EXCLUSIVE:Warner BrosPictures Group has inked a multi-year first-look directing and producing agreement with two-time Oscar-nominated filmmakerM.

Night Shyamalan, whose movies have grossed $3.3 billion at the box office.

In a career spanning four decades, Shyamalan has the rare distinction of having film open at No.

M. Night Shyamalan

M. Night ShyamalanMiles Boyer

1 in each of those decades.

Most recently, he saw his seventh No.

In addition, Blinding Edge will continue to ramp up production with an eye to finding auteur-driven genre projects.

WGA West building in Hollywood

Where I write and direct is my home, says Shyamalan.

Warner Bros. has a storied history of cinema.

We all win when movies succeed in theaters.

Other big pics includeSigns($408.2M),The Village($256.7M), andThe Visit.

The series finale is March 17.

Shyamalan is repped by Range Media Partners and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.