He claims he provided the screenplay and trailer of his movie to former Mandeville Films director ... last year and is the direct sequel to the 2016 smash hit, following the life of Moana (Auli ...

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 ...

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 ... The original "Moana" ...

In a lawsuit reviewed by Entertainment Weekly that was filed Friday, animator Buck Woodall claims that former Mandeville Films development director ... an identical suit against the original 2016 film ...

The sequel to the hit 2016 animated film hit theatres at the ... and trailer for Bucky to Jenny Marchick, the former Mandeville Films director of development and the current head of development ...

A court ruling last November prevented Woodall from bringing an identical suit against the original 2016 film because ... at DreamWorks Animation. Mandeville Films had a first-look deal with ...

Woodall claims he provided a screenplay and trailer for Bucky to Jenny Marchick, the former Mandeville Films director of development ... which was released in 2016. Disney denied the allegations ...

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 ...

Mandeville had a first ... and reassured Mr Woodall she could get the film greenlit. It points to similarities between the plot points of Moana, released in 2016, and Bucky "which could not ...

The original "Moana" movie, released in 2016, tells the story of a teenager ... who at the time was the director of development at Mandeville Films, an independent film production studio in ...