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 ...

University of Auckland senior law lecturer Nikki Chamberlain said there were likely multiple explanations for the recent ...

Buck Woodall, a writer, producer and artist, filed a lawsuit on Friday, Jan. 10, claiming The Walt Disney Company, an independent film company called Mandeville Films and Jenny Marchick, who was named ...

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

He claims Disney used his screenplay, trailer, character designs, and other materials he shared with a former Mandeville Films executive in 2003. At the time, Mandeville Films worked closely with ...

Animator Buck Woodall claims that film producer Jenny Marchick fed his original idea for a film titled 'Bucky' to Disney, which ultimately produced 'Moana' in 2016 Disney Disney is being sued ...

In a lawsuit filed in California federal court on Friday, Woodall alleges that Disney used materials he shared in 2003 with Mandeville Films, which had a first-look deal with Disney at the time.

former Mandeville Films director of development, in 2003. Mandeville had a first look deal with Disney, the lawsuit says, and claims Ms Marchick, who is now DreamWorks Animation's head of ...

Disney has been hit with a copyright lawsuit alleging that the popular Moana franchise was lifted from a decades-old screenplay without the writer's consent. The writer is now suing for $10billion in ...

The animator alleges he brought the idea for his screenplay Bucky to Marchick and then-employer Mandeville Films in 2003. He further claims that at the time, Mandeville had a first look deal with ...