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

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

Disney is being sued over the Moana franchise. On Friday, Jan. 10, animator Buck Woodall filed a lawsuit against the Walt Disney Company, its various film, television and animation departments and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Animator Buck Woodall claims former Mandeville Films development director Jenny Marchick passed his "substantially similar" screenplay to Disney years before "Moana" premiered.