The director was accused of lifting plot elements and scenes from an independent film for his Apple TV series that was shot in Philly.

M. Night Shyamalan was cleared of copyright infringement in the $81 million lawsuit over the Apple TV+ series Servant, with a jury unanimously ruling in favor of the director Friday. In 2020 ...

A federal jury has ruled in favor of director M. Night Shyamalan in a copyright trial that accused the filmmaker of stealing ideas for his Apple TV+ show Servant. What was the M. Night Shyamalan trial ...

Filmmaker Francesca Gregorini had sought $81 million in damages, claiming that Shyamalan lifted ideas from her film, 'The Truth About Emanuel.' ...

M. Night Shyamalan stands accused of copying ideas from the 2013 independent film The Truth About Emanuel for his Apple TV+ show, Servant. Photo by Jeff Spicer (Getty Images for Warner Bros.

A federal jury ruled unanimously in favor of M. Night Shyamalan ... against Apple, Shyamalan and writer Tony Basgallop, among others, was filed back in 2020, shortly after “Servant” premiered ...

M. Night Shyamalan is on trial for alleged ... from Italian director Francesca Gregorini, who claims that Shyamalan's Apple TV+ show Servant stole substantially similar concepts from her 2013 ...

M. Night Shyamalan testified Wednesday that he and his collaborators on the Apple TV+ show “Servant” did not steal from a 2013 independent film about a delusional mother and her baby doll.

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 ...