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box office.Īccording to the lawsuit, filed by the Sheldon Abend Revocable Trust, the basis for Hitchcock’s 1954 film was “Murder from a Fixed Viewpoint,” a short story by Cornell Woolrich. Rear Window : Woolrich, Cornell: Amazon.es: Libros. The film grossed about $80 million at the U.S. Rear Window is a 1954 American mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes based on Cornell Woolrichs 1942 short. Spielberg, a Dreamworks founder, is named as a defendant.

Alfred Hitchcock, who was a longtime fan of Woolrichs pulp thrillers, was taken by the piece, but his goal in adapting it for the screen was to unify the narrative. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Steven Spielberg and major Hollywood studios stole the plot from Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1954 film “Rear Window” in making last year’s “Disturbia,” a lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court on Monday said.ĭreamworks, its parent company Viacom Inc, and Universal Pictures, a unit of General Electric Co’s NBC Universal, are accused of copyright infringement and breach of contract for making “Disturbia” without first obtaining permission from the copyright holders, the suit said. Rear Window is based on a story from the February 1942 issue of Dime Detective Magazine called 'It Had to be Murder', written by Cornell Woolrich (under the pseudonym William Irish). director Steven Spielberg departs after the world premiere screening of the film 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull' at the 61st Cannes Film Festival May 18, 2008.

Rear window by cornell woolrich