Lady in the Water

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• According to the book The Man Who Heard Voices, or How M. Night Shyamalan Risked His Career on a Fairy Tale, one of the reasons why Shyamalan decided to part with Disney was because the Disney president of development Nina Jacobsen took her son to a party instead of staying home to read the script for Lady in the Water. Shyamalan had it personally couriered to her, and to add insult to injury, she didn't like it anyway. Shyamalan went off in a huff, and the "creative differences" he purportedly had with Disney was that he simply felt there was nothing creative about Disney anymore. He took the script to Warner Bros instead, but without the usual marketing campaign that Disney promoted his other films with, Lady in the Water was a box-office flop.
• DIRTRADE(M. Night Shyamalan): [self]: Acting in his movies. His character, "Vick Ran", is a reference to Vikram Seth, an Indian author.
• Movie Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): 9-across cannot touch 27-down in a crossword puzzle, as Mr. Dury says interpreting the puzzle while Story is in the shower.
• Movie Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When he sees Vick's book "The Cookbook," Cleveland Heep says to himself, "This is s-s-s-s-silly." Stutterers do not have a stammer when talking to themselves; they only stutter when talking to other people.