It’s Mickey, but not as you’ve ever seen him before.

A trailer for a slasher film, featuring a masked killer dressed as Mickey Mouse, was released on 1 January, the day that Disney’s copyright on the earliest versions of the cartoon character expired in the US.

“We wanted the polar opposite of what exists,” the movie’s producer said.

A new Mickey-inspired horror game, showing the rodent covered with blood stains, also dropped on the same day.

Steamboat Willie, a 1928 short film featuring early non-speaking versions of Mickey and Minnie, entered the public domain in the US on New Year’s Day.

It means cartoonists, novelists and filmmakers can now rework and use the earliest versions of Mickey and Minnie.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Elitism? Because I don’t think people should be making shitty movies and shitty video games? If I’m elitist because I don’t want endless movies that would make Ed Wood cringe, guilty.

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          11 months ago

          They want both and the market is large enough to support it.

          I don’t know if it still holds true, but something like 50% of the entire North American independent film market that gets produced each year is horror and christmas films made for about $1.5 million dollars. Each one will sell for about $4-6 million.

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      11 months ago

      Believing people should stop making content just because it’s not your personal choice is cringe.