Final 12 months, Disney celebrated its 100th anniversary, however because the New Yr dawned their possession of the unique Mickey Mouse has now come to an finish.
Regardless of the copyright being prolonged by way of lobbying Congress twice over the a long time, the beloved cartoon character’s first brief, 1928’s Steamboat Willie, is lastly within the public area.
The studio has famous that whereas the black and white unique styled Mickey is now out of copyright, later reimaginings of the icon are nonetheless theirs.
Now that anybody can create content material with the Steamboat Willie incarnation of the character, an impartial horror film has been introduced referred to as Mickey’s Mouse Entice.
The low-budget slasher, due for launch in March, follows a gaggle of associates trapped inside an amusement arcade after closing, the place they’re terrorised by a masked killer in a Mickey Mouse costume. However this isn’t the primary movie of its sort although.
Final 12 months, Winnie the Pooh entered the general public area leading to Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey.
The horror movie follows Pooh and Piglet, now turn out to be feral murderers, who terrorise Christopher Robin and his associates once they return to the Hundred Acre Wooden years later.
It might have been critically panned, however the $100,000 price range film revamped $5.2 million worldwide and has a sequel and shared universe in improvement. We wouldn’t be shocked if historical past repeats itself for Mickey’s Mouse Entice later this 12 months.