Moana 2” has drawn 27.3 million views within the first five days of release on Disney+. It is now the third most successful ...

and a dozen years later was stunned when he saw so many of his ideas in “Moana.” Both “tell the story about a teenager who ...

Animator Buck Woodall continues to pursue a copyright trial over the sequel to the 2016 hit, though the jury's decision in ...

Along the way, he interacts he with creatures from Hawaiian cosmology and mythology. This, according to Woodall, is uncannily similar to the story of "Moana," the daughter of a chief on a Polynesian ...

Most of Buck Woodall's claims were time-barred, and for the one that made it to trial, he can seek no more than $10 million.

Moana 2 swims onto Disney+ on March 12, and the film is set to reach a final box office milestone before its release.

Both include Polynesian demigods as major characters, with the figures of Maui, Te Fiti and a fiery volcano goddess in “Moana” clearly counterparts of the divine characters in “Bucky.” ...

Early crew members of the voyaging canoe Hokulea have gathered in Hawai'i to celebrate the vessel's 50th birthday ...

(AP) - Was “Moana” based on a boy named Bucky ... stolen to create the Walt Disney Co.'s 2016 hit about a questing Polynesian princess, whose sequel was among the biggest hits of last year.