M Night Shyamalan's New Movie ‘Split’ Release Date Confirmed; Sequel To His Previous Film, 'The Visit?'

The M. Night Shyamalan's new movie "Split" will be released on theatres on Jan. 20, 2017, and is speculated to be a sequel to his recent movie, "The Visit".

The film will have stars, Anya Taylor Joy, Betty Buckley, James McAvoy, Jessica Sula and Haley Lu Richardson. It will be produced by Jason Blum together with Blumhouse Productions for a second time collaboration since the last movie "The Visit" which earned $89 million with only $5 million budget.

The movie will be a suspense thriller that has elements of the supernatural, according to Variety.

"X-Men" star James McAvoy will be seen differently from Daniel Radcliff in "Victor Frankenstein" alongside with Anya Taylor Joy who made a good impression with her upcoming-horror drama "The Witch" according to Screen Crush.

Another producer who joined the team was Marc Bienstockn, who will work together with executive producers Steven Schneider and Ashwin Rajan, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The fans of the movie in Cinema Blend felt a little down because of the release date is set in January where the film community considers it as 'dump months" for movies. "Studios usually like to fill multiplexes with films that they don't have too much hope in, as well as teen or horror genre pictures, or films that were deemed unmarketable or fared poorly in test screenings," according to Cinema Blend.

M. Night Shyamalan's "The Visit" was a success and garnered positive response from the people who watched the film saying, "It had a nice mixture of thrills and laughs" and was "an improvement" for Shyamalan previous films, according to Cinema Blend. He had produced promising films like "After Earth," "The Happening," and "The Last Airbender," as reported on Screen Crush.

The new film's release date was previously set on Jan. 27, 2017 but then Universal change it to a week earlier and now will be released on Jan. 20, 2017, according to IGN.