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“When they said the first Friday grosses, I was like What?
Because it was meant to do much less,” Shyamalan recounted.
“I called Bruce [Willis] or Bruce called me and said, We won Friday.
“I call the same number and it said $8 million [again].
I was like Oh, shit.
They didnt re-do the tape.
Not realising that it didnt drop.
Thats never happened since Titanic.”
Shyamalan continues, “Literally I told the family that they must have to put the tape in.
I call back and its still [$8 million]…
Someone called me and said you dropped 1% or something like that.”
It proved a winning formula at the box office, as it broke several records at the time.
That included the biggest August domestic opening in history.
Malcolm had actually died during a confrontation with a former patient at the beginning of the film.
For more, check out our verdict on Shyamalan’s latest with theTrap review.
