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M. Night ShyamalanFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

M. Night Shyamalan

M. Night Shyamalan at a press conference announcing The Happeningin

2008

Born Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan

August 6, 1970 (age 40)

Puduchery, India[1]

Occupation Film director, producer,screenwriterand actor

Religion Hindu, Thiyya

Spouse Bhavna Vaswani (1993-Present)

Website

http://www.mnightshyamalan.com

Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan (pronounced /mln/;[2]Malayalam: z Maj

Nelliyu iymaa, born 6 August 1970), known professionally as M. Night Shyamalan, is an Indian-

born American filmmakerand screenwriter, known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots that

climax with a twist ending. He is also known for filming his movies (and staging his plots) in and

around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was raised. Shyamalan released his first film, Praying with Anger,


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in 1992 while he was a New York Universitystudent. His second movie, the major feature film Wide Awake,

made in 1996 but not released until three years later, failed to find financial success.

Shyamalan gained international recognition when he wrote and directed 1999's The Sixth Sense, which was a

commercial success and nominated for six Academy Awards, including: Best Picture,Best Directorand Best

Original Screenplay. He followed The Sixth Sense by writing and directing Unbreakable, released in 2000,

which received positive reviews. His 2002 film Signs, where he also played Ray Reddy, gained both critical and

financial success. His next movie The Village (2004) was a critical failure whose box office plummeted after a

strong opening weekend, and Lady in the Water(2006) performed even worse. The film The Happening(2008)

did financially better than his previous effort but was also panned by critics. His film, The Last Airbender(2010)

has also received extremely negative reviews. His latest film, Devil(2010), which he produced and wrote the

story for, but did not direct, was released on September 17, 2010 and has received mixed reviews.

Contents

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1 Early life

2 Career

3 Personal life

4 Filmography

o 4.1 Praying with Anger

o 4.2 Wide Awake

o 4.3 The Sixth Sense

o 4.4 Unbreakable

o 4.5 Signs

o 4.6 The Village

o 4.7 Lady in the Water

o 4.8 The Happening

o 4.9 The Last Airbender

o 4.10 Devil

o 4.11 One Thousand A.E.

o 4.12 The Connected

o 4.13 Other projects

5 Television

o 5.1 Sci-Fi Channel


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6 Criticism and controversy

o 6.1 Shyamalan Twists

o 6.2 Plagiarism

7 References

8 External links

[edit]Early life

M. Night Shyamalan and Bryce Dallas Howard at the Spanish premiere ofThe Village (in the San Sebastin International

Film Festival, 2006).

Shyamalan was born in Puducherry, India.[1][3] His father, Nelliyattu C. Shyamalan, is an

Indian Malayaliphysician belonging to a famous "Thiyya" tharavad from Mahe, Kerala. His mother,

Jayalakshmi, is a Tamil Indian and an obstetrician and gynecologist by profession.[4] In the 1960s, after medical

school (at the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research inPuducherry) and the birth

of their first child, Veena, his parents moved to the United States. His mother returned to India to spend the last

five months of her pregnancy with him at her parents home in Chennai (Madras).

Shyamalan spent his first six weeks in Puducherry, and then was raised in Penn Valley, Pennsylvania, an

affluent suburb ofPhiladelphia. He attended the private Roman Catholic grammar schoolWaldron Mercy

Academy, though he was a Hindu (they chose it for disciplinary reasons), followed by the Episcopal Academy,

a private Episcopalhigh school located at the time in Merion, Pennsylvania. Shyamalan earned the New York

University Merit Scholarship in 1988.[5] Shyamalan went on to New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts,

in Manhattan, graduating in 1992.[citation needed] It was while studying there that he adopted Night as his second

name.[6]

Shyamalan had an early desire to be a filmmaker when he was given a Super-8 camera at a young age.

Though his father wanted him to follow in the family practice of medicine, his mother encouraged him to follow


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his passion.[7] By the time he was 17 the Steven Spielberg fan had made 45 home movies. Beginning with The

Sixth Sense, he has included a scene from one of these childhood films on each DVD release of his films,

which he feels represents his first attempt at the same kind of film (with the exception of Lady in the Water).

[edit]Career

Shyamalan made his first film, the semi-autobiographical dramaPraying with Anger, while still an NYU student,

using money borrowed from family and friends.[8] It was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival on

September 12, 1992,[9] and played commercially at one theater for one week. [9] When the film debuted at

the Toronto Film Festival, Shyamalan was introduced by David Overbey who predicted that the world would

see more of Shyamalan in the years to come. Praying with Angerhas also been shown on Canadian television.

Filmed in Chennai, it is his only film to be shot outside of Pennsylvania.

Shyamalan wrote and directed his second movie, Wide Awake, in 1995, though it was not released until

1998.[10] His parents were the film's associate producers. The drama dealt with a ten-year-old Catholic

schoolboy (Joseph Cross) who, after the death of his grandfather (Robert Loggia), searches for God. The film's

supporting cast included Dana Delany and Denis Leary as the boy's parents, as well as Julia Stiles,

and Camryn Manheim. Wide Awake was filmed in a school Shyamalan attended as a child[11] and earned

1999 Young Artist Award nominations for Best Drama, and, for Cross, Best Performance.[12] Only in limited

release, the film grossed $305,704 in theaters. [13]

That same year Shyamalan co-wrote the screenplay forStuart Little with Greg Brooker. In 2010, he

directed The Last Airbender, based on the Nickelodeon TV show Avatar: The Last Airbender.

In 2008, Shyamalan was awarded the Padma Shri by the government ofIndia.[14]

[edit]Personal life

In 1993, Shyamalan married psychologist Bhavna Vaswani, a fellow student whom he met at NYU [15] and with

whom he has two daughters. The family resides on a sprawling estate in Willistown, Pennsylvania, near

Shyamalan's usual shooting site of Philadelphia. His production company, Blinding Edge Pictures is located

in Berwyn, PA.[16]

[edit]Filmography

[edit]Praying with Anger

Main article:Praying with Anger


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Shyamalan achieved commercial success in 1999 when he wrote and directed The Sixth Sense,

a supernatural drama about a psychologist (Bruce Willis) who blames himself for a patient's suicide and his

own broken marriage. Upon meeting a disturbed child (Haley Joel Osment) who claims to see people who have

died, the psychologist feels he has a chance to redeem himself. According to the book DisneyWar, David Vogel

ofThe Walt Disney Company read Shyamalan's script and, without obtaining approval from his superiors,

bought the rights to it for a high $2 million and allowed Shyamalan to direct. [20] Vogel's bosses, disagreeing with

his decision, sold the production rights to Spyglass Entertainment and kept only a 12.5 percent distribution fee

for itself.[20]

The film had a $40-million budget, and grossed over $600 million at the box office worldwide.

The Sixth Sense was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original

Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Supporting Actorfor Osment and Best Supporting Actress forToni Collette.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America awarded it a Nebula Award for Best Script of 1999.

[edit]Unbreakable

Main article:Unbreakable (film)

Unbreakable is a superhero drama about David Dunn (Bruce Willis), the sole survivor of a train crash, and his

encounters with comic book collector Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson), who is convinced that Dunn has

latent superpowers. The movie opened to mixed reviews with many comparing it unfavorably to The Sixth

Sense and noting its slow pace and somber atmosphere.[21] With a budget of $73.2 million, the movie grossed

over $95 million domestically.[22] It went on to collect another $154 million worldwide. [23]

In interviews with Shyamalan, Unbreakable has been characterized as his "personal favorite", among the films

he has made.[24]

[edit]Signs

Main article:Signs (film)

Opening in August 2002, Signs is a science fiction drama of a rural Pennsylvania Episcopal priest (Mel Gibson)

who has lost his faith after his wife's death and regains it with his family as they witness the worldwide events

of an alien invasion.Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, and Abigail Breslin also star. Budgeted at $72

million, Signs grossed $227 million domestically and $408 million worldwide. [25] It was the highest-grossing film

as well as the highest opening-weekend gross ($60 million) of Gibson's career as an actor.

The film received a generally positive reception. Most notably of which was Roger Ebert's four-star review,

stating, "M. Night Shyamalan's Signs is the work of a born filmmaker, able to summon apprehension out of thin

air. When it is over, we think not how little has been decided, but how much has been experienced". [26]


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Shyamalan said in an interview with Science Fiction Weeklythat his choice of Gibson was influenced in part by

the actor's emotional role in the film LethalWeapon: "I was on my parents' sofa watching the video ofLethal

Weapon, and then this guy did stuff emotionally that had no business being in an action movie. ... I completely

believed the humanity of a man who was so torn by the loss of his wife that he wasn't afraid of dying, which

made him a lethal weapon. ... [W]hen I wrote the movie about a guy who loses faith because his wife has

passed away, I felt like that was the guy. And I also like taking an action guy and not letting him be The Guy."

Shyamalan also said that originally, there was going to be very little music in the film, but that composer James

Newton Howard's intense and emotional compositions reminded him of a Bernard Herrmann (Alfred

Hitchcock's frequent composer) score (Psycho) and prompted him to change his mind.[27]

[edit]The Village

Main article:The Village (2004 film)

Drawing on Wuthering Heights after being asked to pen a screen adaptation, Shyamalan went to work on what

was originally titled The Woods.[28]The Village was released in July 2004. A drama starring Joaquin

Phoenix, William Hurt,Sigourney Weaver, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Adrien Brody, it tells of a small, 19th-

century community run by a group of "Elders" who seem to be content in their isolation from the outside world.

The village is encircled by a forest said to be filled with mysterious and threatening creatures. Even as an

uneasy truce between the villagers and the creatures seems to be falling apart, one villager (Phoenix) starts to

question their forced isolation.

With total production costs of $71.6 million, [29] the film grossed $114.2 million domestically ($50 million in its

opening weekend) and a further $142 million in non-USA receipts. Its successful opening weekend in Americawas followed by a severe dropoff of 67%, and the film is generally considered to be a commercial

disappointment. Critical response was mostly negative:[30] Desson Thomson ofThe Washington Postcalled it

"a bewildering disappointment";[30] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times said, "It's tedious instead of

provocative and so unconvincing as to be preposterous."[30]Roger Ebert, who had previously praised

Shyamalan, called the film "a colossal miscalculation, a movie based on a premise that cannot support it, a

premise so transparent it would be laughable were the movie not so deadly solemn. . . . He is a director of

considerable skill who evokes stories out of moods, but this time, alas, he took the day off".[31]

Shyamalan expressed a great deal of regret in the way the film was marketed, telling producing partner Sam

Mercer, while overseeing the editing of the teaser trailer forLady in the Water, that he had wished forThe

Village to have been sold as a period romance with a scare only at the end of the trailer. Shyamalan is also

said to have thought that the shift in the main theme of faith from his previous films to that of deception resulted

in the mixed-negative response. Citing that his other movies set out to make an audience believe in the

supernatural, The Village set out to do the opposite.[32]


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The Village earned an Academy Award nomination forBest Original Score.

[edit]Lady in the Water

Main article:Lady in the Water

Lady in the Water, released on July 21, 2006, is a fantasy about Philadelphia maintenance man Cleveland

Heep (Paul Giamatti), who discovers a young woman named Story (Bryce Dallas Howard) in the swimming

pool of his apartment complex. Gradually, he and his neighbors learn that she is a water nymph who has come

to "the world of man" to bring inspiration to someone in the complex. Her life is in danger from a vicious, wolf-

like, mystical creature that tries to keep her from returning to her watery "blue world."

The proposal for this film was underscored by a rift between Shyamalan and Disney, the studio for which he

had made his biggest previous films. In the book The Man Who Heard Voices: Or, How M. Night Shyamalan

Risked His Careeron a Fairy Tale by Michael Bamberger, Shyamalan said that he felt Disney "no longer

valued individualism...no longer valued fighters."[33]

Shyamalan left the studio after production president Nina

Jacobson and others became highly critical of his script, which Warner Bros. eventually produced.[34][dead

link] Critical response was again negative Frank Lovece ofFilm Journal Internationalsaying simply,

"this Ladyis the Showgirls of fantasy film"[35] disparaging both the inclusion of a film-critic character (one of

many elements of Shyamalan's screenplay that Disney found troublesome) and Shyamalan's decision to take

such a large and personal role in the film as a writer whose work would change the world. The New York

Postwrote that the film was "dead in the water", criticizing Shyamalan as a "crackpot with messianic

delusions."

At the 27th Golden Raspberry Awards (for 2006 films) Lady in theW

aterreceived four Golden RaspberryAward nominations, Worst Supporting Actor (Shyamalan), Worst Director (Shyamalan), Worst Screenplay

(Shyamalan), and Worst Picture. The film won Worst Director and Worst Supporting Actor.

As of September 14, 2006, the film made $42.3 million domestically and $30.5 million in the foreign box office,

totaling $72.8 million. The film's $75 million[36] production cost and $70 million[37] marketing campaign combined

with the fractional percentages returned by movie vendors meant the film lost close to $100 million USD during

its theatrical run. DVD rentals of the film have earned $19.96 million as of February 18, 2007.

[edit]The Happening

Main article:The Happening (2008 film)


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M. Night Shyamalan and Mark Wahlberg forThe Happeningin 2008.

On January 29, 2007, Varietyreported that Shyamalan showed a new script titled The Green Effectto studio

executives but no major studios were interested in greenlighting the film.[38] A little over a month later, the same

magazine reported that Shyamalan's spec script (now titled The Happening) had been sold to 20th Century Fox

after an extensive rewrite.

The plot involves a mysterious toxin that causes people to commit suicide. The protagonist, a science teacher

named Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg), attempts to escape from the substance with his wife and friends as

hysteria grips the East Coast of the United States. [39]

Despite the hype of being Shyamalan's first R-Rated film, it failed to impress most notable critics. The film is

produced by Shyamalan, Sam Mercer, and Barry Mendel, and was released in the U.S. on Friday the 13th of

June, 2008.

On its opening day, The Happeninggrossed $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.[40] The foreign box office gross for opening weekend was an estimated $32.1

million.[41] The total gross of the film as of September 17, 2008 stands at $163.3 million. In addition to box

office, the film earned $26 million in DVD rentals between October 7, 2008 and November 2008.

[edit]The Last Airbender

Main article:The Last Airbender

On January 8, 2007, it was announced that Shyamalan would write, direct and produce the live-action

adaptation ofAvatar: The Last Airbender, a popularanimated TV series on the cable channel Nickelodeon, a

series influenced by Asian art, mythology and various martial-arts fighting styles. The movie was produced for

Paramount Pictures' MTV Films and Nick Movies. The trade paperVarietylater reported Shyamalan would

film AvatarafterThe Happening.[42]

According to an interview with the co-creators in SFX Magazine, Shyamalan came across Avatarwhen his

daughter wanted to be Katara forHalloween. Intrigued, Shyamalan researched and watched the series with his

family. "WatchingAvatarhas become a family event in my house ... so we are looking forward to how the story

develops in season three," said Shyamalan. "Once I saw the amazing world that Mike and Bryan created, I

knew it would make a great feature film."[43] According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Shyamalan began

filming Avatar: The Last Airbender in May 2009; he needed four or five huge soundstages in the Philadelphia

area to produce the film.[44] On April 15, 2008, Paramount and Nickelodeon announced the official title for the

film will be The Last Airbender.[45] Also announced was the release date: July 2, 2010.


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This film only revolves around the first season of the animated TV show but Shyamalan has stated he plans to

do the other two movies as well (revolving around the 2nd and 3rd seasons). [citation needed]

The film has received largely negative reviews. Based on 158 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, the film

has an overall approval rating from critics of 6%.[46]Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of

100 to reviews from film critics, gave the film an average score of 20 based on 32 reviews. [47]

[edit]Devil

Main article:Devil (film)

Shyamalan wrote the story forDevil, a 2010 film directed by Drew Dowdle and John Eric Dowdle. The

screenplay was written by Brian Nelson and the story focuses on five people trapped in an elevator, one of

whom is the devil.[48]

[edit]One Thousand A.E.

This is Shyamalan's current in-development project, which he is directing but not writing. [49]

[edit]The Connected

Another in-development project, which Shyamalan is writing and directing. Bruce Willis appears to have been

offered a role for the movie and has expressed an interest in this role, saying that he was enthusiastic about

the project. He further stated that it is "a typical Shyamalan mystery thriller again."[50]

[edit]Other projects

In July 2000, on The Howard Stern Show, Shyamalan said he had met with Spielberg and was in early talks to

write the script for the fourth Indiana Jones film. This would have given Shyamalan a chance to work with his

longtime idol, Steven Spielberg.[51] After the project fell through, Shyamalan later said it was too "tricky" to

arrange and "not the right thing" for him to do. [52]

Shyamalan's name was linked with the 2001 film HarryPotterand the Sorcerer's Stone, but the project

conflicted with the production ofUnbreakable. In July 2006, while doing press tours forLady in the Water,

Shyamalan had said he was still interested in directing one of the last two Harry Potter films. "The themes that

run through it...the empowering of children, a positive outlook...you name it, it falls in line with my beliefs",

Shyamalan said. "I enjoy the humor in it. When I read the first HarryPotterand was thinking about making it, I

had a whole different vibe in my head of it". [53][54]

After the release ofThe Village in 2004, Shyamalan had been planning a film adaptation of Yann Martel's

novel Life ofPiwith 20th Century Fox, but later backed out so that he could make Lady in the Water. "I love

that book. I mean, it's basically [the story of] a kid born in the same city as me [Pondicherry, India] it almost

felt predestined", Shyamalan said. "But I was hesitant because the book has kind of a twist ending. And I was

concerned that as soon as you put my name on it, everybody would have a different experience. Whereas if


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someone else did it, it would be much more satisfying, I think. Expectations, you've got to be aware of them. I'm

wishing them all great luck. I hope they make a beautiful movie". [55]

In July 2008, it was announced that Shyamalan had partnered with Media Rights Capital to form a production

company called Night Chronicles. Shyamalan would produce, but not direct, one film a year for three

years.[56] The first of the three films was Devil, a supernatural thriller directed by siblings John and Drew

Dowdle. The script was written by Brian Nelson, based on an original idea from Shyamalan. [57] The movie was

about a group of people stuck in an elevator with the devil, and starred Chris Messina.[58]

[edit]Television

[edit]Sci-Fi Channel

In 2004, Shyamalan was involved in a media hoax with Sci-Fi Channel, which was eventually uncovered by the

press. Sci-Fi claimed in its "documentary" special The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan, shot on the set

ofThe Village that Shyamalan was legally dead for nearly a half-hour while drowned in a frozen pond in a

childhood accident, and that upon being rescued he had experiences of communicating with spirits, fueling an

obsession with the supernatural. The Sci-Fi Channel also claimed that Shyamalan had grown "sour" when the

"documentary" filmmakers' questions got too personal, and had therefore withdrawn from participating and

threatened to sue the filmmakers.

In truth, Shyamalan developed the hoax with Sci-Fi, going so far as having Sci-Fi staffers sign non disclosure

agreements with a $5-million fine attached and requiring Shyamalan's office to formally approve each step.

Neither the childhood accident nor the supposed rift with the filmmakers ever occurred. The hoax included a

non-existent Sci-Fi publicist, "David Westover", whose name appeared on press releases regarding the special.

Sci-Fi also fed false news stories to theAssociated Press[59] and Zap2It.com,[60] among others. A New York

Postnews item, based on a Sci Fi press release, referred to Shyamalan's attorneys threatening to sue the

filmmakers; the attorneys named were non-existent.

After an AP reporter confronted Sci-Fi Channel president Bonnie Hammerat a press conference, Hammer

admitted the hoax, saying it was part of a guerrilla marketing campaign to generate pre-

release publicity forThe Village. This prompted Sci-Fi's parent company, NBC Universal, to state that the

undertaking was "not consistent with our policy at NBC. We would never intend to offend the public or the press

and we value our relationship with both."[61] Other critics have since deemed viewers to be victim of a

somewhat 'cheap' promotional trick that went too far. [62]

[edit]Criticism and controversy

[edit]Shyamalan Twists


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With the exception ofThe Sixth Sense, a common criticism of Shyamalan's works is that they feature better

direction than screenwriting.[63][64] He has also been labeled a "one-trick pony" for his continuous use of the

"twist" element in his screenplays.[63] After the release ofThe Village, Slate's Michael Agger noted that

Shyamalan was following "an uncomfortable pattern" of "making fragile, sealed-off movies that fell apart when

exposed to outside logic."[65]

In a May 31, 2008, interview with the London Independent, Shyamalan offered this answer to the question

about his "one-trick" movies: "Q: A common misperception of me is ... A: That all my movies have twist

endings, or that they're all scary. All my movies are spiritual and all have an emotional perspective." [66]

[edit]Plagiarism

Shyamalan has been accused ofplagiarism. Robert McIlhinney, a Pennsylvania screenwriter, sued Shyamalan

over the similarity ofSigns to his unpublished script Lord of the Barrens: The JerseyDevil.[67][68]Margaret

Peterson Haddix noted that The Village has numerous elements found in her children's novel Running Out of

Time,[69] and publisher Simon & Schuster had talked about filing a lawsuit; [68] it was never filed.

[edit]References

1. âb"The need for a Dev Patel in the Life of Pi". Rediff. 2009-02-20.

2. ^[1]

3. ^ Bamberger, Michael. The Man Who Heard Voices: Or, How M. Night Shyamalan Risked His Careeron a

Fairy Tale(Gotham Books, New York, 2006), p. 150.

4.^

Chennai Online.5. ^http://nymag.com/movies/reviews/17661/

6. ^ Edelstein, David (16 July 2006). "M. Narcissus Shyamalan". New York Magazine. Retrieved 27 April 2010.

7. ^NNDB -Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan.

8. ^ Bamberger, Ibid., p. 19.

9. ^ abIMDb: Praying with AngerRelease Information.

10. Înternet Movie Database - Wide Awake Trivia.

11. Ânswers.com - Wide Awake.

12.^

Young Artists Award - Past Nominations Listing.

13. ^The Numbers - Wide Awake Box Office Data.

14. ^Padma Shri Awardees Padma Awards.

15. ^The Christian Science Monitor(July 28, 2004): "A Different Take: "Self-directed filmmaker M. Night

Shyamalan forges his own sub-genre: suspenseful movies with revealing twists. How a confident Hollywood

outsider keeps his focus on family and faith", by Stephen Humphries.


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16. ^http://herndon1.sdrdc.com/cgi-bin/fecimg/?28931990080

17. ^ Stephen Holden (1992). "Praying with Anger (1992)". New York Times. Retrieved May 12, 2010.

18. ^ James Berardinelli (1993). "Review: Praying With Anger". Reelviews.net.

19. ^ Danel Griffin. "Review: Wide Awake". uashome.alaska.edu.

20. ^ abAnswers.com - The Sixth Sense.

21. ^RottenTomatoes.com: Unbreakable (2000).

22. ^thesmokinggun.com - Hollywood By The Numbers - February 28, 2006 "Shyamalan's

followup, "Unbreakable," carried a $73.2 million budget, its U.S. gross ended up just shy of $100 million.

However, overseas receipts and video/DVD sales surely landed the film in the black."

23. ^IMDb.com: Unbreakable (2000): Box-office.

24. ^http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2006-07-18-shyamalan_x.htm USA Today. "Much riding on

Shyamalan's 'Lady' luck" (July 20, 2006).

25. ^Box Office Mojo - Signs Box Office Information.

26. ^RogerEbert.com: Signs review.

27. ^Science Fiction Weekly(August 5, 2002): M. Night Shyamalan interview.

28. ^Ain't It Cool News - "Moriarty Rumbles! M. Night's In The WOODS, SECOND HAND LIONS, And LOST IN

TRANSLATION!" - "THEWOODS (Screenplay Review)", September 22, 2003.

29. ^The Smoking Gun Hollywood by the Numbers.

30. ^ abcRotten Tomatoes - The Village.

31. ^"The Village". Chicago Sun-Times.

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33. ^ The Internet Movie Database "StudioBriefing" (June 23, 2006): "Shyamalan Blasts Disney Execs in New

Book".

34. ^Los Angeles Times (June 23, 2006): "Book Tells of Breakup with Disney".

35. ^ The DVD, HD-DVD, and Blu-ray of this film will be released on December 19. Film Journal

Internationalreview: Lady in the Water.

36. ^FOXNEWS.COM Kevin CostnerAlmost Got'Lady'Lead, Wednesday, July 19, 2006.

37. ^Director's Tell-all Assault on Disney Shocks Hollywood

38. ^variety.com, January 28, 2007, Michael Fleming - Shyamalan re-working 'Green'.

39. ^ Kirk Honeycutt, "Film Review: The Happening", The Hollywood Reporter, June 10, 2008, Accessed June

13, 2008.

40. ^"The Happening (2008) - Weekend Box Office Results". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2008-06-16.

41. ^"'Happening' hammers 'Hulk overseas". Comics2Film. Retrieved 2008-06-16.

42. ^Daily VarietyJanuary 8, 2007: "Shyamalan's Avataralso to bigscreen" by Pamela McClintock.


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43. ^"Nickelodeon's Avatar Returns to Restore Peace to The Four Corners of the World and Prepares to Face

Off With the Fire Nation Once and for All".

44. ^"M. Night Shyamalan Scouting Locations in Philly for Avatar Movie".

45. ^ Pamela McClintock, Tatina Siegel (2008-04-15). "Nickelodeon, Par team for 'Airbender'". Variety.

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50. ^[3]

51. ^Premiere.com - "Indiana Jones and the Curse of Development Hell", By Ann Donahue.

52. ^Science Fiction Weekly, Ibid.

53. ^Tour Vlog #7: Kung Fu Snape (Tucson, AZ), posted October 4, 2007.

54. ÎGN.com, July 14, 2006 - "Potter in the Water? Shyamalan interested in magical franchise"by Jeff Otto.

55. ÊntertainmentWeekly(May 3, 2006): "'Water' Bearer" by Missy Schwartz.

56. ^ Fleming, Michael (July 21, 2008). "Night falls for Media Rights". Variety.

57. ^ Fleming, Michael (October 28, 2008). "MRC, Shyamalan dance with 'Devil'". Variety. Retrieved 2009-01-

03.

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