Jan 12, 2025 · Buck Woodall is suing for $10 billion or 2.5% of Moana’s gross revenue, alleging that both, the original 2016 movie and its 2024 sequel borrowed many elements from his screenplay. This is not the first time Woodall has sued Disney.

Feb 27, 2025 · LOS ANGELES (CN) — An animator suing Walt Disney Co. claiming the company stole his story about the adventures of a young surfer boy in Hawaii testified on Thursday about the shock he experienced seeing "Moana" in the theater in 2016. Buck Woodall told the jury in downtown Los Angeles that he immediately recognized the characters from a ...

5 days ago · “Moana” earned nearly $700 million at the global box office. A judge previously ruled that Woodall’s 2020 lawsuit came too late for him to claim a piece of those receipts, and that a lawsuit he filed earlier this year over “Moana 2” — which earned more than $1 billion — must be decided separately. That suit remains active, though ...

Jan 13, 2025 · Animator Sues Disney for $10 Billion Claiming Company Stole Idea for Moana and Its Sequel. Animator Buck Woodall claims that film producer Jenny Marchick fed his original idea for a film...

4 days ago · LOS ANGELES (CN) — A federal jury will decide whether animator Buck Woodall proved Walt Disney Co. stole its 2016 blockbuster "Moana" from a pitch he created years earlier for a movie about the mythical journey of teenage surfer on Hawaii. Woodall and Disney each made their closing arguments Monday in downtown Los Angeles.

5 days ago · Buck Woodall wrote a script, whose various titles have included “Bucky the Surfer Boy," about a teenager vacationing in Hawaii with his parents who befriends a group of Native Hawaiian youth and ...

2 days ago · On Monday, March 10, 2025, a jury in the U.S. District Court, Central District of California, returned a verdict finding that Disney’s film “Moana” did not infringe on Buck Woodall’s copyrights for his film “Bucky.” “Bucky” is about a teenage surfer who travels back in time to ancient Polynesia.

5 days ago · Disney Didn’t Steal Idea for ‘Moana,’ Jury Finds. Animator Buck Woodall continues to pursue a copyright trial over the sequel to the 2016 hit, though the jury's decision in this case may ...

4 days ago · A California jury found that Disney’s Moana did not steal its idea from animator Buck Woodall’s decades-old screenplay about a young Hawaiian surfer.. After deliberating for over two hours on ...

Jan 14, 2025 · 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...