Disney is being sued over the Moana franchise. On Friday, Jan. 10, animator Buck Woodall filed a lawsuit against the Walt ...

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

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

Buck Woodall claims the awards contender stole ideas from a screenplay he wrote, while Disney says the works aren't similar.

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

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 ...

Animator Buck Woodall claims former Mandeville Films development director Jenny Marchick passed his "substantially similar" ...

"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 ...