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The 'Lady' Makes Shyamalan Leave Talent Agency

Writer/director walks out on United Talent Agency

By Elena Gorgan, Entertainment News Editor

16th of November 2006, 10:36 GMT

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All good relationships are bound to end at some point or another and the one that binds a star with a certain talent agency is prone to the same fate. After Jim Carrey walked out on the United Talent Agency, the one that brought him the 'Mask' part and all the other roles that turned him into the biggest paid comedian of the day for 15 years, M. Night Shyamalan also decided that it's time to call it quits.

The famous director and writer had been with the UTA for almost ten years, having signed with them right before breaking into the industry with the box-office hit 'The Sixth Sense'. This 1999 movie pushed Shyamalan's name right on the list of A-class celebrities, grossing $293.5 million and earning him Oscar nominations for 'Best Director' and 'Original Screenplay' categories.

After 'The Sixth Sense', the director continued his successful streak with 'Unbreakable', receiving an estimated $5 million only for its script. It all ended this summer, with 'Lady in the Water', a movie based on a fairy tale that flopped so big at the box office that people already started talking about the end of his career.

'Lady' only made about $42.2 million, thus becoming the inspiration for Michael Bamberger, who wrote the book 'The Man Who Heard Voices: Or, How Mr. Night Shyalaman Risked His Career on a Fairy Tale'. It all added up and the director must have blamed UTA for the failure... or the other way around.

'Variety' informs that Shyalaman left UTA and went for the leader agency in showbiz, Creative Artists Agency. Now, the world is waiting to see which would be his next move? Another fairy tale/huge flop or a big hit like 'Signs' or 'The Village'? Stay tuned.
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Comment #1 by: benjaminweill on 17 Aug 2007, 05:52 GMT reply to this comment

I mean seriously... this guy is not brilliant. He doesn't have any vision. His first film was good, but after you saw it once, the second time you already feel annoyed. The was a good shot, nothing more, we are far away from an "apolypse now" ! Unbreakable, was... too long, a good idea, a good marketing com, but kinda "kidgarden" concept... I mean why not. BUT Lady in the water is just a sad pompous pretentious pathetic thing.. This director just reveled him self as an immature spoiled kid, nothing more. I should just wake up, grow as an adult and stup this xxxxshxit bedtime stories. We are far away from a scorsese or a Polansky. This show us how showbuisness could be sad, making a big deal of nothing and a randomn OK director. 5 millions for the script. I feel bad for these people. Some guy would direct master peace just with that money and keep would keep themself easy (memento, donnie darko). It's time to become "humble", to shut down the noise with talent agency and things like that. In same way, I am glad he made A BIG FLOP. HEY PRODUCERS !!! JUST WAKE THE FXXX UP AND STOP WATCHING THE PEOPLE AROUND THE FILM BUT THE FILMS !!!

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