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

The Walt Disney Co. has been hit with a $10 billion copyright lawsuit by an animator who alleges "Moana" was plagiarized from ...

With the worldwide box office for its animated Polynesian fantasy adventure Moana 2 having sailed north of $1 billion, the ...

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

An animator is suing Disney for allegedly stealing the idea for the House of Mouse’s Moana films ... Mandeville Films development director Jenny Marchick. Woodall alleges he produced a ...

Buck Woodall filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against The Walt Disney Company in California federal court on Friday. He ...

Buck Woodall claimed in his lawsuit that Disney's Moana franchise exhibits “breathtaking” similarities to his script for Bucky the Wave Warrior ...

Both Bucky and Moana follow “a teenager who defies parental ... The filmmaker also named production company Mandeville Films and Jenny Marchick, head of feature development for DreamWorks ...

Disney is being sued over Moana and Moana 2 ... and trailer for Bucky and began sharing details of the project with Jenny Marchick, former Mandeville Films director of development, in 2003.