A lawsuit has been brewing that alleged the new series is a thinly veiled copy of the NBC medical drama ER, which Crichton's estate has the rights to. Recently Warner Bros. Televi ...

The apparent similarities between the two series are at the heart of an ongoing legal dispute between the creators of “The Pitt” and the estate of the late author Michael Crichton. Crichton ...

The never-realized '90s animated series Escape from Jurassic Park was shaping up to be an ambitious continuation of the first ...

A judge has allowed the estate of Michael Crichton to ... and that Crichton’s contract does not allow his heirs to prevent it from making a TV show set in a hospital. Wells, the executive ...

A lawsuit filed by the estate of Michael Crichton over the alleged ... running popular medical drama that was created by Crichton. Both series focus on a team of medical staff in the busy ...

HBO's ambitious science-fiction thriller 'Westworld' is based on the 1973 Michael Crichton film of the same name. The series developed by Jonathan Nolan stars Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris ...

Michael Crichton’s estate has overcome a challenge and can move ahead with its lawsuit alleging the Max medical drama The Pitt is derivative of Crichton’s 1990s TV hit ER, a Los Angeles judge ...

The court ruled against Warner Bros. Television, which said that it was exercising its free speech rights in creating 'The Pitt.' ...

This science-fiction Western series from Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy was inspired by Michael Crichton's Westworld (1973) and is set at a Wild-West theme park created by Dr. Robert Ford (Sir ...

"I think it’s quite good," says the best-selling author in a Q&A that also covers his 32nd 'Alex Cross' novel, finishing a Michael Crichton manuscript ... bring an Amazon series starring ...

Television over its ER revival look-alike from the estate of Michael Crichton ... letter from WBTV in 2022 for resumption of the series. Crichton had secured a so-called “frozen rights ...