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Fox Greenlights M. Night Shyamalan Event Series ‘Wayward Pines’, Matt Dillon To Star

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday May 13, 2013 @ 5:00am PDTTags: Chad Hodge, Fox, M. Night Shyamalan, Matt Dillon, Wayward Pines
Nellie Andreeva

Fox has greenlighted M. Night Shyamalan‘s event series Wayward Pines for a 2014 premiere during next season. Matt Dillon has been cast as the lead in the project based on Blake Crouch’s novel Pines. Described as a mind-bending thriller in which nothing is what it seems, it centers on Secret Service agent Ethan Burke (Dillon) who arrives in the bucolic town of Wayward Pines, ID, on a mission to find two missing federal agents. But instead of answers, Ethan’s investigation only turns up more questions. Written by Chad Hodge and directed by Shyamalan, Wayward Pines was one of the first two event series projects Fox put in development at the beginning of the year under its new mandate to make a push in that area. Hodge and Shyamalan executive produce with Donald DeLine and Ashwin Rajan for FX Prods. Dillon is repped by CAA and Untitled Entertainment.

Related: Fox 2013-14 Schedule

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Hot Trailer: ‘After Earth’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday March 7, 2013 @ 8:30pm PSTTags: After Earth, Jaden Smith, M. Night Shyamalan, Will Smith

Here’s the latest trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s After Earth, which pairs Will Smith with his son Jaden as a father and son who crash-land on a hostile Earth a thousand years into the future. The Sony/Columbia release has been teased since last year’s Comic-Con, and the trailer posted … Read More »

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Fox Developing Longform Event Series From M. Night Shyamalan & Bruce C. McKenna

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday January 8, 2013 @ 8:38am PSTTags: Big Deals TV, Fox, M. Night Shyamalan
Nellie Andreeva

Three months after Fox and FX Networks announced the launch of a new FX Prods.-based unit to supply them high-profile limited and miniseries, Fox has announced the first two event drama series it has put in development: Wayward Pines, from M. Night Shyamalan and Chad Hodge and the FX Prods. division; and Blood Brothers, from Bruce C. McKenna, Gary Randall and Tim Bogart’s Boardwalk Entertainment and Fox TV Studios. Fox plans to order at least one event series pilot this year and launch its first long-form series in 2014. “With top-notch auspices and feature-quality production plans, Wayward Pines and Blood Brothers represent exactly the kind of high-impact, 10- to 12-part events we set out to develop when we entered the limited series business,” said Fox chairman Kevin Reilly. “These two series are the first of many big ideas, big names and big talent that you can anticipate will be on our air in the next 12-24 months.” Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘After Earth’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday December 10, 2012 @ 5:16pm PSTTags: After Earth, Columbia Pictures, Jaden Smith, M. Night Shyamalan, Will Smith

After Earth is the latest pairing of Will Smith and his son Jaden, after 2006′s The Pursuit Of Happyness. The sci-fi pic from director M. Night Shyamalan got a Comic-Con push this summer when Sony touted the massive mythology created around the story, about a father … Read More »

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M. Night Shyamalan/John Glenn Modern-Day Moby Dick Drama Goes To NBC As Put Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday October 3, 2012 @ 5:26pm PDTTags: John Glenn, M. Night Shyamalan
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: In his first foray into network television, The Sixth Sense writer/director M. Night Shyamalan has teamed with Eagle Eye writer John Glenn for a drama project, which landed at NBC with a put pilot commitment. Titled Lost Horizon, the project hails from Sony Pictures TV and Shyamalan’s Blinding Edge Pictures.

The premise is being kept under wraps but I hear Lost Horizon revolves around a small fishing village on the East Coast. It is being described as a modern-day Moby Dick, dealing with obsession and the unknown, themes that are often reflected in Shyamalan’s movies. Shyamalan is attached to direct the potential pilot, which will be written by Glenn. The duo, brought together by WME, which reps them, will executive produce. At Blinding Edge Pictures, the project is overseen by Ashwin Rajan. Read More »

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Comic-Con: ‘After Earth’ Environment Hostile To Humans Will And Jaden Smith

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday July 14, 2012 @ 11:42am PDTTags: After Earth, Comic-Con Wrap-Up, Jaden Smith, M. Night Shyamalan, Will Smith

Luke Y. Thompson is contributing to Deadline’s coverage of Comic-Con.

Despite there being no Will or Jaden Smith and no M. Night Shyamalan, Sony’s panel on After Earth was packed to capacity in Room 6A. Without … Read More »

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Comic-Con: Will And Jaden Smith’s ‘After Earth’ Makes Novel Plans Around M. Night Shyamalan Film

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday July 13, 2012 @ 8:34am PDTTags: After Earth, Jaden Smith, M. Night Shyamalan, Sony Pictures, Will Smith
Mike Fleming

Will Smith Jaden Smith After EarthEXCLUSIVE: As Sony Pictures begins to create buzz for the M Night Shyamalan-directed Will and Jaden Smith-starrer After Earth, the studio has also sealed plans to get out in front of the summer 2013 tenpole with a number of other initiatives. Overbrook Entertainment, Sony Pictures Consumer Products, The Random House Publishing Group and Ebury Publishing is set to create a broad line of publishing products based on the film and the universe that was created from the script by Gary Whitta and Shyamalan, based on a story by Will Smith. The film is produced by Caleeb Pinkett, Smith, James Lassiter, and Shyamalan.

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WME Signs Director M. Night Shyamalan

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday November 11, 2011 @ 1:31pm PSTTags: Jaden Smith, M. Night Shyamalan, Will Smith, WME
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: The agency signing wars had been quiet, but they just heated up. WME has signed M. Night Shyamalan. The writer, director and producer has been developing as his next film the Sony Pictures tent pole A.E. which has Will … Read More »

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Theater Owners Fight Premium VOD In Canada, As Chris Nolan, Quentin Tarantino And Others Join Outcry

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday June 1, 2011 @ 9:52am PDTTags: Chris Nolan, David Dobkin, John Fithian, Jon Favreau, M. Night Shyamalan, Mark Boal, NATO, Quentin Tarantino

In a keynote speech at industry confab ShowCanada, NATO President & CEO John Fithian today urged Canadian movie theater operators to be vigilant in their focus on theatrical release windows. Challenging a recently announced proposal from four Hollywood studios to release movies early to the home on “premium” VOD, Fithian explained the dangers of the model. “Early VOD releases to the home could damage the movie industry in two significant ways,” Fithian asserted. “Early releases will reduce movie ticket sales, and will exacerbate movie theft by giving pirates an early pristine copy of movies.” Fithian also reiterated NATO’s call for the participating studios to release sales data from their experiment. “How can the industry evaluate the studios’ test if they continue to hide the facts.”

Fithian’s remarks at ShowCanada marked an expanded, global phase in NATO’s work to preserve the theatrical release window. Beginning with Canada this week, moving to Europe later in the month and onto Australia in August, Fithian will hold dozens of meetings with leading international exhibitors on the topic. “We hope that this early VOD experiment begins and ends in the U.S.,” Fithian continued. “But if not, we want exhibitors everywhere to be prepared.”

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Will Smith Joins Son Jaden On Sci-Fi Space Film With M. Night Shyamalan

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday April 4, 2011 @ 11:55am PDTTags: Jaden Smith, M. Night Shyamalan, Sony Pictures, Will Smith
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Entertainment has signed Will Smith and son Jaden Smith to star in an untitled futuristic science fiction adventure film that will be directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Shymalan wrote the script with Gary Whitta, and Overbrook’s James … Read More »

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MRC And M. Night Shyamalan ‘Reincarnate’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday September 15, 2010 @ 8:16am PDTTags: Chris Sparling, M. Night Shyamalan, Media Rights Capital, Movies, Night Chronicles
Mike Fleming

Media Rights Capital and M Night Shyamalan have set the next thriller to be made under their Night Chronicles banner. And once again, Shyamalan won’t be directing. Instead, The Last Exorcism‘s Daniel Stamm will helm Reincarnate, scripted by Chris Sparling (Buried). Production will … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Devil’

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Wednesday July 14, 2010 @ 3:36pm PDTTags: Devil, M. Night Shyamalan, Universal Pictures, Video

Universal’s release date is September 17th:

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UPDATE: ‘Last Airbender’ Opens To $16M Thursday, Including $3M Midnights

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Thursday July 1, 2010 @ 10:31am PDTTags: 3D, M. Night Shyamalan, Paramount, Reviews, The Last Airbender, The Last Airbender Box Office, Tracking

thelastairbender-movie-aang-poster-550x814UPDATE: Sources tell me that Paramount’s The Last Airbender opened to $16+M Thursday, including the $3 million from its midnight shows. The pic based on the Nickelodeon animated TV series should be on its way to $60M for … Read More »

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M. Night Shyamalan Sets ‘Buried’ Writer Chris Sparling For Night Chronicles Thriller

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday June 23, 2010 @ 2:43pm PDTTags: Chris Sparling, M. Night Shyamalan, Media Rights Capital, Movies, Night Chronicles, Production
Mike Fleming

m-night-shyamalanM. Night Shyamalan has set the second feature to be made through his genre producing banner Night Chronicles. The project comes as Shyalaman promotes development exec Ashwin Rajan to president of production for the Media Rights Capital-backed genre label. Shyamalan and … Read More »

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