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 ...

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

The Walt Disney Company lost the copyright to its inaugural Mickey Mouse cartoon, Steamboat Willie, on January 1 ... is set on a boat, and there's no reason why a developer couldn't apply the ...

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 ...

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.

Regarding his casting, LaMorte added: “Watching David Howard Thornton bring Steamboat ... night boat ride in New York City, only for the night to take a bloody turn when Screamboat Willie ...

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

“A late-night boat ride turns into a desperate ... and will call their raging rodent Steamboat Willie instead of Mickey Mouse. “We are doing our due diligence to make sure there’s no ...

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 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 ...

Screamboat—Terrifier star David Howard Thornton’s horror movie featuring the public domain character Steamboat Willie—is setting sail in theaters later than anticipated. In addition, the ...