EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that two-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan has exited WME, the agency he’s been at since 2011.
The director recently had his seventh No. 1 opening at the box office this past weekend with Universal’s Knock at the Cabin.
The film debuted to $14.1 million domestic, $21M worldwide off a thrifty $20M production cost. Shyamalan’s former WME agents Tanya Cohen and Rich Cook went over to Range Media Partners to become managers, and the $3.3 billion-grossing filmmaker followed them in April 2021.
This happens in the business — clients go where their working relationships are. Cook is a Range co-founder. Range also represents Shyamalan’s production company, Blinding Edge Pictures, run by president of production Ashwin Rajan.
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