Francesca Gregorini accused M. Night Shyamalan and Apple of lifting ideas from 'The Truth About Emanuel,' which she wrote and directed, for the Apple TV+ series 'Servant.' A jury found otherwise.

Italian-born filmmaker Francesca Gregorini alleged that Servant lifted key narrative elements from her 2013 thriller drama The Truth About Emanuel.The film follows a woman treating a baby doll as ...

Francesca Gregorini accused M. Night Shyamalan and Apple of lifting ideas from 'The Truth About Emanuel,' which she wrote and directed, for the Apple TV+ series 'Servant.' A jury found otherwise.

Director M. Night Shyamalan went on trial on Tuesday over allegations that he copied from an independent film to make the Apple TV+ show “Servant.”. Francesca Gregorini, an Italian-born ...

In 2020, Italian director Francesca Gregorini sued M. Night Shyamalan and Apple TV+ for copyright infringement. The lawsuit alleges that the Shyamalan-directed series Servant, which ran for four ...

Gregorini sued Apple, Shyamalan and others involved in "Servant" shortly after the show debuted in 2019. She alleged that the show clearly borrowed key elements of her film, which depicts a nanny ...

The seven-day trial in Riverside, Calif., which began Jan. 14., saw Italian-born director Francesca Gregorini seeking as much as $81 million in damages, alleging that Shyamalan and collaborators ...

After the jury saw Gregorini's movie and just three episodes of the show, they unanimously came to a conclusion: Shyamalan and the crew behind the show are not guilty.There is an undeniably ...

The director told jurors that the copyright dispute with “The Truth About Emanuel” director Francesca Gregorini is “clearly, 100%, a misunderstanding.” More from Variety ...