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

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

Disney is being sued by animator Buck Woodall, who claims the company stole his idea for the animated film Moana and its ...

An animator filed a lawsuit against Disney last week saying the company stole plot elements and designs from a screenplay he ...

Animator Buck Woodall has filed a $10 billion (281.7bn) lawsuit against Disney, claiming they lifted key elements from his ...

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

Per the lawsuit, around 2003, Woodall began sharing his ideas for "Bucky" with Jenny Marchick, who at the time was the director of development at Mandeville Films, an independent film production ...

Woodall says he showed Jenny Marchick, the former Director of Development at Mandeville Films, the screenplay and a teaser for Bucky. The animator claims that Marchick, who is currently Head of ...

misappropriation and extensive exploitation of Woodall’s copyrighted materials' on part of former Mandeville Films development director Jenny Marchick. Marchick previously worked closely alongside ...

misappropriation and extensive exploitation of Woodall’s copyrighted materials” on part of former Mandeville Films development director Jenny Marchick. Woodall alleges he produced a ...

accusing the studio of taking his ideas after he had provided his screenplay and materials to Jenny Marchick, a former director of development at Mandeville Films, which had a first-look deal with ...