Mickey Mouse has landed a new role: horror-movie villain. At least two films starring an early version of the Walt Disney Company’s famous mascot were announced this week as the copyright for Disney’s ...

Mickey Mouse’s Steamboat Willie persona is back to terrorize audiences yet again. Screamboat 2, a sequel to the Mickey ...

Aya Tsintziras is a freelance writer who writes about TV, movies, and has a particular interest in the horror genre. She has a Political Science degree from the University of Toronto and a Masters of ...

LaMorte is not a stranger to public domain horror parodies. He directed The Mean One back in 2022, a take on The Grinch. Last year saw another of Disney’s public domain characters, Winnie the Pooh, ...

The 'Steamboat Willie' version of Mickey Mouse entered the public domain on January 1. According to the film’s synopsis (via The Hollywood Reporter), the film follows a girl named Alex on her 21 st ...

Gaby Shedwick is a senior author for Collider, joining in December 2023. During her undergraduate Sociology degree at the University of Warwick, she found a real love for horror cinema, writing her ...

Mickey Mouse is on a murderous rampage. The trailer for a new live-action Mickey Mouse horror film dropped on the first day of January, when copyright for Disney's classic 1928 short Steamboat Willie ...

Steamboat Willie and Plane Crazy, the first two cartoons to feature Mickey and Minnie Mouse, lapsed into the public domain on Monday, meaning that Disney no longer owns the exclusive copyright to the ...

It's been well over a century since animators began dazzling audiences with their big-screen productions, and that means it's time for Hollywood studios to begin losing full control over some of those ...

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