Winnie the Pooh (film)

Winnie the Pooh is an upcoming traditionally animated feature film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. Production began in late 2009, and the film is scheduled for release on July 15, 2011. Based upon the characters of the children's books Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh will feature five previously unadapted stories from the original books, [6] in the same style as previous Disney-produced Winnie the Pooh featurettes such as Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree and Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too. The film is being directed by Stephen Anderson and Don Hall and produced by Clark Spencer, with John Lasseter as executive producer. Burny Mattinson, a Disney veteran who worked on several of the previous Pooh films, is serving as lead storyboard artist. The voice cast includes Jim Cummings as Winnie-the-Pooh and Tigger, Tom Kenny as Rabbit, and Craig Ferguson as Owl. The supervising animators on the film include Mark Henn (Pooh, Kanga, Roo), [8] Anthony DeRosa (Piglet), Andreas Deja (Tigger), Nik Ranieri (Rabbit, Gopher), Sandro Cleuzo (Owl), Will Finn (Lumpy),[citation needed] Glen Keane (Christopher Robin),[citation needed] and Tony Bancroft (Eeyore). The composers for the 2003 stage musical Avenue Q, Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, wrote the songs for the new film.