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 first trailer for The Return of Steamboat Willie, a new Mickey Mouse horror flick, has been released. Made in Unreal Engine 5 by Fewture Studios, the first trailer for The Return of Steamboat ...

Which, in some ways, is fair. The original 1928, "Steamboat Willie" was iconic, but is also somewhat bizarre in retrospect. Mickey has to peel potatoes as a punishment in the original short ...

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 Walt Disney Company lost the copyright to its inaugural Mickey Mouse cartoon, Steamboat Willie, on January 1, 2024, putting the earliest iteration of Mickey Mouse into the public domain.

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

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

In reality, however, Disney will lose copyright protection for the first version of Mickey Mouse from “Steamboat Willie,” a 1928 short black-and-white film, in the United States and several ...

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 ...