that Julia Chang was searching for. With it in hand, he hopes to finally be able to propose to Julia and make her his wife. However, during their meeting, Julia received the disc and left before Ganryu got the chance to propose. Putting the episode behind him, Ganryu moves to Hawaii and opens a restaurant, Chanko Paradise. However, the management is poor and the restaurant is not getting anywhere. Knowing that another The King of Iron Fist Tournament is being held, Ganryu decides to enter in hopes of advertising his restaurant.


In [[France]], the effect appears to happen once again as everyone in sight suddenly stops moving as the wind suddenly moves the trees, and the sky turns dark and cloudy.
===Kunimitsu===
Kunimitsu is known as "The Cat Devil". She was a former member of the Manji posse of [[ninja]] [[Robbery|bandits]] led by Yoshimitsu. She lost her [[Japanese people|Japanese]] identity when she joined the group to maintain her anonymity. Upon joining, she was taught the skills of the stealth knife and Manji-style [[jujutsu]]. She stayed with the group for a few months, until a series of petty thefts from the band's funds led to her dismissal. At a loose end, she decided to train as a mechanic mending [[air conditioner]]s. She entered the first King of Iron Fist Tournament intending to steal a [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] treasure from a young brave [[Michelle Chang]]. Kunimitsu, fearing the wrath of the vengeful Michelle, went into hiding.


==Cast==
Feeling humiliated, Kunimitsu sought solace with her grandfather. He was a swordsmith with a reputation. He informed Kunimitsu that the sword used by Yoshimitsu is a relic of unimaginable value. She learned that it was handed down through the Manji band and it had the power to sever an enemy both spiritually and mentally. The sword exchanges hands when a new leader is elected. The old leader is ritually sacrificed and the sword's power is transferred to its new owner. Kunimitsu's grandfather has spent his entire existence trying to forge a copy of the sword. Kunimitsu had to enter the second tournament to face and defeat Yoshimitsu and claim the sword so that her grandfather could make a copy before his death.
*'''[[Mark Wahlberg]]''' as '''Elliot Moore''', a high school science teacher from Philadelphia, who is married to Alma.
*'''[[Zooey Deschanel]]''' as '''Alma Moore''', Elliot's estranged wife.
*'''[[John Leguizamo]]''' as '''Julian''', a high school math teacher and Elliot's friend.
*'''[[Ashlyn Sanchez]]''' as '''Jess''', Julian's daughter.
*'''[[Spencer Breslin]]''' as '''Josh''', a teenage boy who with his friend Jared temporarily travels with Elliot, Alma, and Jess.
*'''[[Betty Buckley]]''' as '''Mrs. Jones''', a woman who lives in an isolated home in rural Pennsylvania.
*'''[[Jeremy Strong]]''' as '''Private Auster''', a private in the US Army who fled from his station after finding all of the soldiers having killed themselves in the barbwire.
*'''[[M. Night Shyamalan]]''' is credited as "Joey", the man with whom Alma secretly meets, although [[unseen character|the character does not appear on-screen]]


==Production==
===Michelle Chang===
In [[January 2007]] Shyamalan submitted a [[spec script]] entitled ''The Green Effect'' to various studios, but none expressed enough interest to purchase the script. The director collected ideas and notes from meetings, returning home to Philadelphia to rewrite the script, and [[20th Century Fox]] greenlit the project.<ref>{{cite news | author=Michael Fleming | url=http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117958169.html?categoryid=13&cs=1 | title=Shyamalan re-working 'Green' | work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] | publisher=[[Reed Business Information]] date=2007-01-28 | accessdate=2007-03-22}}</ref> Now titled ''The Happening'', the film was produced by Shyamalan and [[Barry Mendel]] and was the director's first R-rated project.<ref name="lands">{{cite news | author=Michael Fleming | url=http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117960659.html?categoryid=13&cs=1 | title=Fox lands Shyamalan movie | work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] | publisher=[[Reed Business Information]] | date=2007-03-06 | accessdate=2007-03-22}}</ref> Shyamalan compared the film to ''[[The Birds (film)|The Birds]]'' (1963) and ''[[Invasion of the Body Snatchers]]'' (1956).<ref>{{cite news | title=Shyamalan to find form with new apocalyptic thriller | work=[[Turkish Daily News]] | publisher=Doğan Media Group | date=[[2007-03-20]] }}</ref>
Michelle is a half-Chinese half-Native American female from Arizona and the foster mother of [[Julia Chang]]. Her father was killed along with the rest of the tribe by [[Heihachi Mishima]]'s forces, who were searching for a treasure, a pendant that allegedly could control and subdue great powers and spirits. The pendant was coveted by Heihachi. When the [[Mishima Zaibatsu]] forces had left, Michelle's father gave Michelle the pendant before dying. Michelle entered the King of Iron Fist Tournament to seek vengeance on Heihachi for the murder of her father and tribe. Michelle also encountered [[Kunimitsu]], a treasure hunter that was seeking the pendant. Michelle defeated Kunimitsu and secured the amulet. Although she did not win the tournament, Michelle was still satisfied that another fighter ([[Kazuya Mishima]]) defeated Heihachi.


Later in March, Wahlberg, with whom Shyamalan had been negotiating at the same time as his deal with Fox, was cast into the lead role of the $57 million project. Shyamalan had previously cast Wahlberg's brother [[Donnie Wahlberg|Donnie]] in ''[[The Sixth Sense]]''. An India-based company, UTV, co-financed 50 percent of the film's budget and distribute the film in India, with Fox distributing in the rest of the territories. Production began in August in Philadelphia.<ref name="wahlberg">{{cite news | url=http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117962103.html?categoryid=13&cs=1 | author=Michael Fleming | title=Wahlberg to star in 'Happening' | work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] | publisher=[[Reed Business Information]] | date=2007-03-29 | accessdate=2007-03-29}}</ref> The release date for ''The Happening'' was on [[June 13]], [[2008]], intentionally set for [[Friday the 13th]] to suit the thriller.<ref name="wahlberg" />
In ''[[Tekken 2]]'', Michelle's mother had been kidnapped by [[Ganryu (Tekken)|Ganryu]], who was working for Kazuya. Kazuya wanted the amulet. She had entered the tournament to rescue her mother. Michelle meets Ganryu and battles him. After defeating Ganryu, she rescues her mother and returns home. However, unknown to her, Ganryu had fallen in love with her. Upon returning home, Michelle casts the amulet into the ocean so that it can no longer cause any trouble.


== Critical reaction ==
A couple of years later, Michelle discovers an abandoned baby girl nearby her village. She adopts the infant, names her [[Julia Chang|Julia]], and loves her as if she were her own daughter. When Julia grows into a teenager, Michelle teaches her Chang Kenpo and various Chinese martial arts. Later, Michelle is kidnapped by Heihachi Mishima for her amulet, which had the power to awaken [[Ogre (Tekken)|Ogre]] with its great power and spirits. Julia had entered the tournament to defeat Heihachi and save her mother. She appears in Julia's ending, being reunited with her adopted daughter.
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''The Happening'' has received mostly negative reviews from film critics.<ref name="meta"/> [[Rotten Tomatoes]] reported that 18% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based upon 163 reviews.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10007985-happening/ | title=The Happening Movie Reviews | work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] | publisher=IGN Entertainment, Inc | accessdate=2008-06-22 }}</ref> At [[Metacritic]], which assigns a [[normalization|normalized]] rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film has received generally negative reviews of 34/100, based on 38 reviews.<ref name="meta">{{cite web | url=http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/happening | title=Happening, The (2008): Reviews | work=[[Metacritic]] | publisher=CNET Networks, Inc | accessdate=2008-10-07 }}</ref>


Kirk Honeycutt of ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' said the film lacked "cinematic intrigue and nail-biting tension" and that "the central menace ... does not pan out as any kind of Friday night entertainment."<ref name=HR-review>Kirk Honeycutt, "[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film/reviews/article_display.jsp?JSESSIONID=2YnCLTzhP5DvnnDjzvQ5zN7fW9tCBlvSJZpHYl0B60T4pQvTdBTY!-314364425&&rid=11241 Film Review: The Happening]", ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'', June 10, 2008, Accessed Jun 13, 2008.</ref> ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' 's Justin Chang thought the story "... covers territory already over-tilled by countless disaster epics and zombie movies, offering little in the way of suspense, visceral kicks or narrative vitality to warrant the retread."<ref>{{cite web
==[[Tekken 2]]==
|url= http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117937379.html?categoryid=31&cs=1
===Baek Doo San===
|title= The Happening
He first appeared in [[Tekken 2]] as the [[boss (video games)|sub-boss]] of [[Marshall Law (Tekken)|Marshall Law]]. According to the storyline, Baek accidentally killed his father during a [[sparring]] session, which left him in doubt over his own skills. As a result of his father's death, Baek went on a rampage, destroying several dojos. One of the worst hit happened to be Marshall Law's. Baek then left a note there telling him that he will be in the second King of Iron Fist tournament. The two met there and had a match, in which Baek lost.
|author= Justin Chang
|publisher= Variety
|date= 2008-06-10
|accessdate= 2008-06-14}}</ref> Mick LaSelle at ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' felt the film was entertaining but not scary. He commented on Shyamalan's writing, saying "... instead of letting his idea breathe and develop and see where it might go, he jumps all over it and prematurely shapes it into a story."<ref>{{cite web
|url= http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/12/DDS5117GQK.DTL&type=movies
|title= Movie review: Urban flight in 'The Happening'
|author= Mick LaSelle
|publisher= San Francisco Chronicle
|date= 2008-06-13
|accessdate= 2008-06-14}}</ref> ''[[Time (magazine)|Time's]]'' Richard Corliss saw the film as "dispiriting indication that writer-director M. Night Shyamalan has lost the touch" <ref>{{cite web
|url= http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1813911,00.html
|title= Shyamalan's Lost Sense
|author= Richard Corliss
|publisher= Time
|date= 2008-06-12
|accessdate= 2008-06-14}}</ref> ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'''s Michael Phillips thought the film had workable premise, but found the characters "gasbags or forgetful".<ref>{{cite web
|url= http://chicago.metromix.com/movies/movie_review/movie-review-the-happening/454271/content
|title= Movie review: 'The Happening'
|author= Michael Phillips
|publisher= Chicago Tribune
|date= 2008-06-13
|accessdate= 2008-06-14}}</ref> Joe Morgenstern of ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' said the film was "woeful clunker of a paranoid thriller" and described it as "befuddling infelicities, insistent banalities, shambling pace and pervasive ineptitude". <ref> {{cite web
|url= http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121331008196869571.html
|title= Film Review
|author= Joe Morgenstern
|publisher= Wall Street Journal
|date= 2008-06-13
|accessdate= 2008-06-14}}</ref>


[[Roger Ebert]], of ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' awarding the movie 3 out of 4 stars, found it oddly touching and commented that "It is no doubt too thoughtful for the summer action season, but I appreciate the quietly realistic way Shyamalan finds to tell a story about the possible death of man."<ref>{{cite web
According to the [[Tekken 3]] storyline, Baek was presumed dead after encountering [[Ogre (Tekken)|Ogre]] the fictional Aztec God of Fighting. One of his closest students, [[Hwoarang]], entered The King of Iron Fist Tournament 3 to exact revenge for his master's death and to have a rematch with [[Jin Kazama]], the only fighter who had ever fought him to a draw.
|url= http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080612/REVIEWS/545929629
|title= The Happening
|author= Roger Ebert
|publisher= Chicago Sun Times
|date= 2008-06-12
|accessdate= 2008-06-14}}</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]'''s Manohla Dargis praised [[Mark Wahlberg]]'s lead performance and said " [the film] turns out to be a divertingly goofy thriller with an animistic bent, moments of shivery and twitchy suspense".<ref>{{cite web
|url= http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/movies/13happ.html?8dpc
|title= Something Lethal Lurks in the Rustling Trees
|author= Manohla Dargis
|publisher= New York Times
|date= 2008-06-13
|accessdate= 2008-06-14}}</ref> Philipa Hawker of ''[[The Age]]'' gave it 3.5 out of 5 stars, commenting on "the mood of the film: a tantalising, sometimes frustrating parable about the menaces that human beings might face from unexpected quarters" and highlighted "sinister recurring moments is the sound of the breeze and the sight of it ruffling the trees or blowing across the grass - an image of tension that calls to mind [[Michelangelo Antonioni|Antonioni]]'s ''[[Blowup]]''."<ref>[http://www.theage.com.au/news/film-reviews/the-happening/2008/06/12/1212863797111.html Philippa Hawker, The Age]</ref>


==Box office performance==
According to the [[Tekken 5]] storyline, Baek's encounter with [[Ogre (Tekken)|Ogre]] had left him in a coma, not dead as initially presumed. He woke up over a year later, after Hwoarang had already competed in The King of Iron Fist Tournament 3. Baek later began teaching [[taekwondo]] at military bases. Hwoarang was drafted into the [[South Korea]]n military, but he ran away to compete in The King of Iron Fist Tournament 4. When he was arrested by the South Korean Military Police, he was informed that Baek was alive. Two months later, Hwoarang completed his service, and Baek asked him to enter The King of Iron Fist Tournament 5. Baek also entered the tournament to test his student's skills.
On its opening day, ''The Happening'' grossed $13 million. Over the weekend, the total gross came in at $30,517,109 in 2,986 theaters in the United States and Canada, averaging to about $10,220 per venue, and ranking #3 at the box office, behind [[The Incredible Hulk (film)|The Incredible Hulk]] and [[Kung Fu Panda]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekend&id=happening.htm |title=The Happening (2008) - Weekend Box Office Results |accessdate=2008-06-16 |publisher=[[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref> Foreign box office gross for opening weekend was an estimated $32.1 million.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.comics2film.com/index.php?a=story&b=33859 |title='Happening' hammers 'Hulk overseas |accessdate=2008-06-16 |publisher=[[Comics2Film]]}}</ref> Total gross for that weekend was $62.7 million.
The total lifetime gross of the film as of [[17th September]] [[2008]] stands at $163.3 million.


==Foreign releases==
Baek entered The King of Iron Fist Tournament 5, along with his disciple, Hwoarang. However, Baek withdrew from the tournament when he found out that Hwoarang lost to Devil Jin, and he was seriously injured. Baek then rushed to the hospital to visit Hwoarang. Although Hwoarang's condition wasn't considered as something serious after his treatment, Hwoarang wouldn't wake up, and Baek started blaming himself for being an inadequate instructor. It took Hwoarang three days to regain consciousness. They discussed the details, and Hwoarang told Baek that he not only has to recover, but he has to strengthen himself even further. Baek sensed his strong will and his unprecedented modesty, and hence he decided to teach him everything he knows. Baek and Hwoarang returned to Korea, and endeavoured to practice intensely. Eventually, the announcement of The King of Iron Fist Tournament 6 came from the Mishima Zaibatsu, and Baek decides to enter the tournament one last time to widen his personal experience-collection.
In [[France]] and the [[French language|French]]-speaking part of [[Belgium]], it was released under the name ''Phénomènes'' ([[Phenomena]]) on [[June 11]], [[2008]] while in the province of Quebec in Canada, it is titled ''L'évènement'' (The Event). In Spain, the film is known as ''El Incidente'' (The Incident). In most Latin-American countries, it is known as ''El Fin de los Tiempos'' (The End of Times). In Italy, it is known as ''E venne il giorno'' (And Then Came The Day), in Hungary the title is ''Az esemény'' (The Event). In Bulgaria the title is ''Явлението'' (The Event). In Turkey it is ''Mistik Olay'' (The Mystic Event). In Russia the film got the title ''Явление'' (The Phenomenon). In Germany and Sweden the original title was kept.


===Bruce Irvin===
==Home Media==
The film was released on DVD and [[Blu-ray Disc]] on October 7th, 2008.
Bruce, who had lost both his parents and elder brother in his infancy, grew up living a life plagued by hunger and much violence. Disliking the cards fate had dealt him, Bruce yearned to live the good life, and his resolve made him a very strong fighter.


==References==
As he was a [[kickboxer]], Bruce went to [[Thailand]] to compete in a [[Muay Thai]] tournament, and his performance destroyed the former popular champion's hopes of ever returning. As a result, a Muay Thai gambling organization put out a contract on Bruce's life.
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While on board a returning flight home, the contract killer attempted to take Bruce's life, but an investigator of Hong Kong's International Police force, who was also on the flight, thwarted his efforts. A fight ensued and when it was over the plane went down. A unit from [[Kazuya Mishima|Kazuya]]'s facilities later rescued Bruce, who had been surviving off of human remains for several months.


In [[Tekken 5]] it was revealed that Bruce had been working for several special units, and he was currently working as a survival technical guidance instructor. He entered The King of Iron Fist Tournament 5 in order to test his skills once again.

After becoming reacquainted with Kazuya Mishima at the King of Iron Fist Tournament 5, Bruce Irvin decided to assist Kazuya with his scheme to takeover G Corporation, and after they had succeeded Kazuya managed to control the corporation from behind closed doors.

G Corporation waged war with the Mishima Financial Group (MFG), and Bruce, as Kazuya’s captain, led Kazuya’s private corps into battle, fighting the MFG the world over. Soon afterwards, G Corporation made preparations to annihilate the MFG by placing an enormous bounty on Jin, and as anticipated, the MFG began to show signs of movement; The opening of King of Iron Fist Tournament 6 was announced. Bruce Irvin has entered the tournament to capture Jin…

Bruce appears as a playable character in the non-canon [[Tekken Tag Tournament]]. He also makes an appearance in [[Tekken: The Motion Picture]] when fighting [[Jack (Tekken) #Jack-2|Jack-2]]. Bruce breaks his fist against Jack-2's steel alloy and Jack-2 knocks him into the water.

==[[Tekken 3]]==
==[[Tekken Tag Tournament]]==
===Unknown===
Unknown appears to be a tortured soul which has been enslaved by the "Forest Demon" (which takes the form of a wolf-like appearance and appears behind her in fights, controlling and mimicking her actions). Unknown also has a symbol tattooed on her upper right arm which resembles that of [[Jin Kazama]]'s, and can use different fighting styles, though her fighting style defaults to that of [[Jun Kazama]].

Unknown appears as a woman with short, black hair and glowing yellow eyes. Her default 'costume' appears to have her otherwise nude body mostly covered in black, shiny body paint or oil, as if she had been submerged in it to her chest. Her second, alternate costume shows her dressed in the burnt, ripped remains of a white dress, with bandages wrapped around her arms, shins and instep.

==[[Tekken 4]]==
===Combot===
Combot is a multi general purpose robot created by [[Lee Chaolan]] (under the guise of Violet) to enter in the ''King of Iron Fist Tournament'' 4. Combot is programmed to do a wide variety of things, from household chores to military action. This design was made to be the ultimate fighting machine and was programmed to learn every fighter's style as it progressed through the tournament. It was also used to increase the chance of Lee gaining the Mishima Zaibatsu if Heihachi were to be defeated by Combot. Unfortunately, the prototype was rushed due to time constraints and a few bugs were left in Combot's data. Because of this, whenever Combot is powered up, he can only utilize one opponent's fighting style at a time.

==[[Tekken 5]] and [[Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection]]==
===Feng Wei===
As a boy, Feng Wei was raised as a disciple by a [[Kenpo]] master who was so skilled he was known as '''Shinken''' 神拳(literally ''God Fist''). At 20 years of age, Feng was the best student his school had ever seen. When his master scolded him for fighting outside the [[dojo]], Feng killed him. Now Feng seeks the secrets of the God Fist [[scroll (parchment)|scroll]]s stolen by the Mishima family, and enters the King of Iron Fist Tournament 5 to do so. [[Asuka Kazama]] and [[Lei Wulong]] have connections with this ruthless, merciless [[Kenpo]] fighter. Feng severely beat Asuka's father and destroyed his dojo in his search for the scrolls. Lei is trying to capture Feng for his similar actions in China.

Feng Wei was successful in retrieving the treasured "God Fist" scroll from the Mishima Zaibatsu during The King of Iron Fist Tournament 5. The scroll merely stated, "Destroyer of all styles, the one true ultimate style, it transcends the power of The Dragon God, which exceeds all human ability." Dumbfounded, Feng Wei receives information about The King of Iron Fist Tournament 6, and, seeking more information, he once again looks towards Japan.

===Jinpachi Mishima===
Jinpachi Mishima is the father of Heihachi Mishima and the founder of the [[Mishima Zaibatsu]]. He was defeated during a hostile takeover by his son 50 years before the fifth King of Iron Fist Tournament. As Heihachi started to steer the company into the military industry (something Jinpachi had wished against) Jinpachi tried to retake the Zaibatsu, but failed, and was imprisoned below the Hon-Maru, one of Heihachi's compounds, where he died sometime later of starvation.

In [[Lei Wulong]]'s interlude, Jinpachi tells him that after he died, a certain "thing" (claimed to be the devil in Jinpachi's ending) took over his body, resurrecting him and endowing him with supernatural power.

Hon-Maru was left practically in ruins after the King of Iron Fist Tournament 4 when [[G Corporation]], a rival of the Mishima Zaibatsu, attacked with a unit of [[Jack (Tekken) #Jack-4|Jack-4]]s once Jin left after defeating both Kazuya and Heihachi. Kazuya stayed and fought alongside Heihachi for a short time, but then threw Heihachi into the group of Jack-4s to cover his own escape. One of them self-destructed, seemingly killing Heihachi. The resulting explosion released Jinpachi from the basement of Hon-Maru, and the demon that possesses his body seeks to destroy all existence. Jinpachi emerged from the rubble to seize control of the Mishima Zaibatsu.

After taking back the Zaibatsu, Jinpachi could feel the entity which controlled him slowly dominating his mind and will. He decided to host a [[Tekken 5|fifth King of Iron Fist Tournament]], hoping that one of the fighters that emerged would be able to defeat him and kill him. On a more personal level, Jinpachi wrote a letter to his old friend, [[Wang Jinrei]], asking him to enter the tournament and stop the cursed Mishima bloodline.

At the game's climax, Jinpachi's mind is taken over by the devil, and he is engaged in mortal combat with his great-grandson, [[Jin Kazama]], who ultimately defeats him and takes control of the Mishima Zaibatsu.

===Lili===
Lili is a [[Monaco]] native, and the only daughter of a wealthy and pacifistic oil magnate. She resides in a very luxurious suburban mansion with her father and her butler, Sebastian. At the age of twelve, Lili struggled violently to free herself from a group of kidnappers, and she unexpectedly took out one of her captors. At that moment, she first realized she took pleasure in defeating her opponents.

She only wants to please her father, but she knows that he despises fighting because he wants his daughter to be a prim and proper lady and not a thug. Troubled by her situation, she tells herself,'' “I don’t want Father to be upset with me…but I also want to fight.”'' Her desire to fight could not be controlled, and for this reason, she uses her family's private jet to travel abroad to take part in worldwide street fighting tournaments, which she enjoyed immensely. This was done under the guise of a vacation from her homeland.

One day, after defeating an opponent in San Francisco, she acquired an invitation to The King Of Iron Fist Tournament 5. Lili noticed that the sponsor of the tournament, the [[Mishima Zaibatsu]], had caused her father much trouble in the past. With the assumption of the Mishima Zaibatsu being a useful potential asset to her father, she was determined to take part in the tournament and win to put an end to her father's business troubles.

Lili participated in the King of Iron Fist Tournament 5 without telling her father. However, her chances of winning the tournament were completely destroyed at the hands of Asuka Kazama. What's worse, her father knew of her involvement in the tournament, and as punishment he forbade her from leaving the house until further notice, thwarting her chances of a rematch with Asuka.

Sometime later, the Mishima Financial Group seized the oil fields her father owned. Rochefort Enterprises fell into disarray, and Lili's father (who was forced to cope with the takeover) collapsed from overexertion. Lili, who was worried about her father's well being, believed that if she were able to reclaim her father's oil fields somehow from the Mishima Financial Group, she would without a doubt remove his anxiety. While she deeply thought how to best act, the Mishima Financial Group announced the opening of the King of the Iron Fist Tournament 6. Believing this was her big break, Lili entered the tournament for her father's sake.

===Raven===
An international intelligence agent considered highly skilled and iron-hearted, codename ''Raven''. Apart from a scar in the shape of an "X" on his face, his details, including age and nationality, are unknown. Raven entered the fifth tournament to find out who or what is behind the event. Raven makes his first appearance in the opening movie for Tekken 5, as he witnesses the attack on Hon-Maru by [[Jack (Tekken) #Jack-4|Jack-4s]] while on a mission to look into the [[Mishima Zaibatsu]] and [[G Corporation]], as well as the subsequent explosion. It seems that he is the first one to report of [[Heihachi Mishima]]'s supposed demise.

After The King of Iron Fist Tournament 5, Raven encounters Heihachi Mishima, who was presumed to be dead... They began to fight. Before a victor could be decided, Raven received orders to return to headquarters, and he had to withdraw from battle. After that encounter, the battle between both the Mishima Zaibatsu and G-Corporation intensified. In order to prevent any further losses, Raven is sent to investigate the Mishima Zaibatsu once again via The King Of Iron Fist Tournament 6.

Many have noted Raven's similarity to characters played by actor Wesley Snipes. His dyed hairstyle is similar to the character Simon Phoenix from Demolition Man and his black clothing, sunglasses, and personality are reminiscent of the title character of Blade. However, when Electronic Gaming Monthly asked if the similarities were intentional, Namco stated that they simply wanted a true ninjitsu practitioner and a "cool black guy" for a character and that the similarities were purely coincidental.

===Sergei Dragunov===
A member of [[SPETSNAZ]], Dragunov is considered the very symbol of fear on the battlefield whose overwhelming fighting prowess has earned him the title "The White Angel of Death". Involved in the investigation of an unknown body that fell to Earth in Siberia, Dragunov received special orders presumably regarding [[Devil Jin]], and entered the King of Iron Fist Tournament Five in order to carry them out. His precise motivations and the true nature of his orders are unknown. In an in-game cutscene before his sub-boss fight against [[Raven (Tekken)|Raven]], the agent says that he is "on to your (Dragunov's) organization."

Sergei Dragunov received an order from Russian Military headquarters to sneak into the King of Iron Fist Tournament 5 to capture an unconfirmed creature known as Devil. Sergei infiltrated the tournament, but did not find the Devil. Before long the activities of the Mishima Zaibatsu were causing unrest in Russia. While Dragunov staged numerous intense battles to quell the unrest throughout his motherland, he received an order from the Russian Military high command to infiltrate The King of Iron Fist Tournament 6 and smash the Mishima Zaibatsu single-handedly. Once again, Dragunov finds himself heading to Japan…

==[[Tekken 6]]==
====Leo====

Leo is the child of a world known male spelunker and a top female executive of the biotech firm, G Corporation.

Leo’s father disappeared during an exploration when she was a child, but even so, she strove to become just like him. Leo grew up to be an upright person, but her happy days came to an abrupt end when her mother was killed.

Saddened by the tragic event, she shut everyone out. Some time later, the police inconclusively ended the murder investigation without explanation. Leo continued the investigation. Not long after starting this mission, Leo discovered the existence of a person who is regarded as a hero of the G Corporation - a man by the name of [[Kazuya Mishima]]. Linking him to the murder, Leo sought revenge but found it impossible to get near Kazuya due to his newly-acquired status within the G Corporation.

However, Leo heard news of The King of Iron Fist Tournament 6 being held by the Mishima Financial Group. Finding out that Kazuya would be participating in it, she followed suit, thinking that it's the only chance for revenge.

====Zafina====

Zafina is a guardian to the tomb of a royal family at a village that has been around for centuries. The sealed grave is believed to protect the well being of the tribe. Many martial artists have tried to enter the tomb but Zafina has single handedly defeated everyone. One day the village elders prophesize that when two "evil stars" meet, the seal on the graves will be broken and the world will end. Following the ideals of astrology, Zafina leaves the village to see if the world is really going to end.

====Bob====

Bob is a fighter who hails from America as a martial arts legend. However, due to being unable to defeat larger opponents, Bob disappears from the fighting world and remains in hiding for a few years, with many wondering about his whereabouts.

With The King of Iron Fist Tournament 6 drawing near, Bob finally returns, and stuns everyone with his new figure, that of a dangerously [[obesity|obese]] man. Though Bob claims to have engineered his body to increase his weight and strength while maintaining his speed, few believe him, and most of his fans lose their faith and respect for him.

In order to test his new power and regain his popularity, Bob enters The King of Iron Fist Tournament 6.

====Miguel Caballero Rojo====
[[image:Miguel Tekken 6.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Miguel]]
Despite his negative side, Miguel is shown to be capable of love, especially in the case of his sister, whom he cares for more than anything in the entire world. His sister would visit him often behind their parents' back to make him happy, until one day when she informs him of her impending marriage. Miguel is baffled at the news and considers killing his future brother-in-law, but decides against it in order to avoid breaking his sister's heart.

On the wedding day, Miguel watches the ceremony with regret from outside the church, until it is unexpectedly attacked by a fleet of planes and blown to smithereens before Miguel's eyes. Miguel searches for his sister, only to find her blood-drenched corpse.

Miguel's investigations lead him to realize that the attack was ordered by the [[Mishima Zaibatsu]], and driven by anger, he enters the recently announced King of Iron Fist Tournament 6 to exact revenge on the Zaibatsu's CEO, [[Jin Kazama]].

====Azazel====
'''Azazel''' is making his debut in ''[[Tekken 6]]'' as the primary antagonist. He was most likely named after the famed demon in Hebrew Religions, [[Azazel]].

Little is known about Azazel's history, other than that he is the embodiment of the ultimate evil guarded in a tomb by [[Zafina]], set to be released after the clash of "two evil stars".

Azazel looks much like the Egyptian god [[Set (god)|Set]], with blue-gray skin, a large, spiked tail used for attacking, and huge spikes of ice/crystal growing out of his forearms. He also wears an Egyptian ceremonial headdress and loincloth.

Like many supernatural entities before him, Azazel appears to have the advantage of superpowered abilities over his opponents. These include a powerful stun attack (similar to [[Jinpachi Mishima]]), and eye lasers (similar to Devil Jin, Devil, and Angel). He also appears to have the ability to summon boulders from the ground and set them on his opponents. He can also summon scarabs made of ice to attack opponents and, when a part of his body gets destroyed after taking too much damage,he can heal himself.

==[[Death By Degrees]]==
==Character Reception==
==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.thehappeningmovie.com/ Official site]
==Sources==
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*{{rotten-tomatoes|id=10007985-happening|title=The Happening}}
*{{metacritic film|id=happening|title=The Happening}}
*{{mojo title|id=happening|title=The Happening}}
*{{amg movie|id=1:391120|title=The Happening}}
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20070808001852/http://www.latinoreview.com/scriptreview.php?id=49 Script Review of ''The Green Effect'', 01/07/07 draft] by LatinoReview.com


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The Happening
File:Thehappening1 large.jpg
Danish Theatrical release poster
Directed byM. Night Shyamalan
Written byM. Night Shyamalan
Produced byBarry Mendel
Sam Mercer
M. Night Shyamalan
StarringMark Wahlberg
Zooey Deschanel
John Leguizamo
CinematographyTak Fujimoto
Edited byConrad Buff
Music byJames Newton Howard
Distributed byUnited States 20th Century Fox
(except India and Netherlands)
India UTV Software Communications
Netherlands Warner Bros.
Release dates
June 11 2008:
Belgium, France
June 13 2008:
United States, United Kingdom, India, Brazil
Running time
90 min.
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
BudgetUS $60 million
Box officeDomestic
$64,505,912
Foreign
$98,834,810
Worldwide
$163,340,722

The Happening is a 2008 American apocalyptic film written, co-produced and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. It stars Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel. Production began in August 2007 in Philadelphia.

Plot

At the very beginning of the movie, we see a clear sky turn into a dark and overcast sky.

In the Northeastern United States, people inexplicably begin committing suicide en masse. First they become disoriented, then stop moving, and finally find the quickest way to kill themselves. The pandemic begins in parks, and quickly spreads to nearby population centers. Initially believed to be a bioterrorist attack, it later seems less likely, as the events increase in ever smaller population centers.

Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg) is a high school science teacher in Philadelphia discussing with his students the sudden disappearance of the honey bee. When news of the sudden mass suicides spreads, school is cancelled, and he decides to leave the city by train with his wife, Alma Moore (Zooey Deschanel), his friend and fellow teacher, Julian (John Leguizamo) and Julian's eight-year-old daughter, Jess (Ashlyn Sanchez). The train services stop in the small town of Filbert in western Pennsylvania, after the crew loses contact with "everyone." Julian finds out that the "attacks" have affected Princeton, New Jersey, where his wife was located, and leaves Jess with Elliot while he hitches a ride in an attempt to find her. Soon after arriving in Princeton, he and his fellow passengers fall victim to the strange calamity, and promptly commit suicide by crashing their vehicle into a tree.

Meanwhile, Elliot, Alma, and Jess manage to hitchhike with a botanist and his wife; the man explains his theory that plants are attacking people as a defense mechanism. He elaborates on the complex mechanisms that often seem to appear spontaneously, involving strategies such as attracting predators to kill off specific threats and fostering communication between different species of plants. As they drive, they find themselves surrounded on all sides by affected towns. A number of other cars arrive in the same crossroads, all fleeing places hit by the suicide pandemic. A U.S. Army Soldier, Private First Class Auster, suggests moving away from the population centers on foot to avoid being affected, as the effect has been occurring in smaller and smaller populations.

The group of survivors splits into two, with Elliot, Alma, and Jess in a smaller group. Auster's group, arguing amongst themselves are caught within the effect, and Elliot, hearing the other group kill themselves one after another with a single pistol, concludes that it is likely caused by an airborne neurotoxin exuded by the surrounding plants. The larger the group of people, the more likely it is to trigger the defense mechanism. Elliot makes the group split into three smaller ones with Elliot, Alma, Jess, and two teenage boys staying together.

While looking for food for Jess, Elliot's group come across a boarded up house with survivors inside, still believing the pandemic to be a terrorist attack. They are unwilling to open the doors, and when the two teenage boys begin to aggressively force an entry, they are shot dead and Elliot's group is forced to leave. They make their way to the house of a woman living in complete isolation; thus, she is ignorant of the pandemic. Though she allows them to stay, she proves to be a harsh and paranoid host. In the morning, Elliot finds himself alone; going downstairs, he hears the voices of Alma and Jess but cannot find them. He inadvertently enters the old woman's room and she angrily insists that they leave immediately.

The woman storms out of the house into the garden, where she becomes affected, and kills herself by smashing her head through the windows of the house, exposing Elliot to the neurotoxin. Realizing that the defense mechanism has become even more sensitive, affecting individuals, Elliot shuts himself inside the house. Elliot finds himself in a room where he can hear Alma and Jess. He finds a speaking tube, which leads to a spring house some distance from the house. Conversing with his wife, he decides that if he is to die, he would prefer to spend his remaining time with her. They leave the safety of their buildings, meeting in the yard between the two, but are surprised to find themselves unaffected by the neurotoxin. The effect seems to have abated as quickly as it began.

Three months later, Elliot and Alma have adjusted to a new life with Jess as their adopted daughter. On television, an environmentalist warns that the pandemic may only have been a warning, like a rash that precedes an infection. Elliot takes Jess to the bus stop for the first day of school while Alma stays at home, timing a home pregnancy test; it is positive. When he returns, Alma greets him with a smile, and they embrace.

In France, the effect appears to happen once again as everyone in sight suddenly stops moving as the wind suddenly moves the trees, and the sky turns dark and cloudy.

Cast

  • Mark Wahlberg as Elliot Moore, a high school science teacher from Philadelphia, who is married to Alma.
  • Zooey Deschanel as Alma Moore, Elliot's estranged wife.
  • John Leguizamo as Julian, a high school math teacher and Elliot's friend.
  • Ashlyn Sanchez as Jess, Julian's daughter.
  • Spencer Breslin as Josh, a teenage boy who with his friend Jared temporarily travels with Elliot, Alma, and Jess.
  • Betty Buckley as Mrs. Jones, a woman who lives in an isolated home in rural Pennsylvania.
  • Jeremy Strong as Private Auster, a private in the US Army who fled from his station after finding all of the soldiers having killed themselves in the barbwire.
  • M. Night Shyamalan is credited as "Joey", the man with whom Alma secretly meets, although the character does not appear on-screen

Production

In January 2007 Shyamalan submitted a spec script entitled The Green Effect to various studios, but none expressed enough interest to purchase the script. The director collected ideas and notes from meetings, returning home to Philadelphia to rewrite the script, and 20th Century Fox greenlit the project.[1] Now titled The Happening, the film was produced by Shyamalan and Barry Mendel and was the director's first R-rated project.[2] Shyamalan compared the film to The Birds (1963) and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956).[3]

Later in March, Wahlberg, with whom Shyamalan had been negotiating at the same time as his deal with Fox, was cast into the lead role of the $57 million project. Shyamalan had previously cast Wahlberg's brother Donnie in The Sixth Sense. An India-based company, UTV, co-financed 50 percent of the film's budget and distribute the film in India, with Fox distributing in the rest of the territories. Production began in August in Philadelphia.[4] The release date for The Happening was on June 13, 2008, intentionally set for Friday the 13th to suit the thriller.[4]

Critical reaction

The Happening has received mostly negative reviews from film critics.[5] Rotten Tomatoes reported that 18% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based upon 163 reviews.[6] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film has received generally negative reviews of 34/100, based on 38 reviews.[5]

Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter said the film lacked "cinematic intrigue and nail-biting tension" and that "the central menace ... does not pan out as any kind of Friday night entertainment."[7] Variety 's Justin Chang thought the story "... covers territory already over-tilled by countless disaster epics and zombie movies, offering little in the way of suspense, visceral kicks or narrative vitality to warrant the retread."[8] Mick LaSelle at San Francisco Chronicle felt the film was entertaining but not scary. He commented on Shyamalan's writing, saying "... instead of letting his idea breathe and develop and see where it might go, he jumps all over it and prematurely shapes it into a story."[9] Time's Richard Corliss saw the film as "dispiriting indication that writer-director M. Night Shyamalan has lost the touch" [10] Chicago Tribune's Michael Phillips thought the film had workable premise, but found the characters "gasbags or forgetful".[11] Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal said the film was "woeful clunker of a paranoid thriller" and described it as "befuddling infelicities, insistent banalities, shambling pace and pervasive ineptitude". [12]

Roger Ebert, of Chicago Sun-Times awarding the movie 3 out of 4 stars, found it oddly touching and commented that "It is no doubt too thoughtful for the summer action season, but I appreciate the quietly realistic way Shyamalan finds to tell a story about the possible death of man."[13] The New York Times's Manohla Dargis praised Mark Wahlberg's lead performance and said " [the film] turns out to be a divertingly goofy thriller with an animistic bent, moments of shivery and twitchy suspense".[14] Philipa Hawker of The Age gave it 3.5 out of 5 stars, commenting on "the mood of the film: a tantalising, sometimes frustrating parable about the menaces that human beings might face from unexpected quarters" and highlighted "sinister recurring moments is the sound of the breeze and the sight of it ruffling the trees or blowing across the grass - an image of tension that calls to mind Antonioni's Blowup."[15]

Box office performance

On its opening day, The Happening grossed $13 million. Over the weekend, the total gross came in at $30,517,109 in 2,986 theaters in the United States and Canada, averaging to about $10,220 per venue, and ranking #3 at the box office, behind The Incredible Hulk and Kung Fu Panda.[16] Foreign box office gross for opening weekend was an estimated $32.1 million.[17] Total gross for that weekend was $62.7 million. The total lifetime gross of the film as of 17th September 2008 stands at $163.3 million.

Foreign releases

In France and the French-speaking part of Belgium, it was released under the name Phénomènes (Phenomena) on June 11, 2008 while in the province of Quebec in Canada, it is titled L'évènement (The Event). In Spain, the film is known as El Incidente (The Incident). In most Latin-American countries, it is known as El Fin de los Tiempos (The End of Times). In Italy, it is known as E venne il giorno (And Then Came The Day), in Hungary the title is Az esemény (The Event). In Bulgaria the title is Явлението (The Event). In Turkey it is Mistik Olay (The Mystic Event). In Russia the film got the title Явление (The Phenomenon). In Germany and Sweden the original title was kept.

Home Media

The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on October 7th, 2008.

References

  1. ^ Michael Fleming. "Shyamalan re-working 'Green'". Variety. Reed Business Information date=2007-01-28. Retrieved 2007-03-22. {{cite news}}: Missing pipe in: |publisher= (help)
  2. ^ Michael Fleming (2007-03-06). "Fox lands Shyamalan movie". Variety. Reed Business Information. Retrieved 2007-03-22.
  3. ^ "Shyamalan to find form with new apocalyptic thriller". Turkish Daily News. Doğan Media Group. 2007-03-20. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ^ a b Michael Fleming (2007-03-29). "Wahlberg to star in 'Happening'". Variety. Reed Business Information. Retrieved 2007-03-29.
  5. ^ a b "Happening, The (2008): Reviews". Metacritic. CNET Networks, Inc. Retrieved 2008-10-07.
  6. ^ "The Happening Movie Reviews". Rotten Tomatoes. IGN Entertainment, Inc. Retrieved 2008-06-22.
  7. ^ Kirk Honeycutt, "Film Review: The Happening", The Hollywood Reporter, June 10, 2008, Accessed Jun 13, 2008.
  8. ^ Justin Chang (2008-06-10). "The Happening". Variety. Retrieved 2008-06-14.
  9. ^ Mick LaSelle (2008-06-13). "Movie review: Urban flight in 'The Happening'". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2008-06-14.
  10. ^ Richard Corliss (2008-06-12). "Shyamalan's Lost Sense". Time. Retrieved 2008-06-14.
  11. ^ Michael Phillips (2008-06-13). "Movie review: 'The Happening'". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2008-06-14.
  12. ^ Joe Morgenstern (2008-06-13). "Film Review". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2008-06-14.
  13. ^ Roger Ebert (2008-06-12). "The Happening". Chicago Sun Times. Retrieved 2008-06-14.
  14. ^ Manohla Dargis (2008-06-13). "Something Lethal Lurks in the Rustling Trees". New York Times. Retrieved 2008-06-14.
  15. ^ Philippa Hawker, The Age
  16. ^ "The Happening (2008) - Weekend Box Office Results". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2008-06-16.
  17. ^ "'Happening' hammers 'Hulk overseas". Comics2Film. Retrieved 2008-06-16.

External links

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