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Climate change has been an occasional topic in fictional cinema. [13] Nicholas Barber opined in BBC Culture that Hollywood films seldom feature climate change mechanisms due to the difficulty of tying the topic to individual characters, and due to fears of alienating audiences; instead, impacts of climate change have been more frequently depicted as a consequence of nuclear or geoengineering ...
Disney has been hit with a copyright lawsuit alleging that the wildly popular Moana franchise was nearly entirely lifted from a decades-old screenplay without the writer's consent.
Video game in which public domain-characters such as Sherlock Holmes, Alice, Winnie-the-Pooh and the Monkey King have to shoot an endless group of ninjas. [6] In January, Mickey Mouse was introduced through an update. [7] December 5, 2023 (original release) January 1, 2024 (Mickey Mouse update) The Vanishing of S.S. Willie: Horror short film
"Rise" is a song sung by McClain Sisters for the Disney's Friends for Change campaign for the second Disney's Friends for Change Games. [9] [10] It was also used in the end credits of the Disneynature film, Chimpanzee. [11] The song was written by the McClains. [12]
Woodall initially sued Disney last year but a California court ruled in November that his filing had come too late and dismissed it. The release of Moana 2 allowed the animator to sue the ...
A filmmaker is suing Disney over copyright infringement of the "Moana" franchise, claiming the films show several similarities to an idea he had worked on years ago.. Buck Woodall, a writer ...
Accordingly, copyright protection did not prevail. The holding in Warner Bros. case came to be known as the Sam Spade Test; this approach does not allow for copyright protection if the character is a “mere chessman in the game of storytelling.” On the other hand, if the character is central to the story, then it will be copyrightable.
The Lion King co-director Rob Minkoff deflected criticism of similarities in the characters by stating it was "not unusual to have characters like a baboon, a bird or hyenas" in films set in Africa. [20] Both films feature the protagonist looking up at cloudbursts in the shape of his father lion, as pointed out by Frederick L. Schodt. [20]