Buck Woodall’s five-year battle with Disney over who really created Moana looks to have come ... beginning in 2004 Woodall says he handed Jenny Marchick his copyright-protected Bucky the ...

The original film, released in 2016, tells the story of an adventurous teenager named Moana, voiced by Auli’i Cravalho, who sets sail on a dangerous mission to save her people.

Woodhall claims that starting in 2003, he provided the screenplay and a trailer for “Bucky” to Jenny Marchick, the former director of development for independent film company Mandeville Films.

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 ...

Buck Woodall’s five-year battle with Disney over who really created Moana looks to have come to an end, with a Los Angeles jury on Monday finding for the House of Mouse in the animated franchise ...

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 ...

In a lawsuit reviewed by Entertainment Weekly that was filed Friday, animator Buck Woodall claims that former Mandeville Films development director Jenny Marchick violated his copyright by secretly ...

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 ...

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, producer ...

Disney is being sued over the Moana franchise.. On Friday, Jan. 10, animator Buck Woodall filed a lawsuit against the Walt Disney Company, its various film, television and animation departments and ...