Defense lawyers and witnesses — including the woman Woodall gave the script to — said no one at Disney saw his work, and that “Moana” was developed through the same cultural research and ...

A Los Angeles federal jury ruled on Monday that Disney did not steal the idea for its massive hit film “Moana” from animator Buck Woodall. The jury’s deliberation was decided in around two ...

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Auli'i Cravalho and Dwayne Johnson both reprise their roles in Moana 2 as Moana and Maui, respectively. Temuera Morrison returns as Moana’s father and chief, Tui (Tui’s singing voice was ...

What we did was actually clarify the story through Moana’s point of view.” Hand discussed the process of developing the characters, explaining, “As we work through the script, there’s ...

Moana of Mounui is the main character in Disney’s movie, Moana. Moana is the Disney Princesses' twelfth official member. Auliʻi Cravalho, a Hawaiian actress and singer, was the voice of Moana. Louise ...

The Los Angeles federal jury deliberated for only about 2 ½ hours before deciding that the creators of “Moana” never had access to writer and animator Buck Woodall’s outlines and script for “Bucky the ...

A jury on Monday sided with Disney in a copyright trial involving “Moana,” clearing the company ... the filmmakers did not have access to the script, they did not have to address the question ...

Moana may have taken on the ocean virtually alone in “Moana” — at least, until she dragged Maui along — but that isn’t the case in Disney’s latest sequel. In “Moana 2,” our ...