Night makes right, theaters say

Sometimes, the choice of “Director of the Year” is partially meritorious – as in the Oscars.

Sometimes, it’s nakedly political – as in ShoWest‘s choice of M. Night Shyamalan today.

I mean, we like Night as much as the next guy – we even used the catch-phrase “I see dead people!” to comedic effect for a week or two back in August of ’99 (back when we still used catch-phrases).

But come on: Shyamalan didn’t even have a film in theaters in 2005, and he’s being honored by a movie theater organization?

This is exactly what it looks like: Night goes

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