He also named production company Mandeville Films and Jenny ... expressions of ideas are.” Disney has consistently maintained that its creative processes are original and lawful, a stance ...

but the earlier case was dismissed because the lawsuit was filed too late after the release of Disney’s original 2016 film Moana. The new claim asserts that former Mandeville Films director of ...

A court ruling last November prevented Woodall from bringing an identical suit against the original 2016 ... Animation. Mandeville Films had a first-look deal with Disney, as well as offices ...

Animator Buck Woodall claims that film producer Jenny Marchick fed his original ... Mandeville Films in 2003. He further claims that at the time, Mandeville had a first look deal with Disney ...

The animator alleges he brought the idea for his screenplay Bucky to Marchick and then-employer Mandeville Films in 2003 ... in 2011 while she was working as a "consultant, original movies" at Disney, ...

The film became a global phenomenon, and is the shining artifact of the Disney Channel Original Movies (DCOM) golden age. From the release of Brink in 1998 to Camp Rock in 2008, DCOMs were at ...

In a lawsuit filed in California federal court on Friday, Woodall alleges that Disney used materials he shared in 2003 with Mandeville Films ... the works similar, his original lawsuit was ...

Disney is facing a copyright lawsuit claiming that the highly successful Moana franchise was largely based on a decades-old screenplay, allegedly used without the original writer's permission.

The animator alleges he brought the idea for his screenplay Bucky to Marchick and then-employer Mandeville Films ... working as a "consultant, original movies" at Disney, which the complaint ...