Blinding Edge Pictures is an American film and television production company, founded in 1998 by

M. Night Shyamalan Manoj Nelliyattu M. Night Shyamalan ( ; born August 6, 1970) is an American filmmaker. His films often employ supernatural plots and twist endings. The cumulative gross of his films exceeds $3.3 billion globally. Shyamalan has received vario ...

. The company is known for producing films, such as the '' Unbreakable'' series, '' Signs'', '' The Village'', '' The Happening'', ''

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'', '' The Visit'', '' Old'' and ''

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Overview

On August 2, 1998,

founded Blinding Edge Pictures. The first films produced by the company include '' Unbreakable'', '' Signs'', and '' The Village''. In July 2008, The Night Chronicles was formed as a division for Blinding Edge Pictures and Media Rights Capital. The plan for this division was to create a trilogy of films with Shyamalan writing and producing the stories and picking the filmmakers while Media Rights Capital would finance the films. The first installment in ''The Night Chronicles'' trilogy was the 2010 horror film ''

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'' helmed by John Erick Dowdle, the film revolves on five people trapped in an elevator where one of them is

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. In June 2010, ''Reincarnate'' (formerly ''Twelve Strangers'') was announced to be the second installment in the trilogy which would be helmed by Daniel Stamm, the film revolves on a jury that's haunted by supernatural forces while deliberating on a murder case. In September 2010, the third installment in the trilogy would be a sequel to Shyamalan's film ''Unbreakable'', the film would've focused on a villain origin story. In 2015, the company released its first television series '' Wayward Pines'' created by Chad Hodge and executive produced by Shyamalan and released by Fox. In January 2016, it was announced that Shyamalan would executive produce a reboot of '' Tales from the Crypt'' as part of

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's new two-hour horror block. The network ordered a 10-episode season that was slated for Fall 2017. The series was to keep the episodic

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format based on the '' Tales from the Crypt'' comics by

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rather than the 1989 series, with the Cryptkeeper not being featured in the reboot. In June 2017, it was announced that TNT would not move forward with the series due to legal rights. In 2019, the company released its second television series ''

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'', created by Tony Basgallop and executive produced by Shyamalan and released by

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. In February 2023, Shyamalan signed a multi-year first-look directing and producing deal with Warner Bros. Pictures, thus ending his deal with

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. The deal would have Shyamalan and his company develop original projects for the filmmaker to produce and/or direct for WBPG production divisions Warner Bros. Pictures and

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. The first two films from the deal included '' The Watchers,'' written and directed by Shyamalan's daughter Ishana Night Shyamalan and '' Trap,'' written and directed by Shyamalan, both released in 2024.M. Night Shyamalan Signs Multi-Year First-Look Deal at Warner Bros, Sets 'Trap' At Studio
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Filmography

Television series

References

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