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

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 ...

While the Steamboat Willie version of Mickey is now in the public domain, it's worth noting that later, more familiar versions of Mickey Mouse remain the sole property of Disney. Imitators beware.

David Vaughn, who appeared in American Rust, Dopesick, and the movie musical of The Color Purple, stars as Willie, who was ...

The first official image released for the film depicts Screamboat Willie as an anthropomorphized rat that hearkens back to the original Disney character, complete with the large ears, sailor’s ...

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 ...

Disney retains all exclusive rights to its depiction of Mickey Mouse, however the character seen in the 1928 short film Steamboat Willie entered the public domain in 2024. It now means that ...

“Screamboat” had already unveiled a teaser trailer (as first shared by IndieWire in August 2024), but the Mickey ... with Disney, of course. Steamboat Willie is a mouse, and so the character ...

Screamboat is my way of paying homage to Disney while putting a sinister ... Since the first version of Mickey Mouse found in Steamboat Willie fell into the public domain last year, there have ...

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