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How does M. Night Shyamalan continue to keep working in Hollywood? Other directors make just one film that gets slaughtered by the critics, and they’re kicked off studio lots. Shyamalan makes six totally craptastic flicks that really belong in the straight-to-DVD bargain bin (are there people on here seriously saying that Unbreakable was good? Unbreakable is TERRIBLE!) and is handed $250 million to direct a trilogy about a franchise he has nothing to do with. And the worst part about this? Shyamalan already has another film in post-production and ANOTHER film in pre-production. Someone please explain this to me! How many thousands of people attend film school every year. NONE of them are better than M. Night Shyamalan? Not ONE of them???
Budget Gross
Sixth Sense
55 Mil 294 Mil
Unbreakable
75 Mil 95 Mil
Signs
72 Mil 228 Mil
Village
72 Mil 114 Mil
Lady in the Water
75 Mil 42 Mil
Happening
48 Mil 64 Mil
Last Airbender
150 Mil (for 1st installment) 57 Mil (Opening Wkend on mostly 3D Screens)
I’m following this career up until the triple-whammy of Village, Lady in the Water and The Happening. Directors have never worked again after such modest returns, and then to get handed control of a major-market trilogy? I mean, who else loses $33 million of Disney money (aside from Disney itself), harasses their entire production department over screenplay drafts and pitches and doesn’t get kicked to the curb?