Steamboat Willie is a play on its name. "Mickey Mouse made an appearance in a film for the first time that very much relied on another copyrighted work that helped propel its popularity," McLeod ...

Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey has a lot to answer for! Hewes Pictures has released the first poster for a second Steamboat ...

The official trailer for I Heart Willie teases a public-domain slasher about a group investigating the twisted origins of ...

The film serves as a horror spoof of Steamboat Willie, the classic animated short that first introduced the Mickey Mouse character. In 2024, Steamboat Willie officially entered the public domain.

Regarding his casting, LaMorte added: “Watching David Howard Thornton bring Steamboat Willie to life with the ... the next victims of this malicious mouse?

Barely two days in the public domain, the earliest iteration of Mickey Mouse is on a rampage. Slashed free of Disney’s copyright as of Monday, the iconic character from Steamboat Willie is ...

The 1928 short, "Steamboat Willie," is often cited as the debut of Mickey Mouse, though he did show up in an early short called "Plane Crazy" the same year, in which tried to imitate Charles ...

A Steamboat Willie slasher flick was always going to ... trailer (as first shared by IndieWire in August 2024), but the Mickey Mouse precursor character was not depicted in it.

While Disney retains exclusive rights to its depiction of Mickey Mouse from its own works, the character as depicted in the 1928 short film Steamboat Willie entered public domain at the beginning ...

A new trailer has been released for Screamboat , a horror movie inspired by Walt Disney’s classic 1928 animated short Steamboat Willie . This is one of several projects trying to capitalize on an evil ...