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  M. Night Shyamalan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Night Shyamalan (last name pronounced /ˈʃɑməˌlɑn/, born Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan, on August 6, 1970 in Pondicherry, India) is a screen writer and director.
Shyamalan was raised in Penn Valley, Pennsylvania, United States a suburb of Philadelphia after his doctor parents emigrated to the United States.
Shyamalan is working on a new project called Lady in the Water which will be shot in Pennsylvania.Shyamalan also wrote the screenplay for an adaptation of Life of Pi which is to be directed by Jean Pierre Jeunet.
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 M. Night Shyamalan -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Hallmarks of Shyamalan's films include unexpected plot twists, realistic treatment of horror or (Literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society) science fiction themes, camera shots taken at unique angles, and a cameo appearance by Shyamalan himself in each film.
On each of Shyamalan's (A digital videodisc; a recording (as of a movie) on an optical disk that can be played on a computer or a television set) DVDs is also a short home movie made when he was a youngster, which are often as humorous as they are intriguing.
Shyamalan is working on a new project called (additional info and facts about Lady in the Water) Lady in the Water which will be shot in Pennsylvania.
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 M. Night Shyamalan: Method to the Madness by Daniel Calvisi www.actfourscreenplays.com
Night Shyamalan is the modern master of the high-concept thriller.
Shyamalan never disappoints his eager fan base by delivering his trademark -- yeah, he may deny it, but we know it and he knows it -- it's his trademark and it's how he structures all of his scripts: the BIG ending.
But Shyamalan the screenwriter is always conscious of lines of action and theme, so he decides to wrap up loose ends, which sticks out as the least bold choice in a risky script and ensures that the talky epilogue aids the deterioration of the impact of the Big Ending.
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 Encyclopedia: Manoj Night Shyamalan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Hallmarks of Shyamalan's films include unexpected plot twists, realistic treatment of horror or science fiction themes, camera shots taken at unique angles, and a cameo appearance by Shyamalan himself in each film.
Shyamalan was born in Pondicherry, India, but was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania after his parents, both doctors, emigrated to the United States.
Shyamalan is working on a new project called The Life Of Pi which will be shot in Pondicherry, India, his birth place.
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 webindia123-Indian personalities famous abroad- Manoj Night Shyamalan
Manoj Night Shyamalan, alias Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan, director, screenwriter and actor was born on 6th August 1970 in
His parents Nelliyate C Shyamalan and Jayalakshmi were both doctors and the family moved to the United States when Shyamalan was still a young boy and he was raised in a suburban area of Penn Valley of Philadelphia.
Shyamalan, now living in Philadelphia with his wife Bhavana and their daughter Selitha has become the most recognised Indian name in Hollywood with his phenomenal success.
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 M. Night Shyamalan - Wikpedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Night Shyamalan (born Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan, on August 6, 1970 in Pondicherry, India) is a screen writer and director.
Shyamalan was born in Pondicherry, India, but was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania after his doctor parents emigrated to the United States.
Shyamalan is working on a new project called Lady in the Water which will be shot in Pennsylvania.
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 Is Manoj Night Shyamalan a freak?
Kahn and Shyamalan drive away, and as soon as the director drops Kahn off, he rushes back to the nightspot, hunts up the fan, gets from her the discarded first photograph, and has a delicious little frisson when he discovers that there is this blur somewhere around the right side of Shyamalan's face.
Shyamalan is known to have made home movies.
NIght Shyamalan is no freak, whoever said that must be a very confused freak.
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 rediff.com: Transcript of the M Night Shyamalan Chat
M Night Shyamalan : Razor: The idea for the story was that it was the story of a real man who may realise one day that he may be a real life version of a superhero.
M Night Shyamalan : Melanie: In both the films the surprise happened at the ending of the film, when I was looking deep in the film and the endings came out off that...
M Night Shyamalan : rediff.com: I mean basically all the movies are about cherishing life and how the death of someone makes you evaluate your life and it is definitely an issue on my mind, its always been there...not sure why.
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 The making of Night Shyamalan
There may have been an undercurrent of tension between Manoj and his parents during his teen years, for the latter, by their own account, were less permissive about dating and the keeping of late nights than the parents of his 'native American' peers.
Shyamalan senior also told me that one reason why his son had refused to shift to Hollywood was that his family life was dear to him.
By now it is common knowledge, so to speak, that 14 of Night Shyamalan's relations, including his parents, are in the medical profession and that it had been taken for granted that he himself would opt for medicine when the time came.
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 Indiainfo.com -> News -> A journey into Night's neighbourhood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Though Manoj was born at Mahi, he was taken to the US when he was just six-months old and had his education there.
It was sheer fate that the son of a doctor couple strayed into the film industry and excelled in his work at a young age, said a neighbour, Balakrishnan, of the 29-year-old director.
Manoj found his soulmate in Bhavana, who had settled in the US from Calcutta.
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 BBC - collective - Signs ~ vhs (M. Night Shyamalan 2002)
The first time I heard the name "Manoj Night Shyamalan" I had a Sixth Sense that it was good, to my pleasant surprise the result was worth an 8/10.
The second time I heard the name "Manoj Night Shyamalan" I had an Unbreakable confidence that it would be good and with that heroic belief bolstering a comicly mediocre offering the result snuck in at 6/10.
Manoj - if you're gonna go near a camera again pull your socks right up and make a decision about whether you want to be an actor or a director because at the moment you're neither.
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 M. Night Shyamalan Online - M. Night information, trivia, photos, and more
Here you'll find information and news on filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan, including updates on new projects, production stills from films past, and even a quiz on the accomplished director.
A director who struck gold with the 1999 blockbuster The Sixth Sense, M. Night Shyamalan came out of almost nowhere to become one of the year's greatest sensations.
On Tuesday (July 20th), acclaimed filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan took questions from Good Morning America's Joel Siegel, as well as diehard fans watching via satellite in theaters around the country...
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 Manoj Night Shyamalan - Hollywood Filmmaker Shyamalan - M. Night Shyamalan Biography - Sixth Sense Shyamalan
Manoj Night Shyamalan is a US based and internationally acclaimed Hollywood director, screenwriter and actor.
Manoj Night Shyamalan had an intense passion for movies from an early childhood, when he used to make small films using his father's cam.
Manoj Night Shyamalan was born on 6th August 1970 in Pondicherry, India.
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 Referaty.atlas.sk - M. Night Shyamalan biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Shyamalan sold a second screenplay, for a project entitled Labor of Love, to Fox in 1993; the project failed to get off the ground, reportedly because the studio was unwilling to put Shyamalan in the director’s chair.
Shyamalan signed on in 1997 to rewrite the screenplay for Stuart Little, the popular family film released in 1999 and featuring Michael J. Fox as the voice for the titular animated mouse.
Shyamalan lives in the suburbs of Philadelphia with his wife, Bhavna, whom he married in 1993, and their two children.
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 Manoj Shyamalan spins another spooky yarn : Bollywood News : ApunKaChoice.Com
Manoj Night Shyamalan’s penchant for the supernatural continues with the man spinning yet another spooky yarn.
Shyamalan is through writing the script of his next film, tentatively titled “Signs”.
Shyamalan, had become one of the highest paid scriptwriters in Hollywood after he sold the script of “Unbreakable” for a whopping $5 million.
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Shyamalan is in many ways like Spielberg in reverse, in the sense that he's darker, spookier, and also has a religious faith.
Children, in an M. Night film, bring with them a fearful irony: they are young and sensitive enough to sense the uncanny much before the adults, but they also suffer much more when faced with the supernatural.
Night's heroes are suffering heroes, with souls, and they go through a process of discovery that goodness is a powerfully positive force in their world.
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 A phenomenon named Shyamalan
Shyamalan was born in Pondicherry on August 6, 1970.
N C Shyamalan is a cardiologist and Jayalakshmi a gynaecologist.
What Shyamalan values is not so much the money that his films fetch him but the recognition that has come his way as a result of his filmic endeavours.
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 M. Night Shyamalan - TheBestLinks.com - Manoj Night Shyamalan, August 6, Film director, India, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Night Shyamalan, August 6, Film director, India, July...
Night Shyamalan (born Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan, on August 6, 1970) is a writer and director.
Hallmarks of Shyamalan's films include unexpected plot twists, realistic treatment of horror or science fiction themes, and a cameo appearance by Shyamalan himself in each film.
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 Manoj Shyamalan spins another eerie yarn : Bollywood News : IndiaExpress.Com
Once again Shyamalan is on familiar grounds and has spun a gripping spooky yarn to keep the audience on the edge of their seats.
The idea for the film sprung in Manoj’s mind while he was nursing an injury he got during a basketball game.
With this film Shyamalan has become the highest-paid scriptwriter (he received a record-busting sum of 5 million dollars from Disney Productions for the film’s script) and one of the best-paid directors in Hollywood.
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 PlanetGuru The # 1 Portal for South Asians in the US
Indian American Manoj Night Shyamalan is all set to write and direct his next film, the fantasy thriller "Lady In The Water".
Los Angeles, March 25: Indian American Manoj Night Shyamalan is all set to write and direct his next film, the fantasy thriller "Lady In The Water".
Disney and Shyamalan discussed "Lady In The Water", but decided mutually to part ways on the project after no understanding could be arrived at.
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 Shyama-elan: Sixth sense for scripts- The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Some call it vanity, but as far as Shyamalan is concerned, he'd rather go home to his wife and kids every evening rather than being away for months on a shoot.
He locked himself in to write what he felt was a winning script, flew down to Hollywood, checked into Four Seasons, and directed his agents to auction the script to the highest bidder with conditions and caveats that bespoke chutzpah (among them, only he will direct the film and that too only in Philly).
Shyamalan was on his way to stardom, and in the process put Philly on Americas film-making map.
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 John Podhoretz reviews Signs on National Review Online
Shyamalan is 31 years old, and yet he's already written and directed five motion pictures.
It could be because Shyamalan's new picture, Signs, proves Hollywood is capable of releasing a spooky and amusing scary movie without needing to show the mutilated body of a naked teenage girl hanging out by the patio to score a shock.
Shyamalan understands that we can appreciate and feel for characters in pain far more easily than with characters who lead happy and contented lives.
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But Night, with a cumulative box office of $600 million in the US alone, refuses to depart from what he believes is his cinematic signature: exploring fear with the audience.
Night's first feature film, Praying with Anger, was an emotional work made up of personal moments.
Night is not defensive about his unwillingness to make his private life public, saying, "I am a quiet person.
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India-born screenwriter-director Manoj Night Shyamalan at 31, is among the younger celebrities and highest paid screenwriter in the harsh, competitive and combative world of Hollywood.
Initially being rejected after a string of failed projects, Shyamalan has not only blazed a path for aspiring South Asian directors in Hollywood, but also shown that with enough dedication and confidence - anything is possible.
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 GodShyamalan.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Manoj Night Shyamalan has been alive since the conception of perception.
Shyamalan (or light) allows us to see, which explains why Manoj Night Shyamalan, the person, creates motion pictures.
Eyes are the key to the soul; M. Night Shyamanlan's divine cinematic constructions penetrate the body to reach the soul.
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 The Hindu : An 'unbreakable' Hollywood link
CHENNAI'S VEHICLE to Hollywood fame, Manoj Night Shyamalan's vacations in India are now a thing of the past.
Jaya Shyamalan and Dr. Shyamalan, were in the city to recollect the sweet memories of their prodigious son making super-8 movies at the age of nine, raising money for his first ever feature at the age of 21 and making one of the ten best grossers in Hollywood film history.
Jaya has more vivid memories of Manoj's first movie, ``Praying with Anger,'' which he shot at his ancestral home in Chennai's Defence Colony, as she and her sister were the de-facto production managers.
www.hinduonnet.com /2001/01/13/stories/09130651.htm   (527 words)

  
 Night Shyamalan is highest-paid scriptwriter in US
Manoj Night Shyamalan, director of Sixth Sense, the 15th highest grosser of all time in the US and an Oscar-nominee, has become the highest paid scriptwriter and one of the best paid directors in Hollywood following a $5m pact with Disney Productions to direct a film based on his new script.
Shyamalan received a record-breaking sum of $5m from Disney Productions for his new script, "Unbreakable," which is again a suspense thriller with supernatural overtones.
With this pact, Shyamalan is now the highest paid scriptwriter and one of the best paid directors in the business.
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