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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, Italian director Francesca Gregorini sued Shyamalan and the streaming servicefor copyright infringement, alleging that Servant, which ran for …

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 seasons on the streaming platform, infringes on elements from her 2013 movie The Truth About Emanuel. On Tuesday, the case seeking $81 …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Even when he misses, and boy, can he miss, M. Night Shyamalan continues to have one of the most compelling careers in Hollywood. The director’s more recent efforts …

By now, you’ve likely heard that Trap, the latest movie from M. Night Shyamalan that opened this weekend, revolves around two central plot points: A super-dorky dad played by Josh Hartnett has taken his teen daughter to see her favorite singer at a concert that doubles as a trap (see …

Josh Hartnett has always wanted to do what was least expected of him. What might be expected of a broad-chested, six-foot-three-inch football player turned actor with a strong jaw and deep-set brown eyes? Roles like himbo prom king. Daring pilot. Brave soldier. Which, sure, he has played. (See: The Virgin …

Saleka, the R&B-singing daughter of director M. Night Shyamalan, has shared the song “Release” as Lady Raven, the pop star she portrays in her dad’s upcoming cat-and-mouse serial killer movie Trap. In the film, Josh Hartnett plays a father/murderer who, with his young daughter, attends a Lady Raven concert, only …

Deep in the woods of West Ireland — in “a forest that does not appear on any map” — there is a house. A steel door, blessed with numerous locks and bolts to keep its occupants safe, is the most prominent feature up front. The back of the house appears, …

Forget the canary in the coal mine, or the ominous portent of a bird flying in to a house — there’s no harbinger of doom greater than a bird that supposedly can’t talk suddenly chiming in with a “Try not to die.” That omen greets Dakota Fanning in the new …

M. Night Shyamalan, the Titan of the Twist, is set to return this summer with a crazy-looking new thriller called Trap. It’s about a father, played by Josh Hartnett, who takes his daughter to a big pop concert, spots the cops surrounding the arena, and learns they’re laying a “trap” …

M. Night Shyamlan’s 2010 film The Last Airbender may be the gold standard for how not to translate a beloved property from one medium to another. Though Shyamalan covered much of the plot of the first season of the animated fantasy epic Avatar: The Last Airbender, he misunderstood nearly everything …