A Canadian author has sued NBC Universal and director Judd Apatow, claiming they ripped off the premise of the hit movie "Knocked Up" from her book of the same name. In an article for Maclean's magazine this month, Calgary-based author Rebecca Eckler details similarities between her book and the film, in which an up-and-coming TV reporter gets drunk at a party and then gets pregnant from a one-night stand.
June 08, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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A Canadian author has sued NBC Universal and director Judd Apatow claiming they ripped off the premise of the hit movie “Knocked Up” from her book of the same name.
In an article for Maclean’s magazine this month, Calgary-based author Rebecca Eckler details similarities between her book and the film, in which an up-and-coming TV reporter gets drunk at a party and then gets pregnant from a one-night stand.
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