The company’s famous mascot, in the public domain after 95 years, is getting reworked by film and videogame makers—mostly as a killer

In ‘Mickey’s Mouse Trap,’ out in March, someone in a Mickey-like mask chases youngsters with a knife. Into Frame Films Ltd
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