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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Now Thornton is taking on another beloved children's character, Mickey Mouse, in a slasher tale on Steamboat Willie, Screamboat. The film was set to release theatrically at the end of the month ...