Moana 2, expected to receive an Academy Award nomination for best animated feature, sees the Polynesian teenager reunite with ...
Animator Buck Woodall has sued Disney, alleging the company copied elements of his screenplay for "Bucky" to create "Moana" ...
Woodall seeks 2.5% of Moana 2’s gross revenue, or roughly $10 billion, and a court order to prevent further infringement.
Disney has been hit with a copyright lawsuit alleging that the popular Moana franchise was lifted from a decades-old ...
Animator Buck Woodall claims former Mandeville Films development director Jenny Marchick passed his "substantially similar" ...
“Disney’s Moana was produced in the wake of Woodall ... The Independent has reached out to Disney and Universal Pictures, which owns DreamWorks Animation, for comment. In response to the ...
(Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney) While Woodall claims the similarities are too specific to be coincidental, Disney has previously argued that "Moana" was independently developed.