A trailer has dropped for a horror comedy film in which Mickey Mouse is the psycho killer – on the first day that the 1928 Disney short film “Steamboat Willie” has entered the public domain.

The new year marks the nerdiest holiday you maybe didn’t know about: Public Domain Day. But this year ... everyone wants to be “first.” Mickey Mouse has already been remixed in certain ...

Mickey can’t be used in a way that misleads consumers into thinking an artist’s work is produced or backed by Disney, per Duke University. “Ever since Mickey Mouse’s first appearance in ...

The “Steamboat Willie” version of Mickey Mouse has sailed to Walt Disney’s biggest enemy: the public domain. Much like Winnie the Pooh took his first bloody steps into the public domain last ...

Due to copyright law, Steamboat Willie and its imagery entered into the public domain on the first day of 2024 ... to begin shooting his Mickey Mouse horror movie in spring 2024.

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 ended and entered the public domain.

According to Variety, a second, untitled horror-comedy will be directed by Steven LaMorte and will begin production this spring. In the film, a sadistic mouse ... It was the first Mickey cartoon ...

The earliest versions of Mickey and Minnie Mouse now belong to the American ... "Public Domain Day" is observed annually on the first day of the year to mark the expiration of copyrights for ...

Disney made a video of Mickey Mouse wishing folks a happy Persian New Year (March 20th, the 1st day of Spring)," another person tweeted. "He even says it in Persian at the end. Incredible.