an independent film company called Mandeville Films and Jenny Marchick, who was named head of feature development for ...

A filmmaker is suing The Walt Disney Company for copyright infringement, claiming that the media conglomerate’s hit movies “Moana” and “Moana 2” copied substantial parts of a script he wrote. The ...

Animator Buck Woodall claims that film producer Jenny Marchick fed his original idea for a film titled 'Bucky' to Disney, which ultimately produced 'Moana' in 2016 Disney Disney is being sued ...

Moana 2, expected to receive an Academy Award nomination for best animated feature, sees the Polynesian teenager reunite with ...

Animator Buck Woodall accuses Disney of stealing ideas from his script for a Polynesian-inspired animated film titled "Bucky" ...

Disney has been hit with a copyright lawsuit alleging that the wildly popular Moana franchise was nearly entirely lifted from a decades-old screenplay without the writer's consent. A court ruling ...

an independent film company called Mandeville Films and Jenny Marchick, who was named head of feature development for DreamWorks Animation in 2020, stole his ideas to create "Moana." The lawsuit ...

"Moana 2" follows Moana and Maui after Moana ... Per the lawsuit, around 2003, Woodall began sharing his ideas for "Bucky" with Jenny Marchick, who at the time was the director of development ...