Solar Flare: Science Fiction News

Sci-Fi Wire is reporting that The Village by M. Night Shyamalan has dropped to second place and suffered a considerable drop in its box-office takings. They also note that its a good $30 million below where Sings was at this point two years ago.

While its clear that the film is not doing as well as Shyamalan’s previous film, the negativity in the reporting is a bit unbalanced. The Manchurian Candidate for example has already fallen to fourth place and has pulled in less than half of The Village’s takings. Stangely reading Sci-Fi Wire’s report you’d think it was doing quite well.

Its interesting to watch how certain projects just seem to build up a negative stigma which colors everything reported about them.