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M. Night Shyamalan
Manoj Nelliyattu "M. Night" Shyamalan is an American filmmaker. His films often employ supernatural plots and twist endings. The cumulative gross of his films exceeds $3.3 billion globally. Shyamalan has received various accolades, including nominations for two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards and a Golden Globe.
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2026· 3 entries
“I enjoy the humor in it. When I read the first Harry Potter and was thinking about making it, I had a whole different vibe in my head of it”
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A Malayalam movie called Mollywood Times featured its main character as an ardent fan of Shyamalan, and shows how Shyamalan's life (whose origin is tied to Kerala) influenced his film-making career
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2025· 1 entry
The Guardian: Old is M Night Shyamalan at his best: ambitious, abrasive and surprisingly poignant
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2024· 2 entries
The Guardian: Trap review – M Night Shyamalan’s concert thriller is a mess
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The Guardian: The Watchers (AKA The Watched) review – M Night Shyamalan’s daughter tells us a silly old story
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2023· 5 entries
The Guardian: Knock at the Cabin review – the holiday from hell courtesy of M Night Shyamalan
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The Guardian: M Night Shyamalan: ‘A new generation is discovering my movies. Don’t talk about the endings!’
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The Guardian: Knock at the Cabin review – M Night Shyamalan does it again, in the worst way
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The Guardian: Post your questions for M Night Shyamalan
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Shyamalan bought a 218-acre (88 ha) estate from the Rockefeller family in Willistown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, which has five historic houses and two barns for $24 million
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2021· 3 entries
The Guardian: Old review – M Night Shyamalan’s beach thriller is all washed up
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The Guardian: How M Night Shyamalan got his groove back
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The Guardian: Old review – M Night Shyamalan’s fast-ageing beach horror is top notch hokum
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2019· 2 entries
Tim Greiving of The Washington Post said that "his confidence was interpreted as arrogance by some, especially after he cast himself in Lady in the Water as a brilliant writer whose book is prophesied as a world-saver
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Released Glass as the final installment in his 19-year trilogy inclusive of previous films Unbreakable and Split
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2018· 2 entries
Awarded Sitges Grand Honorary Award (2018).
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In his twenties, [Shyamalan] says, "I don't think you could have told me that making thrillers for your whole life wasn't a bad thing
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2017· 1 entry
Shyamalan released the movie Split
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2016· 2 entries
TNT first announced that Shyamalan would be responsible for a reboot series for Tales from the Crypt
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Was also nominated for the Razzie Redeemer Award
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2013· 3 entries
Jack Lechner (who served as Miramax's head of development in the late 1990s) confirmed that both Shyamalan and R
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Shyamalan directed the film After Earth, based on a script by Gary Whitta and starring Will Smith and his son, Jaden
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As full of doubts, introspection and questioning
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2010· 1 entry
Directed The Last Airbender, based on the first season of the Nickelodeon TV series Avatar: The Last Airbender
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2008· 3 entries
“have twist endings, or that they”
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Shyamalan was honored with the Padma Shri award by the Government of India
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Shyamalan said it was a common misperception that his films "have twist endings, or that they're all scary", explaining that they "are spiritual and all have an emotional perspective"
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2006· 3 entries
Awarded Great Immigrants Award (2006).
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Lady in the Water, a bedtime story about a water nymph and an apartment superintendent, was both critically and financially unsuccessful, only grossing $72 million worldwide from a budget of $70 million
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The Happening in 2008, The Last Airbender in 2010, and After Earth in 2013
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2004· 3 entries
Shyamalan had been planning a film adaptation of Yann Martel's novel Life of Pi with 20th Century Fox, but later backed out so that he could make Lady in the Water
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Shyamalan was involved in a media hoax with SyFy Channel, which was eventually uncovered by the press
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Margaret Peterson Haddix claimed that The Village has numerous similarities to her young adult novel Running Out of Time, prompting discussions with publisher Simon & Schuster about filing a lawsuit
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2003· 1 entry
Alleging similarities between Signs and his unpublished script Lord of the Barrens: The Jersey Devil
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1970· 2 entries
Born 1970-08-06.
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In Mahé, India, a town in the Union Territory of Puducherry
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