M Night Shyamalan scores big win in $81m copyright trial over popular Apple TV series

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Or get out of jail after a seven-day trial in Riverside, California.

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The film portrayed a woman who immersed herself in a fantasy of motherhood with a baby doll, while her nanny knowingly enabled this unusual scenario.

Gregorini's other creators claim to have had no prior knowledge of his film beforehand, describing the circumstances as being "clearly, 100%, a case of mistaken identity."

He is reported to have had box office earnings of over £2.7 billion and more than $3.3 billion.

This accusation completely contradicts everything I do and everything I aim to represent," he said in court. "I would never countenance that and neither would anyone who works with me.

A scene in which a nanny treats a doll as a real child and subsequently collapses, was taken from an old film.

“It's just something nobody owns, it’s just a thing, no one owns it.”

It's a coming-of-age drama. A panel were shown the first three episodes of the series, as well as the film, at the start of the court case.

Appearing at the Sundance Film Festival upon its release, the film faired poorly, earning only £155 in Los Angeles and £6 from one viewer in Philadelphia.

"Ms Gregorini is seeking a windfall here," Shyamalan's solicitor Brittany Amadi said to the court as the trial got underway.

"I request that Mr. Fabre owes nothing to Mrs. Gregorini.”

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