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M. Night Shyamalan will serve as jury president at the 2022 Berlin International Film Festival. The American filmmaker, who is of South Asian descent, has had a consistent output of regular box office successes since his 1999 breakout The Sixth Sense, which was nominated for six Oscars. His recent credits include Old…

M. Night Shyamalan’s next film for Universal Pictures, which was previously untitled, has received its identification and a new release date. Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin now will be out in wide release on Friday, February 3, 2023, a two-week bump up from its previous date. The director teased fans in August about…

M. Night Shyamalan will be producing the upcoming pic The Vanishings at Caddo Lake through his Blinding Edge Pictures banner. Writing-directing team Celine Held & Logan George penned the screenplay based on an original idea and will also co-direct the film. The pic will star Dylan O’Brien, Eliza Scanlen and Lauren…

Don’t get me wrong, I admire M. Night Shyamalan for the guiding spirit of his filmography. It doesn’t rely on sequels, focuses on stories with no IP, and generally follows the Hitchcock model of everyday humans caught up in challenging situations. He burst onto the scene with his Oscar-nominated The Sixth Sense…

Paramount’s Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins and Universal’s M. Night Shyamalan thriller Old, both wide releases respecting the theatrical window, will face off this weekend at the domestic box office. Each are eyeing a mid-teens opening frame, making the winner too early to call. Previews for both titles begin Thursday…

EXCLUSIVE: Prolific filmmaker and Servant executive producer M. Night Shyamalan has signed with Range Media Partners, which will also represent Shyamalan's production company, Blinding Edge Pictures, run by President of Production, Ashwin Rajan. At Range, Shyamalan rejoins his former WME agents Tanya Cohen and Rich…

Servant, Apple TV+'s thriller from M. Night Shyamalan which launched its second season on Jan. 15, is showing strong year-to-year growth. Season 2 premiere week viewership has more than doubled the audience that watched the show during the same time frame in Season 1, sources said. Making the comparison even more…

UPDATED with latest: Universal has had second thoughts in this pandemic environment where fewer theaters are open, and will open its Bob Odenkirk action thriller Nobody on February 26, which was one of the pic’s former release dates before they opted for February 19. I hear that the studio is giving some distance from…

The second season for M. Night Shyamalan’s spooky Servant has an AppleTV+ global premiere on January 15, 2021. New episodes in the ten-episode series will follow each Friday. Following its suspenseful season one finale, the second season of the thriller takes a supernatural turn. As Leanne returns to the brownstone…

Director M. Night Shyamalan unveiled the title and artwork for his upcoming Universal thriller, now revealed to be called Old. "Feels like a miracle that I am standing here shooting the first shot of my new film. It's called Old," Shyamalan tweeted today. (See the tweet below.) Accompanying the tweet was artwork – a…

EXCLUSIVE: Rufus Sewell, Embeth Davidtz and Emun Elliott are set to join the ensemble cast for M. Night Shyamalan’s new secret movie. Gael Garcia Bernal, Eliza Scanlen, Thomasin McKenzie, Aaron Pierre, Alex Wolff, Vicky Krieps, Abbey Lee, Nikki Amuka-Bird and Ken Leung are already on board to star in the top-secret…

EXCLUSIVE: Gael García Bernal is set to join M. Night Shyamalan’s new secret movie from Universal. Eliza Scanlen, Thomasin McKenzie, Aaron Pierre, Alex Wolff, Vicky Krieps, Abbey Lee, Nikki Amuka-Bird and Ken Leung are already on board to star in the top-secret project. Shyamalan will write, produce and direct the…