New Winnie Poster

Is it just me or is this supposed to be reminiscent of the infamous JAWS poster?:

When I got the e-mail from Disney publicity informing that there were new Winnie the Pooh images available there was this curious addendum: "Also, images of Zooey Deschanel and her announcement in support of WINNIE THE POOH have been posted." So, here we go; Zooey with Tigger:

Click either image for a larger version. Over at Cartoon Brew they've posted a one-minute clip from the film. Opens July 15th at a theater near you. In fact, at theaters near lots of people.

Winnie the Pooh 2011 Stills and Trailer

Click on each one for a bigger image. The first one is a better quality version of the image they use in the 3D diorama I mentioned in this post.

Winnie the Pooh Diorama

The Toy Story Zoetrope room in the Animation Building at Walt Disney's California Adventure often has pretty bad lighting but they always have a couple large, usually three-dimensional dioramas up of the upcoming Disney and Pixar movies. Yesterday I saw one for the first time for the Winnie the Pooh movie coming out next summer. From what I have heard this movie is John Lasseter's idea and possibly an attempt to redeem Disney from some of the ridiculously sanitized, Barney-like versions of Winnie and gang that we've seen since around the mid-80's. This diorama gives me hope that the movie will meet its goal. UPDATE: Yahoo! Movies has a piece about the movie here and how it is bringing the "old school" look back.



Another view here.