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Don't call it a comeback—M. Night Shyamalan is just doing what he does best. When The Last Airbender and After Earth struggled with critics and audiences, the Philadelphia-based director knew instinctively what to do. "I felt like I wanted to ignite the danger switch in me," he recalls. "I wanted to tell myself, 'You…

After making bank with M. Night Shyamalan and Jason Blum’s Blumhouse’s collaboration The Visit last fall, Universal Pictures is ramping up for the latest team-up of the pair. Here’s the first trailer for Split, the supernatural suspense thriller that shows off James McAvoy as Kevin, a man who has revealed 23…

Each year when Deadline runs its film profitability countdown, readers understandably ask about wildly profitable films, usually genre pictures, that don’t merit inclusion on the basis of highest domestic gross. But that doesn’t mean these films don’t tell compelling stories in their own right. So this time, we…

FINAL UPDATE, Monday, 2:12 PM: The Perfect Guy won the weekend by only $460K over M. Night Shyamalan’s and Blumhouse’s horror film The Visit — and it did so on 838 fewer screens. So it’s worth noting that Screen Gems’ thriller had a per-screen average of $11,656 compared with The Visit‘s $8,258K. Because both films…

FINAL UPDATE, 1:23 PM PT: Fox’s Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials kicked off in 21 international markets a week before it lands in theaters in North America where it is expected to open stronger than the first installment which opened to $32.5M last year. Finals are in also for the Paramount/Skydance holdover Mission: Imp…

UPDATED: Friday, 4:38 PM: The afternoon is building nicely for Sony’s The Perfect Guy which is now heading towards the top end of the early estimate, and the core African American audience really should rock it tonight. It has not slowed down from early matinees and it now looks like Sony might enjoy a weekend in the…

Director M. Night Shyamalan’s PG-13 rated horror film The Visit grossed $1M+ in late nights Thursday. It began at 7 PM last night in 2,206 theaters. The Universal picture is off to a surprisingly strong start. Remember, these type of films are often front-loaded. Specifically, this fright fest from Blumhouse took in a…

Sorry, but it’s going to be another blasé weekend at the box office with college and high school students still in scholar mode. Two new titles — Universal/Blumhouse’s The Visit and Sony/Screen Gems’ thriller Perfect Guy — are each looking at $15M-$17M per industry projections. Perfect has an edge given the momentum…

EXCLUSIVE: Joaquin Phoenix is in negotiations to reunite with M. Night Shyamalan for a new feature project that will start shooting in November in the director’s hometown of Philadelphia. The project will also bring Shyamalan back together with Jason Blum, who will produce. The two worked together most recently on…

Your typical Comic-Con panel runs the gamut from a cast’s excessive back-slapping to moderators’ carefully curated questions which yield even more carefully worded answers from film/TV panelists looking to keep details under wraps. On Friday, however, moderator Ryan Turek (Blumhouse’s director of development) ceded…

As surely as Monday follows Sunday, closing notices go up for struggling shows that leave the Tony Awards empty-handed. First to go dark in the wake of last night’s awards will be The Visit. A nominee for best musical and for leading lady Chita Rivera as well as three other Tonys, the show has searched for an audience…

“Bedtime here is 9:30,” Grandpa announces before lights out. “It’s probably best you two shouldn’t come out of your room after that.” OK, Nanna and Grandpa are, well, grandparents. But if that doesn’t seem a tad odd, wait until you hear what Nanna comes up with much later in the kitchen. What you get when you team…