Animator Buck Woodall claims former Mandeville Films development director Jenny Marchick passed his "substantially similar" screenplay to Disney years before "Moana" premiered. Disney has been hit ...

Related: Disney acquisitions are (finally) paying off in a big way The animator says he first presented his screenplay to Marchick and Mandeville Films, his employer at the time, in 2003.

In a lawsuit reviewed by Entertainment Weekly that was filed Friday, animator Buck Woodall claims that former Mandeville Films development director Jenny Marchick violated his copyright by secretly ...