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There’s enough of both in “Lady in the Water,” the first film from the adamantly-PG-13 director M. Night Shyamalan since the recent public shipwreck of his relationship with Disney and his jump to the Warner Bros. vessel...
Alienating his core audience is one thing; alienating a studio is another. In a move that caused no small commotion in the industry, Shyamalan and Disney, which had sponsored his four big films, parted ways over his latest movie. According to an adoring new book, Michael Bamberger's The Man Who Heard Voices: Or, How M. Night Shyamalan Risked His Career on a Fairy Tale (Gotham Books), the Mouse House offered him $60 million to make the film, but the director felt the studio didn't give the script enough love. (His assistant flew to Los Angeles to deliver...
...relationship with Disney is definitely parent-child, in all the best ways and in some of the difficult ways," Shyamalan, 35, says. "The things that made me conventional were celebrated, and the things that made me unconventional were not celebrated. I felt a large part of me was unconventional, and I didn't want that part to die." So Shyamalan went to Warner Bros., which is releasing Lady and which, he says, "has already offered to make the next movie, sight unseen." Disney, in a statement, said it wishes the director "the best of luck with Lady and all future...
When he was CEO of Proctor & Gamble, John Pepper was one of several chief execs forced to disrupt its chummy corporate culture. As the newly appointed nonexecutive chairman of the Walt Disney Co., he may aim to keep things calm. A shareholder revolt forced the board to remove CEO Michael Eisner as chairman in 2004 and opt for a nonexec chair. Although Pepper lacks media experience, A.G. Edwards analyst Michael Kupinski says Disney will benefit from Pepper's global-branding background as it expands worldwide. With shares up 30% since October, Disney's shareholders have been as quiet...
...break with Disney...