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Posted: **Tue Apr 19, 2011 7:06 pm**

I don't have a cumulative European gross for this weekend, but I found out Winnie the Pooh grossed £159,369 (approximately $260,042.40) from 421 theaters in the UK.

Posted: **Wed Apr 20, 2011 2:11 am**

Posted: **Wed Apr 20, 2011 12:25 pm**

I just got home from seeing it. The movie was cute enough, I really tried to watch it through the eyes of a child. The animation was nice, especially the backgrounds. I'm not sure what the point was in introducing "Chapter One", when only one story is told. The movie is short, but thankfully so. It doesn't overstay it's welcome... I couldn't help thinking though, what a bad state Walt Disney Animation is in. This is something that should've been released straight to DVD, or at most a seasonal offering, not THE studio's film for the year. While it may be better and more thoughtfully rendered than Piglet's Big Movie and The Tigger Movie, it's easily as forgettable and probably just as pointless.

Posted: **Wed Apr 20, 2011 3:57 pm**

Saw it today with my little brother and not quite sure what to make of it.

Not as charming or witty as the 60s and 70s shorts, and a little bland compared to the more "adventure" based Pooh movies of recent years, but still pleasant and at times very funny.

I'll probably come back to post in more detail once I've gathered my thoughts.

Posted: **Thu Apr 21, 2011 7:06 am**

megustajake wrote:I couldn't help thinking though, what a bad state Walt Disney Animation is in. This is something that should've been released straight to DVD, or at most a seasonal offering, not THE studio's film for the year. While it may be better and more thoughtfully rendered than Piglet's Big Movie and The Tigger Movie, it's easily as forgettable and probably just as pointless.

Interestingly, this project was pitched as a DTV production.

I understand what you mean, though, especially since everything looks so hazy beyond this film. I think without seeing this film everyone can agree that this film was envisioned as little more than a small scale B-picture, akin to The Rescuers Down Under or one of the package films. To be honest, though, I think 2011 is just going to be a general off year for Disney; Cars 2 looks a bit of a B-movie as well, even though I doubt it's supposed to be. I think that with the success of Tangled, Disney should hopefully be getting its act together. The news of a million projects suddenly being pitched or put into development should hopefully signal that

Posted: **Thu Apr 21, 2011 7:28 am**

Disney Movie Previews - Episode 50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bvFlENzanA

Winnie l'Ourson - Featurette : Comment dessiner Tigrou?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zG7L6RNW30

Posted: **Fri Apr 22, 2011 10:22 am**

Now that Box Office Mojo has more figures, I've calculated that Winnie the Pooh has made $1,374,084 overseas by the end of last weekend. So far, it appears most of this money is coming from France ($440,992 worth).

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2011 1:18 pm**

I just saw the movie. Found it to be short, but very sweet. The animation is stunning. I thought the animation was even better than Princess and the Frog. Truly beautiful.

ask anything if you wanna know

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2011 1:44 pm**

PatrickvD wrote:I just saw the movie. Found it to be short, but very sweet. The animation is stunning. I thought the animation was even better than Princess and the Frog. Truly beautiful.

ask anything if you wanna know

Please elaborate...

better than Princess and the Frog , how ????

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2011 1:59 pm**

REINIER wrote:
PatrickvD wrote:I just saw the movie. Found it to be short, but very sweet. The animation is stunning. I thought the animation was even better than Princess and the Frog. Truly beautiful.

ask anything if you wanna know
Please elaborate...
better than Princess and the Frog , how ????

Well, it's tough to describe and it may be my personal preference, but I felt that maybe due to the fact that these are pretty old designs, the character animation was more sophisticated.

The animation on Pooh himself was a treat to watch and I loved how they made his stomach into a character of its own almost. The backgrounds are also stunning and the way they play with the element of them living in a book is as fun as it in the original film.

There were some wonderful shots in the 'Everything is Honey' scene. Lush, fluid and engaging. There's no way one could mistake this for one of the DisneyToon productions. It's SO much better. This particular scene also starts out brilliantly.

While I get the complaints about it being too short, I felt it was just perfect.

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2011 4:56 pm**

For all UC Berkeley students!

The United Artists on Shattuck Ave will have a Cal-exclusive preview of Winnie the Pooh this Wednesday at 7:30 PM! All you need is your Cal ID to get in. It's pajama-themed so wear your pajamas and bring a blanket!

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2011 5:19 pm**

>>...I felt that maybe due to the fact that these are pretty old designs, the character animation was more sophisticated.<<

One thing I love about the original classic 1960's Pooh films is that the directing animators were able - through design and movement - to capture the idea that these were stuffed animals come to life, not merely cartoon animals (as they later seemed to become for WDTVA). Were they able to get that in the new version?

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2011 6:44 pm**

Does anyone know what THIS is?

Винни-Пух VS Winnie-the-Pooh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4fWub786HQ

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:15 pm**

Sotiris wrote:Does anyone know what THIS is?

<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/I4fWub786HQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

A pure Masterpiece. That's what it is.

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:32 pm**

Couldn't they just have made such a video with Louis the alligator?

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2011 8:43 pm**

"It all started with a simple request from [Company CEO] Bob Iger to John Lasseter to take a look at Pooh again,” co-director Don Hall explains. “John then approached us. It really was that simple. [Co-director] Steve, [story supervisor] Burny and I started to work on the beat boards after reading all of the books and watching the featurettes and it just kind of grew into a feature.” Disney Legend Burny Mattinson was brought into the project as the storyboard artist and animator was a key creative on Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too.

Burny picked out about five episodes from the books that hadn’t been done to death and we developed them to be standalone projects,” Don continues. “However when Burny pitched the boards for Eeyore losing his tail the executives said “Give us a feature”. We were shocked but we took those five concepts and weaved them together into a coherent screenplay. We wanted a simple through line and so the movie starts off with a very basic problem that of Eeyore losing his tail.”

That initial approach from Lasseter was little more than two years ago and by early 2009 Hall, Anderson and Mattinson had pieced together the storyboards for the movie. “It is because we were able to bring established characters back into our studio that expedited the process,” Steve admits. “There wasn’t that year and half of “What is this movie?” and all the trial and error, missing the mark and “Oh, we didn’t quite get it”. That is a great discovery process in itself but by contrast this movie has an established world and characters where you can just go right ahead.”

We spent about three or four days in Ashdown where we were guided by a Pooh historian. We literally took thousands of photos, sketched and painted hundreds of watercolours,” Steve reminisces. “We also analysed some of the original Shepard sketches from the libraries and museums. We felt pretty well armed going back to the studio and it was our mission to honor the roots of the stories.

Although there is a common narrative thread about Eeyore’s lost tail the screenwriters have created some more intimate tangential scenes too. “We wanted to give it a narrative thread but we didn’t want to lose those opportunities to go off here and there and do something that is kinda silly and doesn’t pertain to the grander plot but is fun, entertaining and mines the character interaction,” Steve reveals. “That’s what is so great about these characters - they are innocent and even though they have a goal in mind something will distract them. Their attention spans are so short so Pooh will meander off on a quest for honey even though the goal is to rescue Christopher Robin. Their child-like innocence is a huge part of the appeal of the characters.”

“It was interesting at first as we both come from story and all the rigors that you normally put into a feature like character arcs and sub-plots which just don’t apply much here,” Don adds. “We knew if we did apply those rules that we would ruin it. If Pooh learns a lesson and remembers it we are in trouble. At the end of every adventure they need to default and go back to where they started - that’s the charm of it - you don’t want a lot of growth. It is so weird - almost ‘anti-movie’.”

Both Don and Steve have worked on CGI features for Disney and therefore it is conceivable that Pooh could have been rendered digitally but both co-directors are quick to dismiss this suggestion. “There was never any talk of doing the movie in any “D” other than 2. It was essential to go back to the roots. To evoke the Shepard drawings. To evoke the classic featurettes,” Steve asserts. “You always want to find the right tool to tell your story and your story will always dictate the way you tell it. And so for Pooh being a simple, calm, peaceful world requires a 2D style, illustrative feel, loose and sketchy lines are just the perfect tool to bring those characters and that world to the screen.”

Source: http://talesfromthelaughingplace.com/Te ... les_2.html

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2011 8:49 pm**

Steve Hulett wrote:Somebody asked how Winnie the Pooh was doing in Britain. The answer is anemically, if this news clip is any indication:

..."Winnie The Pooh" came in at eight"...

Box Office Mojo doesn't yet have any grosses showing for the Silly Old Bear. It grieves me to say it, but I think the days of $800 million worldwide grosses for hand-drawn animated features is over. The action is on the CG side of the fence.

Source: http://animationguildblog.blogspot.com/ ... front.html

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2011 9:12 pm**

Sotiris wrote:Does anyone know what THIS is?

Винни-Пух (Vinni Pukh), Russia's version of Winnie the Pooh. He's so adorable!

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<object width="480" height="390"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eLr24AXm3xE?fs ... ram><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eLr24AXm3xE?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="390"></embed></object>

albert

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2011 9:44 pm**

I am so glad I live in the English-speaking world.

Posted: **Tue Apr 26, 2011 4:17 am**

Sotiris wrote:
Somebody asked how Winnie the Pooh was doing in Britain. The answer is anemically, if this news clip is any indication:

..."Winnie The Pooh" came in at eight"...

Box Office Mojo doesn't yet have any grosses showing for the Silly Old Bear.

It grieves me to say it, but I think the days of $800 million worldwide grosses for hand-drawn animated features is over. The action is on the CG side of the fence.
Source: http://animationguildblog.blogspot.com/ ... front.html

That is the dumbest statement ever. There has never even been an $800 million worldwide grossing traditionally animated feature.

UGH!

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