M Night Shyamalan scores big win in $81m copyright trial over popular Apple TV series The ‘Sixth Sense’ director testified that the situation was ‘clearly, 100%, a misunderstanding’.
He scored a big win in a copyright lawsuit] “This accusation is the exact opposite of everything I do and everything I try to represent,” said Shyamalan in court.
Shyamalan’s lawyers also pointed out the many differences between the projects, noting that Servant is a supernatural thriller while The Truth About Emanuel is a coming-of-age drama.
Gregorini is seeking a windfall here,” Shyamalan’s attorney Brittany Amadi told the court when the trial began.
Gregorini claimed that scenes in Servant where a nanny treats a doll as a real child, and faints, had been lifted from her film.
