A film worker is suing Disney for $10 billion, claiming the "Moana" franchise shares "breathtaking" similarities to work he ...

Animator Buck Woodall is suing Disney for $10 billion after he said he shared film materials in 2003 while working on a ...

If you're on Hawaii, the nearest island ... Polynesian wayfinding shown in Moana brought these ideas to a very wide audience. The movie Moana gave me a new hook—pun not intended—for my ...

Disney's animated canon includes all manner of characters. There are many ordinary everyday humans and animals that stand ...

If you’re on Hawaii, the nearest island ... Polynesian wayfinding shown in Moana brought these ideas to a very wide audience. The movie Moana gave me a new hook—pun not intended—for my ...

Animator Buck Woodall sues Disney, alleging they copied ... encounters with a demigod with tattoos and a hook, and a giant creature hidden within a mountain. In Moana 2, the protagonist’s ...

Both works feature a demigod character adorned with tattoos and a giant hook. Both feature a giant creature hidden within a mountain. Woodall claims that Disney’s Moana is a direct result of his ...

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 ... a giant hook and tattoos, among ...

An animator has sued Disney for allegedly copying the idea for hit franchise Moana from his decades-old screenplay without his consent. Buck Woodall filed a suit in a California federal court on ...

Moana and its sequel are two of the most successful movies in the history of Walt Disney Studios, and now, the company has been hit with a lawsuit claiming that the ideas for both Moana and its ...