Night Shyamalan appeared in federal court on January 14, defending against allegations that his Apple TV+ series Servant plagiarized elements from Francesca Gregorini’s 2013 independent film ...

Last week’s decision marks the culmination of a five-year legal battle where Italian-born filmmaker Francesca Gregorini sought $81 million in damages, claiming that Shyamalan lifted ideas from her ...

Back in 2020, shortly after Servant premiered on Apple TV+, Shyamalan and Apple were sued by Francesca Gregorini, director of the 2013 film “The Truth About Emmanuel.” Per Variety, the $81 ...

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 director Francesca Gregorini had been seeking up to $81 million in damages after alleging that Shyamalan and his collaborators had lifted narrative elements from her 2013 film The ...

The director told jurors that the copyright dispute with “The Truth About Emanuel” director Francesca Gregorini is “clearly, 100%, a misunderstanding.” “This accusation is the exact opposite of ...

Shyamalan was sued by Italian-born filmmaker Francesca Gregorini — the stepdaughter of the Beatles drummer Ringo Starr — over claims that "Servant" used the same premise and other elements ...

M. Night Shyamalan and Apple win a copyright trial after being accused of stealing narrative elements for the series 'Servant' from Francesca Gregorini's 2013 film 'The Truth About Emanuel'.

When they reconnected in 2004, DeGeneres was with photographer Alexandra Hedison and de Rossi was with singer Francesca Gregorini. However, after they split with their respective partners ...

In 2020, Italian director Francesca Gregorini sued Shyamalan and the streaming service for copyright infringement, alleging that Servant, which ran for four seasons on Apple TV+, stole elements ...