Tuesday, June 02, 2009

New Hand-drawn Winnie the Pooh Movies?

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting (very appropriate) an announcement of a new hand-drawn Winnie the Pooh movie to be released possibly in 2012.

As for Pooh, the movie's planned release for spring 2011 will come six years after "Pooh's Heffalump Movie" was largely panned by critics while earning just $18 million at the domestic boxoffice.

Pooh, though, is the world's second-biggest licensed character franchise behind Mickey Mouse, according to Mooney, hence, a renewed focus on the property that will include merchandise and books.


It's interesting that they changed the TV series on the Disney channel from hand-drawn to digital animation, and it has never looked as warm as it was before. This is one of those examples where the digital version didn't appeal to me. So I am glad that they are going back to hand-drawn animation for the Pooh movie.

Zz.

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