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Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie," the first cartoon to star Mickey Mouse, is the star of a new horror trailer after becoming public domain Monday. A trailer for a slasher film "Mickey’s Mouse ...
“Steamboat Willie,” entered the public domain for the first time. A teaser trailer for “Mickey’s Mouse Trap,” a live-action film directed by Jamie Bailey and released Monday, depicts a ...
The mouse is out.” The movie was directed by Jamie Bailey, who said in a statement: “We just wanted to have fun with it all. I mean it’s Steamboat Willie’s Mickey Mouse murdering people.
Shortly thereafter, the trailer for a slasher film called Mickey’s Mouse Trap was posted online. In it, clips from Walt Disney’s 1928 animated classic Steamboat Willie are shown interspersed ...
Willie is free ... take on the original Steamboat Willie, an animated short film released in 1928 that first introduced audiences to Disney's very own Mickey Mouse. The cartoon follows little ...
A Walt Disney movie featuring the first appearance of Mickey Mouse moved into the public domain on New Year’s Day. The 1928 short film "Steamboat Willie" introduces audiences to a non-speaking ...
The best-known Mickey Mouse film from those days is “Steamboat Willie,” the seven-minute short that hit theaters in November of that year and kickstarted his international fame. But it wasn ...
When the calendar changed from 2023 to 2024, the Mickey Mouse known as “Steamboat Willie” was among a group of characters, films and books that are no longer protected as intellectual property.
It’s finally happened: after nearly a century, Mickey Mouse has slipped off Disney’s copyright leash. The first versions of the iconic cartoon character, seen in Steamboat Willie and a silent ...
Now, get ready for “Steamboat Willie” horror films. The 1928 version of Mickey Mouse entered the public domain on Monday, and indie horror producers are wasting no time in capitalizing on it.