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 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 ...

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 ...

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

We are the first project to take advantage of the copyright laws being lifted on Steamboat Willie on January 1, 2024 and are dropping an NFT collection featuring the ...

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.

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 ...

An early Mickey Mouse cartoon is also getting the scary treatment, courtesy of a Steamboat Willie knockoff titled Screamboat. Terrifier star David Howard Thornton plays a killer rodent in the ...

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 ...