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

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

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.