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American filmmaker and actor (born 1970)

Yard. Dark Shyamalan
Shyamalan in 2016
Born	Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan (1970-08-06) August vi, 1970 (historic period 51) Mahé, Puducherry, India
Nationality	American[1]
Alma mater	New York Academy
Occupation	Filmmaker histrion
Years active	1992–present
Spouse(southward)	Bhavna Vaswani ​ (m. 1992)​
Children	3
Honors	Padma Shri (2008)[2]

Manoj Nelliyattu "M. Nighttime" Shyamalan ^[one] ( SHAH-mə-lahn;^[iii] born Baronial 6, 1970)^[4] is an Indian-American filmmaker and actor. He is all-time known for making original films with contemporary supernatural plots and twist endings. He was born in Mahé, Republic of india, and raised in Penn Valley, Pennsylvania. The cumulative gross of his films exceeds $3.3 billion globally.^[5]

He made his directorial debut in 1992 with his first pic Praying with Anger. His second movie was the comedy-drama film Wide Awake (1998). His best-received films include the supernatural thriller The Sixth Sense (1999), the superhero thriller Unbreakable (2000), the science fiction thriller Signs (2002), and the period-piece thriller The Village (2004). For The Sixth Sense, Shyamalan received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Managing director and the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Afterward, Shyamalan released a series of poorly received only sometimes financially successful films, including the dark fantasy Lady in the H2o (2006), the eco-thriller The Happening (2008), The Last Airbender (2010) (an adaptation based on the first season of the Nickelodeon blithe tv set series Avatar: The Final Airbender), and the science fiction picture show After World (2013).

Following the financial failure of Later Earth, Shyamalan'southward career was revived with the release of the found footage horror film The Visit (2015), the psychological thriller Split (2016), and the superhero thriller Glass (2019). With a total budget of $34 million betwixt them, these three films earned a combined box office of $625 million. Drinking glass is the third and final chapter of his Eastrail 177 trilogy, which commenced in 2000. His latest feature film was the supernatural thriller Quondam, which was released in 2021 and grossed $90 million on a budget of $18 million.^[half-dozen]

In addition to his directorial piece of work, Shyamalan was story creator and a producer for the horror film Devil (2010). Shyamalan was besides called in for an uncredited rewrite for the teen film She's All That (1999) and also served equally a author for the pic Stuart Little (1999). He is too ane of the executive producers and occasional manager of Wayward Pines and the critically acclaimed series Servant, for which he also serves as showrunner.^{[vii] [viii]}

Shyamalan is also known for setting and shooting his films in and effectually Philadelphia, Pennsylvania forth with nearby Reading, Pennsylvania.^{[ix] [10] [eleven] [12]} Almost of his commercially successful films were co-produced and released by Walt Disney Studios' Touchstone and Hollywood Pictures and Universal imprints. In 2008, Shyamalan was honored with the Padma Shri award by the Government of Republic of india.^[13]

Early life [edit]

Shyamalan was built-in in Mahé, India,^[14] a town in the Marriage Territory of Pondicherry. The son of Indian parents,^[15] his father, Dr. Nelliyattu C. Shyamalan, is a Malayali neurologist from Mahé and a JIPMER graduate,^{[ commendation needed ]} his female parent, Dr. Jayalakshmi, a Tamil, is an OB-GYN.^[xvi]

Shyamalan's parents immigrated to the United states when he was vi weeks old. Shyamalan was raised in Penn Valley, Pennsylvania. Shyamalan was raised Hindu.^[17] He attended the private Roman Catholic grammer school Waldron Mercy Academy, followed by the Episcopal University, a private Episcopal high school located at the fourth dimension in Merion Station, Pennsylvania. He felt like an outsider and remembers that teachers would say that whoever was not baptized would go to hell.^[eighteen] When he was a educatee there, a teacher once became upset because he "got the best grade and [he] wasn't Catholic".^[18] Shyamalan earned the New York University Merit Scholarship in 1988, and was besides a National Merit Scholar.^[nineteen] Shyamalan is an alumnus of New York University Tisch Schoolhouse of the Arts in Manhattan,^[20] graduating in 1992. It was while studying there that he adopted "Night" every bit his second name.

Shyamalan had an early desire to exist a filmmaker when he was given a Super viii camera at a immature age. Though his begetter wanted him to follow in the family exercise of medicine, his female parent encouraged him to follow his passion. By the fourth dimension he was seventeen, he had made forty-five home movies.^{[ commendation needed ]} On each DVD release of his films, offset with The Sixth Sense and with the exception of Lady in the Water, he has included a scene from one of these childhood movies, which, he feels, represents his starting time attempt at the same kind of moving-picture show.^{[ citation needed ]}

Career [edit]

Moving-picture show [edit]

Shyamalan fabricated his first film, the semi-autobiographical drama Praying with Anger, while still a pupil at NYU, using money borrowed from family and friends.^[21] He wrote and directed his 2nd motion-picture show, Wide Awake. His parents were the film's associate producers. The drama dealt with a x-year-old Catholic schoolboy (Joseph Cross) who, after the decease of his granddaddy (Robert Loggia), searches for God. The moving-picture show's supporting cast included Dana Delany and Denis Leary equally the male child's parents, likewise as Rosie O'Donnell, Julia Stiles, and Camryn Manheim. Wide Awake was filmed in a school Shyamalan attended equally a child^[22] and earned 1999 Young Artist Award nominations for Best Drama, and, for Cantankerous, All-time Performance.^[23] But in limited release, the pic grossed $305,704 in theaters, against a $6 million budget.^[24]

That same year Shyamalan co-wrote the screenplay for Stuart Trivial with Greg Brooker. In 2013, he revealed he was the ghostwriter for the 1999 movie She's All That, a teen one-act starring Freddie Prinze Jr. and Rachel Leigh Cook.^[25] On June 17, 2013, Jack Lechner (who served as Miramax's head of evolution in the late 1990s) confirmed that both Shyamalan and R. Lee Fleming, Jr. contributed to the script: Fleming wrote the initial script that Miramax bought while Shyamalan did an uncredited rewrite (doing more than "a shine") that got the picture green-lit. Lechner reiterated that content from both writers was included in the terminal cut of the pic.^[26]

Shyamalan gained international recognition when he wrote and directed 1999'southward The 6th Sense, which became the second-highest grossing horror flick of all time.^[27] The 6th Sense was nominated for 6 Academy Awards, including Best Flick, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.

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 4th Indiana Jones film. This would have given Shyamalan a chance to work with his longtime idol.^[28] After the film savage through, Shyamalan later said it was likewise "tricky" to arrange and "not the correct matter" for him to practise.^[29]

Shyamalan followed The Sixth Sense past writing and directing Unbreakable, released in 2000. It was a stealth comic volume motion picture inside a thriller and was both critically and financially successful.

Shyamalan'due south proper noun was linked with the 2001 motion-picture show Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Rock, but it conflicted with the product of Unbreakable. In July 2006, while doing printing tours for Lady in the Water, Shyamalan had said he was still interested in directing one of the terminal two Harry Potter films: "The themes that run through information technology ... the empowering of children, a positive outlook ... you name information technology, it falls in line with my beliefs", Shyamalan said. "I enjoy the humor in it. When I read the first Harry Potter and was thinking nearly making it, I had a whole different vibe in my caput of it".^[thirty]

His 2002 film was Signs, where he too played Ray Reddy. It was regarding how a man regains his organized religion in God during an alien invasion. It was both critically and financially successful and grossed $408 million from a upkeep of $72 million.

His next movie was The Village (2004). It was regarding an isolated community living in the wood. Although it received mixed reviews, information technology was financially successful equally it grossed $257 million from a budget of $60 million.

Later the release of The Village in 2004, Shyamalan had been planning a picture show adaptation of Yann Martel's novel Life of Pi with 20th Century Fox, but after backed out then that he could brand Lady in the H2o. "I love that book. I mean, it's basically [the story of] a child built-in in the aforementioned metropolis as me [Pondicherry, India]—it almost felt predestined", Shyamalan said. "Only I was hesitant because the book has kind of a twist ending. And I was concerned that as soon as y'all put my name on it, everybody would accept a different feel. Whereas if someone else did it, information technology would be much more satisfying, I think. Expectations, y'all've got to be aware of them. I'thou wishing them all keen luck. I hope they make a beautiful moving picture".^[31]

Released in 2006, Lady in the H2o, a bedtime story about a water nymph and an apartment superintendent was both critically and financially unsuccessful.

Next was the film The Happening, a B-film nearly trees killing humans featuring a instructor Elliott Moore and his wife fleeing from contaminated cities into the countryside. It was critically unsuccessful but financially successful as it grossed $163 one thousand thousand from a budget of $48 million.^[32]

In 2010, he directed The Last Airbender, based on the first flavor of the Nickelodeon TV series Avatar: The Last Airbender. It was critically unsuccessful-with pregnant criticism aimed at its casting of white actors in Asian and Native American-inspired roles-only financially successful every bit information technology grossed $319 million from a budget of $150 million.

In July 2008, information technology was announced that Shyamalan had partnered with Media Rights Capital letter to course a production company called Night Chronicles. Shyamalan would produce, but not straight, one motion-picture show a yr for three years.^[33] The start of the 3 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.^[34] The movie was about a group of people stuck in an elevator with the devil, and starred Chris Messina.^[35] The picture was non previewed by critics before its release.

In 2013, Shyamalan directed the movie Subsequently Earth, based on a script past Gary Whitta and starring Will Smith and Jaden Smith. It was received poorly past critics, and was financially unsuccessful. Shyamalan later on described his thinking in 2013 as full of doubts, introspection and questioning.^[36]

Shyamalan appear in Jan 2014 that he would be working again with Bruce Willis on a film titled Labor of Love. As of February 2022, this motion-picture show has yet to be produced.^[37] Shyamalan's reputation was poor and almost Hollywood studios passed on his self-funded, low-budget horror-comedy The Visit, featuring a brother and sister who are sent to their grandparents' remote Pennsylvania farm for a weeklong trip. After revising the film,^[36] which Shyamalan had shot in secret, Universal picked up rights to The Visit. The movie went on gross $98 million worldwide on a upkeep of $five one thousand thousand^[38] - the fifth-highest grossing thriller film of the twelvemonth.^{[39] [40]} Universal released the moving picture on September xi, 2015.^[40]

In 2017, Shyamalan released the motion picture Divide. It was both critically and financially successful and grossed $279 one thousand thousand from a budget of $nine million.^{[ citation needed ]}

In 2019, he released Glass every bit the last installment in his 19-year trilogy inclusive of previous films Unbreakable and Separate. The movie grossed over $247 one thousand thousand worldwide.^[41]

His latest film, Old, a thriller about tourists who begin aging rapidly on a mysterious beach, was released on July 23, 2021. The pic stars Gael Garcia Bernal, Eliza Scanlen, Thomasin McKenzie, Aaron Pierre, Alex Wolff, Abbey Lee, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Ken Leung, Vicky Krieps, Rufus Sewell, Embeth Davidtz, Alexa Swinton, Nolan River, and Emun Elliott.^{[42] [43] [44] [45]} Shyamalan shot the film in the Dominican Republic^[46] and used a substantial corporeality of Dominican coiffure in the production. The picture show received mixed reviews from critics.

In October 2021, Shyamalan appear that his side by side film volition be titled Knock at the Cabin and will release in theatres on February 3, 2023.^[47]

On October 19, 2021, Shyamalan was appointed the Jury President of the 72nd Berlin International Moving-picture show Festival contest department.^[48]

Goggle box [edit]

Shyamalan is the executive producer on the Apple Tv series Servant. Shyamalan directed several episodes, including the pilot. Servant was renewed for a second series in accelerate of the season i premiere.^[49] The second flavor of Servant completed filming in autumn 2020 nether COVID protocols.^[50]

Shyamalan was also instrumental in the creation of the Play tricks science fiction series Wayward Pines (2015–2016), for which he executive produced and directed the pilot episode. The series became the most-watched show of that summertime.^[51]

In 2016, TNT first appear that Shyamalan would be responsible for a reboot serial for Tales from the Crypt. As of June 2017^[update] the series had been cancelled due to a number of legal reasons.^[52]

He also appeared in an episode of the series Entourage.

In Season 6, Episode 20 of the cult comedy series The Function, the grapheme Jim Halpert makes a passing reference to Shyamalan as possibly being Michael Scott's neighbor.

Controversies [edit]

SyFy Aqueduct hoax [edit]

In 2004, Shyamalan was involved in a media hoax with SyFy Channel, which was eventually uncovered by the press. SyFy claimed in its "documentary" special The Cached Hugger-mugger of K. Night Shyamalan, shot on the set of The Village, that every bit a child, Shyamalan had been dead for nearly a half hour while drowned in a frozen pond in an accident, and that upon beingness rescued he had experiences of communicating with spirits, fueling an obsession with the supernatural.

In truth, Shyamalan developed the hoax with SyFy, going so far as having SyFy staffers sign not-disclosure agreements with a $v million fine fastened and requiring Shyamalan's role to formally corroborate each step. Neither the childhood accident nor a supposed rift with the filmmakers e'er occurred. The hoax included a nonexistent SyFy publicist, "David Westover", whose proper name appeared on printing releases regarding the special. SyFy as well fed imitation news stories to the Associated Press,^[53] Zap2It,^[54] and the New York Mail,^{[55] [56] [57]} amidst others.

After an AP reporter confronted SyFy Aqueduct president Bonnie Hammer at a press conference, Hammer admitted the hoax, saying it was part of a guerrilla marketing entrada to generate pre-release publicity for The Hamlet. This prompted SyFy's parent company, NBC Universal, to state that the undertaking was "non consistent with our policy at NBC. We would never intend to offend the public or the press and nosotros value our relationship with both."^[58]

Plagiarism accusations [edit]

In 2003, a Pennsylvanian screenwriter named Robert McElhenney (unrelated to producer Rob McElhenney) sued Shyamalan, alleging similarities between Signs and McElhenney'south unpublished script Lord of the Barrens: The Bailiwick of jersey Devil.^{[59] [60]} In 2004, Margaret Peterson Haddix claimed that The Village has numerous similarities to her young developed novel Running Out of Fourth dimension (1996), prompting discussions with publisher Simon & Schuster about filing a lawsuit.^{[59] [60] [61]} In response to both allegations, Disney and Shyamalan's product company Blinding Edge issued statements calling the claims "meritless".

Orson Scott Carte du jour has claimed that many elements of The 6th Sense were plagiarized from his novel Lost Boys, although he has said that plenty had been inverse that there was no indicate in suing.^[62]

Personal life [edit]

Shyamalan married Dr. Bhavna Vaswani, a fellow student whom he met at New York University.^[63] The couple have three daughters, including manager Ishana and musician Saleka.^[64] His production visitor, Blinding Edge Pictures,^[65] is located in Berwyn, Pennsylvania.^[66] Blinding Edge has produced Servant, Wayward Pines, Devil, The Happening, Lady in the Water, The Village, Signs, Unbreakable, The Last Airbender, After Earth, The Visit, Separate, Glass and Old. It is run by Shyamalan and Ashwin Rajan.^[67] His cousin is actor Ritesh Rajan.

Shyamalan is a season ticket holder of the Philadelphia 76ers.^[68]

Shyamalan and his family alive near Philadelphia at Ravenwood, a 125-acre estate, congenital effectually a 27,000-foursquare-foot 1937 Georgian Revival house.^[69]

Saleka, born in 1996,^[seventy] is an American R&B vocalist and songwriter.^[71] She studied classical piano as a child merely decided to pursue a singing and songwriting career at the age of sixteen.^[71] She studied Literary Arts and Music at Brown Academy and has opened for acts like Boyz II Men, Baby Rose and Summer Walker.^[72] Upon debuting her get-go single, "Clarity", in September 2020, Refinery29 chosen Saleka "a new creative person to watch".^[73] Saleka'south sister, Ishana, directed the music video for "Clarity".^[74]

Filmography [edit]

Directed features

Twelvemonth	Title	Benefactor
1992	Praying with Anger	Cinevistaas Limited
1998	Wide Awake	Miramax Films
1999	The 6th Sense	Buena Vista Pictures
2000	Unbreakable
2002	Signs
2004	The Village
2006	Lady in the Water	Warner Bros. Pictures
2008	The Happening	20th Century Play a trick on
2010	The Last Airbender	Paramount Pictures
2013	After Earth	Sony Pictures Releasing
2015	The Visit	Universal Pictures
2016	Split
2019	Glass
2021	One-time
2023	Knock at the Cabin

Disquisitional analysis and box role performance [edit]

The Sixth Sense gave Shyamalan the reputation of, Rolling Rock wrote, "the guy who makes the scary movies with a twist".^[36] In 2008, Shyamalan said it was a common misperception that "all my movies accept twist endings, or that they're all scary. All my movies are spiritual and all have an emotional perspective".^[75] He nonetheless avoided plot twists for years, until again using them starting with The Visit in 2015. Rolling Stone wrote in 2018,^[36]

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. At commencement it was a sense of, 'Hey, I tin can make anything.' But that's hypocritical, because when I option upwards an Agatha Christie novel in my library, I have a strong expectation. And so, I get it ... When I became happy with the idea of making thrillers for the rest of my life, everything went right."

Later on the release of The Village, Slate 's Michael Agger noted that Shyamalan was following "an uncomfortable pattern" of "making delicate, sealed-off movies that fell apart when exposed to outside logic".^[76]

Afterwards the release of The Happening, The Guardian 's Kim Newman noted Shyamalan's earnestness and questioned, "Can it exist a kind of racism that the Indian-born, Philadelphia-raised auteur is hammered for his apparent character (or funny proper name) rather more than than, say, Quentin Tarantino or Spike Lee?"^[77]

Shyamalan has too been nominated for and in some cases won numerous Gold Raspberry Awards for Lady in the Water in 2006, The Happening in 2008, The Last Airbender in 2010, and Afterwards Earth in 2013.^{[ citation needed ]} In 2016 he was also nominated for the Razzie Redeemer Award.^[78]

The Village, Lady in the Water and Separate accept been included in Cahiers du Cinéma almanac top ten lists.

Critical reception [edit]

Box-office performance [edit]

Year	Title	Budget	Box-office[82]
1998	Wide Awake	$6 one thousand thousand	$305,704
1999	The Sixth Sense	$40 million	$673 million
2000	Unbreakable	$75 one thousand thousand	$248 1000000
2002	Signs	$72 1000000	$408 1000000
2004	The Village	$60 million	$257 million
2006	Lady in the H2o	$70 million	$73 one thousand thousand
2008	The Happening	$48 million	$163 million
2010	The Final Airbender	$150 million	$319 million
2013	After Earth	$130 1000000	$251 meg
2015	The Visit	$v million	$98 million
2016	Split	$9 million	$279 million
2019	Glass	$20 million	$247 one thousand thousand
2021	Old	$18 one thousand thousand	$90 million
-	Total	$703 million	$three,106 million

Awards and nominations [edit]

Pop civilisation and racism [edit]

In 2013, the British Film Establish (BFI) said that one of Shyamalan'southward challenges is presenting works that "(inquire) for childlike wonder and rapt attention", seeking contemplation and childlike belief when pop culture has turned toward shorter attention spans with "snark and testosterone-fuelled arrested boyhood".^[83]

BFI too discussed the impact of racism on Shyamalan'south career, pointing to frequent "'humorously' mangled rendering(s) of his evidently hard-to-pronounce 2d name and questioned "Why is one of the simply truly interesting mainstream motion picture-makers of the Noughties so publicly derided whilst so many mediocrities get a laissez passer?"^[83] Past 2017, Vice said that "Shamalamadingdong" had become the "agreed-upon mockery of his name". Vice too criticized mispronunciations of his name, pointing to a Robot Chicken sketch on Shyamalan that did so repeatedly. Vice as well said there was no reason to have Shyamalan's character in the sketch speak with an emphasis when Shyamalan never has. They too criticized the sketch'southward repeated mispronunciations of his proper name, and its determination with a "iii-word condemnation of his whole career": "What a twist." Vice said that "it'south time nosotros stop treating him like a (shitty, racist, entirely undeserved when compared to other directors who continue to flop with no finish in sight) joke, and examine the entirely coincidental fact that Hollywood's most notable brown director is also the one nosotros seem unwilling to forgive."^[84]

BFI asked if critical attacks are the result of egotistical statements on Shyamalan's part. They question whether his strong statements of cocky-assurance coupled with the remarkable success of The Sixth Sense set up a fall from grace which was soon realized when a run of very successful films (The 6th Sense, Unbreakable, Signs and The Hamlet) seemingly collapsed with a string of critical failures. (Lady in the Water, The Happening, The Last Airbender, and Afterward Earth).^[83]

BFI said that "in a cultural climate in which a specially vulgar form of atheism has become common, his polymorphous, holistic sense of the spiritual has rendered his work deeply unfashionable." They besides mentioned that "his supposedly overweening self-assurance seems to derive from an uncynical enthusiasm, even awe for the power of storytelling. He is hardly the first managing director reputed to take a healthy sense of cocky-worth. The emphasis on the teller rather than the tales obscures the commercially and artistically successful run of films he had with The 6th Sense, Unbreakable, Signs and The Village."^[83]

In 2019, Tim Griveing of The Washington Post said that "his conviction was interpreted equally arrogance by some, specially subsequently he cast himself in Lady in the Water as a bright author whose volume is prophesied as a world-saver." Bryce Dallas Howard, who has worked twice with Shyamalan, differs: "Night is not an arrogant person," she said. "Night is really creatively ambitious. Very ambitious. He will engage in a conversation—he will talk through information technology, he will work through information technology—but he might accept a bound. The most important thing in the world is: You simply don't want to make something that's ignorable." Griveing connected, "Howard, who expressed pride in him for forging ahead despite his turn amidst critics, noted how rare it was for such a young filmmaker to write, direct and produce original material. She wondered whether that placed a bigger target on his back, as his reputation for doggedness was perpetuated within the industry and reinforced past critics."^[85]

Books [edit]

While working on his moving picture The Happening, Shyamalan developed an interest in improving the delivery of teaching in American schools. He hired doctoral student James Richardson to practice well-nigh of the groundwork enquiry and equally a result published I Got Schooled: The Unlikely Story of How a Moonlighting Moving picture Maker Learned the Five Keys to Closing America'due south Education Gap. ^[86] John Willol of NPR reviewed the volume by stating "I Got Schooled is a breezily written, research driven call to modify America's arroyo to educational activity. Shyamalan is smart and sincere, and his innovative ideas are unbound by the educational establishment."^[87]

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External links [edit]

• Chiliad. Night Shyamalan at IMDb
• Official website

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